Sealine

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Sealine GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1972
Seat Greifswald , GermanyGermanyGermany 
Branch Boat building
Website www.sealine.com
Status: November 2019

The Sealine GmbH is a manufacturer of motor yachts based in Greifswald . The company has been part of HanseYachts AG since 2014 .

history

Foundation and further development (1972-2013)

Sealine SC38 (2007-2011)

The English engineer Tom Murrant (1939-2005) became active in boat building because he could not find a motorboat on the market that met his ideas. With the help of a few colleagues, he built a 23-foot cruiser himself in the early 1970s and subsequently founded a small shipyard ( Fibrasonic Marine Ltd ). Production began in Bobbington in 1972 and was relocated to a larger facility in Kidderminster , West England, in 1978. Also in 1978 Fibrasonic Marine brought out a first model under the newly created brand name C-Line , which in 1979 became the final brand name Sealine . With the 30Fly and 285 Ambassador , Sealine became known beyond the UK in the early 1980s .

In 1998 Tom Murrant and his partners sold the shipyard to an English investor group led by industrialist Gerard Wainwright. Just three years later, the company was sold to the US Brunswick Corporation . In 2004 Sealine presented its largest yacht to date with the T60 flybridge model . In 2011 Brunswick separated from their English motorboat daughter. The US-based Oxford Investment Group became the new owner . Sealine was forced to file for bankruptcy in the spring of 2013 due to the continued decline in sales as a result of the global financial market crisis from 2007 and a weak capital base. The search for a new investor for the entire company was unsuccessful. The location in Kidderminster, which recently had around 300 employees, then had to be closed.

Sealine made in Germany (2014 – today)

Sealine C330 (since 2014)
Sealine C530 (since 2017)

In the summer of 2013, the investment holding company Aurelius SE , Munich, acquired the brand along with production forms, model plans, parts lists and equipment from the bankruptcy estate of the shipyard in England for its subsidiary HanseYachts AG . Since then Sealine has been one of seven brands in the HanseYachts group. In 2014, production of the acquired models S380 , F380 , S450 and F450 was started at the Greifswald parent plant. The management also agreed to work with the British yacht designer Bill Dixon. The first S330 and C330 models designed by Dixon came on the market in 2014/15.

Model overview

model since Length
ü. a. (m) 		Weight (t) drive Horsepower)
S330 2014 10.31 6.1 Volvo Penta 1 x D6‑340 / 1 x D6‑400 / 2 x D3‑220 340-440
S330v  1 2018 10.31 7.1 Mercury Verado or Suzuki 2 x 300/2 x 350 600-700
C330 2015 10.31 6.7 Volvo Penta 1 x D6‑340 / 1 x D6‑400 / 2 x D3‑220 340-440
C330v  1 2019 10.31 7.3 Mercury Verado or Suzuki 2 x 300/2 x 350 600-700
C390 2019 12.50 10.5 Volvo Penta 2 x D4-300 / 2 x D6-380 600-760
C390v  1 2020 12.42 10.4 Suzuki 2 x 350 700
S430 2020 13.55 12.4 Volvo Penta 2 x IPS 450/2 x IPS 500/2 x IPS 600 680-870
C430 2017 13.55 13.4 Volvo Penta 2 x IPS 500/2 x IPS 600 760-870
F430 2018 13.55 13.6 Volvo Penta 2 x IPS 500/2 x IPS 600 760-870
C530 2017 16.13 20.3 Volvo Penta 2 x IPS 700/2 x IPS 800 1,100-1,200
F530 2016 16.13 20.4 Volvo Penta 2 x IPS 700/2 x IPS 800 1,100-1,200

1  model with outboard motors

Awards

  • Sealine F380 : "Motor Boat Award 2015" in the category "Best Flybridge under 55 ft"
  • Sealine S330 and C330 : "Motor Boat Award 2016" in the category "Best Sportscruiser up to 45ft"

Web links

Commons : Hanse Yachts  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b IBN online: HanseYachts buys Sealine. Retrieved February 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b marina.ch: Sealine SC38. (PDF) Retrieved February 8, 2017 .
  3. ^ A b Motor Boat & Yachting: Sealine sold to the Americans. Retrieved February 9, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Power & Motor Yacht: Sealine T60. Retrieved February 9, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Boating Industry: Brunswick sells Sealine to Oxford Investment Group. Retrieved February 9, 2017 .
  6. ↑ BBC News: Sealine brand sold off as factory set to close. Retrieved February 10, 2017 .
  7. ^ Sealine history. Retrieved February 8, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Boats magazine: Quo vadis, Sealine? Retrieved February 8, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Boating Business: Sealine appoints new designer. Retrieved February 9, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Power & Motor Yacht: Sealine C330. Retrieved February 9, 2017 .
  11. ↑ a b Sealine - Hall of Fame. Retrieved February 8, 2017 .