SARGO 25 EXPLORER
BUILT: 2015 PRICE: £105,000
The fact that windscreen demisters are standard across the range from the smallest (this 25) upward tells you much about Sargo boats – you’ll find multi-million pound 70-footers that don’t have these. Built in Finland by a family business started over 50 years ago by Edy Sarin and his wife Lillemor (who is still CEO) and now involving their offspring, all Sargo boats are serious no-nonsense, go-anywhere vessels that are used by police forces and rescue organisations as well as leisure users. The Explorer versions give the boats a little attitude via grey hulls, black rails, grey decks and so forth.
‘Functional’ sums up the interior. It mostly centres around the square-shaped wheelhouse with its hoop of seating aft and twin helm and navigator seats. A sliding roof augments the two sliding side doors. But actually there’s a double berth beneath that aft seat and the lower deck forward houses another double and the heads.
INTERIOR
A true walkaround, the Sargo 25 is a very easy boat to handle, even singlehanded. One step from the helm takes you out of the side door onto well-protected decks that give easy access fore or aft. There’s not much in the way of creature comforts, though – these boats are about practicality rather than acres of sunbeds, but the aft cockpit sports rudimentary seating on three sides.
EXTERIOR
A range of single-engine options, all Volvo Penta D4, take you from the base 225hp version through the 260 to a 300hp version at the top end, with near 40-knot reach. But even the 225hp engine, which this boat has, is good for 33 knots. They’re economical too, with slippery, efficient hulls and equally efficient duo prop outdrives.
PERFORMANCE
Category B (offshore) RCD rating is fairly rare in 25ft boats, but this one is rated as such. Sargos are built for going places, and being the baby of the range doesn’t change that.
SEAKEEPING
Length: 25ft 7in (7.8m) Beam: 8ft 6in (2.7m) Draught: 3ft 4in (1.0m) Displacement: 3.2 tonnes Fuel capacity: 300 litres Engine: Volvo Penta D4-225 225hp diesel
FOR SALE: Marco Marine www.marcomarine.co.uk