Built in 1985 by the Van der Werff & Visser shipyard in Gorredijk, Netherlands, the 62-foot Doggersbank Martina was overhauled down to the bare metal a few years back. The owner, Sietse Koopmans, enlisted help—from the highly esteemed boatyard he founded.
The refit process, oversaw by Koopmans’ Zeelander Yachts yard, is fit with systems that are superyacht-quality. She was sandblasted multiple times, painted twice, reupholstered twice, repowered, rewired, and outfitted with stabilizers and a bow thruster.
“It’s a new boat in an old suit,” Koopmans says. “Everything is brand-new. There’s not an old part on the boat. The windows were the only original thing, and [they] swapped those last year because two of them were leaking.
One of the first things to go on Martina was the original steadying sail masts. A shorter, telescoping mast was added to house the radar. Today, the mast (without sails, but still functional) straddles two captain’s chairs at the upper helm. With the push of a button, it retracts to get under low-lying bridges.
Martina now has a 355-hp Volvo Penta D9 diesel engine and an accompanying electric motor. At the helm, three Simrad screens are connected to a CZone network so the captain can see, from anywhere in the world, exactly how full the 1,994-gallon fuel and 740-gallon water tanks are.
Power is provided by a set of Kohler generators: a 380-volt primary with 17.5 kW, and a secondary 230-volt with 6.5 kW. They’re connected to Mastervolt inverters. All the electricity on board is supplied by lithium-ion batteries, with the generators solely responsible for the charging.
📸 Guy Fleury
