Two Caterpillars and 1,250 Miles: A Grand Banks 72 Aleutian Comes to Market

A Grand Banks 72 Aleutian is now listed for sale, and the numbers say what kind of owner the boat was built for. Two Caterpillar C18 engines sit in the engine room, each making 1,015 horsepower. Throttled back to 10 knots, the boat can cover 1,250 miles before it needs fuel again. That is the figure a passagemaker reads first. It describes a boat meant to leave the marina and stay gone, not one meant to idle between the fuel dock and the sandbar. For an owner on the Florida coast, that range is what separates a weekend boat from one that can make real passages. The listing puts the power and the range first, and for a yacht like this, those two figures describe the boat. No asking price appears in the report, so we do not print one.

With reporting from Yachting.