ERREDESIGN ADMIRAL 153

Interior equipment

❄️ Air conditioning, 🧊 three fridges, 📺 television, 🔊 radio, 🍽️ fitted kitchen.

Electronic navigation equipment

🧭 GPS, 📡 radar, 📻 VHF, 🛞 autopilot, 🌊 echo sounder.

Deck equipment

⚙️ Bow thruster, 🪵 cockpit in teak, 🔌 7 kW generator, 💧 watermaker, 🔁 hydraulic gangway, ☀️ bimini.

Care and maintenance

🛠️ Always wintered in shed. 🔧 Engines completely rebuilt in 2020, with about 100 hours since, invoices available.

Our analysis

Aesthetics & general condition

🧱 The Erredesign Admiral 153 is an Italian flybridge from the late 90s, designed with a serious and functional approach, favouring volumes, stability and comfortable sailing over ostentatious design. The lines are classic and well-balanced, typical of boats of this generation, with a homogeneous hull and superstructure and no visual inconsistencies. The cockpit and teak platforms add character and comfort, while the interior layout of three cabins and two bathrooms is well suited to family cruising. The overall presentation is sound and consistent with a boat that has been maintained and wintered in a shed. Visually, this is not a “trendy” boat, but one that is easy to read, seaworthy and rational, which remains a real strength in this segment.

Engines and technology

⚙️ The key point about this unit is its engine. The two Caterpillar engines were completely rebuilt in 2020, with only a hundred or so hours since then, with invoices to prove it. The Caterpillar engine is renowned for its robustness and longevity, and the complete engine rebuild is an extremely reassuring feature for the buyer. Shaftline propulsion offers a simple, durable and economically manageable solution over the long term. The boat is also equipped with a 7 kW generator, watermaker, air conditioning, bow thruster and full, functional navigation electronics. From a technical point of view, the basis is very reassuring, with a mechanical risk well below the average for boats of this age.

Price positioning analysis

📊 In the 15 to 16 m flybridge segment from the late 1990s, the market is generally structured between low-range units, attractive in price but with original engines and heavy investments to be planned, a core market made up of units maintained without major refits, and a top end of the market grouping together boats that have benefited from structural refits, particularly engines. In this case, the Admiral 153 is above the core market thanks to its refurbished Caterpillar engines, systematic wintering in a hangar and full cruising equipment. For the buyer, this means less mechanical risk, clearer post-acquisition costs and a better medium-term projection, including on resale. The price should therefore be analysed not in terms of the year of construction, but in terms of the actual mechanical condition, which is the decisive criterion here.

The team's advice

✔️ We would recommend this Erredesign Admiral 153 to a buyer looking for a spacious, reliable and immediately operational flybridge, without embarking on a major and costly refit project. It is particularly well suited to a Mediterranean family cruising programme, relevant for a buyer wishing to sail without yard immobilisation, and coherent for a reasonable charter, with the refitted engine representing a major asset. This boat is not for a buyer driven by