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25' Glastron GS 259

*2018 Glastron GS 259*

One of the newest model Glastron cruisers you will find!!

Matching trailer included.

Super stylish and sporty the 259 is a pocket cruiser and wknd overnighter, with a queen mid cabin bunk and Volvo V6 power.

The 259 inhabits that key point in the market where the small-boat owner wants the luxury of proper overnighting facilities and space for a guest or two. Without incurring the burgeoning price, scale or running costs of a twin engine 30-footer. While still maintaining trailer ready dimensions.

The 280hp Volvo V6 engine has 409 hours and is matched with a Volvo DPS-A sterndrive.

Lounge seating throughout, with a snap down bow sun pad. The reversible aft bench, plus the outdoor sink with an electric cooktop and corian counter are appealing on board amenities.

The interior is modern with a  tall stand up shower and head area.

Bottom paint free – Previously this was a fresh water boat, with the proper fresh water cooled engine needed for Salt water use.

Please call or email today to schedule a viewing.

Standard Features

Hull and Deck

• Bow anchor roller
• Bow and stern eyes, stainless stee
• Bow rails, stainless steel
• Cleats, stainless steel
• Engine compartment ventilators
• Horn
• Hydraulic trim tabs
• Meets applicable USCG & Canadian regs; NMMA certified using ABYC stds.
• Navigation lights, LED

• Rub rail w/ stainless steel insert
• Translucent deck hatch w/screen
• Walk-thru transom
• Windshield w/ walk-thru, full-height
• Swim platform, stern, extended w/o mat
• Gunnel, black plastic w/ stainless steel insert
• Ladder, boarding w/ wide steps
• Swim platform, bow
• Thru hull fittings, stainless steel

Cockpit

• Simrad multi functional helm screen
• Cooler, carry-on
• Countertop, solid surface
• Courtesy light(s)
• Helm seat, double wide, rotating backrest
• Self bailing cockpit

• Assist handle(s), synthetic
• Beverage holders, stainless steel
• Seating, L-shaped, convertible to sun lounge
• Interior choice: white & savannah sand

Head 

• Door, woodgrain, locking
• Fiberglass enclosed stand-up head and shower

• Storage
• Head, enclosed, shower w/ porta pottie

Engine / Systems / Drive

• Battery, dual switch
• Bilge pump(s), automatic
• Dockside water inlet

• Fresh water system
• Outlet, USB charge port(s)

Console / Cabin

• Cabin door, acrylic
• CO (carbon monoxide) monitor(s)
• Dinette, converts to berth

• Lighting, overhead
• Storage, under seat
• Dinette, table

Mid-Cabin

• Berth
• Curtain

• Over head lights

Galley

• Cabinetry, woodgrain
• Countertop, solid surface w/sink

• Storage

Entertainment

• Kicker Stereo interface at helm and cabin

• Stereo, w/ AM/FM radio, Bluetooth® & auxiliary input

Helm

• Tilt steering

• Instrumentation: GPS speedometer, tachometer, trim, fuel, temp and volt gauge

Tow Sports

• Ski tow, stern, stainless steel

Specifications

        It might be Glastron’s one and only cruiser but the GS 259 is an absolute beauty. It’s no problem at all keeping the hull flat and fast, skipping across the crests and correcting any heel with a tweak on the tabs.

Glastron GS 259

Alex Smith discovers a few surprises aboard Glastron’s only dedicated cruiser.

Glastron are not exactly known for their cruisers. On the contrary, they’re far more famous for their iconic film star boats, like James Bond’s 1972 GT150, which flew over a police roadblock in Live and Let Die, or like the superb Carlson CV23HT, which Bond later used to escape a villainous fleet of Glastron SSV sports boats in the 1979 film Moonraker. They are an indisputably sexy brand, with a history defined by the kinds of sporting powerboats that make you feel like a potent and glamorous bon viveur of a man. Little wonder, then, that their modern fleet is still defined by small, dynamic sports boats …

There is, in fact, just one authentic cruiser in the Glastron range, and at just 25 feet in length, it is about as compact as a cruiser gets. It’s such a tough trick to get right, because we, the buying public, make it so. The designers are required to cram sleeping for four, plus a downstairs galley and heads compartment, into a very compact platform without critically compromising either the looks, the external cockpit or the performance. And yet, as a small-boat specialist owned by the same company that brought us the FourWinns V255 (a boat with which the Glastron shares its underpinnings), there is every reason to approach the new GS 259 with optimism.

Working Every Inch

With a pair of reversible backrests, one at the helm and one on the aft bench, this remarkably spacious nine-man cockpit feels like a very sociable (and versatile) region indeed. The aft bench folds out over the swim platform to create a serviceable sun pad – and if you have no wish to retain the dining space or the driving position, you can also use the dining table as an infill and reverse the helm seat’s backrest to face aft. That basically transforms the entire starboard side of the cockpit into an unbroken sunbathing platform of around 11 feet in length.

The World’s Most Capable Pocket Cruiser?

Nestle into the helm position and things feel very sound. There’s a stitched brow above the primary dials on the dash to help prevent glare, and despite the fact that the compact screen is set a good distance ahead of the skipper, its capacity to deflect the elements above your head is actually very impressive. The throttle is set quite low and there’s an unusual amount of travel in the lever, but in all other regards, the helm station feels every bit as natural and intuitive as those on Glastron’s small, fast, overtly sporting powerboats.

With the standard 4.5-litre MerCruiser 250 in that cavernous engine bay, we make our way to the top end of 32 knots, blithely unconcerned by the swells all around us. Into quite an aggressive head sea, where you would expect a rotund, feature-packed cruiser to incur the bulk of its handling issues, the 259 is absolutely first rate. It’s no problem at all keeping the hull flat and fast, skipping across the crests and correcting any heel with a tweak on the tabs. It’s such a compliant hull, such an easy boat to drive to the conditions, that we incur no stiff impacts at all. And when you spin her around to run with a following sea, or indeed across the swells, her dynamic behaviour is equally pristine.

According to Glastron’s own figures, a cruising sweet spot between 20 and 25 knots sees a range from our 265-litre fuel tank in excess of 120 nautical miles. Given the right sea conditions, that’s exactly where most cruise boaters will tend to operate – but even at the 32-knot top end, with wide-open throttle and the engine spinning at 5000rpm, you still get a range just beyond the 100-nautical mile mark.

Verdict

From the skipper’s perspective, it’s easy to abandon hope when you come across a compact cruiser with four berths and a proper heads and galley. Both the helming experience and the aesthetic tend to become too prosaic and baggage-laden to be any real fun. But the GS 259 is a magical little cruiser. It’s easy to drive flat and fast and it’s easy to drive well. We tried it through some aggressive lumps, we tried it with a stiff breeze on the beam, and we tried it running with and against the seas – and it excelled in every way. It might be Glastron’s one and only cruiser but the GS 259 is an absolute beauty.