[C4ENG]

Originally Posted by Capt J

I spent some time on Newvida many many years ago......Delta hull #808.There is not a lot about it that I like. It was very stable and quiet inside despite it's 6' draft. However, the Moran's didn't like a lot about it either and sold it a year or two after having it built and ordered the current Feadship 2007 that's for sale. I like the 1987 172' Feadship they had at the same time much better for various reasons.

That poor girl never received any love in this life. Even now her parents treat her like a unwanted step child and send her to bed with no dinner all the time. I worked with her just a little bit and Delta seemed to put effort in building a quality vessel. I would be curious to know what you dislike about her from back then? I would like to think the Moran's kept up with proper maintenance on her having such a large team of people running there program.

[Capt J]

Originally Posted by C4ENG

That poor girl never received any love in this life. Even now her parents treat her like a unwanted step child and send her to bed with no dinner all the time. I worked with her just a little bit and Delta seemed to put effort in building a quality vessel. I would be curious to know what you dislike about her from back then? I would like to think the Moran's kept up with proper maintenance on her having such a large team of people running there program.

It was Delta's first boat of that size and it showed. I think 140' was the largest they built before her. The storage space wasn't designed as well as it should've, and a lot of storage space was missed, such as under staircases and whatnot. If you went into area's behind the joinery like in the Salon on the second level on the sides in the storage area, the joinery was shimmed everywhere with scrap pieces of what looked to be marine ply, of all different shapes, sizes, like 4 pieces deep all screwed together.......little things like that. None of the a/c's blew any air out of the vents, you could put your hand over all of the vents and felt like no pressure coming out of them....The entire boat was under air conditioned.......Even the crew staterooms couldn't be kept at say 72 degrees if you wanted to........Accessing the aft deck windows on the sides near the stern on the outside took a modern miracle. The boat rode well and was stable, and was built strong, however I think a lot more time could've been spent on the functionality, layout, and deck/interior design...........All of the exterior stainless had to be polished on a every 2 week basis because it would tarnish, and you could never get it that clean blueish chrome look, it always was yellowy in color......Egress on the outside from the front of the boat to the stern sucked also, to get from the aft deck to the bow you had to go up 1 set of stairs, down a deck, then down stairs and stuff.......It also had about 1/3-1/2 of the freezer/refrigerator space the Feadship had......Even the Sat TV lost signal for about 120 degrees, because it would be blocked by the masthead.......

It was kept very well for the first year or two when Jim Moran owned it. Now when you see it on Hillsboro Mile, the crew NEVER washes the Intracoastal side of the boat and it looks disgusting, black streaks, salt, mustache on the bow........

[C4ENG]

That poor girl, almost like you had to reframe from sharing all her flaws. They have corrected a lot of things you mentioned but yet she still needs another dump truck load of money and time to finish the rest. I doubt she will ever be brought back to any kind of high standard glory.

[Capt J]

Originally Posted by C4ENG

That poor girl, almost like you had to reframe from sharing all her flaws. They have corrected a lot of things you mentioned but yet she still needs another dump truck load of money and time to finish the rest. I doubt she will ever be brought back to any kind of high standard glory.

Probably not, I hear from 1 source that the Yacht's Manager won't spend enough money to maintain her. And, judging by the ICW side of the boat that is always full of black streaks and never gets washed, the crew doesn't care much either.......But the owner's building a new 40,000 square foot house right across the street from the boat......LOL

[C4ENG]

Originally Posted by Capt J

the Yacht's Manager won't spend enough money to maintain her.

I have found he is not good to do business with. He plays strange games with money that insults others and usually causes them to loose in round about ways where he is then right at the end some how. There are shipyards in S Fl that do not even want his business because of that strange so called money saving game that causes problems with others just trying to provide an honest service. I thought maybe the owner was going bankrupt as everything was so cheapened and shorted on board, but then found out it was nothing of the sort. I often wonder if the owner even has a clue to what is really happening on his vessel. It has been in my experience that when I see people shorting the needs of the vessels and other people repeatedly all in the name of "saving money" they are usually digging there hands into the cookie jar for themselves.

[Capt J]

Originally Posted by C4ENG

I have found he is not good to do business with. He plays strange games with money that insults others and usually causes them to loose in round about ways where he is then right at the end some how. There are shipyards in S Fl that do not even want his business because of that strange so called money saving game that causes problems with others just trying to provide an honest service. I thought maybe the owner was going bankrupt as everything was so cheapened and shorted on board, but then found out it was nothing of the sort. I often wonder if the owner even has a clue to what is really happening on his vessel. It has been in my experience that when I see people shorting the needs of the vessels and other people repeatedly all in the name of "saving money" they are usually digging there hands into the cookie jar for themselves.

I wouldn't know. I agree with the cookie jar comment, but that usually goes on only for so long.