I am very intrigued by this company. I was wondering if anybody knows anything about them personally and not what is just on their website. I love their Expedition 75' with extended sky lounge and Portuguese Bridge. I would definitely go trans-atlantic with that. http://www.realships.com
Looks like they have taken their design ques from Nordhavn. http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/nordhavn-yacht/3810-nordhavn-55-trawler.html http://www.nordhavn.com/72/overview.php4 Maybe this should be in the "Design or Copy?" tread.
Didn't Billy Joel have a Real Ships vessel a number of years ago, before he got into the downeaster style yachts? Capt Tom
Zzzzzzzzzz.....HUH!? Sorry, gang, been on serious vacation and preparing for a Smokies expedition as well. Responding to Carl's well-aimed kick to the backside, here's the dope: outmywindow, the Nordhavn design and the Real Ships design are markedly different--- steel v. FRP, interior accommodations, hull shape, machinery arrangements...well, check out the listing for the 77 that I made up which explains more in detail-- https://www.boatwizard.com/core/lis...=Users&listing_id=25424&url=realships&lang=en The greatest similarity is that both the Nordy and the RS are LSD (Long Slow Distance) boats... and we think the world of Jim Leishman's designs. So, a "design copy"? Please. The look of Real Ships hasn't changed markedly for the 12 years since inception. CaptTom, Billy Joel's "Red Head" was/is a Florida Bay Coaster 65-footer. We were the sales agents for them until Achilles bought & moved the operation down to Guatemala and we found that folks did not warm up to building a boat in a Banana Republic. rymert19, thanks for the kind words. The 75 morphed into the 77 due to client requirements. Two are currently under construction at the yard in Bayou Labatre. They run in the neighborhood of $3.5M. Hope this wasn't too commercial a plug requiring editing, but that's it in a nutshell. Now, where's that Coleman lantern anyway?
Loren -- I'm starting to worry about you Loren has proven his knowledge and wisdom on YachtForums. As to his commercial plug, I'll vouch for anything that Loren has good to say about himself. Judy Waldman
Who knows where this stuff comes from? That is a shot of "Kokomo", the second of the 68 series Expedition boats and was most likely taken about three years ago, just prior to delivery to her owners. That large center console on the foredeck was ditched for a much smaller RIB early on resulting in a marked reduction of mashed fingers/shearguards/hullsides during launching & retrieval.
Real Ships 68 "KOKOMO" The photograph of the Real Ships 68 above reminded me of my grand mother fleeing the beauty parlor to return home lickety split to put dinner on the table... Attached is a more deserving picture of the trawler. Bye the way; Patrick Bray of Vancouver, BC designed the hull... Jim
Yipes...this is a tough audience! Design or Copy? That's a cheap shot based, I'd guess, simply on having the house set well aft. Vast differences between the Real Ships and the Nordhavn, and not just in materials. Loren's absolutely right...these are two different critters. If you want to look for similarities, go all the way back to the '50s and take a look at the Romsdal trawlers out of Norway. I've been aboard a couple of Real Ships, and these are just that: real ships, not toy yachts. Really well thought out, built to high standards, seamanlike. Were built in Louisiana, but soon to be built at a commercial yard in Brazil to keep price in line without sacrificing strength and quality. If you haven't been aboard one, check one out at Lauderdale. It's a lesson in how to do it right.
Real Ships Kokomo 68 for sale I saw that the Real Ships 68 foot Kokomo is currently for sale in Freeport, Bahamas for an asking price of $1,999,000. Would love to have the money to buy it. It's my second favorite by these guys next to the 77 footer.
No Affiliation with Real Ships... Hello YachtForum, I had a client keen to purchase the Real Ships 82 "QUAN YIN" lying in San Diego. My client was ready to pull the trigger; however his business manager was not. The manager dragged his feet too long, so his boss lost the boat to another motivated buyer... It takes immense patience to conclude boat sales these days... There is an extraordinary element about Ocean Explorer Trawlers that I find intriguing much like others who posted opinions in this Forum Thread... Jim
Well Jim, while you find it intriguing because it's a sector in which you have specific interest (read: a listing), others have a more 'vested' interest in swaying popular opinion, such as a builder posing as an unaffiliated consumer to elevate the interest of his/her own product. "dmzuniga's" previous post's reads like the promotional rhetoric most of us have come to loathe... and the primary reason that 20,000+ people have become members of YF... to gain knowledge from their peers, not from those who have something to sell. If I find a connection between a poster and a product, I'll not only ban the member, I'll remove any mention, *anywhere*, on YachtForums of their product. I have done this with builders who could have very well become advertisers. It's not about money here. It's about community and maintaining the integrity of the resource our very knowledgeable members have built.
Unrequired Speculation... Forum Moderator, I find your Politically Correct speculation about my motives for posting opinions on your Yacht Forum Threads totally misguided and unnecessary... You need to Chill Out... This is my last Post as I hold no "Vested" interest in pursuing my casual opinions on the Yacht Forums... Sea Ya, Jim
Jim -- I am not a YF moderator, but when I saw your post I became suspect as well. Your only posts that I found were related to comments on the Cape Horn 81 and on the Real Ship Kokomo. Then you make a post saying that you had a client seriously interested in a Real Ship in San Diego but the picture was from a Custom Steel Boat 82. I was confused how a broker with a serious client almost at contract point can misidentify the 2 manufacturers. And it is obvious the CSB 82 was based on the Cape Horn 82 as pictured which was another clue. For those of us long-time subscribers who have come to expect a high standard of vigilance from the YF owner and moderators, we appreciate when new posters present themselves and appear suspect as to their intentions and YF nips it in the bud. There are so many highly respected marine professionals and yacht owners on this forum whose value becomes diminished with loose cannons and disguised self-promotors. You did admit to brain freeze, so let's hope that you and the other poster who seemed over enthusiastic in his zeal will succumb to the general tone and expectations of the YF standard. Respectfully, Judy