Hi, As ugly as some find it this boat has come a long way since it was US Marshals seized hulk laying in the Miami River in the mid 1980's.
S/V Zeus I worked on the boat for a day around 9 years ago. We took off the dock and anchored off the coast of miami to just raise the sales and scrub some of the green scum off of them. This was the scariest boat I have ever seen. The original owner did not want a wheel in the main salon which double as the bridge so you drove the boat with the auto pilot. The halyard tails all spooled onto drums under the floor of the galley. Nothing worked the way it was supposed to. To stear the boat while you where sailing, you had to lower a helm chair that was built into the radar arch that would then raise you up so you could see over the superstucture. Once you where up in position there was no way to get down without dropping the "bucket down into the blindspot behind the main salon. Clearly the most illconceaved thing I have ever seen on a boat. My favorite was the round rotating bed in the master stateroom that would compensate for the heal of the boat with some sort of hydraulic lift. Now 10 years later I'm at dinner with some real estate developers in Fort Lauderdale, and one of the guys at the table tells me he just bought the boat and is having it refit. I didn't have the heart to tell him, no matter what kind of deal he got, he paid too much. Too funny!
Part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Go5acdU8M Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRB8g5VApG8
