It's a smaller crew but still manageable I think. Keep in mind It's still under 100 feet and there are just the two decks vs a tri-deck. Thanks for watching!!
Now this is a nice yacht, its got everything needed for a luxury cruise without all the glitz and glamor. Keep your mega million over the top boats. I’ll take this anyday
Love Ocean Alexander. Of my 3 favorite 'GRP production builders', Ocean Alexander, Horizons and Riviera are my favorites. I love Bering, Van Der Walk, and Numarine as my favorite metal builders. Cheoy Lee, CdM, Aquila, the British Big 3 (Sorry Pearl), and Delta Marine are also up there as far as yachts I would actually want to own and use for personal use. I hate 65M+ sized yachts with 14 crew and you can't find anywhere to dock it, it won't fit in some areas, everyone wants to take pictures of me on it and all that. I've crewed on those yachts and if you aren't chartering it or plan on bringing aboard a lot of high wealth people, they are more headaches than they are a place to relax. Give me 115-145' explorer type vessel for cruising the world with my family and a 65-80' catamaran for the Bahamas and the Caribbean in the winter when we want a break and be close to home. Southwest Australian, New Zealand, South African, Irish, 'cold bloc', Canadian or American crewed. Absolute perfection. What about you Tony?
That is the nicest cleaning supply closet I've seen since I started watching videos on RU-vid. Normally it's a bunch of stuff left in a bucket and thrown all over the place. When I was on yachts and we went to a boat show especially, everything was put up and even the bosun's locker was neat. Somehow though that fell out of fashion
I like the 'country kitchen' mixed with the control bridge.Having breakfast and or lunch while cruising,and chatting with everyone while preparing the meals or cleaning up after is a Family way of traveling.Your ship,your choices.The crew know what they're doing,as the ship shows,and I don't see the need for every meal to be prepared by a chef anyway.
After researching the Bering line of yachts for as much knowledge as my old brain can possibly retain, I find it extremely difficult to appreciate any other yacht builders. Even if money were no object, I'd choose the Bering 77 Steel Explorer Yacht over any yacht currently on the market.
You have a nice channel and you're doing a great job. However, I personally feel I seem to get a bit lost when trying to get hold of the orientation/layout when I am watching. Also, don't know about others, but I seem to also get a little dizzy watching the camera moves. Maybe its just me. Iam not complaning or hating the content, just that as a viewer, I wanted to share my feelings. Wishing you all the very best. Cheers :)
Great Yacht! Some constructive criticism on your filming, if your interested. Don't walk and film. Film the scene then stop filming, move to the next point, and film again. Like wise move your camera very slowly, for example filming a solon, or any space, pick a spot, say a corner, and pan the space slowly to capture the scene and narrate while you pan . Your shots will be much steadier and not jerky. The trouble with filming while moving and moving the camera quickly can causes motion sickness especially in older folks and will cost you viewers. Lots of good info in your videos very detailed Thanks!
Yes Captain and two additional crew. Technically you could have up to 4 if the Captains spouse/significant other was part of the crew and shared the double bed in the Captains cabin.
Only 3 crew? Where's the chef, the chief engineer, the bosun, the second stew and the deckhand supposed to sleep? Lol. I'm joking people.. I worked on yachts..big and really big and small. I used to troll Denison yachting with those questions until I realized they thought I was serious. Then other people thought I was serious and also started asking those questions and then I felt bad because it hit me then that most people probably only know about yachting from Below Deck and think every yacht has all those people on board. Then it also hit me that most people probably think yacht crew acts that way too. So sad.
I found myself critiquing this yacht and ended up thinking, wow, that's very reasonable for 5.5 million. I'm barley able to keep my car on the road, but, hey, 5.5 mill is very fair. 😲
God help us, white carpeting 🙄. I’m not sold on country kitchens. Possibly on a small boat. If you have 6 or more guests and a crewed boat, I wouldn’t care for it. If you have a personal chef, I’d expect a professional kitchen especially on a boat over $5MM
I definitely prefer a more professional kitchen when the yacht is larger and you have a chef! I just think it works really well in the 70-85’ range where you may have a crew but probably not a chef.
