The worst stern cleat set up award goes to...

Those are nice looking boats, well finished and that's a nice cleat. Of course those rounded sterns can prevent crossing the stern spring. But someone really blew it there. A chock or hause hole not being cut in behind that cleat is is a major desighn flaw. The owner is doing himself no favors either. When a good strain in put on that line he'll be buying fiberglass.

My question is whether he'll be paying for a fiberglass repair before or after his lines part and the boat slides into his neighbor's boat. How could he even think that's a good idea?

It's "Designed in Italy!'
Whoa,that makes the difference to all of us "plebs"

You are right though, in general the Apremare is a very well built boat based on the local fishing boats!
The trouble must have started when the "stylists" got hold of the functionality of the original time tested design.

That is a plane language problem. The sentence "Form follows function" can just not be translated in all languages. At least not into Italian or French.

Italo design is georgous. Its beautiful. They make nice interiors, furniture, shoes, haute couture, everything with high quality and great looking boats. And sometimes their products even work (but not always north of th Alps).

French designers are only able to translate it into "everything follows form", they are really surprised, if you can use it at all. But they also have their superior fields. They are very nice people, make good food and are great chefs.

Why isn't the cleat mounted on the deck and the scupper drain they're using wasn't made into a simple hause pipe, I have no idea. You see the Italians, French, and England only build yachts that are designed to tie up at their dock at the factory, nowhere else. That also goes for getting on and off a lot of them.

I think someone played a game on this owner. I just looked over about a dozen and a half pics of various models. Almost all have the cleat atop the bulwark, and one I saw had a chock. What model is this?
As for putting that cleat on the floor, with the corved transom seat on most of these I think it'd make a real good place to stub your foot.

But rub rails aren't sleek and pretty. and they take away from a gleaming black hulls (with big white scratches).

In a few weeks I'll start cruising on a 1981 56' Hatteras. It'll be so nice to be back on a boat that has what it needs in the way it should have it.

Europeans

Those Europeans are not doing a bad job selling their boats over here, maybe their drivers are just better.

Or they don't mind paying for paint.
BTW, It appears that someone did play a game on this owner and other buyers of newer 48s. Here's a listing for a 2008 model. Check out the beautiful chocks aft of those cleats. Looks like someone decided to save a couple hundred dollars.
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Sorry, I got lost at the picture of the girl on the bow......

Yeah, it definately has chaulks there......Maybe this one was supposed to have chaulks in between the stainless wear strips and for some reason they never got installed......

Actually saw it on a few, and most of their boats have the cleats on the bullwarks or have chocks. They don't look like after-market. First saw them gone on the 2012. Maybe the company has a new bean-counter.
You consider 18" over the beam tight for a 48' boat??? And the Apremare only needs that for a few feet mid ships. I'm surprised at you. You come in, stop motion as your boat blows over to the pole, then move again as she rebounds off. I've been in more than a few slips where I've had to spread the pilings (That's not fun with fiberglass).

Try fenderboards?