Boats with layout similar to Mikelson Nomad

I have a Nomad and have taken it up and down the west coast of US, Mexico and Canada. Nomads are semi-custom, so the layouts vary tremendously. I was hull 15 and I think they are up to about 21 now. I haven't seen many of the boats that came after mine, but have seen most (possibly all) that came before. Most have galley up, some have galley in the "salon", none have galley down. Some have a day head off the mezzanine deck (a step up from the cockpit, at the rear of the boat. Some have a 3' stretch, which increases the fuel capacity to 2300 gallons (but even with 2000, at 8 knots you go a long way). Wesmar stabilizers are standard. Most have a mid-ship master with a separate entrance from the salon. Some share an entrance with the forward staterooms, but that messes up the configuration -- you loose the full beam head / shower and the bed is sideways instead of fore-aft. Most have bunks in the mid-ship stateroom and a queen in the forward VIP stateroom. The owner's stateroom has a king (we went with an eastern king, rather than a California king for the extra width). There are also two crew berths accessible from the cockpit -- though some owners replace one or both of these berths with work benches, etc.

My favorite layout features are:
1. Portuguese Bridge -- available on plenty of boats. Nomads have wing stations at the sides of the PB, which is great for docking, etc.
2. Engine Room -- great headroom, well laid out and great access to both sides of the engines.
3. Cockpit -- quite large, like a big sportfisher.
4. Integral swim platform -- ie, the hull extends all the way aft, and the area between the transom and back of hull are port and starboard fish holds. I have one of mine plumbed with an ice maker, and use the other to bleed out fish. This makes a great place from which to land, or even fight, fish.
5. Flybridge -- Optional, and many of the Nomads don't have one. It is a really nice and large flybridge, so well worth the cost.
6. Tower -- The geometry of my tower looks funny (though I think it looks better than the towers I have seen on other Nomads), but it is a really great place from which to drive the boat while hunting for fish.
7. Day head -- my wife really likes the idea that no one needs to traipse through the boat with scales, blood and fish guts.

Overall:
IMO, Mikelsons are well thought out and well built. On Nomads, the hull is solid fiberglass below the waterline (ie, no coring), and we have had no issues with the boat (we took delivery 10 years ago). I will say that Mikelson disappointed me in the commissioning. There were little things that needed to be fixed and they did a half assed job. For example, there were a few imperfections in the interior woodwork, which they filled with non-matching wood putty -- it has a red tint. I never fixed it and now every time I see it I reminded of my irritation. Similarly, there is a shower box in the day head, cut into the fiberglass. Unfortunately, the cut it in about 1" too low, so in the up position, the toilet seat hits the showerbox (which protrudes about 1/2" from the fiberglass behind it). Mikelson's solution was to install a bungy cord to keep the toilet seat up. Very tacky. Finally (actually, I have a few more exmples, but I will leave it at this), my teak deck isn't sloped to drain properly. Mikelson said there was nothing they could do, though they fixed the molds for future boats.

I don't know of any boat quite like the Nomad and I don't know of anyone selling. My next choice would be to have a Nordlund made.

Have you contacted Mikelson? When I texted them several months ago they had a couple pocket listings, out of my price range.

I'm feeling the same way. Thinking of flying out soon from SoCal. Ridiculous what's been going on but I'm sensing a little bit of softening.

I just sold my 43 Mikelson SF a couple months ago after owning for 6 years and thought their support was good. They helped when they could.

I was thinking if I could get one in my price range (around $1mm) then maybe, but the ones they had at the time were around $1.6 as I recall. They had one cheaper but it didn't have a real flybridge.

I'm looking for a motor yacht, not necessarily one purpose built for fishing like the Nomad, but the Nomad is a great boat for cruising also.

I am surprised that wasn't negotiable. When I ordered my boat, Mikelson's stock contract said buyer has to inspect before it leaves the factory and Mikelson is not responsible for any deviations from specs not brought to its attention before it leaves the factory. But, they readily agreed that I didn't need to fly over and even if I did, they would still be responsible for delivery of a boat that complied with the contract specs.

I just purchased a 50' Mikelson after making an offer on a Nomad. Inventory is thin so I opted for an off-market boat in great condition, but they are great boats and hands on owners. You may want to look at their 57' or they have a 75' that is half way through construction that someone is going to make a great deal on. Good luck.

Old thread but wondering what happened? I’m looking at a Nomad but also have spoken to Outer Reef, Grand Banks and Fleming. Each will customize one of their boats to add live wells, in-deck kill boxes, Eskimo ice machine, shorter cockpit overhang, mezzanine seating, outriggers and extra fuel. For a cost of course. But, those are incredibly well made boats (especially the Fleming) with layouts, fit, finish and helms that I like better than the Nomad. I do, however, like the Nomad quite a bit. Will mostly be used for; cruising, fishing, diving and basically island hopping.

I have not looked at that. But, will add to the list along with the ones I mentioned. I really like the Fleming 58 in addition to the Nomad. But, it needs some customization.