Derecktor shipyard reports "booming business"

Certainly is poised to take on the best of Europe and then some, with their custom Mega-yachts.
My personal favorite is the Dereckor 60.
http://www.derecktor.com/yachts/yacht_home.html

I guess this is about the contract signed just recently on a 85 m yacht with Tim Heywood styling, which might be the largest (in displacement) ever built in the US. Could be a new "Cakewalk" perhaps...?

Now that Larry Ellison is sick of Rising Sun, maybe he's decided to give back to the local economy.
Exert from a recent Forbes interview..

"You seem like someone who is never quite done with things. Acquisition spree, bigger house, bigger boat ...

I am actually building another smaller boat. I love Rising Sun. It is perfect in the port of Monaco for the Grand Prix.

Why downsize?

I just like the feel of the smaller boat. I think I made a mistake, making Rising Sun so big. It is one and a half football fields long.

You can't dock that anywhere.

Not in Monaco. But usually, we're never at the dock. A lot of people do. They have parties. They want to be seen."

I wonder what Taiwan is paying for scrap metal these days

Here's the Press Release. The client is not allowing renderings to be made public. It looks like CTdave will be our designated yard spy...

Here's a photo from a few months ago from the Port Jeff ferry of the Derecktor yard and the 85m under construction. Thats the aft section of the superstructure on the left, with the yacht in the shed. That section was built in NY and shipped over to this yard. Should be one heck of a yacht when completed.

Hi,

Pity it's going to be about 2 yrs behind schedule.

Good for Direcktor!

I have been driving by on I-95 for years and several times a year go kayaking near the yard. There is a huge aluminum sailboat hull sitting in the yard. I think that it was started for an exec from Tyco and then he ended up in jail.
Does anybody know what will happen to it? I hope that the yard got progress payments. Cutting it up for scrap would be wrong.

Carl

I too have see that sailboat and it is a piece of art. I think the interior is also like 80 percent complete. The built was for sale for a while I am not sure about it right now. I also saw some of the super structure of the big boat out one day pretty cool.

Also I thought Direcktors was supposed to release the drawing for the big boat at Monaco this year

Any News?

That sailboat was intended for the head cheese at Tyco, who now is a guest of the feds. The hull sits there, waiting for a buyer as it is for sale. Below is another photo from the ferry, where you can see the hull and the bulbous keel is to the right in its own cradle.
The new Derecktor 85, named Cakewalk, was unveiled in Monaco. Not sure if plans were distributed, but the yard will have a press release out soon with the some of the specs, and it is impressive. And why wouldn't it be, as it will be the largest yacht built in the US in 75 years. I just did a story on Derecktor for one of my publications and did an on-site visit. They did ask that I not take any photos while on site, which I obliged.

"I think the interior is also like 80 percent complete."

Was on it not too long ago, there is no interior, just a few frames and structural elements. It is an aluminium cavern.

Yes,
But a lot of the interior has been constructed and I guess is in storage somewhere awaiting someone to come along and finish the project. I have seen the interior in the joiner shop in Mamaroneck, it is beautiful.

There is a story about Derectors' Cakewalk project on another site that I cannot mention here.
It shows renderings, drawings and a photo of a scale model. Quite impressive!
Google "Derecktor Cakewalk" and you should be able to find it.

yes I believe that I read that the interior of the sailboat is off-site

Any US shipyard that had 4 builds underway which were of the size and caliber of Derecktor, yes, I'd consider that "booming".

Business is well. Good for them! It's nice to see in the current fabric of America.

Looking forward to seeing more from them and following / reading about their releases.

So....they were building one of the largest sailing catamarans too right? Project Gemini if if remember right that was renamed "Hemisphere"? So, what ever happened with that, was it completed and delivered? I have not seen or heard anything about that project...It's been all over the charter sites yet you can't hear anything about it. I suppose if it was completed you would have heard or seen about it by now?