Todays Yacht is a 65′ 2000 Neptunus. Neptunus is famous for their attention to detail.
E-mail us at fastfreddy@mermaidsandtales.com for information on this yacht. Now follow the FeelGood girls as they tour the motor yacht ‘Lush Us’.

This could be your boat

While doing a photo shoot for ‘Dock Holiday’, we saw this beautiful 65 foot Neptunus. One of the spectators at the photo shoot asked us if we would like to do a shoot on the ‘Lush Us’. Since we are always looking for ways to put beautiful women on beautiful boats, we said ‘sure’. What follows is the result. We have the photos from the shoot shortly, but get a sneak peak by checking it out here.

In all my 40 years of boating, This is probably the neatest boat I have ever seen. We received this from Sorry Dog which scares me just a little. I think we may be looking at his next project.

This yacht was designed by UK based Yacht Island Design. Instead of bringing a boat to an island, they brought the island to the boat.

The design is inspired by tropical islands, with huts, a pool and to top of that, a whole volcano. Since this is a yacht, it comes packed with special VIP rooms, arcades, gym, lounges, spas and even a helipad.

The volcano adds a lot of beauty to the whole look of the yacht, it also happens to have water flowing out of it onto the pool creating this amazing river complementing the whole tropical look.

The back of the yacht has a retractable beach deck where structures float on the sea making the sea accessible to swim in and of course grant access to various water activities such as wake boarding and jet-skis. The whole concept is pure genius and the result looks even better.

One day, Sorrydog was sitting around at the point just looking over the property and some of the items that were laying about.

He spotted and old jet boat and an old beach buggy. Now most of us, to save space, would just take the items to the junk yard but not Sorrydog. His thought was ‘lets combine them and I’ll save space and have something to ride around in’. Once the thought entered the Sorrydogs’ mind, there was no stopping him. What following is the beginning of a special project that ended with an un-believable vehicle. We showed you the making of the Sorrydog Boat, now follow along with the making of the sorrydog CarBoat.

The iPhone was an odd journey for me. It started out as “why would I ever want one”, then became “I need a new phone so I might as well”. After about a month of using it, the iPhone is now one of those “how in the blue hell did I ever live without one?” type of items. 

While browsing through the App Store, I came across a couple of boating related applications so I gave them a try. After testing them for about a month, I can safely say: no boater with an iPhone should be without either.

The first is TideApp, a free application from Atlantis Technology. This app is pretty much what it seems: an electronic tide chart. It has all the reporting stations in the US and allows you to display past, present and future tide conditions for any of them. It also has a nice feature that lets you save stations to a favorites list for quick viewing. 

It does run a little bit slow on my generation 1 iPhone but you people with the 3G phones should have no trouble what so ever.

It’s a 100% free application so there’s no reason for you not to have it on your iPhone.

App Store Link: TideApp

 

The next app is one that I have thoroughly enjoyed using. Knot Time by Dustin Thomas is a knot tying guide for the iPhone. Now, if you’re anything like me you’ve stared at those blasted knot tying books with their little arrows and drawings for hours only to throw the book down in frustration and resolved to stick with your knots that you learned in kindergarden. 

Knot Time takes a different approach: it has videos of someone actually tying the knot and explaining the procedure as he goes! What a novel idea! I have actually learned more knots from this application than all the books, and posters and guides I’ve used in the past. 

I even learned how to tie the “Monkey’s Fist” knot. I can put one of those together without a problem now thanks to this. 

Its a big app, weighing in at 110mb but that size is really a drop in the pond of even the smallest of the iPhones. It’s priced it at a VERY reasonable $0.99 and, after using it for a while I would say that’s an absolute steal of a price.

App Store Link: Knot Time