“Red Head is a different kind of special,” Natalie told me, “because people all say that when they come aboard, they don’t feel like they’re on a boat. They feel like they’re in a home, and a really nice home at that.”
The impression comes not only from Red Head’s décor, but also from her design. Many of the guest areas have 6½ feet of headroom, creating interior volume that is impressive aboard a 65-footer. The two guest cabins are more like those in a house than on most boats, too. One has a king-size bed, the other a queen, with not a hint of upper-lower bunks or Pullman berths.
This makes Red Head ideal for charter by two couples, but Donald Hannon says there is extra space for children in the pilothouse, where the settee converts to a bed.
“If I were a kid, I’d be thrilled to sleep there,” he says. “The pilothouse is a really cool place on any boat.”
Red Head also has several features that will appeal to fun-seekers of all ages, including a drop-down swim platform, a hammock-filled forward deck and a private deck off the master cabin aft. The crew intend to have coffee and juice awaiting charter clients on that last deck, where mornings can be enjoyed in solitude with a gorgeous view.
“The owner wasn’t sure about charter at first,” Natalie Hannon says, “but now that the boat is so cool and dialed in with crew, he wants to use it and see it used.”
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Red Head charters with four guests and two crew at a lowest weekly base rate of $15,000 plus expenses. Neptune Group Yachting, 954-524-7978; www.ngyi.com.
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