60' ketch in "Captain Ron"

[LP]

One of my favorite "fun" movies, "Captain Ron", has a 60' ketch in it. Does anybody know about the real yacht. Who are the designers and builders. Is she really 60' long. This will be pushing it, but does anybody know how much of the actual interior shots were done inside.

[capt'n ron]

i don't know any of the answers, learpilot. but i thought i'd add that movie is howi got my nickname. a buddy of mine saw the movie and started calling me capt'n ron because i reminded him of the capt'n ron in the movie, the name stuck and i am called by that monicer all over the area by most of the guys i work with in a about a 100 mile radius of my home town. funny thing is at the time of the movie's debut, there were several people who satrted calling me that at the same time with no co-laberation on thier part. it is a nice looking ketch though, isn't it.

[Wynand N]

Hi LearPilot

My most favorable memories of Capt Ron were those beautiful legs on the women

However, the boat used in the movie is a Formosa 51.
If I'm not mistaken, it is the same boat, after some cosmetic changes eg. metal mast etc etc were made, that was used in the movie "First 50 Dates"

OTOH, the boat also looks remarkably like a Hudson Force 51.......

[Wynand N]

There were 3 boats used in the movie. All three were Formosa 51's. One was a total mess, and that one was used in the initial scenes at the dock of the neglected boat. Another was not in quite as bad of shape, but still bad, and was used in the scenes where the boat was shot up by the "pirates of the Caribbean".
The third boat used for all on deck and offshore sailing scenes is a Formoso 51 named Wanderer, if I'm not mistaken, from Kemah, Texas.

All of the below deck scenes were shot in a movie studio, on a fabricated set.

[LP]

Thanks Wynand N,

You'll have to excuse my ignorance, a Formosa 51 would be 51' LOA? Just curious because they call it a 60' er in the movie. I was going to be quite impressed with the size of the interior if they had actually shot it in the yacht itself. Looked like the master suite had 10' ceilings.

Thanks again.

[Wynand N]

Originally Posted by learpilot

a Formosa 51 would be 51' LOA? Just curious because they call it a 60' er in the movie.

Usually LOA = LOD (lenght on deck). It is rare for LOA to include bowsprits, bumpkins, etc. except when one want to bend the rules

[seabreeze]

both the "Wonderer" and another formosa 51 named "Windborne"are docket within half/mile of each other one in Kemath and the other across the channel in Seabrook,TX. I have been told that both were used in the movie. I have been aboard both, and seen the movie, and I thank, at lest some othe interior shot were inside.The "Windborne" is beautiful has just been refit&refinished.

[yokebutt]

Well, you do have to pay slip-fees for 60 feet, so why not?

Yoke.

[Kaptin]

Do a Google Search for 51' Formosa ketch. The boat used in Captain Ron was a 51' Formosa Ketch called "Wanderer"

[landlocked02]

Tis true. The Wanderer is a 51 Formosa Ketch. It is docked in Kemah, Tx. Located just down from my brothers boat. It is starting to waste away as the new owners have not been keeping her up.

[globaldude]

I too like the formosa design , so much so that I flew to Hawaii to look over a CT41 formosa but ended up buying a Transworld 41 for 20K , a centre cocpit aft cabin with fibreglass decks and cabins . It is esentially the same as the formosa's , that is, William Gardner design but unlike most of the Taiwan boats it has glass decks and cabins . Story goes a couple of American guys ordered the glass decks etc for the same design as the CT's , Taichi's , sea wolf's, hardins and by what ever else name they go under .

I have edited this post severely as it has had the desired efect [ for those who read it first -- he has offered to pay me back ]

[Reckless]

You could just go out and buy the actual boat



http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1978.../United-States

[sbluejean54]

Hi LP, as previously posted by Wynand N., the "Captain Ron" Ketch is indeed, the "Wanderer", a Formosa 51 and yes, it is slipped at the Kemah Boardwalk Marina in Kemah, Texas.

My wife and I loved the movie and wanting to see the boat, sailed through the Marina last year and saw her. If memory serves, she's on the 3rd pier in from the marina's water entrance off the Seabrook channel (the Seabrook channel takes you from NASA's Clear Lake, to Trinity Bay). Stop in and see her sometime.

[Jack Tar]

The Wanderer is presently for sale on www.yachtworld.com . I also had my vessel the Angelique for sale last year but pulled her from the market until the economy changes. Many of the movie shots were filmed on sets. The engine room for one. It's not hard though to make a cabin look large. Here is a shot of my main salon shot through a fish eye lens. Oh and my overall length is just over 59'. LOA She is a center cockpit model.