Boat test for the 2004 Ocean Alexander 64 Pilothouse with boat pictures, boat specifications, and boat test results. Includes pricing, videos, engine test reviews, and ratings for the 2004 Ocean Alexander 64 Pilothouse.

The smart planning extends to the accommodations, which are equally practical for a husband and wife and a group. Somehow every stateroom feels big, even the smallest one to port, which has double berths. (Ocean Alexander will move bulkheads here to accommodate personal preferences.) The nine-foot-long forward stateroom is plenty large, although it has no en suite facilities; a single large head with a large marble-accented shower is directly aft and to starboard and also functions as a day head. Our midship master, a tad over ten feet long, did have en suite facilities, plus a queen-size berth on the aft bulkhead, insulated from the engine room by two 600-gallon aluminum fuel tanks. An alternative layout, probably preferred by the cruising couple, has the stateroom two feet longer, with an athwartships berth and starboard head. An engineering note: Each stateroom has buss bars to make for easier electrical troubleshooting, plus lighted bilge access.

A couple will also appreciate the extra six feet of bridge deck that comes with the 64. Everyone sits up front, either in two pedestal seats or at the large U-shape settee directly aft. This leaves room aft for a 13’2” tender and Brower davit, which on our boat was connected to a Key Power hydraulic system that served fore and aft thrusters, stabilizers, and a Maxwell windlass and was powered by a pump on each engine.

Speaking of which, the engines are reached via a tight hatch at the forward end of the 8’5”-long cockpit. The MTU Series 60s enjoyed nearly full walkaround access, and I was impressed by the engineering here, too: oversized Groco strainers, full-length saddle-style engine bearers of polished steel, color-coded piping, explosion-proof lighting, and triplex fuel-water separators. Two Northern Lights gensets occupied the aft bulkhead, along with a Filtration Concepts watermaker. The inverter and inverter battery bank are located in the six-foot-long lazarette.

Also notable is the fact that the 64 is vacuum-bagged using carbon fiber, although she’s no lightweight. She’s listed at 69,300 pounds, but because of all that marble, high-end plumbing, and other top-end fittments, our test boat no doubt weighed a good deal more. Yet she performed well on a flat sea: a top speed of 26.4 mph and a 20.6-mph/2000-rpm cruise speed with 0.45 mpg for a range of nearly 570 miles. Planing was also relatively quick, with modest bow rise, and in high-speed turns the yacht banked slightly outboard, due to her nearly full-length keel. Also impressive was her quiet noise level: I measured a maximum of 82 dB-A on the flying-bridge helm and barely 70 dB-A in the pilothouse (65 is the level of normal conversation).

But what impressed me the most about the 64 was not her beautiful joinery, a Taiwanese trademark. It was her solid design and engineering. That’s why in the end, it really didn’t matter where this boat was built, just how.

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