The Beach: Life Afloat: Pick Your Penthouse on One Big Boat

Life Afloat: Pick Your Penthouse on One Big Boat
Friday, July 27, 2007

Not content to be one of the largest real estate companies from "Manhattan to Montauk," Prudential Douglas Elliman is now selling floating residences as well as their landlocked stock. Pru has partnered with The Orphalese (pictured above), which can only be described as an entire world afloat—picture Manhattan with a motor. Unlike a traditional cruise ship, The Orphalese will also offer 200+ private residences for sale. Among the options available aboard the ship are a range of 5-bedroom, 5.5-bath, 3,700 square foot Penthouses ($10 mill) to 1,000-square foot Pegasus Estates ($1.8 mill). Everything in between as well to suit any fancy.

The boat won't be commissioned until 2010, but that hasn't stopped Prudential Chairman Howard Lorber from trying to whet some folks' nautical appetites. This weekend at Russell Simmons' Art for Life benefit, Lorber will be auctioning off a sunset dinner for eight aboard his 100 foot yacht, Useless, which is docked in Sag Harbor. (To give you some sense of how big The Orphalese is, you would need about 14 of Lorber's yachts to equal its length.) No word on what Lorber will be serving for dinner, but expect your dessert to arrive with a nice little packet of info about the boat and the numerous ways that Prudential can facilitate the purchase of one of its fine residences.
· The Orphalese

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