PORT ROYAL GROUP: INTRODUCTION

Because experience always matters, Port Royal Group should be your first choice for technical, marine business/operations management and related consulting services. With more than 130 combined years background in the marine industry, we bring a wealth of varied experience to the table. Experience and skill. We have the skills base and flexibility to enable us to develop programs and solutions that are custom tailored to meet your needs and requirements.

Drawing from our roster of associated professionals, we provide top quality, cost-effective services worldwide in:

► Yacht design and construction

► New-build project management

► Refit planning and supervision

► Performance analysis and correction

► Re-power design and supervision

► Pre-purchase survey and consulting

► Marine business and operations management

Our forte is the selection, coordination, and direction of expert talent to the achievement of our client's goals and objectives. Our approach is consistently cost-effective because we work by assembling a project-specific team whose skill set and experience precisely match your needs. Additionally, we employ state-of-the-art computerized techniques in all areas of activity, from yacht design and engineering to project planning, management, and reporting. And we pay strict attention to the day-to-day details prerequisite to bringing your project to a successful conclusion.

The attainment of our client's objectives is our primary goal. With that in mind, we work at all times to ensure realization of our client’s vision, while at the same time functioning to mitigate the conflicting tensions generally present in today's team-driven projects. Our oversight brings unified and consistent direction to such multi-faceted team projects, which maximizes the potential for results that meet client requirements and expectations.

Whether you're actually beginning a project or simply considering one, we can help. If you're in the midst of a project gone off track, we can help. If you have a warranty or related problem, we can help. Indeed, whatever your issue, if it's yacht related, we can help. Call or e-mail us today for more information and to arrange a no-cost, no-obligation initial conference.

Port Royal Group ...because experience always matters.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

TEL: 954-224-2145 - E-mail: info@portroyalgroup.com

...BECAUSE EXPERIENCE ALWAYS MATTERS

The GIGO (garbage-in-garbage-out) principle applies just as much in yacht building and refit as it does in information technology and other business sectors. Frequently, narrow-minded, wrong-headed, and brazenly self-impressed thinking masquerades as expert opinion. When you're looking for information and advice, ask pointedly from whence it comes. Keep in mind that experience always matters, because it is only from long experience that lessons are gained which enable the avoidance of the pitfalls that derail projects. Theory and talent are vital, but experience always matters.

About Port Royal Group Managing Director Phil Friedman

The Port Royal Group is headed up by Phil Friedman, who has more than 30 years hands-on professional experience in the recreational marine industry.

Phil’s most recent consulting work includes the start-up planning and construction management for a new line of 65-foot high performance catamaran motor yachts that incorporates patented active air-lift technology, and the start-up planning and operations management of AeroLite Marine Interiors, a marine joinery firm that specializes in the pre-fabrication and installation of high-quality, ultra-light yacht cabinetry and furniture.

As president and CEO of Palmer Johnson Yachts, Phil was responsible for executive management of a group of companies with annual gross revenues in excess of $100 million and nearly 600 employees across the country. Under Phil’s direction, PJ developed and sold several hundred million dollars in new yacht construction and major refit work, and built and delivered a dozen luxury megayachts in the 30- to 60-meter range utilizing Critical Path Planning and Management techniques introduced by him to the company.

With Port Royal Marine, Inc. from 1984 to 2000, Phil provided a broad range of marine-related technical, marketing, and business consulting services to a wide array of clients that included yacht owners, boatbuilders, marine manufacturers, and aerospace companies, as well as advertising and public relations firms.

Prior to that, Phil was VP-Operations and CFO for a yacht dealership and chain of boatyards employing 150 craftsmen and trades people in the maintenance and refit of luxury yachts.Phil has also operated his own custom boatbuilding shops, and through the years maintained an active design, survey, and marine consulting practice. Numerous yachts have been built to his designs in various parts of the world. Several of these have made successful trans-oceanic passages.

As Senior Editor for Power & Motoryacht magazine, Phil tested and evaluated hundreds of yachts worldwide. Phil has published more than 600 articles on yacht design, construction, repair, and maintenance; and he is the author of the electrics and electronics chapters of later editions of Chapman’s Piloting, Seamanship, & Small Boat Handling, considered by many to be the bible of recreational boating. His articles have also appeared in Professional Boatbuilder, Boatbuilding, Boating, Motorboating & Sailing, Yachting, Sail, Marlin, Boating World, Motorboat, Canadian Yachting, Pacific Yachting, Canadian Power Illustrated, Sailing Canada, Small Boat Journal, Motoryacht International, and other marine publications.

Working on a more theoretical plane, Phil created the curriculum for, and directed the Marine Industry Management Program at Humber College of Applied Arts & Technology (Toronto), where he also taught boatbuilding and design. He was among the first people in the industry to apply computerized P.E.R.T. Analysis and Critical Path Management (CPM) to the construction of yachts. In 1981, he was awarded a grant by the Canadian National Research Council for his work in developing computerized specification programs for building small commercial fishing craft.

Copyright © 2009 by Port Royal Group LLC
Pompano Beach, FL 33062
TEL: 954-224-2145
E-mail: info@portroyalgroup.com

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