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“The owner wanted me to take a fresh look at large yacht design,” Dubois recalled before his untimely death four years ago. “He wanted me to go back to my roots in the late 1970s and ’80s when we were designing race boats, but he also knew we had designed a number of high-performance yachts that were nevertheless seaworthy and comfortable cruisers. So I had to reset my internal computer, if you like, and look hard at how we could save weight and add strength. more
Her dark metallic grey hull and black and red sail wardrobe lend her timeless lines a slightly menacing appearance – a purposeful racing look that belies the luxurious interior below decks. The aggressive aesthetics are in keeping with her name, a Viking word (it means Swede).
All Js dazzle on the water, but Svea simply stops you in your tracks. Her lines and deck are kept spectacularly clean, thanks to the compact wheelhouse, sunken wheel and wonderfully low boom. more
This is the fourth Liara for British serial yacht owner Tony Todd, who is now in his seventies. His initial brief was for a safe, comfortable family cruising yacht for circumnavigating the globe, hence the deep and well-protected cockpit. However, Todd has been racing yachts all his life, and once his competitive side kicked in and the odd regatta was mentioned, the speed, weight and deck layout to make this possible became critical features. The result is Liara, the definitive multi-role superyacht.
LOA: 53.90m (176ft 10in)
LWL: 45.27 m (148ft 6in)
Beam: 9.55 m (31ft 4in)
Draft: 4.50-7.00 m (14ft 9in – 22ft 12in)
Displacement: 250 tons (560,000lbs)
Ballast: 79 tons (176,960lbs)
Naval architect: Judel/Vrolijk & co
Interior: Design Unlimited
Builder: Baltic
Launched: 2017
The deckhouse has a bar and dining area to starboard and informal seating, with coffee tables and a pop-up television, to port. A curved staircase leads down from the deckhouse to the owner’s and guest accommodation. The lavish owners’ suite takes up a significant proportion of the main accommodation deck.
From here there’s direct access to the engine control room and engineer’s office, which in turn has direct access to the engine room. “As with all of the projects that we undertake for this client, once the initial design concepts were agreed, the production work started and the client did not see the finished article until launch day,” says Baker. “Thankfully Ngoni was very well received by a happy client.”
“After we finished and faired the deckhouse we made a mould and then asked a number of different glass suppliers to make a test panel. All of them said it would be impossible, apart from BCE in Turkey. Fortunately their test panel was good and they then also supplied the rest of the glass.” here
The enormous square top mainsail covers almost a quarter of an acre – the equivalent of four tennis courts. A neat piece of engineering means the forward end of the diagonal top batten automatically detaches and attaches to the luff car when the sail is hoisted or furled into the boom. Both raising and lowering the sail can therefore be achieved with minimal intervention from the crew. here
Even with an additional 35mm thick aluminium plate around the top of the hull that acts like a ring beam, without the reverse sheer, it was still a struggle to come up with the required stiffness to resist the forestay loads that were calculated to reach 60 tonnes. Further refinement led to the concave sheer aft of the superstructure, which improves visibility from the cockpit and gives the boat her distinctive style.
It includes a full-beam stateroom with a large bathroom, a study and a spacious gym with an opening port in the topsides. There are two superbly appointed guest cabins – a twin to port and a double to starboard with a Japanese theme.
The royal yacht Dannebrog was built in 1931 at the naval dockyard in Copenhagen. It was named after the flag of Denmark and was launched by Queen Alexandrine in Copenhagen in 1931. Serving primarily as the royal yacht during peacetime, she was designed to serve as a naval hospital in wartime. Currently it serves as the private residence of Queen Margrethe, II of Denmark and the Prince Consort. She also serves the same purpose for other members of the royal family when they are on an official visit or recreational cruise in the Danish waters. It has royal accommodations, studies for the Queen and the Prince Escort, a lounge, and a bedroom and furniture from the former 1879 vessel. The Dannebrog has an independent command comprised of the chief of the Queen’s naval household. The crew is comprised of 9 officers, 7 sergeants, 2 able-seamen, and 34 other crew members.
Next only to the Eclipse, the super luxury Dubai is the largest yacht in world. It is 162 meters long and was built by the most renowned German shipbuilding companies, Blomm & Voss and Luressen. It was built for Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoumthe, the ruler of the Emirate of Dubai. Its air-conditioning system was originally designed on the basis for Mediterranean conditions, but it was redesigned in 2008 to suit the conditions of the Middle East. [links]
At the time of its launching in 1931, the 136-meter-long MV Savarona was the largest yacht in the world. It was originally built for American heiress Emily Roebling Cadwallader the granddaughter of the Brooklyn Bridge engineer John A. Roebling. Gibbs & Cox designed it while Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, Germany built this yacht in 1931 at the cost exceeding $4 million which is considered equivalent to $57 million in 2010 dollars. The Turkish Government bought it in 1938 for the ailing Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk who spent 6 weeks aboard the MV Savarona just a few weeks before his death. She is currently owned by the Republic of Turkey which has given it to Kahraman Sadikoglu on a 49-year lease until 2038. [links]
The word ‘yacht’ has been derived from the Dutch roots ‘jaght,’ ‘to hunt,’ and ‘schip’ meaning ‘ship.’ ‘Jaghtschip’ was applied to a private vessel for cruising. Currently, a yacht is considered a private boat or ship for recreational use only. Yachts are mainly categorized into sailing or motor driven, steam, or power boats. Although a yacht was originally supposed to be a light and fast boat to chase pirates in shallow waters, it is currently a luxurious boat mostly used by the rich for recreation. Yachts have various sizes, and those smaller than 12 meters are called cabin cruisers, and yachts over 30 meters are known as mega yachts. Yachts larger than 30 meters are designated as super yachts. Ensigns of the yachts differ from the state ensign as, unlike the Ensign of the U.S. which bears 50 stars, the U.S. yacht ensign has 13 stars.
Project Azzam is the name given to the mega yacht under construction at Luressen Yachts in Bremen-Vegesack, Germany. It is being built for the Saudi royal family and is intended to surpass the Eclipse, the current largest yacht in the world. Although its length is not known exactly currently, yet it is estimated to be more than 180 meters and may reach 220 meters after the bow is attached. Project Azzam is going to be about 50 meters longer than the Eclipse. Its exterior has been designed by Nauta Yachts. The details of its interior design are being kept secret, but it is assumed to be equipped with ultra-modern safety equipment. It can be presumed quite easily that the yacht shall be provided with the amenities befitting for the royal occupants. It is being built at the exorbitant cost of $622 million. more
SMY Hohenzollern II was one of the many German royal yachts used by the German Emperors from 1878 to 1918. She was named after the House of Hohenzollern. SMY Hohenzollern II was built by AG Vulcan Stettin. She was 120 meters long and mostly remained in the use of Emperor Wilhelm II who spent almost four entire years aboard this yacht. She was put out of service in Kiel at the end of July, 1914. In 1918 she was owned by the Weimar Republic and was scrapped in Wilhelmshaven in 1923. A picture of the Imperial yacht SMY Hohenzollern II appeared on the commemorative yacht issue of the German postal stamps.