Feature 5 | MEGA YACHTS Decks onboard Vintage.


picked up the best rebuild award for the 101m Attessa IV. Lurssen’s German yard is just reaching


the final stages of construction of the 147m Topaz, although many details of the project have been kept under wraps. Topaz is the second largest Lurssen yacht to date, aſter the 155m Al Said which was built in 2008. Italian yard Fincantieri has been


building up its presence in the superyacht market with the delivery of Serene in September last year. At 134m, Serene was the largest yacht ever built in Italy at Fincantieri’s La Spezia yard. Serene has seven decks, a hangar and two helicopter The


vessel also features


landing pads. a


large


sea-water swimming pool, which can accommodate service craft and a submarine with a diving depth of up to 100m. There are 4500m2 space including 2700m2


of interior designed by


Pascale Reymond from Reymond Langton Design. Monaco-based naval design architect Espen Oeino provide the concept. Work on an even larger yacht also


started last year – the 140m Victory, which Fincantieri believes is the first mega yacht over 100m to be ordered since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008. Yacht broker Camper & Nicholsen will be representing the owner during the construction period. Based on a new, unique concept which


again is the brainchild of Espen Oeino and the Paris based interior designer Alberto Pinto, the Victory project has been developed by the Fincantieri Yachts team – set up to place Fincantieri as a force in the superyacht market. Victory, Fincantieri said: “will be one


of the world’s most advanced vessels in terms of safety onboard”. The yacht has seven decks, six pools of up to eight metres long and an internal floodable dock for a 14-metre tender.” Giovanni Romano, head of Fincantieri


Yachts, commented at the start of the project that: “This mega yacht is the start of another adventure which proves we were right to enter this area of the


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market, an exclusive niche where we set out to base our success both on product quality and the efficiency of our construction process. Today, drawing on our experience with our first mega yacht and having further refined our expertise in managing complex processes, we are in a position to guarantee excellent performance levels thus meeting the needs of a market which, we trust, is on the road to recovery”. There is no word of who has


commissioned the 102m yacht C.2157, which is under construction at Perini Navi in Italy. It is 16.3m across the beam with a draught of 6.5m (keel up). Equipped with CAT3516C engines she has a maximum power of 2240kW at 1800rpm. The hull


is steel with


aluminium superstructure and she has a maximum speed of 19.5knots. “Yachts for visionary owners” are


promised by naval architects Oceanco, who have a number of projects in train for superyachts in the 100m plus range. One such is the 120m PA122 project with exterior designs by Nuvolari & Lenard ,which Oceanco says resembles a “real ship” rather than a superyacht. Classed by Lloyd’s Register the yacht has a steel hull with aluminium superstructure and is equipped with four 4830hp MTU engines, with a maximum speed of 20knots. Other projects include the Elie Saab designed 117m PA126. Another radical new design concept is


Igor Lobanov’s 100m plus. The model’s bow shape resembles that of an ancient Greek galley while the open deck is enclosed by a gallery effect similar to that found in Middle Eastern architect. Unusually for a sailing yacht design the concept includes a helipad aft.


Design Unlimited and Reichel Pugh


Yacht Design revealed their new 100m yacht design at the Monaco Yacht Show last year and the designer claims it will be the largest luxury sailing yacht ever built. Design Unlimited specialises in yacht interior design and exterior styling for both custom and production yachts. Founded in 2000 by Mark Tucker the team has worked on some of the most well known sailing and motor superyachts afloat


today, as well as working in


conjunction with many famous brands including Sunseeker and the Hanse Group. Yacht


design Ivan Erdevicki has


recently given details of his new ER100 superyacht concept. At 100m long, the aim is to get away from the “typical mega yacht design cliché and create a design that really makes its own statement with styling, but at same time remains truly seaworthy, usable and buildable,” the designers said. The design has a traditionally raked bow. What is certain, given the number of


advertisements for superyachts in the latest version of the London Times rich list, super yachts attract, as do classic designs alongside the more modern hull formations. With the 2011 Monaco Yacht Show


due to take place in September this year, the organisers say that enquiries were at a high level following last year’s show, particularly in the 80m plus bracket. “Demand for superyachts is recovering,


but capacity is still ahead of contracts meaning that shipyards and suppliers are eager to display their finest examples of their work. Exhibits at this year’s show will demonstrate their desire to outdo each other in quality and value.” NA


The Naval Architect July/August 2011


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