Design
While many aluminum vessels have some composite parts, Nilaya is much more a hybrid
museum (the National Maritime Museum) in Amsterdam. The last yacht to bear that name was a 34-metre (112ft) full carbon sloop that combined a very high level of performance with ocean cruising capability, striking good looks and a luxurious interior. A game-changer on the superyacht racing circuit, in the 13 years since her launch that boat has won almost every race she entered… and she has done a lot of racing. It’s not surprising, then, that the new
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Nilaya has a fair amount in common with her namesake in terms of general concept, proportions and aesthetics. She is drawn by the same design team of Reichel/Pugh and Nauta, even more
he bar was set extremely high for the 47-metre (154ft) Nilaya, Royal Huisman’s most recent yacht, which has just been Christened at Het Scheepvaart
elegant and built on a substantially larger scale, with no compromise made in her racing ambition. However, the design brief also put a greater focus on long-distance ocean cruising, with more emphasis on considerations such as impact resistance and ease of repair in remote parts of the world. Thus, despite some similarities – profile, straight bow, wide transom, twin rudders and so on – the new Nilaya is actually a significantly different beast. One key difference is the hull. Rather
than carbon, it’s mostly aluminium. But this isn’t the sort of aluminium that’s typically used in large yacht construction, it’s Alustar – a premium grade alloy with 20 per cent more tensile strength. And this is, strictly speaking, a hybrid build with a lot more carbon components and
‘Nilaya rewrites the script for high-performance superyachts’
structures than one would expect to find in an aluminium cruiser-racer, even one that is focused on high performance. Royal Huisman’s sister company Rondal is of course a world leader in marine carbon fibre fabrication and the Nilaya project benefits from the inherent synergy between them. Why not build
the whole yacht in carbon? ‘The
owners wanted a powerful performer with easy-to-helm responsiveness, basically all the good habits of their last boat but with more comfort and less noise,’ says Nigel Ingram of MCM Newport, the owners’ representative for the build. ‘Alustar is the right material for an advanced, top quality superyacht for global cruising. It deals with noise better [than carbon] and is a better choice for cruising in comfort to remote
Royal Huisman’s Featherlight is an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach focusing on weight reduction through advanced construction technology as employed by the European Space Agency
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