Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2021 i Yachting

CONTEST 59CS: INTERIOR BY BENTLEY DESIGN SERVICES For his 60th birthday, Russian musician Garik Sukachev had an idea: build the interior of a Contest Yachts 59CS to match the Bentley Continental GT V8 Convertible coupe. That idea is now a showcase of hotspur red leather, linen beige hide and diamond-in-diamond stitching. The project’s timing made it not just a birthday treat but also an anniversary event, with Contest Yachts celebrating 60 years in business and Bentley Motors marking its centennial. “We are well-known for our thorough approach to customization,” said Arjen Conijn, CEO of Contest Yachts. “This project is the ultimate example of this approach, working with Mr. Garik and Bentley to turn a customer’s dream into reality.” 60'9" LENGTH OVERALL 16'9" MAXIMUM BEAM…

61'3" LENGTH OVERALL 16'2" MAXIMUM BEAM THE ABSOLUTE YACHTS 60 Fly adds to the Italian builder’s eight-model flybridge series, which ranges from 47 feet to 72 feet length overall. The 60 Fly carries a fair bit of beam forward, enhancing interior volume and allowing space for a full-beam master stateroom at the bow. In addition to a walk-in closet, this space has a vanity and hullside windows offering sea views. A VIP stateroom with an en suite head is amidships and to starboard. A third guest state-room is to port with twin berths. The crew cabin is aft and also has twin berths. ¶ Unobstructed ocean views are the core of the 60 Fly’s design, with cut-down bulwarks amidships and nearly 360 degrees of glass in the vessel’s superstructure. The…

69'9" LENGTH OVERALL 26'11" MAXIMUM BEAM Between 50 AND 70 FEET length overall, everything changes. That’s especially true of multihull designs, where volume increases dramatically because of the vessel’s wider beam. Engines, onboard systems, space for the tender and more get upsized, creating a higher caliber of yacht. ¶ The Aquila 70 is an example of this principle and shows how the builder transitioned from the production mindset to a semicustom mentality. ¶ “The aesthetics and speed are what really drove the 70’s design,” says Lex Raas, president of Aquila product development. “The majority of powercats don’t perform; they have very wide beams, and with the wrong length-to-width ratio, you’re challenged on speed. We made our yacht perform.” ¶ The 70’s design allows for a top-end speed north of 27…

JUST conductor might launch a concert with a musical flourish, the heavens launched the evening light show with a blinding blue-white baton of lightning that slashed horizontally across the black Thai sky. ¶ Every night, there had been hours of similar light shows that started shortly after sunset and lasted well into the wee hours. During the afternoon, towering pillars of cumulonimbus clouds boiled up over the mainland into crenelated towers, with black streamers of rain slanting down to the hot earth. After sunset, I had a front-row seat for Mother Nature’s light show, with an icy Singha beer. ¶ The air was still and balmy, our anchorage was as quiet as a millpond, and the long crescent of white-sand beach glowed with a faint luminescence as the wavelets shushed…

QUICK SPA’S MC2Quick Gyro X10 gyrostabilizers are made for 35- to 45-foot yachts. Quick makes two X10 models, for AC and DC systems. Both reportedly emit noise levels below 70 decibels and use natural heat-dissipation setups that eliminate the need for water-cooling pumps. The X10’s flywheels spin around horizontal axes, distributing weight evenly over the system’s bearings. This design allows Quick to calibrate the flywheels at a higher weight, which results in faster spool-up times, fewer revolutions per minute, less heat accumulation and lower maintenance. ¶ “The challenge was designing a gyrostabilizer more powerful than [our] X7 model [and] very compact,” says Paolo Berni, Quick USA’s managing director. “The engineering development started from a new engine capable of reaching even higher rpm—while keeping power absorptionverylow—andfromnew software [that brings its] torque…

133'11" LENGTH OVERALL 27'11" MAXIMUM BEAM THIS JUST IN Benetti recently announced its Oasis Deck, a design found on the builder’s Oasis 40M (above) and on the Oasis 34M, B.Now 50M and 66M. The exterior design is from the UK’s RWD. The builder says there are five defining features of the Oasis Deck: foldout side decks that sit high above the water, a flush-deck pool, 270-degree views from the stern and salon, blended sun and shade areas, and social areas that flow from inside to outside and vice versa. The Oasis 40M accommodates 10 guests in five staterooms and has a reported range of 4,000 nautical miles at 11 knots. Look for the yacht to debut at the Cannes Yachting Festival next month. READER FEEDBACK Looking for photos and yacht…

43' LENGTH OVERALL 11'6" MAXIMUM BEAM SEVENTEEN thousand pounds of double-planked okoume ply sheathed in epoxy-impregnated E-glass and Kevlar are crafted into a DLBA-designed hull form with Carolina flare in the bow and a tumblehome in the transom. The topsides are laid out for predatorial angling missions and are capped with teak covering boards and toe rails. A Belkov Yacht teak-lined console is belowdecks. ¶ I’m an angler who appreciates art, and this boat was mesmerizing from the moment I laid eyes on it. ¶ I broke out of the trance when I firewalled the throttles on the triple 350 hp Suzuki outboards, running through a chop at a top-end speed of 48-plus knots. The Weaver 41 cruised at 36.6 knots at 4,500 rpm. The cold-molded construction and traditional 24-degree,…

UNDER THE CLOAK OF FOG, THE 50-FOOT SAILING VESSEL ATEA MADE A BREAK FOR IT. OWNERS John Daubeny, Kia Koropp and their children, Braca and Ayla, had been on a pandemic lockdown in a South Africa marina for two months. Their plan to island-hop from St. Helena to Ascension to Cape Verde en route to Europe had fallen apart as those ports slammed shut along with ports worldwide. ¶ But there were signs in summer 2020 that Europe was opening to cruisers. Rather than linger in uncertainty in wintry South Africa, the foursome set sail that June on a nearly 6,000-mile direct transit to Europe, navigating pandemic restrictions while exploring destinations in both the Eastern and Western hemispheres. ¶ Since purchasing Atea in 2011, this New Zealand-based family has embodied…

MASSACHUSETTS BAY, August2004: Huge square waves and stiff headwinds were reducing our boat’s velocity made good toward Canada’s Bras d’Or Lake to fewer than 2 knots. We reconsidered our plans and took shelter at a mooring off nearby Provincetown to wait for a better weather window, complicating an already-complex travel itinerary. ¶ My dad’s J/44 was loaded with electronics, but we didn’t have a satellite phone or even iPhones—a lack of technology that made sorting out logistics tricky. We got it done, but not before wishing that a small, lightweight, affordable satellite-communications system was available for DC-powered boats. ¶ In recent years, VSAT (very small aperture terminals) satellite-communications systems have gained popularity as their antennas have become smaller and less expensive to purchase and operate. KVH’s latest VSAT system, the…

345' LENGTH OVERALL 56' MAXIMUM BEAM HERE’S A FUN FACT FOR ANYONE considering a bucket-list expedition cruise to Antarctica: Regulations there require you to have two helicopters when flying beyond rescue-service range or when landing in the mountains for skiing. ¶ So says Damen Yachting in the Netherlands, which designed its SeaXplorer 105 to have not just a twin helideck but also a weathertight double hangar below it, with a hydraulic lift to get the choppers in and out. Once guests are all safely back on board, the helideck becomes a 3,229-square-foot space that can welcome as many as 200 guests for parties, or be used as a full-size doubles tennis court or a basketball half-court. ¶ The idea behind this icebreaking expedition yacht is not only to be able…

THE ONE.FLY is a foiling powerboat designed by the Mannerfelt Design Team and built by Mantaray Hydrofoil Craft. It incorporates Mantaray Hydrofoil Craft’s Dynamic Wing Technology, and it can carry four people. The One.fly foils roughly 12 inches above the water, allowing owners to use a standard-size Torqeedo Deep Blue electric motor or a 50 hp Honda gasoline outboard engine. Once aloft, the boat reportedly delivers a smooth, quiet ride, maximum speeds of 40 knots, and cruising speeds of 30 knots while sipping amp-hours or fuel. • Whom It’s For: The Mantaray Hydrofoil Craft’s One.fly is for boaters who enjoy moving quickly and efficiently over the water with their friends and family. • Picture This: It’s afternoon in Seattle when the conversation turns to Penn Cove mussels. You and your…

BENETTI JO I Camper & Nicholsons International says this 164-footer has a new crew and a new owner who has been investing in upgrades to the decor, entertainment system and more. FEADSHIP JOY This 229-footer, which charters through Burgess, has an onboard office for charter guests who want to work remotely while vacationing in the Mediterranean this summer. ROSSINAV I EIV Launched in 2020, this 164-footer charters through IYC. The yacht has three drop-down balconies, a 200-bottle wine cellar and a beach club with a steam room.…

TOO MANY TIMES, I’VE SEEN A BOAT TRY TO be everything to everyone, and it doesn’t stand out in any particular way. The Solaris Power 48 Open is different. It knows its own identity. The yacht does day cruising and weekending splendidly. It’s also an eye-catcher with modern lobster-boat styling. ¶ Solaris is synonymous with sailing yachts from 40 to 110 feet length overall that usually are found in the Northern European cruising grounds. Since 1974, the brand has focused on quality, seaworthiness and elegance. In 2008, Solaris started a production unit manufacturing motoryachts for other brands. Ultimately, this move created the opportunity to launch a line under the Solaris Power name. Solaris worked with yachtsman and boatbuilder Norberto Ferretti and the team at Victory Design in Italy to create…

65'4" LENGTH OVERALL 18'6" MAXIMUM BEAM THE OUTER REEF 650 is a long-range cruiser built for blue water. Hull construction is solid fiberglass below the waterline and PVC coring above it. Full-length longitudinal stringers and athwartships stringers add backbone. ¶ The yacht’s cruise-speed range is 9 to 15.5 knots with a top speed up to 22 knots. ¶ The 650 has a three-stateroom layout with a full-beam amidships master, a forepeak VIP and a portside guest stateroom with a double berth, all with en suite heads. ¶ At press time, six Outer Reef 650s were available, ranging from $1,595,000 to $1,795,000. FROM THE ARCHIVE “The watertight rear door swings open to reveal a cherrywood salon lined with carefully book-matched teak veneer panels and flooded by natural light on three sides.…