Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2022 i Yachting

TURKEY’S VICEM YACHTS has a new Classic-series flagship: the 82 Flybridge. Hull No. 1 was delivered in late January, with the 82 as the fourth flybridge model in the Classic lineup. Construction is in cold-molded, strip-planked mahogany with epoxy. ¶ Vicem says the 82 is designed for socializing and entertaining. This intent is seen on the main deck, which has no galley. Instead, the main deck has seating for the family, friends and their friends from the cockpit to the salon. That seating is in addition to sun pads for four on the bow and forward-facing seating for two far forward at the bow. ¶ The cockpit is set up with two face-to-face L-shaped settees. The one to port has a wooden table that’s longer than the one to starboard,…

At first, the owner thought he and his family would use the 112-foot Hannah without making any changes. Then, his wife looked at it. ¶ “The original idea was just to change a few things inside, but you start one thing, and you say, ‘Why don’t you do the next one?’” he says. “We kept going and going and going.” ¶ After buying the Westport yacht in early 2020, the owner brought in Destry Darr Designs for the refit. She ended up orchestrating a total overhaul, finishing the project at the end of 2020. The yacht’s post-refit maiden cruise with the family was during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays that winter, then Westport Yachts began offering Hannah for charter. ¶ By the end of 2021, the yacht had done…

THE YEAR WAS 2015. I WAS WITH DAVE DUNN, GARMIN’S senior director of marine sales, aboard Capt. Mike Flowers’ Sea-Hunter 24 Ruff-n-Uff, slowly approaching Miami’s MacArthur Causeway. Flowers tapped his Garmin multifunction display, and it presented imagery from the Garmin Panoptix PS31 forward-looking sonar. ¶ Dunn cast a lure and, moments later, a tarpon appeared. A dance unfurled, and the target wisely dodged a root canal. ¶ Watching this episode on screen, I was gobsmacked by Panoptix’s LiveVu and RealVu perspectives, which combined information from the forward-looking transducer, multibeam sonar and phased-array technology to produce live, video-type imagery. ¶ Mostly, I was amazed that ceramic bits could yield this kind of water-column awareness. ¶ Darrell Lowrance helped introduce this technology to boaters in 1957 with his Fish-Lo-K-Tor, which provided depth…

HISTORICALLY SPEAKING, designer Patrick Knowles says, refits have often been considered less exciting than other projects. Yacht owners and designers alike dreamed of new builds—of starting with a blank sheet and letting creativity take them anywhere they wanted to go. ¶ That thinking changed with the pandemic, which caused such a run on boats that some builders are now taking orders for deliveries well into 2026. Buyers who don’t want to wait are turning to the brokerage market, which also has been bought up. They’re finding boats with good bones that need major makeovers—and make doing refits far more interesting for leading designers. ¶ “The market has shifted,” says Knowles, who has changed the business model at Patrick Knowles Designs to meet current conditions. ¶ The adjustment is necessary because…

YACHTS COME ON AND OFF the charter market all the time, all around the world. Every year, no matter the season, there are new builds that generate buzz, along with refits that bring new life to older options. ¶ Heading into this summer’s charter season, though, quite a few yachts taking bookings are worthy of note. There are models in the mix that charter clients don’t usually see, along with experiences and destinations that are unusual. ¶ For instance, the 162-foot Picchiotti Falco Moscata is back, now part of the Fraser fleet and with a new name from its days in charter as Exuma. This yacht won numerous awards after it launched in 2010 as the first motoryacht in a Picchiotti Vitruvius series from builder Perini Navi and designer Philippe…

AS I RAN THE SUNSEEKER 65 SPORT YACHT FROM what the builder calls the SkyHelm on the flybridge, one word came to mind: fun. ¶ This yacht, powered with optional 1,000 hp Volvo Penta IPS1350 diesels paired to pod drives, streaked across the Gulf Stream’s 3- to 5-footers at just shy of 35 knots. As we left Florida in our wake, the 40-ton yacht maneuvered like a sports car. No matter how hard or fast I cranked the wheel, it just banked solidly and asked for more. ¶ The Sunseeker 65 Sport Yacht is aptly named—for more than one reason. Designers penned the flybridge layout from a blank sheet to create a youthful, chic style. They studied today’s supercars, such as England’s 217 mph Aston Martin Valhalla. Two low-slung bucket…

ANY TIME A COMPANY DEVIATES FROM “the norm,” eyebrows raise. This is especially true in yachting, which remains a fairly conservative industry in terms of design. Traditional looks still sell, so many builders play it pretty safe, as is evident at any boat show where attendees are incredulous upon seeing a radically different yacht. ¶ Massimo Perotti, the chairman and CEO of Sanlorenzo, knows the feeling. When the shipyard announced the addition of Asymmetric models to its SL series, the news was met with “a bit of skepticism,” he says. These Asymmetric models push usable interior space out to the full beam on one side—and only one side, where there’s no traditional side deck. ¶ Captains and crew accustomed to having two side decks to handle lines and get around…

BERTRAM’S 570 Convertible is a versatile 36-knot fishing vessel with three staterooms and three heads. It replaced the builder’s popular 54-foot convertible. Features include a bulkhead tackle center with a sink, freezer and livewell, a removable tuna-size fish box in the sole, and an insulated transom fish box for the mahi. The galley was arranged with a standard standing fridge or with undercounter refrigeration. At press time, two Bertram 570 Convertibles were on the market, priced at $769,000 and $825,000. 57' LENGTH OVERALL 16'11" MAXIMUM BEAM FROM THE ARCHIVE “After running the new 570 Convertible, I can say the 54’s passing will not be mourned for long. Adding a bit of length to a planing hull form without adding significant weight typically has a positive effect on performance, and there…