New Launch: CRN 80m hull.129

Yesterday Saturday January 12th, the CRN 80 metre steel and aluminium mega yacht “Chopi Chopi” hull number 129 of the CRN Shipyard, was launched in Ancona: a big event which involved the city, the territory and the boating industry. This is a historical moment for CRN and the Ferretti Group.  The group shipyard in Ancona specializes in the construction and marketing of fully customized steel and aluminium displacement mega yachts and semi customized composite yachts, ranging from forty to ninety metres. Indeed “Chopi Chopi” will be the biggest yacht ever manufactured by CRN. The external shape and internal layout were designed by long time since the nineties Ferretti collaborator Studio Zuccon International Project, in close collaboration with CRN Technical Office which took care of the naval project, while the interior design was taken care of by Architect Laura Sessa Romboli and CRN Centro Stile, who interpreted the Owner’s request paying attention to the smallest details. 
Technical Data:

LOA - 80m (262.4ft)

Beam - 13.5 m

Draft - 3.4 m

Displacement - 1800 t

Fuel Capacity - 250000 l

Water Capacity - 40000 l

Accommodation - 12 guest in 5 double guest cabins 1 owners suite, 30 crew

Engines - 2 x Cats 3510B-C 2064hp

Propulsion - line shaft

Speed - 16 knots max, 15 knots cruise, 12 knots long range

Range - 6000 nautical miles at 12 knots

Construction - steel hull, aluminium super structure

Hull Type - Displacement

Project - Zuccon International exterior, Laura Sessa Romboli interior

Certification - Lloyds LR100 SSC-Y, Mono, G-6, LMC - MCA LY2 Compliance  

www.crn-yacht.com

New Model: Riviera 63 Open Flybridge Series II

Showcasing the project first of an Enclosed Bridge, Riviera was fast to capitulate on this model and launch the new 63 Open Flybridge Series II. This new Riviera which is the current flagship of the Open Flybridge lines is a further development of three previous models; the 56, 56/58, and the recent 61.  Still Riviera has refined this models in various elements taking a lot of cues from the new 75 flagship. and the thing which really stays the same is actually the beam of the hull.  Even its underwater sections have been tuned up by in house designer Alan Dowd who widened the forward planning sections in order to offer easier lift at slower speeds and reduce spray.  The 63 Open Flybridge Series II is offered in two internal layout plans with the standard being a four cabin seven berths three head version.  The option is a three double cabins which increases the space of the forward cabin and makes this become the owners stateroom.  One of the most likable layout details of the 63 Open Flybridge Series II is for sure the main deck plan; which thanks to the astern galley which combined with the mezzanine on the exterior cockpit, becomes a combination of entertainment areas each with own purpose on single level. Standard power is twin Cats 1015hp which give a top speed of 28 knots.  But larger engines are available increasing top speeds by 6 knots up to 34.

Technical Data:

LOA - 19.63 m (64.4ft)

Hull Length - 18.6 m

Beam - 5.40 m

Draft - 1.58 m

Displacement - 30,500 kg dry

Fuel Capacity - 6550 l

Water Capacity - 1000 l

Accommodation - 7 berths in 4 cabins, or 6 berths in 3 cabins

Engines - 2 x Cat 1015hp

Propulsion - line shaft

Speed - 28 knots with Cat 1015hp, 34 knots max with larger engines

Hull Type - modified Vee with 12 degrees dead rise aft

Construction - hand laminated with solid fiberglass bottom

Project - Alan Dowd, Riviera Design Team

Certification - ISO8666

www.riviera.com.au 

 

Project: Windy 45 Chinook

Norwegian boat builder Windy is to unveil a new sport cruiser model at the 2013 Düsseldorf Boat Show taking part in January which combines the comfort and protection of hard top cruising with the exhilaration of an open sports boat.  Involving a renewal in design, tooling and customer research, the new 45 Chinook, is a further development of the 44, and boasts an enlarged hardtop that offers more shelter to the cockpit and main deck seating areas.  It also features a huge opening sunroof, transforming the boat at the touch of a button from a fully enclosed, hard-top cruiser into an open-cockpit sports machine. The new model is also one feet longer than its award-winning predecessor, thanks to an extended swimming platform.  The designers at Windy also took the opportunity to redesign and enlarge the topsides windows to match the right-angles of the look presented with the 40 Maestro by the Norwegian builder. Also in common with the Maestro, the 45 Chinook has a fresh new interior design by Peder Eidsgaard, which combines cool and understated modernity with the warmth and solidity of hardwood. Tactile detailing emphasise the built-in quality always synonym with Windy.  As is expected the new 45 still retains the Chinook’s excellent, family-friendly layout, with a lower saloon and galley, and three double cabins. Two Volvo engine choices, a standard 370 and optional 435hp with IPS pod drives and the much respected superb Hans-Jørgen Johnsen hull should take you to top speed up to 44 knots.

www.windy.no

New Model: Nuova Jolly 35 Prince Sport Cabin Stern Drive

Nuova Jolly present the 35 Prince Sport Cabin Stern Drive.  This new Nuova Jolly 35 Prince is in fact a stern drive version to a model first released with Outboard, but now available with inboard engines who do not disturb the exterior lines, and leave an undisturbed bathing platform.  The 35 Prince Sport Cabin Stern Drive is a sport rib cruiser with looks which perceive a sport vocation.  The exterior cockpit features an aft sunpad, a C-shaped settee, and a two people seat helm station.  There is also a galley with two burner hob, and wash basin, plus fridge and a storage compartment under the helmsman settee.  Inside is double berth in a Vee shape form which sleeps two, and has a shower head to starboard. Engine choices are not announced but we do know from Nuova Jolly that the 35 Prince Sport Cabin Stern Drive can take up to 700hp of max power.  

Technical Data:

LOA - 9.98 m (32.7ft)

Beam - 3.69 m

Displacement - 4500 kg

Fuel Capacity - 2 x 330 l

Accommodation - 2 berths

Max Persons 16

Engines - 2 x 350hp

Propulsion - stern drive

Certification - CE B

www.nuovajolly.it

Project: Sunseeker 50 San Remo

For the upcoming 2013 London boat show, Sunseeker will present two new models one of which is the 50 San Remo.  This new Sunseeker sport yacht should replace the current 48 Portofino in production since mid 2010, with hull side windows profile taking a lot from the just launched entry level 40 model.   The 50 San Remo is a further development of the outgoing 48 model, and shares many similarities with it from the hull to the interior and exterior layout plan.  Inside the 50 San Remo features a full beam owners stateroom, and VIP double berth which can become two single berths via scissor movement.  The saloon can also be specified to offer a Pullman berth.  Outside unlike the 48 Portofino which had two options, the 50 San Remo will be offered with the sunpad with underneath a garage, C-shaped settee only choice.  Power specifications have not been mentioned but I do imagine similar Volvo 435hp with IPS pod drives as the choice.   

www.sunseeker.com

New Model: Marex 320 Aft Cabin Cruiser

Following the success and the positive feedback the 370 Marex received, the Norwegian builder launched a smaller by five feet variant, the 320 Aft Cabin Cruiser.  Presented in project a couple of months after the launch of the current Marex 370 flagship model, this new 320 follows in concept many of the solution of the larger sister, as a single engine aft hard top sport cruiser.  The most notable feature in both the Marex is how the aft cabin does not disturb the sweet lines, in general if you look at the profile opposite it is undetectable.  The interior can sleep five inside with the aft cabin featuring a three berths layout; a french bed to port side and a single to starboard, and an owners double larger berth to fore. The shower head is located in the forward cabin.  Galley and dinette are located in the center area, all behind the single helm pilot station to starboard of the 320 and under the hard top.  Power is a total of  twelve engine choice from Volvo and Yanmar start at 150 up to 370hp.

Technical Data:

LOA - 9.99 m (32.7ft)

Beam 3.30 m

Draft - 1.0 m

Displacement - 5200 kg dry

Fuel Capacity - 490 l

Water Capacity - 320 + 40 l

Accommodation - 5 berths in 2 cabins

Max Persons - 8

Engine - 1 x Volvo D3 150hp, D3 170hp, D3 200hp, D3 220hp, D4 260hp, D4 300hp, Yanmar 4 BY 180hp, 6 BY 220hp, g BY 260hp, 6 LPA 295hp, 8 LB 320hp, 8 LV 370hp

Propulsion - Volvo duoprop stern drive with D4 260hp, or line shaft

Speed - 28 knots  

Project - Kristijan Nikl from Nikl Design, Marex

Certification - CE B

www.marex.no

Web: Baja New Web Site

Baja Marine updates its World wide web showroom.. Founded in 1971 by four individuals who built the first Baja boat in an abandoned skater rink, they followed this in two years by producing a line from 16 to 20 feet speed boats, of which was the classic CT150 racing design. The seventies continued and in 1978 Baja introduced the 240 Carrera, with the Carrera SS Bowrider earning Boat of the Year by Powerboat Magazine. Shifting towards bigger and faster boats was the theme of Baja in the eighties, with the company creating milestone models as the 240 Sport and its biggest build to date the 420 Sport. The nineties and new millennium was an improvement of quality to its product. Currently Baja produces eight models from the in four ranges; Outlaw, Islander, Performance, and GT.  The line up starts with the 23 Outlaw, and goes up to the new 35 Outlaw.  The new Baja website takes you around with the following buttons; Home Models, Graphics, Find A Dealer, Available Inventory, and Elite Service.

www.bajamarine.com

Project: Sasga 54 Minorchino FB

Sasga yachts continues in its pursuit of new models and in the last part of this year show new project of Flybridge version of its larger models.  The Sasga 54 Minorchino which is the companies current flagship is now presented in a new FB fly deck version.  The Flybridge of the 54 Minorchino will be reached with a staircase to starboard, and the deck will offer a sun pad to aft, L-shaped settee to port side, and a helm to starboard.  The 54 Minorchino FB will keep in its main deck and below cabin area the same interesting elements of the standard version with a living up top, and galley and three large cabins below.  Engines are twin 440hp Yanmar which should give a top speed of 23 knots and a cruise from 16 to 19 knots.

www.sasgayachts.com

New Model: Bavaria 420 Virtess

It was one of the most awaited models in the last part of 2012, this is the Bavaria 420 Virtess, designed by Marco Casali who undertook the latest Itama vision since 2004.  This was a challenge for both Casali the designer from Rome, and Bavaria the builder.  For Italian Marco Casali the Virtess is more a commercial project then the more niche status symbol looking Itama, and for Bavaria this represents its first full flybridge motor cruiser.  The Bavaria 420 Virtess is proving to be an interesting flybridge motor cruiser offering incredible well laid layout solution; from the double three cabins lower deck, to the single floor living main deck, and a very modular aft deck which can increase space substantially.  The 420 Virtess is offered with Volvo engine choices from 370 up to 435hp in sterndrive or IPS pods propulsion.

Technical Data:

LOA - 13.6 m (44.6ft)

Hull Length - 12.39 m

Beam - 4.21 m

Draft - 1.11 m

Displacement - 11,400 kg unloaded

Fuel Capacity - 1200 l

Water Capacity - 410 l

Accommodation - 6 berths in 3 cabins

Max Persons - 12

Engines - 2 x Volvo D6 370hp, D6 400hp, D6 435hp

Propulsion - Volvo DPH dual prop stern drive, Volvo IPS forward looking pods

Project - Marco Casali from Too Design Italy

Certification - CE B

www.bavaria-yachtbau.com

Best of 2012

Its been another difficult year for the pleasure boating industry, something ongoing since 2009. The good news is that 2012 confirmed the Super Yacht upward swing which started to show in the previous year, with the Dutch, most famous for thirty meter plus also competing in smaller sizes. The big known brands are also more stable, managing to ride the ongoing long economic storms better to others, with the reason being an international well laid portfolio of dealers makes selling a production of boats more easier then in one country.  Unfortunately there is still suffering in most of the usual pleasure boating and yachting centric countries, where most boutique builders with small production numbers and build to order custom exist.  Countries like USA, Italy, Holland, UK, and Scandinavia have these small, medium sized builders which always deserve attention from any buyer, especially if one wants a yacht to his demands rather to one following an important market research.   

PowerYacht best of 2012 is the Azimut 55S.  In Spring 2003 Azimut entered the sport yacht segment with the 68S, challenging and changing the genre in every way from the design to the finishing's of yacht interiors.  Nine years after Azimut challenges again, itself and the sport yacht genre with this new triple Volvo IPS powered 55S, which is again a big evolution to the species.  The Stefano Righini designed 55S is full of surprises from its use of carbon fibre, the vertical bow with steel grill, transformative aft beach club worthy of a super yacht, unseen spaces inside, and the triple Volvo engines which can be twin used for fuel economy at under 25 knots. Another game changer!   

The others.

Absolute 72 Fly. Absolute expansion in just ten years has been something outstanding.  Just saying the 72 Fly is a new flagship, for all Absolute and the flybridge range which debuted in 2010 with the 50 Fly model. 

Cheoy Lee 76 Alpha. This Hong Kong ship builder is well known for commercial vessels and super yachts.  Now it enters production yachting with this 23 meter sport yacht, helped by Luiz de Basto for exterior styling and Michael Peters for hull design.

Couach 5000 Fly. Its been five years in the making for Couach fifty meters largest build to date new flagship.  As is usual for the French builder, hull design takes high importance with the 5000 good to go at thirty knots or at twelve for a four thousand nautical miles range. 

Princess 40M. It took just fifteen months for Princess to expand on the 32M, the first unit to come from the Super Yacht dedicated facility called the South Yard, with the 40M flagship going to 131 feet.  Things are getting big, bigger extremely fast. 

Riviera 445 SUV. The famous down under boat builder mixes its Offshore Express, Sport yacht, and Open Flybridge lines and cooks its first 445 Sport Utility Vessel.  The first of a new range according to news from the Gold Coast.   

Sanlorenzo SL94. A Sanlorenzo with the usual conventional design, but look at the specification and that load line length of 23.9 meters.  Enters the first super yacht at ninety feet plus, with a sub 24 meters length and the benefits of this.  Clever use of rules, the competition will notice.

Sunseeker 40 Portofino. The known British name returns in the twelve meter sport cruiser size, full of style, including a Ken Freivokh interior.  It is getting crowded in this size for quality production hard-top sport cruisers, with other new offers coming from both Britain and Italy in 2012.

Wally 26M Ace. Mr. Luca Bassani is always on the attention of new trends, and how his vision will work.  Enters the Ace, Wally's explorer long range super yacht with spacious volumes and a range up to 5,000 nautical miles at nine knots cruise.  Wally does it, it's own way.

Expanding range. Tiara 3600 Coronet. The Tiara's Coronet has been the entry model and range of this quality renowned USA builder, offering day cruiser amenities with some fishing details.  Now this totally new 3600 takes the Coronet range to a larger size, and follows the luxurious design and detailing as presented in 2011 with the 3100.  Tiara will expand size in the Coronet range further with a larger 3900 currently in project stages.   

PowerYacht wishes to all its followers, friends, readers, and visitors a Healthy and Prosperous 2013 year.