New Launch: Jarrett Bay 67 Sportfisherman Hull #66

Jarrett Bay has just launched the 67 feet hull number 66 titled Seawish.  Finished in a distinguished satin and high gloss teak throughout her interior, hull 66 offers a four staterooms and three heads plus a full tower and a pair of Seakeeper 9 gyros. Other high-tech features will include Cat Three60® Precision Control, Dometic Sea Xchange and Spot Zero water-maker, Seastar Optimus electronic power steering, Humphree trim tab system and underwater exhaust.  Jarrett Bay 67 Hull#66 is powered by twin Cats 1925hp with conventional direct shaft propulsion.

Technical Data:

LOA - 20.57 m (67.6ft)

Beam - 5.94 m

Draft - 1.62 m

Displacement - 36287 kg dry

Fuel Capacity - 7570 l

Water Capacity - 946 l

Accommodation - eight berths in four cabins

Engines - 2 x Cats C32A 1925hp

Propulsion - direct line shaft

Construction - cold moulded in jig method, wood with epoxy resin coating

Project - JB Design

www.jarrettbay.com

Pershing Yacht Trouble in Asinara Island

A 22 meter Pershing sport yacht with Italian flag ended damaging its running gear and cosmetic parts of its upper hull on the evening of twelfth July in the Asinara Island.  The Pershing sport yacht was enjoying the Asinara national park, Cala d'Oliva on a swing mooring when strong gusts of North East winds turned the evening ugly.  Eventually when the wind calmed the Pershing yacht was able to return to safety, in this case in the harbour of Bosa in the West part of Sardinia some fifty nautical miles away from the accident.  

The damaged sport yacht is a Pershing 76, a model released by the famous boat builder in 2002 and produced till 2007.  Designed as all Pershing by Fulvio de Simoni the 76 offered a three or four double cabins interior with two crew cabins sleeping three or four persons. The Pershing 76 is powered by twin MTU 1850 or 2000hp engines coupled to Arneson surface drives which made it reach top speeds up to 48 knots and a cruise of forty.  Eventually the Pershing 76 was replaced by the 72 model in 2007. 

Project: Riviera 78 Motor Yacht

Riviera announces an exceptional new design and flagship, enters the 78 Motor Yacht what is a new class of motor yacht from the award-winning team of designers, engineers and craftspeople at the company's headquarters facility on Queensland’s Gold Coast.  Following more than forty years of evolution and with over 5700 yachts in multiple styles built and now located in all corners of the world, the 78 Motor Yacht design represents a distinguished new era for Riviera, with this new flagship superseding the previous largest model the 77 Enclosed Flybridge.  The Riviera design group, in collaboration with award-winning superyacht designer Luca Vallebona, bring a combined passion for excellence to create a sophisticated yacht that delivers a perfect combination of family cruising, entertaining and blue-water passage-making capabilities.  The flexibility of the new 78 Motor Yacht design will allow owners to personalise their yacht to reflect their individual tastes and further enhance their lifestyle.  The 78 Motor Yacht be available with an enclosed or open bridge deck and includes accommodation for up to ten adults in four luxurious staterooms and crew quarters.  The saloon and bridge decks both extend through to the stern of the yacht, offering multiple dining, entertaining and relaxing spaces for parties, family gatherings or quieter moments.  A range of premium fabrics and leathers are utilised extensively throughout the interior, combining with a painted finish to walls and headliners while superbly varnished, finely matched timber can be selected in high gloss or satin finishes.  Owners will be engaged with personalising their yacht from the very beginning of their build, deciding on furniture placement, colours and fabrics and how they wish to best utilise the many spaces on board.  One of the key interior design features is flush surfaces throughout including the use of integrated refrigeration and icemakers.  The main saloon may include dining and lounge spaces or simply act as the grand lounge with dining focused on the aft deck which can be semi-enclosed, covered entirely by the bridge deck overhang and protected by optional clears. The large U-shape galley, with twin ovens, four-burner hob, comprehensive refrigeration and storage capabilities, has been positioned as a centrepiece of the entertaining spaces.  An internal timber staircase leads from the port side of the main saloon to the bridge deck which also offers lounge, entertaining and dining spaces. A bar is built into the aft deck and a day head is optional.  The highly versatile foredeck offers a number of entertaining layouts and a Euro sun awning with the option to carry a tender or jetski and davit.  An elegant curved timber staircase from the forward end of the main saloon leads to the accommodation deck with its four staterooms and three bathrooms. The full-beam Master suite amidships is bathed with natural light from extended hull windows. It provides an electrically adjustable king-size bed and extended his-and-hers en-suite bathroom. The VIP guest stateroom fitted with a queen double bed and also benefiting from hull windows is forward, with an en-suite bathroom. The port stateroom offers the option of a double bed or twin beds that can slide together. The starboard stateroom includes two single cross-over berths. A third bathroom is shared and can act as a day head.  Two doors are built into the exterior of the transom. A separate door on the starboard side provides access to the stand-up engine room and crew quarters. A larger door on the port side lifts to reveal a garage for water sports, diving and fishing equipment. A convenient shower is built into the underside of the door.  The unique teak-laid swim platform was developed in co-operation with Opacmare to provide a three-step design that can be lowered into the water to make access simple both for swimming and launching water sports equipment. A swim ladder is incorporated into the side of the platform.  Power for this magnificent new motor yacht will come from standard twin MAN 1550hp each through Twin Disc Quickshift gearboxes and Express Joystick System with integrated station-hold Express Positioning System.  Engine options can go up to win   With 10,200 litres of fuel available, she is capable of cruising for more than 1,000 nautical miles or offer speed around 30 knots.  Five 78 Motor Yachts have already been ordered ahead of her official announcement as Riviera owners have sought a flagship motor yacht experience with the renowned Riviera build quality and owner support. 

www.riviera.com.au

New Model: Cayman 400 Walk Around

Cayman launch its awaited 400 Walk Around model.  A twelve meter modern European style centre console, the 400 Walk Around is also the new entry level for Cayman Yachts and comes from a design of Ferragni, with Blu Sea doing the naval architecture and engineering part.  The Cayman 400 Walk Around enters and competes in one of the most growing segments in recent years, and today is seeing many builders trying to find ways to enter, the sport cruiser centre console market.  Some builders are doing it reflecting brand identities others are doing by following what is working the most. The Cayman 400 Walk Around has gone the later route.  The 400 Walk Around offers an interior sleeping four or five in a forward double berth, twin single berths at midships, and a single berth to port side.  A shower head is located to starboard upon entrance in the cabin.  As a walk around centre console the main spaces are located outside, and here the 400 WA does not disappoint offering fore to aft areas from the galley located under the T-hard-top to a central dinette, two sun-pads; aft and on the foredeck, and opposite bench settees forward.  The Cayman 400 Walk Around is powered by twin Volvo diesel engines of 380hp or 440hp with IPS pod propulsion, and or triple Mercury 300hp or 400hp outboards.  Hull one is powered by twin Volvo 440hp with IPS pod drives which allowed for forty knots top speeds.  

Technical Data:

LOA - 12.90 m (42.3ft)

Hull Length - 11.3 m

Beam - 3.82 m

Draft - 0.80 m without drives

Displacement - 12000 kg

Fuel Capacity - 1266 l

Water Capacity - 200 l

Accommodation - four berths 

Engines - diesel inboard 2 x Volvo D6 380hp or D6 440hp, petrol gas outboard 3 x Mercury Verado 300hp or 400hp

Propulsion - Volvo forward looking dual propeller pod drives, Mercury outboard

Speed - forty knots max with twin Volvo 440hp

Project - Ferragni exterior lines and interior, Blu Sea naval architecture engineering

Certification - CE B, ISO for dimensions

www.caymanyachts.it

Fiart New Web Site

Italian boat builder Fiart updates its website to a new version. Fiart is one of the long standing builders of the Italian boating industry, today specialized in medium ten to fifteen meters sport cruisers. Founded in Naples in 1960, Fiart has to its credit the building of the first fiberglass boat in Europe, the 3.6 meter 'Conchita' in 1962. In its first five decades up till 2010 Fiart has produced 138 different models of boats; with its most long produced model being the Fiart 35, 35 and 36 Genius run which lasted over fifteen years. Today the Neapolitan firm continues with its success, producing seven models from 35 to sixty feet in three ranges; Seawalker, Classic, and Cetera.  Fiart's current range starts with the 35 Seawalker project, and goes up to the 2020 launched Cetera 60. Fiart's latest new model is the 43 Seawalker launched at the fall of 2020. The new Fiart web showroom is available in Italian and English languages, and takes you around with the following buttons; Range, Contact Us, and Fiart Rent. 

www.fiart.com

Production History:

Conchita 3.60 m 1962-65 *Europes first fiberglass boat

Super Conchita 1964-70

Garrya 9.50 m 1970-74

Seastar 7.50 m 1969-73

Ranger Major 6.01 m 1974-

Zeus 32 1975-

Venus 25 1974-79

Helios 45 1976-80

Phobos 4.20 m 1979-

Deimos 4.80 m 1979-

Arrow 7.50 m 1980-85

Aster 31 1982-85

Valiant 800 Cabin 1984-86

Thunder 8.30 m 1985-89

Leader 38 Fast 1983-89

Leader 38 Fly 1984-89

35 Fly 1987-94

35 1987-90

24 Cabin 1989-92

41 Delta 1990-98

30 Genius 1990-99

35 Genius 1991-99

27 Sport 1991-2005

27 Cabin 1995-2002

36 Genius 1999-2004

32 Genius 1999-2005

40 Genius 1999-2005 (100+)

50 Genius 2001-05

28 Genius 2002-09

38 Genius 2005-10

50 Genius Top Style 2006-09

42 Genius 2006-2009

34 Genius 2006-17

4Seven Genius 2008-

4TFour Genius / 44 2009/2018-

38 Genius S 2011-14

58 Epica 2011-16

33 Seawalker 2011-

4T Genius 2015-19

52 2016-

60 2017-19

34 2018-20

47 2018-

Cetera 60 2020-

Seawalker 43 2020-

Seawalker 39 2021-

Seawalker 35 2021-

P54 2022-

Seawalker 43 Panorama 2023-

P48 2024-

Project: Tankoa T55 Sportiva

Tankoa has unveiled its new Linea Sportiva by Luca Dini in a live Zoom event. Conceived and designed to expand the market offering of the Genoa-based boutique brand, the first model in the dynamic series is the Sportiva 55 rated at under 500GT that falls between a larger and smaller version. Considerable real estate is devoted to the Beach Club, which is actually more of a main deck cockpit and comprises a swimming pool sunk into the terraced aft deck with access to a Spa zone on the lower deck complete with gym and sauna, as well as a side-loading garage for water toys. A novel highlight of the whole area is a large hull window that is partially underwater that can be enjoyed either under way or at anchor. The guest accommodation on the lower deck consists of four ensuite cabins, although a five cabins version has already been developed. The galley is also on the lower deck, while the crew accommodation is placed forward. The main deck layout is asymmetrical with a circular dining area connecting the open aft deck and main salon, but where the master stateroom begins it is full-beam to port with a walkway to starboard with a built-in chaise longue and Jacuzzi as well as a private sauna. Unusually, there is also a central staircase leading from the owner’s personal foredeck to the forward bridge deck which is designed to be used as an open-air cinema when at anchor. A 7-metre tender, crew tender and Sea-Doo are stowed on the open foredeck but are hidden from view by the bulwarks. This Suite on the Sea concept offers an innovative yet flexible layout solution that also helps to keep the gross tonnage at below 500GT. The bridge deck has a sky lounge, an extendable table for al fresco dining and lounging space on the aft deck. The sun deck is partially shaded by the hard top and features a wet bar by the forward hot tub and plenty of sun lounging space. ith a steel hull and aluminium superstructure, the Sportiva 55 has a top speed of 16.5 knots and a cruising speed of 15 knots. Her range at an economic speed of 12 knots is 3,800nm. Although the 55 is closest to the needs of Tankoa's current client base, the shipyard also asked Luca Dini to retain the same family feeling in a fast, 45-metre all-aluminium version and scale it up to a larger and more comfortable 65-metre proposal.

www.tankoa.it

New Launch: Alia 36m Support Vessel

Alia has launched hull number 361, what is a 36 meter Support Vessel titled Phi Phantom. A sleek, muscular new predator the 36m custom support vessel comes from a design by Cor D.Rover with naval architecture by Dutch firm Van Oossanen. In May 2021 the Turkish yard painstakingly drove the fully aluminium yacht out of the building halls and lifted it into the water in Antalya using a 200-tonne travel lift. Phi Phantom, part of the Phi Project, is a superb example of the yard’s metalworking skills. Destined to support the custom superyacht Phi by Royal Huisman, this Alia 36m Support Vessel reflects many elements of the larger yacht’s design. The hull was to have no fairing to finish it, so the plates had to be very accurately bent in three dimensions, then welded without creating the slightest distortion. It is flawlessly painted in the exactly same matt blue-grey as the mothership. She also shares the horizontal grille work at the bow and echoes the swooping shearline of the larger vessel. This 36m Support Vessel is built to cross oceans carrying the tenders and toys that the mothership has no garage to stow. The key here is a 9m HS Marine crane capable of lifting 5.5 tonnes out of the water and onto the vast 150 square-metre aft deck. It has more than enough power to handle the 14m gentleman’s tender currently taking shape at Spirit Yachts, as well as the Axopar 37 Suntop. A hydraulically operated lazarette under the deck stores further toys in a protected environment. But the super support yacht is also a technical marvel in other respects. Every system is overspecified, so as to be as reliable as possible. From pumps and piping to hydraulics and electrics, everything is designed to be as bombproof as possible. With a patented Fast Displacement Hull Form by Van Oossanen and twin Cat 1900hp engines, Alia 36m Supper Vessel has a range of 4,200 nautical miles at twelve knots cruising speed. Flat out, she’ll do 21 knots to match the slim, easily-driven hull of the mothership. The interior is designed to be as functional as possible, although finished to superyacht crew standards. There are berths for up to six crew, but the boat is classified for handling by just three. It means that there is extra space on board, and one of the cabins has been designated as a guest cabin, with a little more volume and a desk. After doing final sea trials Phi Phantom was delivered to her owner in June.

Technical Data:

LOA - 36 m (118.9ft)

Waterline Length - 34.4 m

Beam - 8.4 m

Draft - 1.90 m

Displacement - 200 t

Fuel Capacity - 57400 l

Water Capacity - 6000 plus 8000 l

Accommodation - six berths in three cabins

Engines - 2 x Cats C32 E 1900hp

Propulsion - line shaft with ZF gearbox and five blade BT propellers

Speed - 21 knots max 12 knots cruise

Range - 4200 nm at 12 knots

Hull Shape - fast displacement by Van Oossanen

Construction - aluminium 5083 H111

Project - Cor D. Rover exterior, Van Oossanen naval architect, Alia interior

Certification - Bureau Veritas cross of Malta Mach short range

www.aliayachts.com

Linssen Explorer Cruiser Aground in Scilly Island

A fourteen meter Linssen explorer cruiser with two persons onboard ended aground in the Isles of Scilly, on the South West of Great Britain on the morning of Thursday eight July.  The St. Mary RNLI life boat was directed to the area to assist in the accident finding the two persons in safety onboard the tender of the explorer cruiser.  At around 1600 hours with high tide and assistance from a private boat and life boat, the explorer cruiser was re-floated and directed to Tresco Marina where it was reunited with its owner.

The Linssen in the accident is a 470 Grand Sturdy AC Mk.2, an inland water way cruiser with low draft but also offshore capable with its full displacement type hull. The 470 Grand Sturdy has interiors with two double cabins located to bow and aft, galley dining, and a saloon in the split lever raised area.  The 470 Grand Sturdy was offered with a single or twin engines, the standard being twin 150hp. The 470 Grand Sturdy AC Mk.II, was presented in 2006 with the main difference to the Mk.1 coming aft, now having a build in integrated bathing platform with stairway to both sides.  Linssen are a bit unique in there size for being build fully in steel.

Project: Bering B72

Bering present the B72 project, an evolution of the 65 model, of which three units have been delivered and collectively sailed more than 100,000 nautical miles in all sea conditions. The steel-hulled B72 is based on the same technical platform and retains the rugged expedition-style lines, but Bering gathered feedback from the owners of the B65 and their captains in order to develop a new yacht that was bigger and better equipped with more comfort and storage space for supplies.  Although inspired by classic expedition vessels, the B72 is a thoroughly modern explorer. The bow has less overhang and the transom is close to vertical with a wide beach platform. The aluminium superstructure is purposeful and offers panoramic views through large windows.  The layout is on three deck levels. The main deck features a spacious salon, full-width galley and pilothouse on a raised level. Visually separated from the salon by steps, the well-equipped galley is a social centre on board, much as friends and family gather around the kitchen at home. There is a day head to port before entering the pilothouse protected from the elements by a windscreen of toughened 19mm-thick glass.  There are several options for the lower deck layout and guest accommodation. The standard layout has three guest cabins and a full-beam master suite forward. Optionally, the vessel can be reconfigured to a five or a six cabin layout with or without a crew cabin, the choice is completely up to the customer.  The boat deck, with room for one large or two smaller tenders and accompanying crane is divided from the social area and exterior helm station. In addition to the flybridge, the open-air areas include the aft cockpit with al fresco dining and a sun lounge on the foredeck.  The ocean-going B72 has a displacement of 118 tons with a fuel capacity of 18,200 litres. Powered by twin Cummins 327hp diesel engines she has a range of more than 5000 nm at a cruising speed of 7 knots.

www.beringyachts.com

New Model: Seanfinity T5

Seanfinity presents the new T5 model from a project of Gianluca Caputi. An evolution of the Seanfinity T4, the T5 model was launched in the fall of 2020. Opposed to the T4 the Seanfinity is extended in length and features a more comfortable double cabin interior.  Visible differences in the T5 is that for a little bit higher centre console, with a larger side window serving the cabin, and windshield which integrates with the central T-Top.  Cabin accommodation in the T5 features a double berth forward, a double at midships, and two opposing bench settees which can sleep another two persons.  Shower head is located to port side.  The Seanfinity T5 is powered by five different power options, and three propulsion choices; surface drives, stern drives, and outboards.  Speeds can go from a max of 35 up to sixty knots with the quadruple Mercury 400hp outboard option.   

Technical Data:

LOA - 14.80 m (48.5ft)

Hull Length - 13.2 m

Beam - 4.40 m (6.4 m with open terraces)

Displacement - 6500 kg dry and without engines

Fuel Capacity - 1500 l

Water Capacity - 200 l

Accommodation - six berths

Engines - 2 x Cummins Mercury 550hp, FPT 570hp, Volvo D6 400hp stern drive only, 3 or 4 x Mercury Verado 400hp

Propulsion - Top System surface drives, Mercury outboard, Volvo DPS stern drive

Hull Shape - deep Vee with 23 degrees deadrise aft

Project - Gianluca Caputi

Certification - CE B, ISO 8666 for dimensions 

www.seanfinityachts.com