Showing posts with label Amels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amels. Show all posts

October 27, 2024

Amels New Web Site

 
Dutch super yacht builder Amels presents its new website.  Amels was founded in 1918, in the center of Makkum to the North of the Netherlands.  Amels started off by building wooden fishing boats, steel tugboats, and coasters delivering about one hundred vessels of this type over the years.  In 1982 Amels debuts into yachting, with the 48 meter hull 464 launched as m/y Katalina to exteriors by Diana Yacht Design.  The first yacht is followed by a smaller 36.7 meters a year later in 1983 and again designed by Diana, which is at today the second smallest Amels build, following the launch in 1990 of a 36.5 meters.  The largest Amels to date is the 89 meters hull 8301 as designed by Tim Heywood and launched in 2017.  In 1991 Amels was sold to Kammer Damen, the second generation owner of Damen shipyards which was founded in 1927, and today is one of the largest private ship and yacht builders in the world with a turnover exceeding three billion EUROS, and 35 shipyards around the World.  With this move Damen Group enters into yachting.  Amels will stay at the Makkum facility for fourteen years and till 2005 as Damen moves it to a larger facility 150 nautical miles to the South West of the Netherlands in Vlissingen.  Currently Amels offers a line up of two semi-production 60 and 80 Limited Edition super yachts, with a Full Custom program also available.  The latest full custom Amels is the 77 meters Project Energy as delivered in 2022, with the 120 meters Project Tanzanite being in build since 2020 for a 2025 delivery.  Tanzanite is to be the largest super yacht build in the Netherlands to date.  Amels  new web site takes you around with the following buttons; Portfolio, Fleet, Story, Contact, News and Media, Support, and Careers.  Amels is also on social media with bottom links for its Instagram and Facebook pages.
Production History: *semi-production only
Tigre D'Or 52M 1997-2004 (6)
Limited Edition 171 2007-10 (7)
Limited Edition 177 2011-13 (4)
Limited Edition 212 2011-14 (3)
Limited Edition 180 2012-20 (14)
Limited Edition 199 2013-18 (3)
Limited Edition 242 2016-24 (8)
Limited Edition 188 2018-24 (2)
Limited Edition 200 2021 (2)
60 Limited Edition 2022- (10
80 Limited Edition 2025- (4
Amels first yacht, the 48 meter hull number 464

December 9, 2022

New Launch: Amels 77.80 meters Project Energy

Delivered in July 2022, Amels 77.80 meter Project Energy features a stunning exterior design by Espen Øino whose team was also appointed to develop the General Arrangement.  Zuretti interior designers are the studio behind the custom interiors. This Amels Full Custom benefits from a number of standout features including a large open top deck, large aft pool and very wide side decks that can be utilised as private guest balconies.
Technical Data:
LOA - 77.80 m (255ft)
Beam - 14 m
Draft - 3.8 m
Displacement - 2,885 gt *volume
Accommodation - fourteen guests in seven cabins, 27 crew in fourteen cabins
Engines - 2 x MTU 16v4000 M73L 2046hp
Propulsion - line shaft
Speed - seventeen knots max, thirteen knots cruise
Range - five thousand nautical miles at thirteen knots
Construction - steel hull aluminium super structure
Project - Espen Oino exterior, Zurretti interior, Damen naval arctitecture
Certification - Lloyds

November 6, 2022

New Model: Amels 60 Limited Edition

The first Amels 60 titled m/y Come Together was launched the past Summer ahead of a busy charter season. The departure of this next generation Amels 60-metre Limited Edition comes for an exterior design by Espen Øino, featuring distinctive lines and geometric shaping with her timeless yet modern looks. Hull one of the 60 Limited Edition was launched with a unique custom colour metallic pebble grey hull with Matterhorn white and super jet black superstructure, representing her sophisticated and natural individuality, while the interior come from a design of Winch who present a style natural themed.  In line with her modern styling, Amer 60 Limited Edition is a superyacht built for the future with hybrid power and propulsion technology and the overall design focuses on the onboard user experience with an emphasis on space.  The Amels Limited Edition semi custom series designed by Espen Oino is proving to be successful beyond expectations, with 60 hull #six slated for a 2024 delivery sold this September, and the new 80 meter presented in Spring 2022 getting its second order.
Technical Data:
LOA - 60 m (197ft)
Waterline Length - 58.3 m
Beam - 10.40 m
Draft - 3.40 m
Displacement - 830gt* volume
Fuel Capacity - 122,000 l
Water Capacity - 24,998 l
Accommodation - twelve guests in six cabins, thirteen crew in seven cabins
Engines - 2 x MTU 12v2000m92 1448hp
Speed - fifteen knots max, thirteen cruise
Range - 4500 nm at thirteen knots cruise
Hull Shape - full displacement
Construction - steel hull aluminium super structure
Project - Espen Oino exterior, Indigo interior first hull by Winch
Certification - Lloyds

June 25, 2022

Project: Amels 80 Limited Edition

Following the success of the 60 meter Limited Edition semi custom series, sold in five units and deliveries now going into 2025 for the next unit, Amels present the project for a new 80 Limited Edition. Designed like the 60 LE by Espen Oino, the 80-metre Limited Edition will be offered in a semi-custom platform. The first hull currently reported being build in speculation is set to be finished in 2025, with the designer complementing nature’s timeless beauty with a big ship super yacht feel featuring six decks, full of features, and an impressive 2,175 Gross Tonnage of volume. The interior of the first Amels 80 comes from Sander Sinot who is offering a neutral material palette, such as natural stained oak and walnut veneers, natural stones and leathers, has been selected to construct the interior. Materials are treated in such a way that the natural characteristics remain as pure as possible.  The layout of the 80 Limited Edition will offer a fourteen guests seven suites layout with crew accommodation for 22 persons.  Performance the Amels 80 Limited Edition will have a semi displacement hull which can reach speeds up to sixteen knots, and cruise at twelve for up to five thousand nautical miles. 

October 23, 2021

Project: Amels 60 Limited Edition

Amels present the project for the 60 model, a semi custom super yacht platform with exterior designed by Espen Oino, and fully custom for the interior by Indigo, and naval architecture by Amels parent company Damen.  Amels is calling the 60 the super yacht of the future.  On the technical side of things the Amels 60 will be good for a top speed of fifteen knots, and a cruise of thirteen which allows for a range of 4500 nautical miles.  Five hulls have been sold of the Amels 60, with hull number one well under construction with delivery to their owners scheduled for 2022.  Next build slot is for the fall of 2024.