Sport Cruiser Burns in Ponza

A sport cruiser of fourteen meters with five persons aboard went ablaze in front of the Fronzone beach in the Island of Ponza on Saturday, thirty July at around 1530 hours.  Immediate the reaction of the persons onboard who jumped in the sea, and also that of the Ponza Coast Guard who came with two vessels to turn off the fire.  Later two more fast hydrofoil ships; m/v Agostino Lauro and Sorrento Jet came helping the Coast Guard to turn off the fire.  The sport cruiser later sank in seven meter deep water, only for it to be refloated again on Sunday morning.  The fourteen meter sport cruiser was in bare boat charter, with all the persons onboard reported uninjured in the accident.

The sport cruiser in this fire is a Fiart 4 Seven Genius, as produced from 2008 till 2017.  The Fiart 4 Seven Genius won Boat of the Year in 2008.  The Fiart 4 Seven Genius came out as a replacement to the 50 Genius Top Style and evolved into the 47, which added new hull glazing and engine room air intake design.

Canados Super Sport Yacht Catches Fire in Tallinn

A 27 meter Canados super sport yacht titled m/y Hooligan and registered under Finnish flag caught fire and later sank on Saturday thirty July in the Gulf of Tallinn, Estonia.  The Canados yacht had ten Finnish passengers onboard and around 1530 stop functioning for a fault which some minutes later developed into a fire.  The passengers and crew called a mayday and jumped in a life-raft and where rescued by a nearby yacht, later collected by the Estonian rescue unit, who took them to Tallinn for interrogation. At about 1830 the Canados yacht subdued to the fire, sank, in Tallinn Bay with the Estonian working on lifting up in order to avoid further contamination from the fuel in tank.

M/y Hooligan is a 2008 Canados 90 Open as designed by Luiz de Basto and produced from 2005 till 20106 in six units.  The 90 Open was an unusual creation from Canados, more famous for building flybridge yachts and super yachts, with open yachts being rare and the last one made in the early nineties.  The Canados 90 Sport is replaced by the still in project Gladiator 901 Sport.  Hooligan was reported to have been refitted in 2016.

New Model: Ferretti Custom Line 140

Ferretti Custom Line had on 14 June launched at the Ferretti Group Superyacht Yard in Ancona, the first Custom Line 140, a three deck super yacht which is the largest ever built by the brand and officially the new flagship. Custom line 140 is the third design by Francesco Paszkowski, following the 106 and 120 models which now completes all the planning line and features a profoundly sporty aesthetic, high standards of comfort for both owner and guests, excellent performance, and superior technology. The interiors are by Margherita Casprini. The Custom Line flagship combines design, comfort and spaces never seen before in a tri-deck, with huge interior volumes and a gross tonnage of almost 400GT, not to mention a fast displacement hull that gives the yacht a top speed up to 21 knots. Ferretti Custom Line 140 has many new features on this masterpiece of naval design inspired by residential architecture, to which it adds in-depth research to enhance the shapes and volumes involved. The elegant and powerful silhouette features generously sized hull windows, while the floor-to-ceiling glazing on deck, combined with the painted aluminum handrail with Y-shaped uprights, an elegant and functional design feature in perfect Paszkowski style, offers direct contact with the sea. The interiors are designed and built according to the highest standards of quality, international certifications and attention to detail, in line with Custom Line’s tailor-made approach and the great skill and expertise of the ship project team, the Custom Line Atelier, the production team and all the highly specialized craftsmen involved in the design and production process. After completion and testing in the coming months, Custom Line 140 will make its official debut at the Cannes international boat show in September 2022.

Technical Data:

LOA - 42.61 m (139.9ft)

Hull Length - 42.6 m

Beam - 8.54 m

Draft - 2.20 m

Displacement - 216000 kg unloaded, 256000 kg loaded, 398 GT *volume

Fuel Capacity - 30,000 l

Water Capacity - 4000 l

Max Persons - twenty

Accommodation - ten guests in five cabins, six crew in three cabins

Engines - 2 x MTU 16V2000 M96L 2683hp

Propulsion - line shaft

Speed - 21 knots max, eighteen knots cruise

Range - 700 nm at cruise

Hull Shape - fast displacement

Project - Francesco Paszkowski exterior, Margherita Casprini interior, Ferretti Group naval architecture

Certification - CE A, RINA

www.customline-yacht.com

Flybridge Cruiser Destroyed to Fire in Lake Huron

An eleven meter flybridge motor cruiser with one person onboard caught fire and eventually was destroyed and sank on Lake Huron, in the vicinity of Point Lookout Harbor, Michigan on the late evening of Friday 29 July.  Thanks to social media platform Facebook the owner recounted the events, with the boat running splendidly at sixteen knots before the fire that lead to the destruction and sinking started to unfold.  The first event was that the port engine gave up power and unable to restart, couple minutes later the starboard engine followed suit.  At this point the flybridge cruiser was four nautical miles away from AuGres harbor, and smelling smoke the owner went down to check what was happening only to see the cabin engulfed in flames with the only option at this point to jump in the sea.  A nearby fisherman which saw the fumes from about a mile picked up the owner of the boat who was about fifteen meters away from the boat on fire.  There were no injuries in the event with the Coast Guard dispatching a vessel in the scene to follow and help in the events. 

The boat in this fire was a 1982 Silverton 37 Convertible Mark.1 as produced from 1980 till 1989.  The Silver 37 Convertible Mark.1 was replaced by the 37 Convertible Mark.II.

Project: Horizon RP122

After purchasing an RP100 in May 2021, an owner has decided to define his own Horizon and recently signed a contract for a customized RP122. At 122 feet in length, this yacht will be the largest of the J.C. Espinosa-designed RP Series. The exact layout of the five-stateroom yacht is still being determined, but Horizon is already working on incorporating several of the owner’s requests to accommodate frequent reef fishing, including a custom-designed pilothouse and Captain’s quarters, as well as a beach club designed to house fishing and diving gear and fitted with an ice chipper for freshly caught fish. Construction began in early 2022 with launch set to for December 2022.

www.horizonyacht.com

Super Yacht Shot and Force Collided in Turkey Drug Bust

A 27 meter super yacht named m/y Belgor with US flag was shot and later rammed by the Turkish coast guard in an anti-drug smuggling operation on the early morning of Thursday 28 July, in the coast of Yalikavak, to the North West of Bodrum, in Western Turkey.  The yacht suffered significant damage in this drug bust operation which featured four Coast Guard boats, a helicopter and an airplane. The yacht with four persons onboard was reported trying to escape into Greek waters after having collected drugs from the commercial ship Ocean Blue.  After calls for the yacht to stop, the coast guard was forced to open fire and later subdue the yacht and arrest the four persons onboard, who where found in possession of 81 kilograms of cocaine drugs, with sixty kilograms thrown into the sea during the chase, and twenty kilograms found onboard.  It is not clear if the four persons onboard the yacht are injured or not as there is mixed reports about this.

M/y Belgor is a Cantieri Navali di Lavagna Admiral 27 as designed by Paolo Caliari and build in the late eighties to the early nineties in eleven units.  The Admiral 27 was also offered in wood construction in its first production years, with one hull reported being build in the traditional way.  The Admiral 27 was replaced by the 28.

New Model: Lyman-Morse Hood 35

Lyman-Morse celebrated the launch of Shadow, Hull 1 of the new Hood 35 series. The Hood 35 follows the recent successful collaboration between Lyman-Morse and C.W. Hood Design on the praised 57 model. Similar to the 57, this stunning cold-molded pocket-cruiser defines a niche all its own, encompassing advanced construction technology, world-renowned craftsmanship, and superior performance. Hull No. 1 Shadow is designed as a hardtop express and equipped with some of the most advanced marine technology available today. Shadow’s tech-savvy owner sought to outfit the vessel with the latest marine technology. She is one of the first dayboat-sized vessels to utilize Raymarine’s new Digital Switching System, YachtSense. The Raymarine vessel control system offers digital switching, which replaces traditional mechanical switches and circuit breakers with digitally controlled power distribution modules, significantly reducing the size and length of cabling required to distribute power throughout the boat. Hull No. 1 features twin 440hp Yanmar 6LY coupled to a pair of Hamilton Waterjet HJX29s. This is the first pleasure vessel in the USA to be equipped with these brand new jets. More efficient, more powerful, and with military grade controls, Shadow reaches speeds of forty plus knots. Shadow is also the first pleasure vessel to be equipped for autonomous running with the state-of-the-art Sea Machines system. Lyman-Morse is working closely with the owner and Sea Machines to have this boat confidently guiding herself and her passengers in the near future.

Technical Data:

LOA - 10.61 m (34.9ft)

Waterline Length - 9.1 m

Beam - 3.50 m

Draft - 0.63 m (excluding props or drives)

Displacement - 8618 kg estimate

Fuel Capacity - 1324 l

Water Capacity - 227 l

Accommodation - two berths

Engines - 2 x Yanmar 6LY 440hp

Propulsion - Hamilton HKX29 waterjets

Speed - forty knots max, thirty knots cruise

Construction - cold molded, Douglas fir Western red cheddar frame with fiberglass skin

Project - C.W. Hood

www.lymanmorse.com

Sport Cruiser Saved from Fire in Coomera Australia

An unattended fourteen meter Riviera sport cruiser went on fire, on the late morning of 27 July at the Boat Works marina, in Coomera, Gold Coast, Australia.  Thanks to quick thinking of Boatworks Marina crew and a firefighting squad the fire was immediately controlled and extinguished saving the boat on fire from total destruction, and avoiding the flames to move into other nearby yachts.  No one was injured in the fire, with the sport cruiser being lifted out of the water a day later.  

The Riviera in this accident is a M430 Sport Cruiser as produced from 2001 till 2008 in 145 units.  The Riviera M430 was sold in North America as the Wellcraft Excalibur 45. 

Project: Vanquish VQ55 Sports Line

Following success with the VQ40 in composite, Vanquish follows it with a larger seventeen meter VQ55 Sports Line project set to launch in the fall of 2022.  The Vanquish Sports Line is the composite build series made for those who want to wait less for a Vanquish with building time being about six months, with still possibility for some customizations available.  The VQ55 Sports Line is a full walk around fore to aft exterior layout with two dinettes; forward and under the hard-top, an aft sun-pad, and a central console helm with four row seats.  Lower deck accommodation is for four in an open layout with a double berth forward, and twin singles at midships.  The Vanquish VQ55 Sports Line will be powered by twin 1200hp inboards with jet propulsion reaching speeds up to 55 knots, or five Mercury 600hp outboards which give a whooping 72 knots.    

www.vanquish-yachts.com

Super Yacht Saved from Sinking in Mykonos

A 33 meters super yacht titled m/y Ion Fedra hit a reef and was saved from sinking in the gulf of Ornos, to the South of the island of Mykonos on the afternoon of Tuesday 26 July.  The super yacht had water intrusion after it hit low bottom and damaged part of its bow area, allowing for water intrusion. With quick intervention by the Greek coast guard and fire fighting squad the super yacht was saved from taking more and eventual sinking, and on 20:30 hours of Wednesday was reported safely moored in a berth.

M/y Ion Fedra is a 1999 Cantieri di Pisa Akhir 110 build of fiberglass to a project of Pierluigi Spadolini and delivered in seven units. The Cantieri di Pisa Akhir 110 was also available in wood construction.  The Cantieri di Pisa Akhir 110 was replaced by the Christian Gatto designed 108.