New Launch: Vanquish VQ80 SF

A custom order which was signed in the end of 2020 the Vanquish VQ80 SF is a sport-yacht-fish cross over, like we never have seen before.  Designed as all Vanquish by Guido de Groot with its main duty to be a chase yacht for the Heesen 60-metre superyacht hull number YN19995 Project SkyFall which launched the first half of 2023, the VQ80 SF introduces something new for Vanquish and to the conservative sea-fishing world. The VQ80 Sportsfish might be the young 2012 founded semi-custom-production Vanquish most substantive customization as yet, taking the Dutch builder away from its usual sport yacht zone into that of a hybrid between a luxurious sportfish and a sport-performance-yacht.  The customization though does not deviate Vanquish from its De Groot futuristic lines and the VQ80 SF is a sports yacht first with sportfishing features later; like the tower and free aft cockpit with central high rise aft looking mezzanine. Important to note the yacht features shine through, integrated bathing platform aft, two side opening balconies, lower helm station, and full walk around deck.  Down below the Vanquish VQ80 SF offers a three double cabins layout with an owners suite forward, and a crew cabin for two.  Performance? If competing in a sports fishing tournament the VQ80 SF might actually take first for speed, with twin Cats 2400hp and surface drive propulsion giving a 52 knots performance.

Technical Data:

LOA - 24.55m (80.3ft)

Beam - 5.95 m

Draft - 1.12 m

Displacement - 48 t, 90 gt volume

Fuel Capacity - 5700 l

Water Capacity - 

Max Persons - twenty

Accommodation - six berths in three cabins, two crew in one cabin

Engines - 2 x Cats C32B V12 2400hp

Propulsion - surface drives

Speed - 52 knots max 48 cruise

Range - 330 nautical miles at fast cruise

Hull Shape - Petestep hull

Design - Studio Delta hull, Guido de Groot exterior

Construction - aluminium

www.vanquish-yachts.com

Storm Babet

Storm Babet has made havoc in Britain, northern Germany and southern Scandinavia, with powerful winds, heavy rain and storm surges that caused floods, power outages, evacuations and disrupted flights, railway service and ferry lines.  Storm Babet made landfall on Thursday nineteen October, first arriving in the northern part of the United Kingdom, and continued making havoc in North Germany and Southern Scandinavia up till Saturday 21st October.  Gale-force winds whipped up storm surges on the southern shores of the Baltic Sea, breaking through flood defences in coastal areas in Denmark and northern Germany. In Flensburg, a German city just south of the border with Denmark, water levels rose more than two meters to the highest level recorded in a century.  

Forming on the fifteen October Storm Babet also called Storm Viktor in Germany, is an extratropical cyclone which affected Northern and Western Europe, reaching speeds up to one hundred knots, and has caused nine fatalities.  

So far we know that Storm Babet caused damage in the following German yacht marinas; Olympic port of Schilksee in Kiel, Damp, north of Eckernförde, and Wassersleben Marina in Harrislee near Flansbee causing damage to over 200 boats.  The storm in these harbours was caused on Friday twentieth October.

Project: Azimut Seadeck 9

Azimut new Seadeck series with sport-adventure looks and a large aft beach club area which extends both aft and to ship-sides set to launch with the 6 model in 2024, is already proving to be one of the most anticipated launches of the upcoming year.  Now Azimut is teasing Seadeck series fans even more with the first side profile rendering of the 9 project.  The Azimut Seadeck 9 was not announced during the press release of the new sporty range in March 2023, which announced the trio of 6, 7, and 8 models from sixty to eighty feet, with the 24 meter flagship still under wraps; no rendering shown and a target date launch for early 2025.  At this stage it is not known if the Azimut Seadeck 9 is an additional fourth model of the range, or if the 8 became larger because of a client request or during project and market analysis.  What we know so far of the Seadeck 9 is that it will feature an impressive 30% reduction in Co2 emissions thanks to the use of Bio-Diesel as envisioned by Azimut Green Path partnered with Politecnico di Torino, Eni Sustainable Mobility, Lloyd's Register, and Superyacht Eco Association as created by Yacht Club de Monaco and Credit Suisse.

www.azimutyachts.com

New Model: Greenline 58 Fly

Greenline 58 Fly is here, so says the website of the Slovenian motor cruiser and yacht builder who raised into fame following the launch of its 32 model in 2008.  With this new flagship Greenline is celebrating fifteen years in business and over a thousand deliveries, a celebration which have seen the builder always pushing on its clean hybrid energy beliefs, and today has arrived in its fifth version of the H-drive electric-diesel-solar propulsion system.  Designed by Marco Casali the Greenline 58 Fly is a spacious eighteen meter motor yacht offering the latest design trends, from open view veranda aft decks, hard-top up top which can be optioned with more solar panels, and an astern galley main deck layout.  Down below the Italian designer and Slovenian builder present a spacious three double cabins three heads layout with a midships full beam owners stateroom.  A choice exists here to have a two head layout, and replace the third en-suite with a walk-in ward robe for the VIP suite, with an option for the third cabin to modify as an office room.  The new Greenline 58 Fly is standard powered by twin Cummins 610hp as standard with optional engines going up to 1000hp by Cats or Volvo for top speeds around thirty knots.  As in any Greenline the 58 Fly follows the Slovenian green energy offer with a 1.32kw solar power system which is optionable up to 3.63 kw if you add the extra panels in the hard-top, and a twin 25 or 100kw electric motors option.  Greenline cruising is here and with the smaller 25kw electric motors alone the 58 Fly is able to reach six knots top speed and cruise for 25 nautical miles at five knots, while with the larger 100kw top speed goes up to twelve knots and at seven knots cruises for 25 nm in electric mode only, and up to 500 nm with diesel generators.  

Technical Data:

LOA - 18.2 m (59.9ft)

Beam - 5.12 m

Draft - 1 m excluding propellers

Displacement - 30 t dry

Fuel Capacity - 2300 l

Water Capacity - 600 l

Accommodation - six berths in three cabins, optional one crew cabin berth

Engines - 2 x Cummins QSM11 610, QSM11 715hp, or Volvo D13 1000hp

Propulsion - line shaft

Speed - 26 knots max with Cummins 715hp, 29 knots with Volvo 1000hp

Project - Marco Casali

Certification - CE A

www.greenlinehybrid.com

Project: Winter Custom Yachts 66 Express W-36

Winter Custom Yachts from Hubert, North Carolina is currently busy building the 66 feet hull number W-36.  To be titled Iron Man, Winters hull number 36 is a fully enclosed hard-top express sportfish yacht, with a Carolina flared bow and shear line.  At 66 feet long W-36 when launched will be the largest express sportfish as build by Winter, and for a short time also a flagship, that is until W-39 at 74 feet will launch. Winter Custom Yachts has so far not described the interior layout of this express sportfish yacht, but we know she will be powered by twin Cats 2433hp engines with ZF gearboxes and V-drive shafts.

www.wintercustomyachts.com

New Model: Absolute 52 Fly

For 2023 Absolute presents its new 52 Fly model, a sixteen meter flybridge motor yacht full of comfort, and class leading accommodation .  The second generation 52 Fly follows the design theme as Absolute Design and Research Lab outlined with the 60 Fly in 2021 and followed with the 56 Fly last year, with this sixteen meter flybridge motor yacht doing the third act of this future looking design.  The new Absolute 52 Fly is a modern flybridge motor yacht, which features an unusual layout of an owners stateroom forward, and the VIP room at midships.  A third cabin with twin berths is located to starboard, with a guest shower head serving the two guest cabins located to port side.  An optional crew cabin is also available in the Absolute 52 Fly, which if you option does not affect the glazed stern parapet open gunwale design.  The Absolute 52 Fly has a living main deck with an astern galley layout, a lounging which becomes dining C-shaped dinette forward, and a side door equipped helm station featuring a direct access to the open gunwale for easy side mooring.  Of note in the Absolute 52 Fly are the flybridge which again is one of the most spacious in this size and is optionable with a hard-top, and the fore deck spaces which is another class leading act.  Falling short somewhere, I would say the performance of the Absolute 52 Fly is not really breath taking, with a top speed of 28 knots and a cruise of twenty, and a 190 nautical miles range.   

Technical Data:

LOA - 16.76 m (54.9ft)

Waterline Length - 13.20 m

Beam - 4.67 m

Draft - 1.40 m

Displacement - 28,600 kg loaded

Fuel Capacity - 1800 l

Water Capacity - 650 l

Max Persons - fourteen

Accommodation - six berths in three cabins, one crew cabin berth

Engines - 2 x Volvo D8 600hp

Propulsion - Volvo forward looking IPS800 dual propeller pod drives

Speed - 28 knots max 20 knots cruise

Project - Absolute Design and Research Lab

Certification - CE B 

www.absoluteyachts.com

Super Yacht Australia Aground in Singapore

A 56 meter Benetti super yacht titled m/y Australia and registered under Malta flag hit a reef off the Buran Channel, just one nautical mile of Sentosa Resort, Singapore on 16:25 of Monday sixteen October.  Australia was just exiting the Sentosa resort and at about one nautical mile from the harbour entrance she was seen listing to its port side.  Some unconfirmed reports said the yacht had a pilot onboard, and other news said it developed a mechanical damage and deviating from its course outside the channel leading it to go into the shallower area and ultimately run partly aground.  Singapore Maritime and Port Authority advised that there was no disruption to port channel traffic, no pollution happened in the grounding, and no injuries are being reported.  Six hours after the grounding Australia was re-floated and resting at anchor to East of Sentosa assessing its damage, with a tug boat nearby ready for assistance.  Some reports are saying that Australia had a hull breach during the grounding and will be dry-docked for repairs.

Since 2021 m/y Australia is owned by down under billionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer, who purchased the 56 meter Benetti in December 2020, at the time asking a price of just under thirty million US dollars.

M/y Australia, previously named Bash and launched as Ulysses is a 2012 Benetti 56M series as designed by Stefano Natucci and delivered in four build to order units from 2005 to 2012, with Australia being the last of these builds. The 56M was a following of Benetti's successful Golden Age 50M steel build semi custom series which debuted in 1997 and sold in seven units up to 2008.

Project: Fiart P48

Fiart Patrovich collaboration enters the second chapter, and present the P48 project set to launch in 2024.  With the smaller fourteen meter P48 designer Patrovich follows what he did with the sixteen meter P54 which debuted in 2022, for a fore to deck sport cruiser with a large central T-Top covering the main living deck area, and two fore and aft sunbathing zones.  The Fiart Patrovich series are near unbeatable for exterior spaces, offering fore to aft spaces, in a wide-body cockpit format which also thanks to a higher freeboard does not sacrifice interior cabin spaces. Differences between the larger P54 and P48 are at the stern, with the P48 offering a fixed bathing platform with optional transformer, unlike the flip platform which when closed closes the stern as in the larger sixteen meter. The Fiart P48 as to what we know is to offer a standard two cabins layout, with a VIP suite to fore and a master room at midships.  Fiart has not communicated power options for the P48, but expect Volvo power with IPS pod propulsion. 

www.fiart.com

Project: Ferretti Custom Line Navetta 38

During the Monaco yacht show, Ferretti Group presented the project for the new Custom Line Navetta 38.  A replacement for the Navetta 37 which debuted in 2016 and has sold in fifteen units, the Custom Line Navetta 38 is the latest made-to-measure yacht in the brand’s displacement line, with the first unit under construction at the Ferretti Group Superyacht Yard in Ancona, for a 2024 launch. The Ferretti Custom Line Navetta 38 will featured a volume displacement under 300 GT, and comes from a design of Filippo Salvetti for exterior and interior by ACPV Architects of Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel, with the Piero Ferrari led Ferretti Group Engineering Department managing the naval architecture and product development. Extraordinary combinations of elegance and liveability, timeless classicism and harmony with the marine environment, direct contact with the sea and seamless continuity between interiors and exteriors are the features that present the Custom Line Navetta 38. This superyacht was in fact designed to maximise the usage of all available space on the four decks, with a large master suite of over forty squared meters on the main deck and completely separated crew and guest flows to ensure maximum privacy. The stern area is an innovative feature on board Custom Line Navetta 38 and a completely new take on the full-beam beach deck concept. The beach club and main deck cockpit, together covering over 70 squared meters are totally open and furnished with a system of freestanding modular units, thus creating a more extensive, generous and multi-functional area at the water’s edge that embodies the flush deck concept. The new beach club is a versatile space with the sea-facing couch enjoying  panoramic views, while the spacious swim platform provides direct access to the water which extends with two opening gunwales to extend the space. The beach club’s rational and functional layout means that this space is extremely practical and easy to use, a further accent on the concept of continuity and openness between yacht and open sea is the all-glass construction of the parapets in the main deck cockpit and the forward part of the sundeck. With a total surface area of 70 square metres and 15 metres in length, the extended sun deck becomes an extraordinary space in which to socialise and relax, complete with a spectacular sea-view jacuzzi aft with sun cushions, a sun lounge area forward and an open-air dining area under the shelter of a painted hard top. The entire area is surrounded by expansive glazing that offers a magnificent 180-degree view. The exteriors are characterised by a timelessly classic design language that features simple, harmonious lines expressing absolute luxury with elegance and refinement.  The key word for the Custom Line Navetta 38 is flexibility designed to enhance the experience offered by its interior spaces. The interior design is focused on maximum use of space through optimum control of all the volumes and functional exploitation of the entire available surface area. Another strong focus was on natural light, with extensive full-height windows creating powerful continuity between external and internal spaces and a feeling of harmony with the marine environment. The interior design is developed around a concept based on refined detailing and the use of fine materials with natural textures, including various types of leather and also linen and parchment, chosen both for the finishing's and the upholstery and coverings. The custom-designed furnishings are skilfully handcrafted by the shipyard’s expert personnel, a triumph of style made possible by the collaboration with ACPV Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel, who have revisited the stylistic features of maritime tradition, from the concept to the colour palette through a contemporary lens, highlighting the union between the yacht and the furnishings, the later custom designed and made to measure from natural leather and wood using sophisticated handcrafting techniques. The two architects has created an exclusive décor solutions based on two different moods: the more contemporary “cold mood” that plays with the cool hues of sky and navy blue, and the more classic and timeless “warm mood”, which features a warmer and cosier palette. Underscoring the possibility for owners to customise the yacht’s interiors, one of the brand’s signature features, the first Custom Line Navetta 38 will have a more neutral mood that further emphasises the bond with nature through natural, muted and neutral colours such as beige and ivory. In addition to the master suite, Custom Line Navetta 38 has four guest cabins on the lower deck, accommodating a total of ten people and seven crew members in four cabins, including the captain. Ideal for covering long distances with low fuel consumption and to enjoy category- beating performance, the  Custom Line Navetta 38 is standard powered by twin Man 1400hp for a top speed up to fifteen knots, with a range of about 2,800 nautical miles at an economy cruising speed of ten knots. Custom Live Navetta is also be Selective Catalytic Reduction ready and installing the system brings a 70% reduction in NOx emissions and IMO3 compatible. 

www.customline-yacht.com

Super Yacht Burns at Fort Lauderdale Yacht Haven Marina

A 28 meter super yacht titled m/y Self Made burned in flames while berthed in Yacht Haven Marina, near West State Road 84, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on about 22:30 hours of Thursday twelfth October.  Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue and Fire Fighters responded to the blaze which engulfed Self Made, with the flames controlled in about two hours.  After the fire the 28 meter yacht had over half of its main deck and flybridge badly burned down by the fire.  The yacht was reported unattended at the time of the fire, with no injuries and damage to other vessels being reported.  

M/y Self Made previously named Janet is a 1999 Cheoy Lee 92 as designed by Tom Fexas and produced from 1988 up to 2004 in ten units.  In 1999 the Cheoy Lee 92 received a super structure design update.  The 92 was a replacement to the Cheoy Lee 90 and was replaced by the Burvenich designed 95.