New Model: Intermarine 75

 

Intermarine continues its new course and along with the 60, it presented at the Rio Boat show the 75 model.  While similar on the exterior lines to the 60, this current flagship of Intermarine is a design of Luiz de Basto who for a 75 feet motor yacht presents again a sports low profile line.  Something seen on the 60 but looking more impressive on the 75. Inside the accommodation plan will have four double guest suites, located in the traditional form of owners stateroom to midships, VIP suite to fore, two twin cabins in between.  All the cabins have en-suite bathrooms.  To aft below is a crew lobby which has two cabins with four berths, small galley and an L-shaped dinette.  The main deck living area of the Intermarine 75 is about open spaces full of natural light thanks to the huge glass surfaces surrounding all the area.  Two steps split level the main interior dividing entertainment located on entrance and lower, with the more working area having galley, dining table and helm to port side.  To note in the helm are the two adjustable sports car seats for helmsman and co-pilot, and the single glass of the windshield which has no mullions at the center.  This apart giving better visibility is also more aesthetically clean for the Intermarine 75, and is quite an engineering challenge to achieve.  Just as the 60, the flybridge of the 75 is all reserved for entertainment with two sun pads to aft and fore, a dinette, wet bar and helm station to port side. Tender stowage is located to aft with high low bathing platform making for easy launching and recovery. Power is from twin MAN 1550hp engines.  The optional choice should give a 34 knots top speed with 30 of cruise. 

Technical Data:

LOA - 23.5 m (77.9ft)

Hull Length - 23.15 m

Beam - 5.5 m

Draft - 1.65 m

Displacement - 42 t dry

Fuel Capacity - 5000 l

Water Capacity - 1200 l

Accommodation - 8 guest berths in 4 cabins, 4 crew berths in 2 cabins 

Engines - 2 x MAN 1550hp

Propulsion - line shaft

Speed - 34 knots max 30 knots cruise 1550hp
Project - Luiz de Basto designs

www.intermarine.com.br

Project: Viking 66 Enclosed Bridge

Viking presents the project for the 66 Enclosed Bridge which is set to premier in 2012 in Florida. Like the open bridge Convertible version, the 66 Enclosed Bridge has a four staterooms and four private heads in its standard accommodation plan. The island galley, dinette, and salon also are similar, with the significant addition of a spiral staircase that leads to the enclosed bridge. The climate-controlled enclosed bridge is inviting and spacious with the main helm forward on center line for good visibility. The raised ultra-leather dash handles a bank of navigation and communication electronics, and overhead, an accessory panel is easily read and reached. An adjustable Stidd helm seat provides plenty of comfort and support on long jaunts, and a large companion seat to starboard features drawer stowage and good visibility for crew and guests. Abaft the companion seat, a row of teak joinery houses bottle and general stowage. A flat screen television is mounted above the built-in refrigerator. A raised lounge with a teak cocktail table on the port side creates the atmosphere of a second salon for added privacy and convenience.  A weatherproof lockable door leads to the aft deck and the second helm station, a pod design that has single lever controls, a stainless-steel wheel and stop/start switches. Safety railing on the aft deck, as well as the exterior flying bridge access ladder is powder-coated aluminum.

www.vikingyachts.com

Improve-it = Atlantis 44

Atlantis presents an important addition to its last new model the 44 launched the past October in Genoa now being the first boat to be powered with new Volvo D6 400hp engines.  This engine option adds to about two knots in top speed versus the previous twin Volvo 370hp set up now reaching 36 knots of max.  But apart this Atlantis also says the new twin 400hp engines also reduces RPM at cruising speeds which will mean lower consumption and better range.  The Volvo D6 400hp engine is currently the most powerful diesel stern drive in the World and currently the Atlantis 44 is the only boat in existence offered with this option.  Considering that the Azimut Benetti Group is not exclusive to Volvo engines this shows big thrust to the engineering, research and design department of the Italian builder.  This to he honest is not the first to come to the Italian group with ZF also experimenting its large ZF4000 pods first on the Azimut 62S.  Azimut Benetti Group of which Atlantis yachts makes part having been acquired as Gobbi in 2001 marks the entry level sport cruiser and yacht segment of the Italian company.  The Atlantis 44 is the second project to come from the hands of Neo Design of Filippo Salvetti and Marco Biaggi, who in the near future should renew all the range which was previously designed by Stefano Righini for the larger models, and Michael Peters responsible for the smaller cruisers.  The Atlantis 44 offers a two cabins lower deck with a full beam owners suite to midships.  The main deck offers a very open area with aft sun pad, as Atlantis started showing up with the 54 introduced in 2008.
www.azimutyachts.com

Class 1 - Norway Grand Prix 2011 Preview

Victory’s Arif Al Zafeen and Nadir bin Hendi will be the target and team to beat at this weekend’s BMW Norwegian Grand Prix (15-17 July) in Arendal, round 2 of the UIM Class 1 World Powerboat Championship.

The defending World Champions lead the points table after taking maximum points at the season-opener in Abu Dhabi, and will be intent on adding to their 23 career wins and maintaining the team’s enviable record in Arendal, where they have won eight times from 14 starts – winning both races last year.

Ten boats will line up for the 14th Grand Prix in Arendal since 1994, and the tens-of-thousands of partisan spectators who are expected to turn out for what is considered one of the great events and race circuits on the Class 1 tour, will be baying for a Norwegian win.

The fight for Norwegian supremacy and a win on home waters is between Welmax and Relekta; Jorn Tandberg and Christian Zaborowski won in Arendal in 2006, but nowadays line up in opposing teams, Tandberg winning again in 2008, the year he clinched the European title.

Tandberg partners Kolbjorn Selmer in the Mercury V8-powered Welmax, the all-Norwegian partnership enjoying considerable success since pairing in Arendal in 2009, taking ten podium finishes from 21 starts and six wins in pole position, five of them last year to win the Edox Pole Position Championship.

Team owner Tandberg has also confirmed they will run a second boat, ferskfisken.no - the Maritimo-designed and built hull that they ran as Welmax Alianza in Brazil last year - and will announce their driver pairing this week.

After a promising and then rather spectacular start to the year for Relekta’s Ugur Isik and Christian Zaborowski, posting fifth quickest in qualifying then crashing out in race 1, Zabo Racing has upped the stakes in its bid for silverware, buying the championship-winning hull, Fazza, from Victory Team.

The team has enjoyed a roller-coaster ride since its launch at the Norwegian Grand Prix last season, grabbing its first podium in Abu Dhabi last year and there is now an air of excitement within the team that they have the complete package to step up their title challenge.

Fendi Racing also fields a new boat whilst Austrian-based DAC Racing roll-out a cut-down version of their Tencara.

Luca Formilli Fendi and Giovanni Carpitella will unveil their new Outerlimits boat-engine package; their decision to run with the Outerlimits hull and twin 850 SC Outerlimits Powertrain engines sees the American high-performance boat manufacturer making its debut in the UIM Class 1 World Powerboat Championship.

Fendi and Carpitella teamed-up in Class 1 last season and have taken two podium finishes in six starts, with Carpitella hoping they can at least repeat his three visits to the podium in Arendal last year.

DAC Racing’s Guido Cappellini is confident that the extreme modifications to his Tencara – cutting 120cm from the mid-section and reducing the overall weight by several hundred kilos – and upgrades to his Mercury engines, giving 50hp more per engine, will give him and throttleman, Giampaolo Montavoci, who starts his 100th race in Arendal, a real shot at competing at the front of the pack and challenging for race honours.

The team runs the restyled DAC 40 as kim.com for the first time in Arendal.

Sheikh Hassan bin Jabor Al-Thani and Steve Curtis will lead the Spirit of Qatar Team’s two-boat attack out onto the fjords, looking for the win that has so far eluded them in Class 1 since they joined forces in 2008.

And whilst they [Sheikh Hassan and Curtis] have enjoyed considerable success together, winning six times and lifting both national and world titles racing in America, they have had to settle for podium finishes - six - from their 12 starts in Class 1.

The team made an impressive return to the Championship earlier this year stepping onto the podium four times, Sheikh Hassan and Curtis grabbing two second places, with Matteo Nicolini aiming to keep the pressure on his teammates and build on his impressive performance with rookie driver Ali Al Neama, finishing third-quickest in qualifying and third in race 2 - both outfits running Victory-built hulls with SKEMA V12 engines.

And whilst Curtis is the only member of the team and one of only five of this seasons’ 22 competitors to have won in Arendal - in 2002 with Bjorn Gjelsten - both Sheikh Hassan and Nicolini - albeit now in opposing boats - will be hoping for a repeat of previous successes on Norwegian fjords in Arendal this week, the pair winning in Oslo in 2004 and in Trondheim in 2005, the year they won the European Championship.

Team Abu Dhabi has announced a change in their line-up, bringing in Emirati Majed Al Monsoori to partner wheelman, Rashed Al Tayer. Both are experienced racers; Al Tayer already a triple race-winner in Class 1 in just his second season, whilst Monsoori has come up through the ranks from Jet Ski competition and single-seater circuit racing. The duo also competes together in the XCat series and may well be a force to be reckoned with.

Chris Parsonage Racing retains the same driver-pairing with Giorgio Manuzzi alongside Norwegian throttleman Pal Virik Nilsen. The former teammates at Maritimo Offshore have both enjoyed podium success in Arendal, Manuzzi getting second and third last year and a third, behind Nilsen, in 2009.

The Grand Prix weekend gets underway with first practice on Friday afternoon. A second practice on Saturday afternoon is immediately followed by qualifying in the Edox Pole Position and race 1, with a final practice session and race 2 on Sunday.

CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS

1. 3 Victory Team - 40pts

2. 96 Spirit of Qatar - 30pts

3= 10 Fendi Racing - 19pts

3= 95 Spirit of Qatar - 19pts

5. 5 Team Abu Dhabi - 18pts

6. 74 Poliform - 10pts

7. 50 Parsonage Racing - 8pts

8. 18 MITI - 4pts

9. 90 Welmax - 3pts

10. 91 Relekta - 2pt

www.class-1.com

Project: Aquastar 60 Classic Star

Aquastar presents a new project called 60 Classic Star with traditional yacht looks coming from the pilot boats.  The Aquastar 60 Classic Star will offer a fully customisable layout, although they still show no pictures of the plans and wether below it will be a twin or three cabins choice.  Surely the 60 Classic Stat will have a choice of a Day Saloon, or Aft Cockpit available for the main deck.  I think this will mean whether you opt to go with a patio door or a fully open aft main deck.  Aquastar says the hull of the 60 is fully derived from working pilot boats, with a tweak for added performance and a dry ride. Diverse propulsion choices are also part of the 60 Classic Star from twin jet drives with minimum draft, to triple IPS pods choices, or traditional line shafts.  In any case with the largest and most efficient option Aquastar says a top speed of 38 knots is to be expected.

www.aquastar.gg

New Model: Island Pilot 535

Launched during the Miami Show the Island Pilot 535 represents the second yacht in this builder range, and joins the 435 model.  Designed by George Petrie and Reuben Trane the 535 continues Island Pilot unusual styling which makes away of current trends and just as the smaller 435 is powered by IPS pods with a very efficient hull shape.  As the web site of the builder says Island Pilot is all about a new approach to a cruising yacht or cruiser. Other interesting features are also the Seakeeper gyro stabilizers which is supplied as standard, which according to Island Pilot is the only maker to do this. Down below the Island Pilot is a project of two large staterooms yacht; owner room to midships, and VIP guest to fore.  But for this you also have two living areas below with C-shaped dinette opposite the galley and on the main deck.  There is also a third day head located on the lower deck. Power is from twin Volvo 700hp engines which give a top speed of 30 knots.

Technical Data:

LOA - 17.37 m (57ft)

Length Hull - 16.3 m

Waterline Length - 14.3 m

Beam - 5.15 m

Draft - 1.40 m

Displacement - 27215 kg

Fuel Capacity - 2271 l

Water Capacity - 757 l

Accommodation - 4 berths in 2 cabins

Engines - 2 x Volvo D11 700hp

Propulsion - Volvo IPS900 dual propeller forward looking pods

Speed - 30 knots max, 28 knots max cruise, 18 knots economic, 8 knots economic displacement

Project - George Petrie Naval Architect, Reuben Trane

www.islandpilot.com

Project: Riviera 4400 Sport Yacht Series II

Riviera will launch at the soon to come Sydney boat show the Series II of the 4400 Sport Yacht model, which will feature a redesign of the exterior with some important visible changes to this successful model which presented in 2007 has sold since then over seventy units.  Considering the World economy was in a recession this was a super result by Riviera for this model.  The Series II main difference will be the feature of large side windows on the hull from fore to midships, and redesign of the hardtop also with larger glassed surfaces and now looking more aggressive and extended.  The coach roof of the 4400 Sport Yacht Series II looks a bit similar to that of the 5800 but maintains the traditional feel of the original design.  Other changes will be better headroom in the midships cabin, larger dash which take bigger electronics displays, and a seat located aft by the bathing platform.  A feature which has been much appreciated in the 5800 Sport Yacht.  The 4400 Sport Yacht Series II standard power will be for twin IPS600 with 435hp Volvo engines.  But the new Series II will also offer the choice of twin  Cummins 480hp with ZF Zeus aft looking pod drives. 
www.riviera.com.au

Project: DSME 43m

Daewoo Shipyard and Marine Engineering i.e. DSME presents the second project for its new super yacht line with this 43M boat.  The new project is the second so far presented of a design set, developed for DSME, by Italian designers and architects Andrea Borzelli and Francesco Rogantin.  Th other model which we showed you a couple weeks back is the 24M. The 43M is characterized by a dynamic style that plays with square angles and continuous glass surfaces which create a dialogue between interior and exterior.  Designed by Andrea Borzelli Architect with the cooperation of Francesco Rogantin for Naval Architecture and Engineering, this almost 43m long yacht is available with a four or five guest cabins lower deck layout with crew quarters in the bow area and a beach club and the garage astern. In the main deck, an aft relax area and an over sixty square meter saloon welcome the guests on board. At bow there is the master cabin featured by a big office, a walk-in closet and, if requested, a balcony at starboard side.  Between the main saloon and the owner cabin there is the lobby with a large staircase and a day bathroom, plus a technical area with galley, pantry and access to the crew quarters.  Two folding balconies along the side passages are positioned at mid saloon creating a nice airy-space feeling.  The upper deck’s main characteristic is an open relax area at bow, with sofas and sun beds beyond the wheel house. A second saloon, a day head, the captain’s cabin, a pantry area and an open aft dining area complete this deck’s features.  Finally, the 14 meter long sun deck is equipped with a Jacuzzi at bow, dining tables and sun beds.  The interior style and the layout are open to the potential owners  suggestions and needs.  Power is to be from twin 1050hp engines which should speed in the region of 14 knots max, and 13 of cruise.

www.dsme.co.kr

Improve-it = Botnia 37 Targa

Botnia Marin from Finland presents a new Comfort Fore Cabin for its Targa 37 model. As for the Targa 35 the 37 new CFC offers a totally new level of comfort on board, and adds more storage space. This alternative layout of the fore deck and cabin features a raised area with secure railing and easy movement. Inside, the CFC adds to more space, storage, head room, and the option of a second head. Just as the two feet smaller sister, for the Targa 37 this has produced two alternative bed layouts; a double drawn to starboard side, or a Vee-shaped berth. An optional toilet in the fore cabin is also available raising privacy and flexibility on board.  An optional sun pad is also available now on the raised part of the fore deck. 

www.targa.fi

Project: Horizon E54 Aero

Horizon presents its latest project the E54 Aero a motor yacht which is to be powered by Volvo IPS drive technology, an eco-friendly design, spacious interior volume, and efficient ride.  Driven by environmental awareness in manufacturing and operation, the Horizon E54 Aero is a modern yacht not only in looks and construction but also in its usage. Exterior styling to the E54 Aero is by JC Espinosa who created a modern streamlined profile, accentuated by large E-glass windows and an oversize windshield for enhanced natural light, increased visibility, and panoramic views. The three stateroom two head layout is comparable to that of a larger yacht, with thoughtfully-designed accommodations that maximize space while retaining an open feel. The IPS drive’s aft location provides increased interior volume, allowing a full-beam master with a walk-in closet, master head and room to spare for either a desk or seating. A guest stateroom with twin bunks is forward and to starboard, with a shared head to port and the highly spacious VIP cabin completely forward.  For entertaining with a view, the E54 Aero flybridge features sun pads and alfresco dining for eight, and a newly designed helm station with dynamic positioning system makes maneuvering and docking easy. The aft deck seating area seats six, with the option for an aft galley location that provides easy access to the aft deck, and a hydraulic high low swim platform and transom trunk storage proves ideal for a multitude of water sport activities.  The twin Volvo IPS900 with 670hp engines will give a top speed of 34 knots, and a cruise of 28 knots to the Horizon E54 Aero.  Hull number one was sold to a down under client and is scheduled for delivery at the end of this year.

www.horizonyacht.com