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Sense 50: pleasure personified

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

“Encore!” as the French would say. Having evolved the cruising side of the business with the Oceanis range and the cruiser-racer segment with the Firsts, Beneteau is now launching two all-new projects as part of a small series called Sense. There’s a 50 footer already on the water and a 43 footer still at the drawing board stage. The new models are what might be described as hybrids: their big, bold ocean yacht-inspired hulls meld with deckhouses and interiors that have much...

Pershing 92: simply amazing

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

“In line with our brand philosophy, the Pershing 92’ incorporates just the right mix of technical innovation and leading-edge design, a combination that has made the Pershing brand one of the finest exponents of the nautical Made in Italy phenomenon in the world and contributed to our Group’s international standing,” declared a proud Norberto Ferretti, chairman and founder of the Ferretti Group. And it has to be said that this is a yacht with which it’s virtually...

Numarine 78 Fly: modern Art

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Family-oriented. But powerful. The latter fact attested to by a 32-knot top speed and a cruising one in excess of 25 knots supplied by two 1224 hp Man engines and, tellingly, a hull shape designed by Umberto Tagliavini and Marine Design & Services of Rapallo. However, the latter’s contribution isn’t the only Italian one to the 78 Fly, which has the same lines honed by Tagliavini for its predecessor, the 78 HT. It also avails of the design sensibilities of Tommaso Spadolini who...

Venezia 34 Spider: worthy of The Golden Lion

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

“Not only a boat, a lifestyle” is the motto at the Cantiere Comitti. Founded in 1956 by Mario Comitti, the yard immediately made a name for itself with its inimitably stylish luxury runabouts which were designed and honed by Mario Comitti himself. So successful were they that over 600 have been built to date. His son Elia now continues the family tradition at the company’s 3,500-square-metre Como facility (2,000 of those metres are dedicated to actual production). The Comitti...

X-Yachts XC 50, danish flagship

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Once X-Yachts debuted solutions well-removed from its usual racer-oriented fare and integrated typical blue water cruiser functional elements with high efficiency sail plans and performance oriented-waterlines in the Xc-45, it would have been a major mistake not to follow through on them with other models. It has done so in two directions – first with the smaller 42’ and later with the larger 50’, featured here. The work of the yard didn’t just focus on changing the...

Streamline, lights and forms eclecticism

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

An Italian, a Frenchman and a Dutchman are sitting around a table…. No, this isn’t a joke. We’re perfectly serious. The three men in question are actually the pens behind Streamline, the stunning 50-metre Mondo Marine featured in these pages. She’s a displacement yacht with a steel hull and an aluminium deck, the owner’s fourth yacht in his seafaring career. The three characters mentioned above are Cor D. Rover, who created Streamline’s concept and exterior...

Bacarella: "The last Katrina baby"

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

It took five years to build Bacarella from start to finish for one very good reason: Hurricane Katrina which devastated areas of the United State’s southern coastline in 2005. A catastrophe that, apart from all the death and destruction, played such an important role in the life of the 60-metre that Trinity Yachts Vice-President Billy Smith III referred to her at her launch as the “last of the Katrina babies”. And with good reason. When the Category 5 hurricane hit New...

The new Castagnola 33 metres

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Christened Margherita, this 33-metre navetta from Costruzioni Navali Tigullio Castagnola is designed for long, slow cruising. She has, in fact, a range of 2,500 miles and makes 11 to 13 knots in complete safety and very economically too. Displacement craft of this kind are very much in vogue right now and allow their guests to commune completely with the sea as they enjoy the slow pace of life and admire the passing sea and landscapes in silence. Margherita’s hull is steel and her...

Jongert 42T, in Traditions wake

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

She’s been named Passe Partout, and is build no. 404 from the Jongert yard in Holland. The name was taken from a character in Jules Verne’s book Around the World in Eighty Days. Passe Partout’s first owner sailed all the world’s seas on her. Production at Jongert BV began in 1953 when Jan Jongert Sr. founded a small shipyard at Oppedoes, in Holland. 1968 saw the meeting with Herbert Dahm, founder of Dahm International. From that moment the company’s profile became...

Abati 64: taking it to the limit

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Size really does matter when it comes to boats. Each different type has its own, fairly strict dimensions. Just think about it: the very notion of a 10-metre tri-deck or a 50-metre walkaround would be ridiculous, wouldn’t it? The upper limit for a lobster-style yacht is in or around the 20-metre mark. “If you go beyond that you really upset the proportions and the ratios between the various areas of the boat,” explains Carlo Ciuti, the pen behind the entire Abati Yachts...

Northern Star, a Heart of Steel

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

There can be nothing more pleasurable for designers than to deal with an experienced yachtsman. That is exactly what happened for Espen Oeino with the owner of Northern Star, the 75.4-metre six-decker launched last year by Lürssen. The latter was very specific about what he wanted: a pleasure yacht that would be capable of coping with everything from the Arctic to the Tropics in complete ease at a range of at least 9,000 miles. Now if that’s not dedicated cruising, we don’t...

Picchiotti Exuma 50 metri

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The launch of Exuma, from the Picchiotti Vitruvius® 50 series, on July 3rd last at La Spezia marked a key moment in the present and future of the Perini Navi Group. We’ll mostly confine ourselves here to describing the astonishing technical characteristics of this, the first example of the Picchiotti Vitruvius® 50 series, built by the Perini Navi Group on its debut in the motoryacht world through its Picchiotti brand. That said, we can’t ignore either the many, many changes...

Leopard 43, back in the family

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The Picchiotti's family has begun its new life with a 43-metre that hails the return of the Tuscan family to the helm of the yard after its 2009 split from the Rodriguez Group, controller of the Leopard Yachts brand. After so much hyper-financing and so many mergers, it seems that the trend now in the boat building industry is a return to tradition and family-run companies. Picchiotti has a long and glorious tradition behind it but reclaiming the brand after 33 years of focusing on building...

Isa 630, from racing to a megayacht

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Illusionists are people who specialise in sleight of hand card tricks, who saw women into three pieces and then put them back together again, who make balls float unaided in mid-air. Their real talent lies, however, in convincing their audience that they are doing the impossible. They make reality look exotic in a way we all hope it is even though, deep down, we know it’s not. They may be tricking us but we know we are being tricked. Illusionism takes technique and lots of it. Practice...

Atlantis 48: the future of Open

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The Atlantis range is getting a major overhaul, one that’s starting from the centre and working its way out with strategic precision. The Azimut-Benetti open range’s facelift starts with the new 48 which will be unveiled at the Festival de la Plaisance in Cannes this September. “We chose to start with this model which replaces the 47, a very successful yacht for Atlantis, because this new sport cruiser is going to be the very fulcrum of a range that will go from 35’ to...

Vismara V55 b2: sport & family

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

If it was only all about designing the most unusual boat possible, it wouldn’t be much of a challenge. However, there are a few more rules to making an owner happy than that. First and foremost, he has to actually like the boat and it has to stand out from the crowd. It has to be functional both inside and out, and it has to do its job efficiently. Given that in these recessionary times people are less keen to part with their money, an old rule has come back into force in a big way: the...

Maxi Dolphin Md 53: Tender to Satisfaction

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Carbon and white leather. High-tech prowess and passionate artisan skill. Lines inspired by the motoryachts of the 1930s with sailing yacht influences mixed in. Perhaps the latter two attributes are what really gives it away that this time we’re talking about a Maxi Dolphin. “It’s the last two elements that Roberto Starkel highlighted in the project for the MD 51 Power, the model that marked our entry into the motor segment in 2007,” says Marco Ramundo, the proud CEO of...

De Birs 100 Sports Yacht, a sea jet

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The strategy followed by the De Birs yard in recent years shows how an aeronautical approach to pleasure sailing is a winning solution, bringing benefits for both yacht and owner. Designing a yacht in the same way as a business jet has been the Dutch company’s aim, or rather the starting point for the creation of a boat like the 100 Sp. One piece of data makes it clear what the kind of attention usually reserved for aircraft can do – the difference in transverse weight of the hull...

Baia B 50: opening up the open

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

1983: Apple launched Lisa, its first personal computer on the market, Madonna released her first album and Arpanet officially paved the way for the Internet. A revolutionary year indeed. For the nautical industry too, it has to be said. In 1983, you see, the Cantieri di Baia splashed their first Baia 50, an open of almost 17 metres with a deep-V bottom designed by Don Aronow. It proved a massive hit in the US not only because of its racing successes but mostly because it was an...

Eastport 58, fly me to the sea

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Perfection, by definition, is not an earthly thing. We humans can strive for it – and even doing so is in itself excellent result. So if a certain product of our labours seems to be the apex of human achievement, even thinking about trying to improve on it might seem presumptuous if not downright damaging. Abati Yachts, however, has done just such a thing by with the very successful Portland 55, 17 of which sold in six years. The result is the Eastport 58. “It’s basically the...

C.Boat 27-82 Classic

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Tough as steel, will of steel...or even muscles of steel! This attractive, indispensable metal almost always evokes positive associations in most people’s minds, but it wasn’t a marketing decision that led Mario Corvisieri, a young Sicilian entrepreneur involved in sailing since 2000, the year he founded Corvisieri Yacht Charter, to choose steel as the construction material for his C.Boats. The reason behind his selection was more practical – he wanted to create stable,...

Sunreef introduces Ipharra

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Sunreef Yachts is delighted to confirm that this year's edition of the Cannes International Boat Show held from 8 to 13 September 2010 will see the worldwide premiere of the Sunreef 102 Double Deck IPHARRA - the first double deck sailing catamaran in the world. She is also the second biggest sloop rigged catamaran of the world. The double deck concept was created especially for clients wanting to achieve extreme comfort with maximum space on deck. The characteristic feature of each Sunreef...

AMER 116, a sea of rights

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Hats off to engineer Massimo Verme for coming up with a project that has a lot that’s new to it both in terms of lines and overall concept. We are talking about the Amer 116, a 35-metre pleasure yacht which has enjoyed great popularity since its unveiling at the last Genoa Show. Architect Stefano Timi too has done a fine job on the interiors which are superbly tasteful and full of unconventional solutions. Not forgetting either the input of Permare which actually built the very light...

Magellan, setting a new stylish ocean course

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

No compromises, maximum performance, style and luxury combined with high-tech components: the new boat-building kid on the block Magellan Marine AG (www.magellan-marine.com) has set the bar high for itself in terms of its chosen philosophy. Founded by Peter Mintel in spring 2009, the company is headquartered in Liechtenstein but it will do its actual building in Italy, a nation that Mintel feels is at the very cutting-edge of the industry. The first model from the new company is the Magellan...

Austin Parker 42, a fashionable classic

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Let’s get one thing straight from the start: the Austin Parker 42 isn’t a protest against big boats, but a solution to the problems inherent in big boats. It’s also designed to appeal in no uncertain terms to owners fed up with large, burdensome motoryachts as well as those who either no longer can or no longer wish to sail. “I tried to design the most elegant 40’ I could,” says Fulvio De Simoni, “by using classical, timeless elements that cut across...