Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2018 i Boat International US Edition

As a media brand at the front and center of the superyacht industry, we strive to keep conservation at the heart of much that we do – from the stories that we tell, to the people we celebrate, to our actions as a company. Our annual Ocean Awards, which we launched with Blue Marine Foundation only three years ago, are a huge part of this effort, as they bring attention to some of the truly amazing people and organizations working to maintain and repair the health of our ocean playground. We received nearly 100 entries for this year’s awards, which were debated and sifted by an expert panel. You can see all the winners from page 79, and I hope you find their stories and achievements as inspiring as we…

The annual total of sailing superyacht deliveries continued its gradual decline in 2017: there were 18 completed projects, compared with 22 in 2016 (-18 percent) and 37 in 2012 (-51 percent). The total has fallen over six of the past eight years with 2012 providing the only respite from this trend. The average length for deliveries shot up by more than 22 per cent to 144ft 2in year-on-year from 2016; however this figure was skewed by the completion of Sailing Yacht A , the 468ft 6in Nobiskrug that could be considered a motor yacht with sails. But there’s no reason to panic, says Ruurt Meulemans, co-founder of Hoek Design Naval Architects. “The sailing yacht market has always shown ups and downs. I’m sure we will see an increase again,” he…

TRIPLE SEVEN €44.9 MILLION The 223ft motor yacht is listed for sale by Burgess. Designed by Newcruise, she was built by Nobiskrug to Germanischer Lloyd class and delivered in 2006 with several updates since. She sleeps 12 guests. LADY S €59 MILLION The 224ft motor yacht has been listed for sale by Burgess. Built by Amels with exterior styling and interior design by Walter Franchini, she was delivered in 2006 with a full refit in 2015. She sleeps up to 12 guests. PERSEUS 3 €39 MILLION The 197ft sailing yacht has been listed for sale at Perini Navi USA. With naval architecture by Ron Holland, she was built in aluminum by Italian yard Perini Navi and delivered in 2015. She sleeps 12 guests. LADY K €4.4 MILLION…

Esenyacht in Turkey opened its own composite workshop to make the mast and boom in-house for its Project Troy, due this year, and has just revealed a new 203ft ketch project, slated for a 2020 completion. In Holland, a 164ft ketch, signed at the Monaco Yacht Show 2017, is in build at Vitters, while at Holland Jachtbouw work is under way on the 168ft classic schooner Rainbow II. Chinese yard Heysea will deliver the first of its Zoom Plus 85 catamarans later this year. The 141ft steel-hulled expedition schooner Columbia II is still in construction at US yard Eastern Shipbuilding.…

Glenn Spiro’s newest collection, Materials of the Old World, debuted to great acclaim at TEFAF, the annual European Fine Art Fair. Classic gemstones are mixed with ancient stones and artifacts. The inspiration came years ago, when Spiro made earrings from two medallions dating from the first millennium BC. “The history and provenance of the medallions ignited a real passion in me,” he says, “so we started collecting ancient ceramics, agate and carnelian, without really knowing how we were going to set them.” He adds that it has been “a slow but magical process, as each material has its own individual form and character.”…

The noontime sun beats down through my big floppy hat and I bask in its warmth. On either end of the beach the jagged green Pitons of St Lucia rise from the water in all their majesty. I’m halfway through a fluffy novel, but I turn it page-down on my stomach. My eyelids slide blissfully closed, then I hear: “Hey, let’s rent a sailboat.” My husband, Chapman, has many talents, but sitting still is not one of them. I open one eye and peer at him from under my sunglasses. “Are you nuts?” But he’s already on his feet. I point an emphatic finger at his empty lounge chair. “Nuh-uh. You lie back down.” Even as the words leave my lips, I know it’s a lost cause. He gives me…

Since Boat International and Blue Marine Foundation launched the Ocean Awards three years ago, the world seems to have become a more ocean-aware place. The success of Blue Planet II and the brilliant anti-plastic campaign have played important parts. It’s a step in the right direction and one that we all have a responsibility to ensure grows in power and action. Equally, when we appealed for nominations for our awards this year, we were bowled over by the response – in terms of numbers, geographical breadth and tangible impact. Once again, the judges had the unenviable task of singling out winners and finalists, all of whom are profiled overleaf. Their remarkable stories are matched only by their extraordinary success and it’s thanks to them, and others on the front line,…

More than two decades ago Ove Hoegh-Guldberg was one of the first scientists to warn that coral bleaching was a sign of climate change and global warming. No surprise then that he appears in and was the chief scientific advisor for the Netflix documentary Chasing Coral , winner of the Audience Award at last year’s Sundance Festival. The film warns that a temperature increase of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit is sufficient to put marine life into a state akin to “living with a constant fever,” hence the death of more than half the world’s corals in the past three decades. A professor of marine science at the University of Queensland, Hoegh-Guldberg is also the inaugural director of its Global Change Institute, which describes itself as “an independent source of innovative research,…

The currents that cause sargassum weed to aggregate in the Sargasso Sea have also caused it to become a gigantic gyre, or agglomeration, of plastic waste, so endangering the unique species for which it is a breeding ground. Thanks in part to the American lawyer Kristina Gjerde, adjunct professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California, and senior high seas advisor to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Global Marine and Polar Programme, this “wondrous place” is now the object of a campaign to protect it and its ecosystem. The Sargasso Sea Alliance, which she co-founded in 2010, aims to ensure legal protection for fragile ecosystems and provide insight to aid the establishment of other Marine Protected Areas. Gjerde began her career as a specialist…

Sir Charles Dunstone Executive chairman of TalkTalk Group Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Writer, broadcaster and campaigner Professor Alex David Rogers Professor of Conservation Biology, University of Oxford Professor Callum Roberts Marine conservation biologist, University of York George Duffield Co-founder of Blue Marine Foundation Peter Lürssen CEO, Lürssen Professor Annette Broderick Professor of Marine Conservation, University of Exeter Romain Troublé Executive director of the Tara Expeditions Foundation…

Stepping inside Seven, the most dramatic thing isn’t the furniture or fabrics, it’s the lighting. The yacht won the Best Lighting Design award at the 2018 Boat International Design and Innovation Awards. Seven’s plan does more than illuminate; it follows furniture contours to reinforce design, it draws the eye, it directs attention and it soothes the soul. “We spent probably three times as long on the lighting design as we did on the décor,” says architect Dante Benini. “For us as designers, light is the greatest partner. You can transform all the spaces with light and control the atmosphere day or night.” For Benini, light is not about illumination of an isolated space; it has to take into consideration the ambient light straying into the space. “If you want the…

The Yacht Club de Monaco commands attention: this Norman Foster-designed, boat-inspired marvel (complete with towering masts) leaves most superyachts that line its dock metaphorically and literally in the shade. It’s a special 100ft sailing boat that can pry admiring stares away from both the club and the massive white motor yachts that sit alongside her. But then Tango , the latest hull in the Wallycento series, is rather unusual. She has a striking black carbon hull and rig, and a flush teak deck that seems to stretch far beyond her true length. She is the second Wally for a repeat client, and the fourth Wallycento to be built, but it’s immediately clear that she differs from her siblings, thanks to her unique design team: Pininfarina for the interior, and Mills…

2012 OPEN SEASON (EX-HAMILTON) The first Wallycento was built by Green Marine for Sir Charles Dunstone, with naval architecture by Judel/Vrolijk and interiors by Design Unlimited. Weight distribution problems were solved when the yacht was bought by her current owner, who lengthened and lightened the hull and increased the upwind sail area and draft at STP Mallorca, making her one of the fastest cruiser-racers afloat. The owner says the Wallycento’s best feature is the sail area to overall weight ratio. “Open Season benefited significantly from lengthening the hull as well,” he says, “a move that improved aesthetics even further.” 2013 MAGIC CARPET3 Lightning fast, this is Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones’s third Wally. He briefed the designers to produce the fastest cruiser-racer in the world, with no limitations. Reichel/Pugh was selected as…

RIPPING UP THE RIG RULEBOOK The sailing world is conservative. Just look at how little evolution there has been in masts and sailing plans – until a young designer came up with a concept for the Aero sail. Mides Design’s solution, trademarked last year, is an A frame structure (anchored on either side of the boat) supporting one (or several) booms with an automated furling system that rotate(s) from a central point. The design frees up interior accommodation space from a fixed mast and decks from hardware, making room for a helicopter. An 18ft prototype has already put the Aero Sail to the test and a 63ft carbon sailer is under construction. With multiple A frames, added spreaders and with computer simulation to support the claim, the designer believes the…

Long a campaigner against illegal fishing in the Tañon Strait Protected Seascape in the Philippines, local councilor Norlan Pagal was on his way home after making a speech in a village hall in San Remigio when he was shot. The attack left the father of five, a fisherman by trade, paralyzed from the waist down at the age of 46. It was not the first time that Pagal had been physically attacked – his boat was blown up on one occasion, and on another he was beaten about the head with an oar – but he continues to campaign on marine conservation issues with the Anapog Fishermen’s Association. The association was formed in his home village of Anapog (population fewer than 2,000) to guard against piracy in the Anapog Fish…

In 1999, Ben Kibel, a mechanical engineer, and his brother, Pete, a fisheries specialist and biologist, founded Fishtek Marine to develop gadgets that make fishing less harmful to marine life. When fishing for swordfish, fishers tend to use chemical lightsticks or glowsticks to attract the fish. They are highly polluting if they are discarded in the ocean, which about 700 million are each year. Fishtek’s solution, ProGlow, is an inexpensive, endurable, reusable alternative, weighing just over half an ounce and depth-rated to 3,300ft. There are three models with varying degrees of brightness, all fueled by two replaceable AAA batteries, and the basic model should last two years. The Kibels were also exercised by bycatch, the unintended harming of turtles, sharks, cetaceans and especially seabirds. Hookpod is a transparent pod fitted…

TRULY CLASSIC 128 This beautiful 128ft neo-classic series is designed by Hoek Design. The first was built by Claasen in 2015, the second was just delivered by Pendennis and a third is in build at SES Yachts in Turkey. NAUTOR’S SWAN 115 Introduced in 2015 by the Finnish shipyard, these powerful 115ft sailing yachts are designed by Germán Frers. The fourth hull in the series will be launched this year. SOUTHERN WIND 105 The first hull in the new 105ft flagship series of the South African shipyard has just been delivered, and it is already a success. A second is scheduled for June, and a third for December.…

Writer, sailor and entrepreneur Nick Voulgaris III has both owned and restored boats, among them a couple of vintage Chris-Crafts. His interest in the 144-year-old company and its boats has inspired a book. With a foreword by designer Ralph Lauren, Chris-Craft, An American Classic features never-seen archival photos and plans, as well as modern day images, retracing the history of this celebrated American boat builder from its founding by Christopher Columbus Smith, to the present day. $65, rizzoliusa.com…

BELLA $22.9 MILLION The 148ft motor yacht, listed for sale with Moran Yacht & Ship, has had a further $2,000,000 price reduction. Built by Feadship with delivery in 2008, she had a major refit in 2014. She sleeps 12 guests. NOMADESS $11.5 MILLION The 121ft motor yacht, listed for sale by Fraser, has had a further $1,500,000 price reduction. Designed by Stefano Righini and built by Benetti in 2013 as one of the Classic 121 series, she sleeps 10 guests. MOONBIRD €5.95 MILLION The 122ft sailing yacht, jointly listed for sale by Y.CO and McMaster Yachts, has had a further €950,000 price reduction. Built in 2003 by Fitzroy Yachts to a design by Dubois, she sleeps 10 guests. DORIANA €1.95 MILLION This classic 125ft sailing yacht, listed for sale at…

SWEATER Classic blue stripes make Top Man’s slim fit cotton sweater ideal for when the breeze is up. $60, us.topman.com RUNWAY Todd Snyder’s spring/summer collection employs vertical stripes in muted hues for everything from baseball jackets to Bermuda shorts. The designer says they remind him of “the awnings I’d see in southern Italy during the summer… somewhere I’d like to be right now.” PANTS Sunnei’s cotton striped pants with button closure are as comfortable as pajamas. $298, farfetch.com SWIM SHORTS Saturdays NYC stripe swim shorts are quick drying and go seamlessly from surf to shore. $115, mrporter.com BOAT SHOE Tod’s classic moccasin gets updated in blue striped suede with rubber soles. $445, farfetch.com CAMP SHIRT Mr P’s dyed indigo and navy bold-striped cotton camp shirt softens and fades like denim.…

More and more men and women want effective skincare without applying industrial chemicals to their skin. As a result, the burgeoning green beauty movement is expected to have global revenues of $13 billion this year. A pioneer in the field is Malibu-based OSEA – an acronym for ocean, sun, earth and atmosphere. The organic skincare brand uses three types of sustainably sourced Patagonian seaweed as its key ingredients. The brand’s founder, Jenefer Palmer, learned about the “full spectrum of vitamins, minerals and trace elements present in seaweed and the incredible healing benefits they provide” from her grandmother. Unable to find all-natural products, she launched her own brand in 1996 with “products that were not only free of toxic synthetic ingredients, but actually delivered powerful, age-defying results.” Today, fans include Kylie…

Boats have always been a part of my life. When I was seven years old I was driving ski boats and taking people waterskiing on the lakes of northern Canada. The rule was if you could swim across the lake you didn’t have to wear a life jacket. My dad had a 30ft boat and then a 62ft Chris-Craft – I thought it was huge. He docked right in front of the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach. I got my passion for boats from my father. I bought my first boat, an 81ft Benetti, with a partner and then bought a 115ft Benetti before building the Maxima 47. Dragana Maznic is an interior designer and I am a developer; in 16 years we have done many buildings together and she never…

Sixteen years after the original Blue Planet series, the BBC’s Natural History Unit, in partnership with the UK’s Open University, produced a follow-up, a seven-episode series presented by Sir David Attenborough. It attracted audiences of 17 million in Britain, and premiered in the US in January this year. When British prime minister Theresa May visited China in January, she took president Xi Jinping a copy of the box set. The series was filmed over four years, involving 125 shoots in 39 countries and 6,000 hours of underwater filming. This was serious television setting the agenda in a way anyone concerned with the plight of the world’s oceans could only find cheering. The final episode, Our Blue Planet, examined the toll taken on the oceans by humanity. If we do not…

LOA 192' 3" LWL 165' 5" Beam 37' 5" Draft (keel up/down) 14' 1"/40' 4" Displacement 574 tonnes Gross tonnage 491GT Engines 2 x MTU 8V 2000 M72 Rig Perini Navi/ Southern Spars Sails Doyle Sail areas Mainsail 5,490 sq ft; Mizzen 3,337 sq ft; Reacher 9,472 sq ft; Blade 4,306 sq ft; Total 22,604 sq ft Fuel capacity 12,443 gallons Freshwater capacity 3,329 gallons Tender 1 x 21' Castoldi Jet Tender 21 LC; 1 x 15' Williams Owners/guests 12 Crew 10/11 Construction Aluminum hull and superstructure Classification Bureau Veritas, LY2 1 @ Hull @ Mach, Yacht Sailing A, Unrestricted Navigation, @ AUTUMS Naval architecture Ron Holland Design Exterior styling Perini Navi Interior design Dante O Benini Builder/year Perini Navi/2018 Viareggio, Italy t: +39 0584 4241 e: info@perininavi.it w: perininavi.it…

“There was nothing organized for somebody who wanted to race a 100ft sailing boat against another 100ft sailing boat,” says Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones, owner of Wallycento Magic Carpet3 , who originated the Wally box rule with Wally founder and president Luca Bassani. In 2011, Bassani assembled a cast of naval architects and designers to hammer out a set of parameters not unlike the rules for America’s Cup or J Class yachts. “We knew from experience that you can’t get people who spend a lot of money building custom boats to buy series,” says Sir Lindsay. “What you can do is say there’s going to be a series of 100ft and everybody chooses their own architect and design, but the maximum height of the mast is this, the maximum width and…