Innholdsfortegnelse for February 2024 i Boat International US Edition

"It’s hard to beat Sydney Harbour for an event for yacht owners. Thank you for a great evening” MARCUS BLACKMORE With special thanks to Burgess…

INTUISSE SPA The Swiss are famed for their well-being resorts so it’s no surprise they’re exporting their most cutting-edge skincare techniques to a global client base. The all-new Maison Hudson hotel in New York’s West Village is home to North America’s first Intuisse Spa, where massages, facials and IV treatments can impart a mountai n-air glow, the-c.com SIRO ONE ZA'ABEEL Branded as "the ultimate fitness and recovery hotel," this much-hyped Dubai property is set to open in February, followed by a sister hotel in Montenegro. Designed and developed with a team of top-level athletes, the facilities will include master trainers, nutritionists, a fully digital Fitness Lab and activities to take you beyond the resort. sirohotels.com TECHNOGYM Olympians and pro athletes are big fans of Technogym and it's not hard to…

ON BOARD Joining a crowded market segment of 65ft flybridge yachts, the Phantom 65 stands out with some forward-thinking design. In particular, the sportbridge is larger than you'd expect, with ample seating, table and grill, plus an optional bimini that holds its own at top speed. This is a deeply pleasing place to be under way. And inside it feels a lot like outside. The main salon is fully surrounded by large windows, including a full-width and curved windshield that provides great sightlines. "From an interior perspective, the boat really sets the bar for future Fairlines. If you look at a Fairline of even five years ago, it's conservative," Miles Moorhouse, Fairline's head of marketing, says. "For this one, we've gone for a more contemporary, more modern [style] and emulated…

ON BOARD As I climb aboard Swan’s new OverShadow in Cannes, insistent onshore wind promises lumpy seas outside the harbor wall. With a throaty cough, the twin Volvo Aquamatic 440 drives spring to life, settling to a dull throb below our feet in the cockpit. With its reported top speed of 42 knots, the43ft boat is straining at the leash within the six-knot speed limit. Round the light on the harbor wall and everything changes. We’re doing 10 knots, then 15 knots and, in the blink of an eye, more than 20 - through big seas. We’re flying now, the waves rolling in on the beam, such that we’re leaning hard to port then to starboard and back again. White water boils up astern, just a few feet off the…

WAJER 44 LOA 43' BEAM 13' 1" DRAFT 3' 7" DISPLACEMENT 12.7 tons SPEED (MAX/CRUISE) 40/26 knots ENGINES 2 × Volvo Penta IPS 500 (standard); 2 × IPS 650 (test model) FUEL 317 gallons FRESHWATER 77 gallons PRICE PDA At this point, Wajer Yachts should be a case study for Harvard Business School. The three-decade-old builder has hurdled its way up the food chain, from marketing smallish lake boats to becoming the 800-pound gorilla in the superyacht tender market. There isn’t much flash to a Wajer boat - and yet, just as the tiny label on a Loro Piana peacoat advertises by not advertising, a Wajer tied up at the dock seems to whisper: there might be a Liirssen nearby. The Dutch builder’s latest entry into this rarefied world is…

The use of alternative fuels is a hot topic in the conversation on sustainability, but making the switch from diesel is not so easy. Many diesel alternatives including biodiesels (known as Fatty Acid Methyl Ester, or FAME) aren't ready to be rolled out en masse to superyachts due to safety concerns, storage limitations, bunkering challenges, lack of availability or because their application requires overhauling the engine room design. So, when a renewable, sustainable and biodegradable fuel source known as hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) came onto the scene with a promise to cut carbon emissions by up to 90 percent while also being easy to bunker and use in existing diesel engines, the industry took notice. Nordic commercial ships are already using HVO successfully, and on land it's being rolled out…

Marc Fosh's eponymous restaurant, at the 17th-century Hotel Convent de la Missió in Palma, Mallorca' s capital, has held a Michelin star since 2002. A UK native who has lived in Spain for more than 20 years, Fosh serves up precise dishes using local ingredients sourced from the Balearic Islands, with mind-boggling flavor combinations and unexpected ingredients. How does Mallorca influence and inspire your food? Our menu is packed with local ingredients, from almonds, sea fennel, samphire, truffles and mountain mushrooms to Sóller prawns, langoustines and fresh fish from the Med. Our olive oil is from the village of Pollencça our sea salt is from Es Trenc and 60 percent of our wines are from the island's bodegas. What is the most popular thing on the menu? That's a difficult…

THE BITTER END Do you have a tale from the high seas? Send your story to thebitterend@boatinternatianalmedia.com You've heard the phrase "While the cat's away the mice will play"? I'll never forget a dicey moment one year when, after a long run of stressful charters followed by a month of having the owner on board and a roll call of demanding guests, our owner decided to go away for a few weeks. He left for the airport but rang after a couple of hours saying his flight had been canceled so he was corning back. We'd just finished our tasks and had started cracking open the beers. But then he calls back, saying not to worry - he'd got another flight in two hours' time. Relief all round! It was…

Open sesame A floating dock’s gate malfunction in Lürssen’s Bremen shipyard outed the in-build 466ft Project Ali Baba. News of the incident leaked to the local press and social media, and Lürssen took the lead on the narrative by releasing a brief statement: “A technical failure of the dock gate forced water out of the dock thereby pushing the nose of the yacht into the dock curtain.” The yard pulled the yacht out into the open before organizing its transfer to its Hamburg facility for final commissioning, providing no further details about the project. However, yacht enthusiasts may see similarities between the design of Ali Baba and the 2010 Lürssen delivery Pacific X. lurssen.com Sunreef turns to natural fiber for boatbuilding Sunreef Yachts is betting on flax fiber to “obtain…

The open-boat market could be facing a slowdown according to the latest BOATPro data, with 2023’s new builds in this sector down 19 units by December, compared to the same period in 2022. Also known as sport yachts or express cruisers, open boats pair a compact, aerodynamic body with powerful engines to reach speeds of up to 35 knots. Henry Smith, partner at Cecil Wright & Partners, points to a lack of new inventory. “The reality is that there are now only a handful of builders producing these yachts,” he says. The decline is noticeable when comparing the historical data in the Global Order Book, he adds. According to data in BOAT International’s most recent Global Order Book, there were 55 open yachts (78ft or more) under construction in 2023,…

BOAT LIFE What's in a name? When it comes to high-end car branding, quite a lot- which is why Nissan chose the name Infiniti when it entered the luxury market, why Toyota created Lexus and also why Ford adopted the Lincoln nameplate more than a century ago before launching a series of cars so plush they were chosen to transport presidents. Likewise, when South Korean maker Hyundai decided to up its game in the luxury stakes back in 2015, it founded the Genesis sub-brand and subsequently unveiled a line-up that more than holds its own against long-established names such as Mercedes-Benz, Audi and BMW. Even more impressively, when I spent a week with the Genesis GV70 SUV recently, I was asked on several occasions: "Is that a new Bentley?" These…

THE OCEAN CLUB, A FOUR SEASONS RESORT Alongside a renovated guest wing completed in celebration Df its GDth anniversary, the Dcean Club now offers a "No Luggage Required" closet service for those keen on purses only. With three levels of packages available, guests can take the stress out of what to wear while they're kitted out in pieces from Versace, Hublot and the latest from the Carlo Milano boutique. One Ocean Drive, Paradise Island; fourseasons.com THE SUGAR MILL Found in a (you've guessed it) disused sugar mill, India Hicks’ boutique is a treasure trove of the designer's favorite finds, including local and international brands from her travels both on the island and across the world. Bay Street, Dunmore Town, Harbour Island; indiahicks.com ISLAND BROTHERS Moments from Lyford Cay’s gates, the…

Ira and Wendy Levenshon Yacht: Satori Length: 93ft Year: 2016 Location: Miami You've had a tender nightmare… We have! Satori and our Intrepid tender were tied up in the marina at the base of our building in Miami. The wind was supposed to blow between 30 and 35 knots, but it ended up gusting to 60 knots. Dur dock is exposed to the north-east, where the wind was coming from. At 3am the boat was fine, but when our captain went out at 6am, the tender was under water. We had about 12 inches of rain and the bilge pumps coped as best they could, but once the seawater got in they just couldn't keep up. We towed it to Cay Marine on the Miami River and they did everything…

Golden Yachts is very much a family affair. The yard’s owner, Captain Paris Dragnis and his sons, Ioannis (John) and Vassilis, were all in on developing the newest jewel in their crown. John and Vassilis are executives at Goldenport Holdings, the diversified parent company of Golden Yachts Shipyards and charter company Atalanta Golden Yachts. They grew up in the business and are invested in its future. Among the Dragnis family’s long-standing relationships is their history with Studio Vafiadis. Project Andromeda, as this yacht was known in the early days, is the 13th new-build yacht from Golden Yachts with Studio Vafiadis as exterior designer. Architect Giorgio Vafiadis and his son Stefano (who joined the family business in 2013) collaborated closely with the Dragnis family on the exterior and interior design of…

VOYAGE Each coastal town holds a history and micro-culture that differ from its neighbors The sun-drenched western coast of Turkey welcomed 937 holidaying superyachts to its waters in 2023, according to BOATPro. Its immaculate beaches, vibrant culture and glamorous hotels have always attracted a good proportion of the fleet, but yacht visitors have been steadily increasing in the last five years. Turkey’s Carian and Lycian coasts - which run from Bodrum to Antalya - along with the wider Turkish Riviera, offer a hard-to-beat combination: beguiling history (with 21 UNESCO World Heritage Sites) and an undulating coastline with quiet comers and plenty of natural beauty. I peer over the tranquil, turquoise bay from the glass-sided terrace at D Maris Bay, one of the most prominent yachting hotels on the Datça Peninsula.…

VOYAGE DAY ONE Meet Sea Eagle in Caleta Porcelana, a cove in Los Lagos that's overlooked by epic mountain ranges. After a welcome lunch on board, jump straight into the action and spend the afternoon kayaking, rafting and paddleboarding the surrounding waters. In the evening, the crew will whisk you to the steaming hot springs to watch dusk draw in. DAY TWO As dawn breaks, Sea Eagle will cruise along the magnificent fjord for 42 nautical miles to Isla Mechuque, which is famed for its bright stilt houses and historical seafood-canning industry. Spend the day exploring the museums on this sequestered isle, which thrived in the 1900s. In the evening, enjoy dinner in view of the mountains before an overnight cruise. DAY THREE Awake as Sea Eagle cruises into the…

The horseshoe crab looks at once alien and ancient it is older than the dinosaurs, a living relic from 450 million years ago. It is also the crustacean of the moment, its blood an essential resource for the production of vaccines, including Covid-19 inoculations. The bright blue blood contains immune cells that are highly sensitive to bacteria, clotting around an invading pathogen to isolate it. The Limulus Amebocyte Lysate test, developed in the 1970s, harnesses this characteristic to check vaccines for contamination. The downside to this medical breakthrough has been overfishing, and while a synthetic alternative has been approved for use in Europe, the US still uses the crab’s blood. This photo shows a horseshoe crab skimming the seabed, flanked by three golden trevallies looking for snacks plowed up by…

I stare down 2024 with confidence. While a disappointing fourth place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, followed a first place at the AC World Series event in Vilanova, Spain, wins and losses are all gains for our team, highlighting areas where we are strong and what we need to develop. New York Yacht Club American Magic is on a positive trajectory. Twenty months into America’s Cup 37, it’s more than time that I highlight the heartbeat of American Magic: our 172-member strong team. AC teams are different from other sports teams. We design, build, do a little racing in a test boat equivalent to a go-kart and then, after 28 months, we go straight into the main event. It takes an experienced and uniquely skilled engineer, boat builder, sailor and shore…

The winding drive south along the curving, rocky roads of Highway One into Alila's expansive Big Sur property is almost worth the trip alone. Crossing the Bixby Bridge above the crashing waves of the Pacific Ocean and along stretching beach roads with dramatically thunderous horizons, the road gently curves inland to narrow lanes that splice through a dense forest of redwoods. Reaching this brilliantly secluded hotel that offers a unique way to get away from it all, guests approach a picturesque red lodge at the hotel gates, before driving up an impeccably maintained driveway to reach the main property. Spread over 160 acres, Ventana Big Sur - to use its official name - has 59 guest rooms and suites, each with its own private deck to take in the views…

BOAT LIFE Germany, more than almost any other destination in Europe, has bragging rights as the birthplace of the wellness trend, attracting people to its thermal baths since antiquity. The country is home to three of Europe's n UNESCO World Heritage spa towns Baden-Baden and the smaller towns of Bad Ems and Bad Kissingen - all an easy drive from Frankfurt Airport. Venerable guests have included writer Mark Twain, who said he had "left his rheumatism" in Baden-Baden, actress Marlene Dietrich, who described the town's casino as the most beautiful in the world, and a trio of more contemporary power couples: the Clintons, the Obamas and the Beckhams. Victoria Beckham recently told her Instagram followers that she and David visit yearly for an "annual MOT," having "literally everything" checked out.…

BLUE GAME BGM75 Much hyped - and with justification - Bluegame's flagship is billed as a luxury multihull, but the BGM75' s moderate beam makes it something of a hybrid, with the volume of a 90ft monohull. Philippe Briand's efficient hulls halve fuel consumption and frame a fully automated tender garage. Fold-down wings broaden a huge beach club. Lissoni and Zuccon International Project have designed a stunning modernist interior with three to four guest cabins, including a full-beam owner's cabin. Van der Valk Edge 65 Built for a repeat client, the Edge 65 project has proven so successful that the Dutch family-owned shipyard behind it has turned it into a semi-custom line dubbed the "ultimate weekender:" Styling by the inimitable Car D. Rover and a hull by Swedish company Petestep…

AZIMUT VERVE 48 LOA 49' 4" BEAM 13' E" DRAFT 4'3" DISPLACEMENT 17,518Ib ENGINES 3 × 600hp Mercury Verado V12 SPEED (MAX/CRUISE) 50/37 knots FUEL 618 gallons FRESHWATER 79 gallons PRICE from $1,550,000 One of the nice things about being an American sea trialing a boat in Europe is that you can get away with being a bit rude. They almost expect it from us uncouth Yanks. And a lot can get lost in the translation for instance, if you’re testing a boat with a group of Italians in the Baie de Cannes, and they want to stay out 20 minutes longer, but you have a pressing appointment on shore, you can get away with commandeering the helm and running the boat hard back to the dock, all in the…

THE BOCA RATON, FLORIDA Florida's answer to supreme waterfront luxury, The Boca Raton has 16 bars and restaurants, a 5D,DDD-square-foot spa, golf courses and even pickleball courts to keep you busy. For those visiting by yacht, there is mooring on the private quayside in front of the hotel's own yacht club. thebocaraton.com SCRUB ISLAND RESORT SPA AND MARINA, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS Situated on a private island off the coast of Tortola, Scrub Island is a yachting jewel in the BVIs. The recently completed resort's rooms and luxury boutique villas are finished with dark woods and have expansive terraces with views of the glittering Caribbean Sea. The marina can take yachts up to 164ft. scrubisland.com L'ESCALE RESORT MARINA & SPA, SEYCHELLES It isn't common for a boutique resort such as L'Escale,…