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India’s Largest Luxury Catamaran
Just after the Fin Min pushed luxury items and vehicles further away from the common man’s grasp, a young SoBo entrepreneur splurged on what is touted to be the country’s largest luxury sail catamaran.
Lagoon, that is the name given to the French beauty, now moored off Gateway, has four bedrooms, a sprawling upper deck and is armed to the teeth with an autopilot mode, automated identification system, life raft, microwaves, refrigerators, LCD TVs, night vision devices and a home theatre. The yacht is 56 feet long and fitted with 110 feet high sails. The identity of the sailing enthusiast who bought the yacht is being fiercely guarded.
New Year’s Eve Package at Gansevoort Turks & Caicos
The New Year Eve Package by Gansevoort Turks & Caicos is for all those who are ready for the spell bound way to welcome the year 2012 and spend some of those extra resources you’ve got. The package includes accommodation in the Oceanfront Penthouse Suite, private Gansevoort jet services, a gourmet bar & kitchen packed with your preferences, a VIP pool, beach seating, on-call spa therapist, a luxury catamaran jaunt along with a seaplane drop off to a secluded cove where you could enjoy the services of a personal chef as well as a personal conch diving instructor and a luxury tent for your overnight stay complete with cashmere blankets on a real bed.
Curvelle Unveils 33M Dual Hull Motoryacht
Fractional ownership specialist Curvelle has released details of its new 33-metre dual hull motoryacht, due to start construction this year at the renowned Cheoy Lee Shipyard. Dubbed the Curvelle 33X9 and designed by catamaran experts Incat Crowther Naval Architects, fractional ownerships will be available at 1 million for five weeks cruising per year in the Mediterranean and Caribbean. With two floating hulls the yacht is not only substantially more stable but more fuel efficient as well, requiring about 30% less thrust than a monohull to deliver a 22 knot cruising speed.
A flexible cabin arrangement has been developed to suit multiple owners. Six luxury double ensuite staterooms can be easily converted into three jumbo suites. Every guest space offers superb views through extra large windows and beautifully designed glass partitions. The broad-beamed Curvelle 33X9 offers lounging and alfresco dining on three deck levels. Up to eight owners will own 100% of the equity in the yacht, while a management company will handle crew appointments, logistics and maintenance.
Black Pearl: Yachting Developments’ Bristolian
At 37 metres, Yachting Developments’ dashing new Philippe Briand designed superyacht Bristolian is the largest composite sloop to be constructed in New Zealand to date. The lightweight, low profile, super-sleek sloop features with an ultra-modern lightweight foam core interior. With her black hull, black carbon fibre rig and distinctive black sails she looks like a bat out of hell and goes like one too.
She doesn’t lack for creature comforts either. The yacht boasts an owner’s cabin, two guest cabins forward, a split level saloon amidships and accommodation for 6-8 crew aft. New age design features include twin pod helm stations, usually found on offshore racing catamarans, that provide all necessary control and navigation equipment and direct access to the galley and crew quarters eliminating disturbance to the owners’ and guests. Sycamore wood paneling and a centerline skylight keep the interior light and open belying its ominous, sharklike appearance. On this one we don’t want to be outside looking in.
Porsche Design RFF135 Catamaran Superyacht
Porsche Design has unveiled its latest collaboration with yacht builder Royal Falcon Fleet, a 135 ft. catamaran. The £35 million craft features 472 square metres of interior space, accommodating 10 passengers and 10 crew members. Designed “in keeping with the functional, timeless and puristic hand’ of Porsche,” the yacht will be equipped with twin V16 turbo diesel engines from German manufacturer MTU, each producing a 4,600 hp. With a top speed of 35 knots it has a range of 2,000 nm.
The twin-hull design offers incredible stability without displacing as much water as a conventional design; it also makes for an especially wide beam translating to an impressive 208 square meters of deck space. The interior is as modern, sporty and sleek as one would expect from a craft bearing the Porsche name. Planned for launch at the end of next year, the RFF135 will be available via Falcon’s fractional ownership program, offering 10 percent shares.
The largest sailing catamaran in the world
Sailing around the world in high luxury could just become affordable with this newest catamaran. The Hemisphere catamaran is like your home away from home. The Hemisphere is also the largest sailing catamaran in the world. Making its debut in Monaco last week, this superyatch was three years in the making. Built with every luxury you can think of, the interiors are constructed with 17 different types of granite and 16 leathers finishes. There are five spacious cabins where the main cabin has 360 degree view. The catamaran is also equipped with all kinds of small speed boats, water scooters, diving gear and Jacuzzi.
Wally to Build Plane-Equipped 33.5M Aeroyacht 110
Avant garde Monegasque-based yachtbuilder Wally has been commissioned to build the new Aeroyacht 110, a superfast 33.5-metre catamaran equipped with a personal exploration airplane. Representing the first model of a sleek, new range “embodying the ultimate high-performance, supremely styled world yacht,” the Aeroyacht 110 will be one of the largest composite multihulls in the world. As standard equipment the craft will come fitted with a two seat Icon A5 amphibian sports plane, launched and retrieved from a specially designed pod.
The plane is designed to be used for sightseeing, shuttling guests to and from the yacht, or in case of medical emergencies. Designed by Gregor Tarjan, founder and president of Aeroyacht Ltd., the yacht is expected to do 35 knots at full speed. Performance multihull specialists Morrelli & Melvin, multihull designers of world record catamarans such as Playstation and the US America’s Cup contender Stars and Stripes will handle the naval architecture. The first model is expected to hit the water in late 2011.
Branson branches out with submersible plane
Apparently, some places in the Caribbean seem unaffected by the last couple of week’s worth of natural disasters. The people at Luxury Insider just notified me that it seems that Richard Branson isn’t happy with just chartering out his Necker Belle (the 105ft catamaran we told you about on New Year’s Eve). He’s aiming for something new.
And it’s surely something else. The Necker Nymph, also named in part after the Caribbean island Necker that Branson bought over thirty years ago, is what the British industrialist calls an underwater plane. The prototype was made by Graham Hawkes, head cheese over at Hawkes Ocean Technologies. Marketing manager Karen Hawkes decribes the vessel as “an entirely new class of vehicle for us “” think of a sleek convertible under water. It is different from our other submersibles because it was specifically designed to dive to scuba depths in tropical waters. It has the flexibility to glide peacefully over glorious reefs or bank adventurously in 360 degree turns.”
Cruise Like Branson in the Necker Belle
Fun-loving entrepreneur Richard Branson has completed a refit of his 105-foot carbon fiber catamaran and is offering it for charter this season to those looking for a bit of the billionaire lifestyle. Originally launched as the Lady Barbaretta in 2003 and now named Necker Belle, she spent two years being done over at Australia’s Azzura Marine and their in-house fittings division AM Interiors. The speedy little tart is capable of topping 20 knots while under sail and 18 knots under power with all the stability one would expect of a big cat.
The yacht’s 14-metre beam houses four en suite staterooms all above the waterline making for great views. There’s space for eight guests in them along with capacity for two more in the main cabin’s lounge area which can be converted to a double cabin, with bunks for a crew of seven to look after them. The interior has a cool beach house vibe mimicking that of Branson’s exclusive Necker Island retreat in the British Virgin Islands, where she’ll be at the disposal of guests when not out on charter.
Liquid Glass 41 Luxury Cat
Multimillion-euro Bugattis weren’t the only things unveiled at the recent Dubai Motor Show. Iowa-based Liquid Glass Powerboats also debuted its new 41 Luxury Cat, a 12.5-metre turbo catamaran capable of a whopping 200 km/h which they’re apparently looking to fleece some sheikhs $530,000 for. The thing packs twin 700 hp Mercury Racing engines with copper-nickel alloy superchargers, dry sump NXT1 drives, dual 5-blade CNC-machined stainless steel propellers, a full-length stringer system, two 125-gallon fuel tanks and five bulkheads.
The custom-built craft features a state-of-the-art infusion-molded hull and deck, both of which are produced from CNC-machined tooling, as well as a high-tech foam core. It comes equipped with Mercury’s VesselView driver information display, showing vital engine information such as RPMs, engine temperatures, trim positions, trip history logs, and engine efficiencies in real time across more than 20 screens.
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