December 29, 2008

"KING'S RANSON" - The New Matrix 76 - Available for charter

"KING'S RANSOM" the NEW MATRIX 76 AVAILABLE FOR CHARTER

"KING'S RANSOM" is the third launched by thesouth African shipyar d. She is the sister ship of "AKASHA" and "ZINGARA". These futuristic designed catamarans have a lot of success in charter. No need to say they have it all and I've been designed for it. The living space is generous, both in and out, with four ensuite guests cabins and a huge owner suite with a 360° view on the sea. The crew have their own separated quarters.

"KING'S RANSOM" is available for charter out of Tortola and can be made available anywhere in the CARIBBEAN.

December 17, 2008

LUXURY CATAMARAN - MEGA CATAMARAN SHORT NEWS

SUNREEF 102 and SUNREEF 104


The production of those two mega cats is going along well. The hulls, the deck and the flybridge of the SUNREEF 102 have been fitted together. Now we start to guess what this spacious and confortable SUNREEF will look like. The carpenters have started to work on the interior fittings and the yacht should be launched second half of 2009. The SUNREEF 114 structure is beeing built upside down and will be flipped over by February 2009 for a launching I guess in 2010. A third mega sunreef is actually being negociated by the shipyard.


BLUBAY 95


Yachts Industries which is going through hard times has launched the last BLUBAY a 95 footer on the 25 th of November. The dark blue hull looks really nice. I look forward to see this new BLUBAY sailing.



YAPLUKA 85 DD Apparenlty the production of the first DD still goes on and this unit is schedule to be launched next summer.

December 12, 2008

LYMAN MORSE - NIGEL IRENS - 82 ' ROCKETEER

Lyman Morse is a shipyard located in Maine with over a century of custom boat building. They have started to work on a 82 ' catamaran project "ROCKETEER" with the famous british architect Nigel Irens.

Lyman Morse has built and launched all kinds of yachts, from classic sturdy motor yachts to elegant sea worthy sailing monohulls and a high tech catamaran such as recently a 61 ' Morelli and Melvin design. "ROCKETTER" owner curently owns a 56' catamaran but wanted more space and confort and performance for long range cruising. Nigel Irens has designed some of the most famous racing Multihull including the last record breakers Francis Joyon IDEC 2, Thomas Coville SODEBO, and Ellen Mac Arthur B&Q/CASTORAMA. No doubt this 82' luxury catamaran will no lack performance.

No more information for this project yet but I will wach for news for you and keep you updated.

December 1, 2008

TRAWLER AND EXPEDITION CATAMARANS - A QUICK REVIEW

Back to motor yachts with this short review of available trawler and expedition catamarans, launched and projects. It took a long time for this market to pick up but it seems a larger offer is now available.



I have already introduced the NOAH 88 and 76, called "exploration catamarans". This great looking cat has been designed byVPLP with a very original interior and deck layout with a lot of space. An another interesting point for this projects is the autonomy motoring 3000 nautical miles. For a more complete information The power and motor yacht article about Noah 76 and Noah 86 by George L Petrie, very complete.





This is the new TRAWLIVARIUS 80 by the Prometa Boat System located in the south of France. The TRAWLIVARIUS has an enormous range of 4000 miles going 11 knots. Built in strong aluminium by an experienced shipyard, it can carry an automatic kite surf release system to save even more energy. This kite system is marketed by SkySails which already equips cargos. The designer Michel Joubert is well know in FRANCE for designing strong ocean going yachts.







I have already introduced the Pacific Expedition range in a previous post. This is really the type of the strong ocean going, semi displacement hulls, built by a team who knows what rough seas mean. A yard with 20 years experience in boat building.




The Yacht Concept 80' "PELICANO" is again a Joubert/Nivelt design, the specialist of the trawler concept in France, built at the Tropic Composite shipyard in Dakar Senegal. This trawler was designed to be simple enough to be sailed by the owner without a crew. The interior design is contemporary and confortable. "PELICANO" offers a lot of space inside and out with a 4000 milles capacity at a speed of 10 knots to easily cross the Atlantic Ocean. It is seaworthy enough to sail to wild areas. The YC 80 can host 10 guests in 4 double suites and a huge masters bedroom on the main deck.