super yachts 60million+

[Speculatore]

I know of a charter guest who paid NSSL £55,000 to geolocate a satellite over the yacht for 3 weeks so his son could have broadband access to play in his football league with his friends back in Russia

[Mike Random]

Speculatore said:

I know of a charter guest who paid NSSL £55,000 to geolocate a satellite over the yacht for 3 weeks so his son could have broadband access to play in his football league with his friends back in Russia

Didn't they do a similar thing on Bellissimo ;-)

Mike

[blueg33]

Mate of mine has a business which installs IT and adaptive tech into super and mega yachts. The sums of money spent are eyewatering

[Speculatore]

Mike Random said:

Speculatore said:

I know of a charter guest who paid NSSL £55,000 to geolocate a satellite over the yacht for 3 weeks so his son could have broadband access to play in his football league with his friends back in Russia

Didn't they do a similar thing on Bellissimo ;-)

Mike

Couldn't possibly comment.......

[petemurphy]

nice "garage"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/arti...

[Fun Bus]

I know it's OTT, flash and so on. But I like that a lot. Dare I ask about pound notes? Didn't see anything in the article.

ETA: £400m.

Edited by Fun Bus on Thursday 2nd October 20:34

[burwoodman]

try 50-60m quid. 400... lmao

[Fun Bus]

I did wonder how accurate the article quoting that figure was.

[Junior Bianno]

That internal garage is pretty cool. I can imagine a lot of very upset megayacht owners wanting to know why they don't have a similar setup. Certainly a more elegant solution than cranes.

[gwm]

Yep tender docks are a right PITA - slow, cumbersome, limited operationally, etc. Much easier to come alongside, get the guests off, then worry about getting the tender back onboard.

Also had to laugh at the £400 million figure. Does the Daily Mail just make facts up?

[Junior Bianno]

Meh...I wouldn't really be interested in whether it's a PITA or not. That's why I pay for 50 crew. I would just my cool tender parked in it's cool garage

[gwm]

Junior Bianno said:

Meh...I wouldn't really be interested in whether it's a PITA or not. That's why I pay for 50 crew. I would just my cool tender parked in it's cool garage

Ah ha, but then when you storm up to the Bridge to demand the boat gets underway immediately, only to be told that you can't as the tender isn't onboard yet...

[burwoodman]

This is a cool video of Graeme Harts new Expedition Yacht. Ready for fit out. The NZ newspapers state the 107M yacht is worth 78M and that would be NZD so around GBP40M. Doesn't seem a lot for such a large yacht. However it puts into perspective all the rubbish spouted about values.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9wqIMr7KUU


The finished yacht will look like this-note the 21M tender on the Bow.

[Fishtigua]

Interesting to see she has forward facing drives.

[SpeckledJim]

gwm said:

Junior Bianno said:

Meh...I wouldn't really be interested in whether it's a PITA or not. That's why I pay for 50 crew. I would just my cool tender parked in it's cool garage

Ah ha, but then when you storm up to the Bridge to demand the boat gets underway immediately, only to be told that you can't as the tender isn't onboard yet...

"Leave it behind! Off with their heads! Let them eat cake!"

[xuy]

Fishtigua said:

Interesting to see she has forward facing drives.

Why, out of curiosity?

[burwoodman]

I assume if she gets stuck in the ice-back her on up. It's designed for heavy expedition work

[gwm]

I wonder what the fit and finish will be like, as I'm pretty sure this is Kleven's first "yacht". Hardly surprising it looks like an Offshore vessel

[Fishtigua]

gwm said:

I wonder what the fit and finish will be like, as I'm pretty sure this is Kleven's first "yacht". Hardly surprising it looks like an Offshore vessel

I did 2 large yachts in commercial yards under the control of Kusch Yachts. One was even in an East German warship yard. As long as you have a good team supervising the quality and good sub-contractors, not a problem.




East German warship.

[gwm]

Fishtigua said:

I did 2 large yachts in commercial yards under the control of Kusch Yachts. One was even in an East German warship yard. As long as you have a good team supervising the quality and good sub-contractors, not a problem.




East German warship.

I've only been around for the tail end of a build in a Naval / commercial yard, but it was in Italy so probably not fair to base my opinion of all commercial yards on that one experience!

You didn't struggle to find good enough people locally? Surely that's the main crux of these commercial yards, they just don't have the experience or talent to meet the standards expected.

Without naming names, a commercial yard in Canada tried to do a yacht refit and it was so poor. They just couldn't get the people able to do the work to the required standard.