super yachts 60million+

[Guvernator]

Speculatore said:

OK... The official video of my current project - Sailing Yacht 'Black Pearl' released in time for the Monaco Yacht Show. On delivery she will be the largest and most ecologically advanced private sailing yacht in the world.

SY Black Pearl

Sorry, while I can certainly appreciate the engineering, technology and build effort that's gone into it and I'm sure the interior is lovely, I just don't like the exterior aesthetics. It looks like a very modern powered yatch design which someone then decided to plonk 3 massive sails on as an afterthought. Not sure if I'm explaining myself properly but it just doesn't look like a sail boat.

[Speculatore]

Guvernator said:

Speculatore said:

OK... The official video of my current project - Sailing Yacht 'Black Pearl' released in time for the Monaco Yacht Show. On delivery she will be the largest and most ecologically advanced private sailing yacht in the world.

SY Black Pearl

Sorry, while I can certainly appreciate the engineering, technology and build effort that's gone into it and I'm sure the interior is lovely, I just don't like the exterior aesthetics. It looks like a very modern powered yatch design which someone then decided to plonk 3 massive sails on as an afterthought. Not sure if I'm explaining myself properly but it just doesn't look like a sail boat.

I do understand you but I can assure you that the yacht was designed as a 3 masted 'Dyna-Rig' sailing yacht from the drawing board.

[Burwood]

Guvernator said:

Speculatore said:

OK... The official video of my current project - Sailing Yacht 'Black Pearl' released in time for the Monaco Yacht Show. On delivery she will be the largest and most ecologically advanced private sailing yacht in the world.

SY Black Pearl

Sorry, while I can certainly appreciate the engineering, technology and build effort that's gone into it and I'm sure the interior is lovely, I just don't like the exterior aesthetics. It looks like a very modern powered yatch design which someone then decided to plonk 3 massive sails on as an afterthought. Not sure if I'm explaining myself properly but it just doesn't look like a sail boat.

Looks like a Sailing Yacht to me and more the point, sounds precisely how it will be used.

[Guvernator]

Speculatore said:

I do understand you but I can assure you that the yacht was designed as a 3 masted 'Dyna-Rig' sailing yacht from the drawing board.

I'm sure it was, it just doesn't look like what I imagine a sailing yacht should look like but then I find most modern sailing yachts a bit aesthetically challenging tbh.

I'm sure they have much more space, more practical etc but I just find the mixture of the bottom half looking like a modern fiberglass power yacht with some big square sails stuck on top a bit incongruous. Still I wouldn't pass up a chance to get on board if offered but if it were my money, I'd either go fully modern powered or more traditional looking sail boat, the half way house just doesn't work for me.

[Phud]

Speculatore said:

OK... The official video of my current project - Sailing Yacht 'Black Pearl' released in time for the Monaco Yacht Show. On delivery she will be the largest and most ecologically advanced private sailing yacht in the world.

SY Black Pearl

Thank you for sharing this, I like not only her design but the direction she has focused on for the brief and expansion of sail and design. Looks and sounds like her brief would have made fun reading at first plan meetings.

[Junior Bianno]

Speculatore said:

OK... The official video of my current project - Sailing Yacht 'Black Pearl' released in time for the Monaco Yacht Show. On delivery she will be the largest and most ecologically advanced private sailing yacht in the world.

SY Black Pearl

Amazing and very impressive - I want to like this. Could you just confirm it's £60 million+ please...

[Speculatore]

Junior Bianno said:

Speculatore said:

OK... The official video of my current project - Sailing Yacht 'Black Pearl' released in time for the Monaco Yacht Show. On delivery she will be the largest and most ecologically advanced private sailing yacht in the world.

SY Black Pearl

Amazing and very impressive - I want to like this. Could you just confirm it's £60 million+ please...

By a long shot...

[Burwood]

Speculatore said:

Junior Bianno said:

Speculatore said:

OK... The official video of my current project - Sailing Yacht 'Black Pearl' released in time for the Monaco Yacht Show. On delivery she will be the largest and most ecologically advanced private sailing yacht in the world.

SY Black Pearl

Amazing and very impressive - I want to like this. Could you just confirm it's £60 million+ please...

By a long shot...

I think he was taking the piss.

[100 IAN]

I like that a lot.....and to think my first boat was called Black Pearl. It was only *slightly* smaller....oh OK, a *lot* smaller...!

[Scooby P1]

FourWheelDrift said:

$600m vision in beige.

I was in Antibes over the weekend and saw Dilbar. First up, it is seriously massive. Really really big.
Secondly it is hideous. Beige does it no favours at all.
Some of those boats around it are so much nicer. And it was fun lying on the beach watching them heading out. The light blue hulled one looked great on the move.

Dilbar is one of the ugliest, biggest boats I've seen.

Did I mention its really ugly?

[BullyB]

I was trying to find some more info about Serene being on the rocks in Egypt.
This is all I could find.
Not going to be cheap

http://www.thehoworths.com/superyacht-news/royal-y...

[FourWheelDrift]

BullyB said:

I was trying to find some more info about Serene being on the rocks in Egypt.
This is all I could find.
Not going to be cheap

http://www.thehoworths.com/superyacht-news/royal-y...

https://medium.com/@joejohn789/mohammed-bin-salman...

[Guvernator]

FourWheelDrift said:

https://medium.com/@joejohn789/mohammed-bin-salman...

A couple of things spring to mind.

1) The explanation for why it grounded seems a bit sketchy, is it more likely that the captain got involved a bit too much in the partying with all the ladies on board and forgot he was meant to be driving the boat?

2) A Saudi Prince partying with ladies, aren't devout Muslims supposed to refrain from that sort of thing?

[BullyB]

That's a better picture of her.
Wow!

"navigational track error and propulsion failure"
What are the chances of both at the same time.....

[Burwood]

BullyB said:

That's a better picture of her.
Wow!

"navigational track error and propulsion failure"
What are the chances of both at the same time.....

Almost nil. And what does the report mean by 'track error'. Track error is deviation from a charted course. Why did the yacht deviate and there are safe guards on all systems to warn the crew. No one on the bridge.

[z4RRSchris]

the next king of saudi partying with hookers... asif.

[Burwood]

PW said:

Burwood said:

No one on the bridge.

Yes, I'm sure one line of hearsay information reported on a couple of blogs is a totally accurate and complete account of what happened, and should definitely be taken at face value, and everyone should be blamed accordingly.

It was tongue in cheek. In your experience what do you think about it. It’s not an unchartered brick.

[ColdoRS]

Burwood said:

BullyB said:

That's a better picture of her.
Wow!

"navigational track error and propulsion failure"
What are the chances of both at the same time.....

Almost nil. And what does the report mean by 'track error'. Track error is deviation from a charted course. Why did the yacht deviate and there are safe guards on all systems to warn the crew. No one on the bridge.

A more likely cause would be propulsion failure which would lead to a track error.

I'll be the first to admit that superyachts can have elements of 'slackness' with regards to professional seamanship - caused by guest distractions, alcohol, laziness or just a blase attitude to safety. However I don't for one second believe that there would have been no one on the bridge - certainly not long enough to miss alarms.

[Burwood]

Here’s the thing. Who in there right mind would track that close to a reef/structure. Maybe the area is riddled with such dangers. Yachts like this have redundant systems. You don’t just lose propulsion. Well you can but it would have some back up. Guaranteed. I don’t buy the story. Just my opinion.

[ecsrobin]

It’s quite funny how often a vessel runs aground and then says they had a mechanical failure.

It’s the same with aircraft when they crash into hills often the first thought is mechanical failure yet you’ve got to be pretty unlucky to have mechanical failure just as you’re next to a large hill