super yachts 60million+

[Speculatore]

Yes, One of my babies... Black Pearl.

[Burwood]

The interior volume of that yacht must be gigantic. Very fond of BP.

[2 GKC]

Lady Moura in Palma. Seems to be everywhere I go.
Breathtaking amount of big boats around majorca. Not £60m big but hundreds and hundreds of 7 figure boats

[Burwood]

Speculative, because she can, does BP carry a vast amount of fuel or water?

[Krikkit]

Burwood said:

Speculative, because she can, does BP carry a vast amount of fuel or water?

Supposedly the top 20% of the keel structure is fuel tank (with lead underneath) so that should be quite a bit of volume.

With the regenerative systems on board, I'd imagine there's a relatively modest water tank and a very capable water generator (with backups) that can run off the electrical systems.

[Speculatore]

As the primary method of propulsion of the yacht is sail we do have a modest size fuel tank for the overall size of the yacht. We also have the battery storage system which acts as another generator which we can keep topped up when under sail by using the power regeneration system. We could depart from a port in the Med on batteries and sail across the Atlantic to the US using zero fuel. When under sail the regeneration system can run all of the ships systems and hotel services for the full crew and 12 guests.
We do carry a lot of water but at the same time have very capable water makers.

Here is a close up of one of the masts to give you a perspective of the size.

[Speculatore]

Just popped out to Cartagena to see one of our other yachts and managed to get a 'different' view of 'Sail Assisted Motor Yacht 'A'

[2 GKC]

Something pretty big in front of lady Moura. Couldn't see the name, something like Margate!

[ecsrobin]

Speculatore said:

As the primary method of propulsion of the yacht is sail we do have a modest size fuel tank for the overall size of the yacht. We also have the battery storage system which acts as another generator which we can keep topped up when under sail by using the power regeneration system. We could depart from a port in the Med on batteries and sail across the Atlantic to the US using zero fuel. When under sail the regeneration system can run all of the ships systems and hotel services for the full crew and 12 guests.
We do carry a lot of water but at the same time have very capable water makers.

Here is a close up of one of the masts to give you a perspective of the size.

That is incredible. How does the regeneration system on the yacht work?

[98elise]

Bonefish Blues said:

In every image I've seen it looks like a Photoshop, it's so other-worldly!

Having seen it I can tell you that it's looks like a Photoshop in real life as well.

[98elise]

ecsrobin said:

Speculatore said:

As the primary method of propulsion of the yacht is sail we do have a modest size fuel tank for the overall size of the yacht. We also have the battery storage system which acts as another generator which we can keep topped up when under sail by using the power regeneration system. We could depart from a port in the Med on batteries and sail across the Atlantic to the US using zero fuel. When under sail the regeneration system can run all of the ships systems and hotel services for the full crew and 12 guests.
We do carry a lot of water but at the same time have very capable water makers.

Here is a close up of one of the masts to give you a perspective of the size.

That is incredible. How does the regeneration system on the yacht work?

I would imagine the props are left to turn, which generates power from the motors acting as generators.

[J3JCV]

Close - that's Stargate, very much a perennial on that berth down at Club De Mar (Club too far)

2 GKC said:

Something pretty big in front of lady Moura. Couldn't see the name, something like Margate!

[Voldemort]

Writhing said:

Why does BP need 4 radar domes on the masts? Mind you, the boat next door looks like it has mumps!

[Burwood]

Radar plus redundancy plus telecoms, satellite tv plus aesthetic balance.

[LimaDelta]

Voldemort said:

Why does BP need 4 radar domes on the masts? Mind you, the boat next door looks like it has mumps!

The radar are the long flat horizontal things facing forward. Two of the domes will be satellite internet connection, two will be satellite TV receivers. The reason for two of each is that depending on vessel heading the mast will create a blockage of the signal path to/from the satellite. This is obviously a bigger issue on sailing vessels as they have multiple masts and lots of rigging to get in the way. Ideally you would like them higher up but then aesthetics (plus tracking/structural considerations) comes into play.

[Speculatore]

Voldemort said:

Writhing said:

Why does BP need 4 radar domes on the masts? Mind you, the boat next door looks like it has mumps!

She has 3 RADAR aerials, two on the fore mast and one on the after mast. Because the masts actually rotate 2 of the navigational radars are syncronised to provide a constant 360 degree picture with no blind arcs.
The four domes have the SAT equipment in and again syncronised to provide constant connectivity irrespective of which direction the masts.

[Speculatore]

98elise said:

ecsrobin said:

Speculatore said:

As the primary method of propulsion of the yacht is sail we do have a modest size fuel tank for the overall size of the yacht. We also have the battery storage system which acts as another generator which we can keep topped up when under sail by using the power regeneration system. We could depart from a port in the Med on batteries and sail across the Atlantic to the US using zero fuel. When under sail the regeneration system can run all of the ships systems and hotel services for the full crew and 12 guests.
We do carry a lot of water but at the same time have very capable water makers.

Here is a close up of one of the masts to give you a perspective of the size.

That is incredible. How does the regeneration system on the yacht work?

I would imagine the props are left to turn, which generates power from the motors acting as generators.

Yes. When under sail we trail the shafts and props allowing the forward motion to rotate them and generate power back to the yacht. This keeps the battery stacks fully loaded and provides the power for the yachts systems and hotel services. We 'feather' the prop blades to give the best power return vrs the least amount of drag.

As an update we recently cracked 24 knots under full sail.

[Flying Phil]

Sailing at 24 knots is impressive! It must have been a fantastic experience.

[Burwood]

Flying Phil said:

Sailing at 24 knots is impressive! It must have been a fantastic experience.

Imagine the forces at play. I’d live to see the fixings keeping that mast in place.

[XJSJohn]

Flying Phil said:

Sailing at 24 knots is impressive! It must have been a fantastic experience.

Sounds like that is absolute maximum hull speed so definitely with everything pushed to 11 ( 1.34 x √351ft = 25.10kts )

It's still more impressive doing that plaining on a 40OD.