Five thousand twenty-five square feet. That’s how much space is inside Ingot, the 153-footer that Burger Boat Company christened last weekend. And for the record, there’s 4,150 square feet of exterior deck space.
There are also 104 round pillars made of Honduras mahogany, all inlaid with maple burl. And there are probably more curved, molded, and radiused wood details throughout the yacht than you can shake a stick at.
Intricate details like this, both design-wise and tech-wise, go on and on. As a result, the megayacht is both the biggest and most complicated that Burger has ever built.
It’s partly because the 153-foot trideck started out as Time for Us, for an experienced American owner who held the bar high for Burger. And it’s also because Burger not only pushed itself to meet those demands, it decided to complete the yacht despite the owner parting ways with the team a few months into construction. (Howard Meyers, the yard’s owner, and his wife presently own the yacht. She and yard president Jim Ruffolo are in the great action shot at top, smashing the champagne across Ingot’s bow.) I’m glad Burger went ahead with completing the boat, because judging from my conversation earlier this month with Marnix Hoekstra, sales director/naval architect at Vripack, which collaborated on the naval architecture, she’s an impressive accomplishment.
The design brief called for a yacht capable of world cruising on her own bottom and equipped with commodious, comfortable accommodations for guests and crew alike. There are four king-size (yes, king-size) guest staterooms on the lower deck, each with heated marble soles in their baths, as well as four double crew staterooms on the same deck, all with en suite baths, too. (The captain’s stateroom is aft of the wheelhouse.)
I plan to get a first-hand look at these and more in the coming weeks, before Ingot departs the yard to head to the Med and begin serving as an ambassador for the craftsmen’s capabilities.
By the way, “ingot” means a metal that’s cast into shape for storage or transport so that it can be additionally processed later on. It’s a fitting name for an all-aluminum yacht that will be on display at the Monaco Yacht Show in September, where no doubt she’ll attract interested buyers. Asking price: $39.75 million.
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