It’s been 10 years since Amels introduced its Limited Editions yachts. The Dutch builder can count yet another owner among the growing client base. He’s selected an Amels 180, a model other buyers have also been attracted to, for a spring 2017 delivery.
Amels is keeping the owner’s nationality confidential, a typical practice for the yard. There’s no word on who’ll handle interior design for this Amels 180, either. (Laura Sessa has been selected by a few previous clients, since she was tapped by Amels to design suggested configurations when the series was first introduced. Styling overall for the series is set, however: by Tim Heywood Design.) In fact, few details about this project are public at present. Amels has confirmed that the buyer is keeping a fold-down balcony off the master suite and folding bulwarks to each side of the saloon. He’s also keeping the 82-foot-long (25-meter-long) upper deck as a sundeck. Total space up here: 1,668 square feet (155 square meters).
No word on whether the forward portion of the sundeck will double as a touch-and-go helipad. That’s how the Amels 180 is generally engineered. Also generally speaking, the Amels 180 has a beach club containing a steam room. Twelve in the owner’s party and 12 crew plus the captain can be accommodated. Global cruising is also, of course, a capability. Amels says that at 13 knots, the Amels 180 sees a 4,500-nautical-mile range. Top speed is said to be 15½ knots.
To put the Limited Editions megayachts into perspective, there are currently more than 20 on the water. The Amels 180 is the “smallest” of the offerings. She, and her larger sisters, are reportedly attracting more interest in more markets, too. Rob Luijendijk, managing director of Amels, lists the United States, Latin America, and Middle East among them.
Those clients, and others, should be interested in learning more about another Limited Editions yacht that Amels has in the works. She’s the Amels 188, a sixth model. Full details will be given to us in the media at the Monaco Yacht Show. Also during the show, we’ll learn about a series of expedition yachts being introduced by Amels’ parent company, Damen. Stay tuned.
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