Brazil-based MCP Yachts has built and delivered multiple megayachts over the years, but Queen Tati sets a new benchmark for the team. She is its largest all-aluminum yacht by volume to date.
MCP Yachts calls her a MCP 37.4M model, signifying her LOA, which equates 122’7”. For perspective, her full-load displacement is 196 tons. The 26’6” (8.1-meter) beam should make the owners and guests more aware of the significance, too.
Queen Tati is the latest yacht to result from collaboration between MCP Yachts and the Dutch naval-architecture studio Vripack. The duo has paired up for multiple yachts, in fact, including the MCP 121. The classic cruiser looks of Queen Tati pair well with the engineering platform she employs, which promises a best range of 3,500 nautical miles. She should see that range when her twin Caterpillar engines are pushing her to a speed just shy of 11 knots. Additionally, MCP Yachts notes, and especially important for a yacht meant to embark on long-range travels, she’s quite fuel efficient. Specifically, the shipyard says fuel consumption at her long-range best speed should be just 23 gph (88 lph). If the crew see a storm brewing and want to get her somewhere calmer quickly, her anticpated top speed of 22 knots should do the trick.
Queen Tati has accommodations for 12 in the owners’ party, along with eight crewmembers.
On a related subject, MCP Yachts is approaching its 45th anniversary. The family-run shipyard is in Santos, the largest port in South America. The same family who established the yard still own it, too, a group of passionate sailors and cruisers.
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Edgar Souza
Vocidade 22 nós de top num casco de semi deslocamento?
Com 190 T de peso .
Confirma?
Diane M. Byrne
As the article points out, the shipyard says top speed is 22 knots. However, the tonnage estimate (190) is not weight, it’s volume.