Yacht Project Setteesettanta Keel Laying Commemorated at Heesen

UPDATE, OCTOBER 7, 2024: The yacht Project Setteesettanta hull and superstructured just joined together at the shipyard. Additionally, a few days ago, selection of the marbles that will eventually decorate various rooms took place at a quarry in Verona, Italy (below). The city is one of the most important proceessing districts for marble and other decorative stones. Read on for our original article.

the marble for the yacht Project Setteesettanta

The owners of the code-named yacht Project Setteesettanta not only were on hand last week at Heesen for the keel-laying ceremony, but also welded the ritualistic good-luck coin to the structure. The major milestone is one of many steps to come before delivery in 2026.

Previous Heesen clients, the owners are looking forward to seeing a few characteristic features come to fruition. Some are firsts for the shipyard, too. For instance, the entirely custom 187-footer (57-meter) has the wheelhouse on the fourth deck, rather than one deck below. That upper deck, meanwhile, is entirely for the owners to use, from fore to aft. (Prior Heesen megayachts have had owners’ decks, but the decks were mostly versus solely for them.) It includes a 2,153-square-foot (200-square-meter) alfresco area forward doubling as a touch-and-go helipad. Immediately below, meanwhile, is an enclosed mooring area. Additionally, the yacht Project Setteesettanta (meaning “seven and seventy” in Italian) eliminates the so-called Mickey Mouse effect from traditional radomes, instead having flat Starlink panels.

The owners have been working with designer Cristiano Gatto since day one to create an atmosphere all their own. Gatto previously declared that the yacht “will create many ripples” due to different takes on design. Although details are few, the designer says his team is custom-creating a variety of items for the superyacht. Furthermore, he shares that the goal is “harmonizing beauty and utility in artifacts that act as magnifying glasses on cultural progressions.” Gatto also declares, “Thanks to its ultra-detailed design and engineering approach, Setteesettanta will be a one-of-a-kind yacht on the water.”

Besides designing everything from the four guest staterooms below, the VIP suite on the main deck (next to a gym), and an aft formal dining area on the main deck, Gatto is acting as the owners’ on-site representative. With upwards of a dozen superyachts built at Heesen to date, he feels his knowledge of the shipyard’s operations will serve the owners well.

“It is a great honor that these experienced owners have entrusted us to build them a second yacht,” says Niels Vaessen, Heesen’s CEO. “Project Setteesettanta is quintessentially Heesen.”

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