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The first Amels 60 should start cruising two summers from now, so construction still has a ways to go. However, the world is getting the first notion of what the inside of this 197-foot megayacht will look like, thanks to Winch Design. Interesting, some of the Amels 60 interior design features complement the angular looksContinue Reading
Upon delivery in 2021, the third Amels 200 will actually be a first. The megayacht will be the first-ever Amels project to feature interior design by Laura Pomponi and the staff of designers at Luxury Projects, which she founded. With a healthy gross tonnage of 970, this model in the Limited Editions series measures 197Continue Reading
I’ve been following Jonathan Rothberg, the owner of Gene Machine, on Twitter for more than a year. Of the 1,500 tweets that has sent, one from March 7 of this year stopped me dead in my tracks. Pinned to the top of his feed, it reads, in part, “Thinking about a low cost, easy toContinue Reading
PHOTO: Tom Van Oossanen “It’s a wonderful build milestone to see her outside,” says Capt. Fraser Gow, who will soon take the helm of the first Amels 206. His soon-to-be new charge took to the water for the first time yesterday. “We’re all very excited to commence sea trials and commissioning of all her systemsContinue Reading
Pardon the pun, but the two years that the owner of the newest Amels 60, code named Project Witchcraft, has to wait for his yacht should be bewitching. She is the second Amels 60 so far, coming less than six months after the shipyard revealed the design publicly. Featuring styling by Espen Øino, the yachtContinue Reading
Another name for a launch ramp is, of course, a slipway. Related to this, oftentimes commercial shipyards say a vessel under construction is “on the ways.” (Occasionally, yacht builders still use the same terminology.) Once that same vessel is ready for launch, the act of sliding toward the water is known as heading “down theContinue Reading