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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
The biggest boat by volume in Amels’ history slid down the ways today. She did so at the hull-building facility of Damen Shipyards, Amels’ parent company, in Romania. With a volume of 2,850 gross tons, this significant-size superyacht, a private 78-meter Full Custom project, will soon set her sights on Amels’ shipyard in The NetherlandsContinue Reading
PHOTO: Tom van Oossanen While children around the world were dressing up in costumes and collecting candy on October 31, the team at Damen and Amels were rolling out the first Damen SeaXplorer from her build shed. The 203-footer (62-meter) has plans for adventurous, arduous travel that match her stanch styling and naval architecture. TheContinue Reading