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A buyer’s representative called Mark Cavendish, Heesen Yachts’ sales director, with a special request. Actually, two special requests. The first: a 262-footer (80-meter). The second: “She had to be fast—preferably reaching the magic 30 knots,” Cavendish says. Project Cosmos, the largest-length and largest-volume megayacht in Heesen’s history, posed a challenge. How do you keep weightContinue Reading
Dutch citizens of the towns between Aalsmeer and Rotterdam are accustomed to seeing superyachts slowly travel along the canals. However, crowds still gathered yesterday and Sunday as Feadship https://www.feadship.nl transported Lonian from its shipyard. This, in eventual preparation for delivery. Known as Project 700 during construction, Lonian is still relatively secretive. Launched in July, theContinue Reading
These images are just a glimpse at what awaits aboard the superyacht Illusion Plus, making her way to the Monaco Yacht Show. She just departed Pride Mega Yachts in China on her maiden voyage. She received quite the send-off, in fact, complete with a band and colorful Chinese dragons. Coming in at 290 feet (88.5 meters), theContinue Reading
Three years is a long time to wait, especially when you’re looking forward to a specific result at the end of that period. Thankfully the owners of Lonian don’t have much longer to wait to take delivery. They’ve seen their new megayacht make extraordinary progress over the past three years. She’s gone from final drawingsContinue Reading
While most of the world’s citizens were still asleep in their beds, staffers at Feadship were wide awake, ready for a launch. Lonian, mostly complete structurally except for her navigation mast, floated outside her build shed in the wee hours of the morning. In fact, as you’ll see in the video below, the sun was notContinue Reading
This past Sunday, the superyacht Illusion Plus completed a major step toward delivery. She concluded her series of sea trials in the waters off Yantai, China. Illusion Plus is currently the largest megayacht from Asian shores, measuring 290’4” (88.5 meters). Pride Mega Yachts has had her in build for several years now, begun when theContinue Reading