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Making the entire sailing superyacht suit their style, the owners of G2 have a top-to-bottom makeover underway at Pendennis. The nine-year-old yacht will be far sleeker outside and more modern inside come hand over this summer. In fact, compare her new look above to her original lines below. G2 was originally the 128-foot (39-meter) Cinderella IV,Continue Reading
Bill Tripp’s career as a yacht designer started in the offices of his father, Bill Tripp, Sr., a respected American naval architect. “I was an office brat,” says Tripp. “But I never felt any pressure to become a designer, just example.” Tripp graduated with a degree in naval architecture from the University of Michigan inContinue Reading
Coming in at 279 feet (85 meters) LOA, Aquijo has been in her owner’s hands for a few short weeks. Delivery means that she’s now officially one of the world’s 100 largest yachts afloat. Further significant, she’s the largest ketch in the world, and among the 10 largest sailing superyacht completed to date. Aquijo wasContinue Reading
People in Rotterdam, The Netherlands are getting a good look at Aquijo, the four-deck sailing superyacht being prepped for delivery by Oceanco. So, too, are people around the world on social media. Marc van der Stelt, a Rotterdam-based photographer, captured Aquijo in his local waters, sharing the following via Twitter: The #yacht #y711 @oceancoContinue Reading
“We’ve been learning rapidly,” says Dirk de Jong, second from right above, the project development and R&D manager at Oceanco. He’s referring to sailing-superyacht construction, new territory for the shipyard. He gives credit to Bill Tripp of Tripp Design, the studio behind Oceanco’s 279-foot Aquijo, a.k.a. Y711. This “spectacular” superyacht ketch, whose mast height aboveContinue Reading
UPDATE, MAY 5, 2015: Oceanco and Vitters Shipyard have released a joint press release about the yacht. It states that Y711, a.k.a. Project 85, has broken boundaries in terms of sailing-yacht complexity. Unfortunately, there is no real explanation of specific technology, outside of one description regarding performance. Y711 should handle as nimbly as a smallerContinue Reading