Having enjoyed the build process with Trinity Yachts previously on a few megayachts, a couple has returned to the shipyard for a new 193-footer (59-meter). The project is being referred to only by her hull number for now, T-062. The all-aluminum megayacht will be built at Trinity Yachts’ New Orleans facility, rather than its Gulfport,…
The fourth hull in the Ferretti Custom Line 124 megayacht series is making history for the Italian builder. That’s because the owner is from Turkey and will use his yacht there. Complete with fold-down balconies on each side, this newest Ferretti Custom Line 124 launched last week. As the model name indicates, the megayacht measures…
Doug and Linda Von Allmen know a thing or two about megayachts, having commissioned a handful of them, most christened Lady Linda, over the years. Like many owners, they bought increasingly larger megayachts. But, they ran into a convenience problem with their largest one. She was the 197-foot (60-meter) Linda Lou, which they took delivery…
Every megayacht project starts with the keel laying, which is what the photos here reveal taking place at Columbus Yachts last week. Columbus Yachts began construction on its newest Classic Collection megayacht, a 213-footer (65-meter). Like the three other Columbus megayacht projects so far, the Classic Collection yacht is being built at Palumbo Shipyard in…
The long-awaited, yet frequently delayed, report into the sinking of the 204-foot (60.2-meter) megayacht Yogi has finally been published by the French authorities. Unfortunately, it is somewhat sparse on facts and findings and appears to fall far short of the edifying document that many in the superyacht industry had hoped to read and learn from….
Following talks with an American client interested in its megayacht catamarans, Curvelle is now offering the Quaranta Plus USA model, a yacht which despite her name may just have broader international appeal. The Quaranta Plus USA model measures 118’1” (36 meters), a little longer than the initial Quaranta LOA of 110’6” (33.7 meters). She bears…
Making the most of a proven technical platform simply makes sense, and that’s what Mondo Marine has done with the series to which Okko belongs. The 133’9” (40.8-meter) megayacht is the seventh delivery employing Mondo Marine’s 41-meter-series hull design and systems. However, she’s not a series build in the traditional understanding of the phrase. Rather,…
Come summertime 2015, the first of Heesen Yachts’ 180-foot (55-meter) fast displacement, steel-hulled motoryachts will be delivered. The aggressively styled megayacht’s name is being withheld for now, but she bears the hull number YN 17255. Last year, Heesen unveiled three proposals bearing a fast displacement hull form designed by Van Oossanen Naval Architects, with this…
PHOTO: Ron Cogswell The 104-foot Presidential yacht Sequoia is back at the center of a legal dispute. Days after the megayacht’s current owner re-filed a lawsuit against a lender, the owner and lender have agreed to a temporary respite. At a hearing with a Delaware judge last week, FE Partners, the…
The two megayacht designs shown here were created by Eisgaard Design for the Benetti Design Innovation Project, measuring 229’7” (70 meters) and 295’3” (90 meters). The creative design studio, famously known for its work on Feadship’s Tango and Wally’s Saudade, brings some interesting ideas to these concepts, which Benetti is prepared to build should a…
