http://www.boatinternational.com | February 2016Spotlight^ Seriously for sale
SOVEREIGN:$39.95 MILLION
The 54.9m motor yacht,
listed for sale by Northrop
& Johnson, has had
a further price reduction
of $4,550,000. Formerly
Harbour Island, she was
launched in 2011 and has
six luxurious cabins to
sleep up to 14 guests.SYCAR A IV:$27.5 MILLION
The 46.1m motor yacht,
jointly listed for sale by
Burgess and Merle Wood &
Associates, has had a major
$9,500,000 price reduction.
Built by US yard Burger to a
design by Bruce King, she was
delivered in 2009 and sleeps
nine guests in four cabins.JUST J’S:$26.9 MILLION
The 46.24m motor yacht,
listed for sale byMerle Wood
&Associates, has had a
$2,100,000 price reduction.
With exterior and interior
design by Jonathan Quinn
Barnett, she was built in GRP
byDeltaMarinetoABSclass
and delivered in 2011.BATTLESHIP: $3.199 MILLION
This 32.3m motor yacht
has had a further $201,000
price reduction atYa chtzoo.
Battleshipwas built in
GRPbyUSyardLazzara
Yachts and was launched
in 2003. Accommodation
is for 10 guests in four
double cabins.APHRODITE A:€7.9 MILLION
The 42.67m sailing yacht,
listed for sale by Ocean
Independence, has had
a €1,000,000 price reduction.
Formerly Aphrodite II, she
was built in aluminium by
Vitters to a design by Hoek
and delivered in 1999. She can
sleep eight guests.English socialite Amber Nuttall has reinvigorated
her family’s ocean-saving legacy by paddleboarding
the length of the River Thames in aid of the ocean
preservation charity Blue Marine Foundation.
Nuttall, whose late father Sir Nicholas Nuttall
set up the Bahamas Reef Environment Educational
Foundation (BREEF) in 1993, spent a week paddling
236 miles from the source of the Thames in
Gloucestershire to Southend in Essex, where it
meets the North Sea. “I was paddling for 10 hours
a day for the first four days,” she says. “The upper
reaches of the Thames are flat calm and you just
have to put in the hours. The lower reaches are a
totally different ball-game – fast moving, rough water
and I had a head-wind, too. It is uncomfortable
almost to the point of feeling seasick, becauseI couldn’t look at a fixed horizon – I was having to
read every new wave that was coming at me.”
Nuttall, a Blue Marine Foundation ambassador,
was raising funds for a specific project: to assess the
potential of a marine reserve off Ascension Island, in
the South Atlantic. “The scientists picked up enough
data almost immediately to persuade the British
Government that yes, that does need to be turned in
to a Marine Protected Area. Mission accomplished.”
Nuttall’s interest in the health of the oceans
began when she was a child, visiting her father at
his home in Barbados. “One day we all realised you
couldn’t see any fish any more.”
Sir Nicholas started BREEF after lobbying the
Bahamian government and eventually being given
a small patch of ocean to turn into a reserve.Turning the Thames Blue
TOP OF THE J CLASS
A new beauty is closer to taking its place
in the J Class ranks, with news that Vitters
is continuing work on a 43.6 metre sailing
yacht named Svea. The first J Class project
from the Dutch yard, Hoek Design
developed the lines, strength and
construction plans, using the original
J Class drawings by Thore Holm from- The sailer integrates a long keel from
the 75-year-old design, but she’s brought
up to date with an aluminium hull and
53.75 metre carbon fibre main mast and a
deck arrangement that accommodates
equipment used in modern J Class
racing. The hull is the longest of the
current Js, with high-tensile frames
and Alustar plating. vitters.com
Sir Ben Ainslie
“For me, the biggest issue is
the plastic that we are pouring
into the oceans, not just the bottles
and stu that ends up stuck, endlessly
circling in the ocean gyres, or is
washed onto our beaches, but all
the degraded plastics that are
working their way into
the food chain.”