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above: Jetsetter’s main salon. The interior design is by London-based
Bannenberg & Rowell with loose furnishings by Italian fashion brand
Trussardi.Traditionally, yachts have come in two flavors: plan-
ing and displacement. Planing hulls are fast with
styling to match, but they have limited range and
comfort. Full-displacement hulls offer more com-
fort underway, but they are generally slow and less
exciting to look at.
“Why can’t we have something in the middle?”
asks Sergei Dobroserdov, a Moscow-born yacht bro-
ker turned designer and builder. “A new category
that combines fast performance with good comfort
and range?”
His answer is the 126-foot (38.6-meter) Jetsetter,
the first D4 model, which made her debut at the
2016 Monaco Yacht Show. She is the first in the
Dynamiq range of all-aluminum displacement
yachts with a common technical platform.
To create the Dynamiq range, Dobroserdov gath-
ered some of the top names in the yacht industry:
Azure Yacht Design & Naval Architecture for hull
lines, Van Oossanen Naval Architects for optimiza-
tion and Bannenberg & Rowell Design for interiors.
Together, they developed three models that vary in
size, volume and performance: the D4, with a top
speed of 21 knots; the S4, at the same length over-
all but with a top end of 25 knots; and the 131-
foot (40-meter) D4 L, also with a top speed of 21
knots. Dobroserdov calls the fleet Gran Turismo
Transatlantic (GTT) yachts, borrowing from Italy’s
gran turismo cars, which are fast and can cover long
distances in stylish comfort.
“The number of very wealthy people in the
world is increasing, but yacht sales do not reflect
this growth because the products are not appealing
enough,” Dobroserdov says. “I simply believe we can
propose something better that offers owners more
choice.”
Jetsetter’s reverse bow and fluid lines, inspired
by automotive styling, give her a distinctive exterior
profile. Her top speed is in excess of 20 knots. At 10 knots, she
burns just 80 gallons of fuel an hour for a cruising range of 3,000
nautical miles.
But Dobroserdov’s objective was not just longer range and
higher speeds: Although the yacht is compact by superyacht stan-
dards, he believes owners should not have to compromise comfort
based solely on size.
Jetsetter’s ceiling heights of more than 7 feet (2.1 meters) exceed
rival brands of equivalent length overall, and Dobroserdov says that
aboard Jetsetter, the shipyard used the same marble supplier that
Lürssen did on Azzam, the world’s largest yacht.
To reduce the likelihood of seasickness, Azure developed the
fast displacement hull form by calculating a “comfort index” that
includes waterline length, beam, displacement, draft and center of
buoyancy. The design team opted for electric, at-anchor stabilizers,