Boat International - June 2018

http://www.boatinternational.com | June 2018

SpotlightSeriously for sale

NOMADESS

$11.5 MILLION

The 36.88m motor yacht,

listed for sale byFraser, has

hadafurther$1.5mprice

reduction. Designed by

Stefano Righini and built in

GRPbyBenettiin2013as

one of the Classic 121 series,

she sleeps 10 guests.

BELLA

$22.9 MILLION

The 45m motor yacht, listed

for sale withMoran Yacht

&Ship, has had a further

$2mpricereduction.Built

by Feadship, with delivery in

2008, a major refit in 2014

included a new interior. She

sleeps up to 12 guests.

MOONBIRD

€5.95 MILLION

The 37.15m sailing yacht,

jointly listed for sale byY.CO

andMcMaster Yachts, has

hadafurther€950,000

price reduction. Built by

FitzroyYachtstoadesignby

Dubois, she was delivered in

2003 and sleeps 10 guests.

DORIANA

€1.95 MILLION

This classic 38m sailing

yacht, listed for sale at

bluewater, has had a €1m

price reduction. Built in teak

by Frederikssund in 1930,

she was almost entirely

rebuilt in 2003-04 at

Germany’s Navcon shipyard.

MBOLO

€1.9 MILLION

The 29m sailing yacht, listed

for sale with Ya chtzoo, has

had a price reduction of

€1.575m. Previously named

Ameena, she was built by

Jongert, designed by Tony

Castro and won a 2004

ShowBoats Design Award.

“Looking back from the
perspective of a life afloat,
I still have no firm idea why
I took to the sea,” writes
yacht designer Ron Holland in chapter one
of his memoir All the Oceans: Designing by
the Seat of my Pants. “I just fell in love with
it, with its promise of adventure, and I was
fascinated with sailing ships.”
Born in New Zealand to “landlubbers”,
Holland attracted the attention of the
national press at 13 for sailing from Auckland
to Waiheke Island on a 5.4m boat, and he
was just 19 when he designed his first yacht.
Holland, who has shaped the sailing and
yachting world for decades – from the
Eygthene 24 to M5, as he puts it – offers
a frank insight into his life and fascinating
friends, such as Rupert Murdoch, who
wrote the foreword.
£45, alltheoceansbook.com

BOOK OF

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Rippinguptherigrulebook

Sailing yacht rigs have essentially

remained the same shape for

many years, with even the

revolutionary advent of the DynaRig

in 2006 keeping the traditional,

central mast. Challenging this

orthodoxy is Slovenian studio

Mides Design, whose radical

Aero Sail concept is built

around an A-frame.

Form and function

While creative director Erik Sifrer

sought to create a “beautiful aesthetic

impact” with the rig, the benefits are

more than just visual. The lack of a

central pillar means that the interior

layout can be truly open-plan, while

the in-boom furling eliminates the

need for shrouds, sheets, genoa

tracks, blocks, winches or any other

deck hardware.

Grand designs

The Aero Sail rig has been tested

on a 5.4m prototype and the next

step is a 19.2m version that is under

construction, but Mides Design has

set its sights higher, with a series of

concepts including a 70m ketch with

folding masts (main image) and a 120m

schooner. Perhaps the most intriguing

is a 56m sloop with enough free deck

space for a helipad. mides-design.si

NEWS

Creating an on-deck cinema experience is no mean feat,

with projectors and canvas causing plenty of potential

problems, but that could all be about to change with the

launch of a new folding LED screen from C Seed

Supermarine. The Austrian firm’s range of yacht-friendly

super televisions was developed in collaboration with

the Porsche Design Studio and ofers a 201-inch viewing

experience. What’s more, the hydraulic drive system means

that you can transform your helideck into a cinema in

60 seconds. POA, cseed.tv

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Aero Sail

offers a 40%

weight saving

and clearer

deck spaces

AERO SAIL TAKES OFF