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SILVER FAST

LOA: 77 m

Builder: SilverYachts, Australia

Designer: Espen Øino

Interiors: Vain

Launched: 2015

Th e undoubted star of last year’s Monaco Yacht Show, Silver Fast

enhanced the economic credentials of German-owned SilverYacht’s

growing fl eet of “world’s largest and fastest aluminium motor yachts” by

voyaging 11,000 nm from Perth to Monaco, with a stopover in the Gulf,

at an average 17 knots, while consuming only 400 litres of fuel per hour.

An extraordinary performance, although one which sister ship

Smeralda has already heralded, as have her slightly smaller cousins, the

73 m Rabdan and 73 m Dragonfl y.

Designed by the ultra-talented Espen Øino, Silver Fast is described

by agents Burgess Yachts as “the fourth and most advanced yacht in

the acclaimed SilverYachts series. Silver Fast raises standards to a new,

incredible impressive level.

“Capable of speeds in excess of 27 knots, and with a long-range

cruising capability of 20-22 knots, her shallow draft of just 2.6 m is ideally

suited to cruising in areas that many yachts of this size cannot access.”

http://www.silveryachts.com

http://www.burgessyachts.com

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ETERNITY (EX-FAMILY

DAY)

LOA: 65 m

Builder: Codecasa, Italy

Interiors: Anna Maria and Franco Della Role

Launched 2010

Built at Codecasa’s Ugo facility in Viareggio for a Hong Kong owner

who previously had a Codecasa 41 m of the same name, Family Day

has spent a lot of time cruising in Asia-Pacifi c waters, turning up

in all the usual hotspots and some less usual places as well, such as

Kaohsiung and the Penghu archipelago in the Taiwan Straits.

She was built in tandem with Joseph Lau’s Codecasa 65 m Lady

Lau, presumably achieving naval architecture cost savings in this

way, although the two vessels feature completely diff erent profi les

and interiors.

Both have been sold in the past year, Lady Lau in Europe, while

Family Day remains at Hong Kong Gold Coast Yacht and Country

Club’s marina, and has been renamed Eternity.

Th e vessel has a striking metallic hull, and the interior has a

sophisticated modern appearance, featuring mostly rosewood with

off setting fabrics, leather and marble.

http://www.codecasayachts.com

DIAMONDS ARE

FOREVER

LOA: 61 m

Builder: Benetti, Italy

Designer: Stefano Natucci

Interiors: Evan K Marshall

Launched: 2011

Recently voyaging from Singapore to Hong Kong Gold Coast

Yacht and Country Club’s marina, this vessel is one of the famous

James Bond series commissioned by American car dealer turned

boating and superyacht specialist John Staluppi. He later sells

them on to a wide variety of owners. Singapore-based David Eng’s

yacht Elysium was for example originally Quantum of Solace.

Diamonds Are Forever was the seventh Bond fi lm, and

the last starring Sean Connery. It was released in 1971, so

one wonders if Staluppi, a Brooklyn boy lately well-placed in

Florida’s rich List, has had to recycle some of the names, now that

productions of the Bond franchise are not so prolifi c.

Th is vessel is a traditional steel-aluminium build. She has

accommodation for 12 guests in six suites, and carries a crew of

15. Built to comply with MCA standards, her maximum speed is
    16 knots, but optimum cruising speed is of course a little less.
    http://www.benettiyachts.it

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