Boat International - June 2018

Newpicsof

the freshly

launched 71m

Victoriareveal

an explorer of

uncommon

grace. Those

elegant exterior

lineswerefirst

conceived by

Steve Gresham,

whileatH2

Yacht Design,

but the build

story is more

complex. She was started at Sevmash Shipyard in Russia,

movedtoItalyandcompletedatAESYachtsinTurkey.She

boasts full-height windows by Yachtglass that cantilever

outwardsandanairyinteriorvolumeof1,553GTthatguests

willappreciateonlongvoyagesusingher7,000nmrange.

NEWS

Superyachts could be used to reverse

thetrendofcoralreefdegradationby

spreading concrete tetrapods impregnated

with genetically selected super corals.

This is according to conservation

organisation Secore International, which

believes that the current method of

manually planting new corals is too slow

and labour intensive. “If we want restoration

toplayamoremeaningfulroleincoral

reefconservation,weneedtothinkin

newdirections,”saysexecutivedirector

DirkPetersen.“Oursowingapproachisan

importantstepasitwillallowlargenumbers

ofcoralstobeplantedinaveryshortamount

of time at significantly lower costs.”

TrialsaretakingplaceofCuraçao

and, if successful, the method could be

quicklyscaledup.secore.org

Hail Hyhmä!

With a name that comes from the Phoenician

word for melting snow,Hyhmäis every inch

thenature-lovingexploreryacht.Chris Jefferies

discovers how Cantiere delle Marche and

Nauta Yachts brought her to life...

boatint.com/hyhma

EXCLUSIVELYONLINE

UP FOR THE CUP

SOWING THE

WAY FORWARD

The longest running superyacht regatta in Europe, the Superyacht Cup,returns to Muelle Viejo in

Palma, Mallorca, this summer (19-23 June) and the line-up is as diverse as it is impressive. There are

17namesontheprovisionalentrylistatthetimeofwriting,rangingfrommoderncarboncruisersto

J Class veterans. One of the most notable is 36.8mBliss(above), launched by Yachting Developments in

2009 and making her Superyacht Cup Palma debut after spending the past few years in rather different

waters,asskipperRichardAllinghamexplains:“Blisshas been cruising the Pacific and South East Asia

forthelastfouryears,sotoparticipateintheSuperyachtCupPalmaisawelcomereturntothe

MediterraneanandagreatwaytoseeMallorcaatitsfinest.”thesuperyachtcup.com

Sowing coral

seeds can be

done much

more quickly,

says a study

Blissis

swapping the

Pacific for

Palma and

the Med

TRUE EXPLORER CLASS

One of Britain’s biggest sailing

yacht brands has been rescued after

Richard Hadida Yachting bought

Oyster Marine Limited out of

administration for an undisclosed

sum. The tech entrepreneur plans

to rehire more than 400 workers

and develop a new entry-level series

with Humphreys Yacht Design.

PHOTOGRAPHY: SHUTTERSTOCK