PHOTOGRAPHY: DUTCH YACHTING/PIET VAN DYKELOA: 106.7m GT: 2,700 Builder: Oceanco
Naval architects: Dykstra/BMT Nigel Gee
Exterior designers: Nuvolari Lenard/Ken Freivokh Design
Interior designers: Nuvolari Lenard/Gérard VillateBLACK PEARL
new entry
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BIGGEST BOATS
Black Pearl is one of three
new entries for Oceanco
(with Jubilee and Barbara),
bringing its total in the Top
101 to 12. The others are:
INDIAN EMPRESS (95m)
EQUANIMITY (91.5m)
INFINITY (89m)
NIRVANA (88.5m)
SEVEN SEAS (86m)
AMORE VERO (85.6m)
SUNRAYS (85.5m)
VIBRANT CURIOSITY
(85.47m)
ALFA NERO (81.27m)PROFILE
GÉRARD VILLATEGérard Villate has been an interior designer for 50 years and is based in the South of France.
He has worked on palaces, villas, hotels and planes in the Middle East, the UK, Monaco (including
Black Pearl’s owner’s residence) and South Africa. His yacht portfolio also includes the 55.6m
Oceanco Lady Christine (now Queen Mavia) and the 68m Feadship Lady Christine.As Sailing Yacht A is officially designated a “sail-assisted motor yacht”,
Black Pearl is the biggest sailing yacht in the world. She has three rotating,
freestanding DynaRig masts, each of them about 60m high – the same rig
as Maltese Falcon but she is considerably bigger, both in terms of length (she
is 18.8m longer) but even more so in terms of volume (she has nearly two and
a half times the GT). It is hoped that she will do most of her voyaging under
sail and, with solar panels on her sails and the ability to generate electricity
from her rotating propellers, she could cross oceans without using any fuel.SEA CLOUD ECLIPSED
The four-masted 96.35m barque
Sea Cloud – designed by Cox &
Stevens and built by Friedrich
Krupp Germaniawerft – has reigned
supreme as the biggest sailing yacht
in the world since 1931, but now,
at last, she has been overtaken by
Black Pearl (although if Sea Cloud’s
bowsprit was included in her official
length, she would retain her title
by a little less than 3m)