Heesen’s 50-metre Home takes innovation and fuel economy to a whole new level. She is the first fast all-aluminium displacement build that can also be labelled as a hybrid. In fact, Home is the sixth incarnation of Heesen Yachts Fast Displacement Hull Form, but unlike her predecessors, which were built…
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Lürssen’s 73-metre Coral Ocean, designed by the late-great Jon Bannenberg, was a closely held secret for 22 years. But after last year’s refit, this striking masterpiece is now available for charter. Considered the maestro of yacht design, Jon Bannenberg would often wow new clients by sketching loose, flamboyant designs for…
Dynamiq has propelled the superyacht industry forward with an online configurator that allows potential owners to tailor their boats to their wishes while immediately knowing the final price and delivery date. Ordering a 40-metre superyacht via an online configurator might sound counterintuitive, especially when the price can top 24 million…
This may be an age of austerity but boat manufacturers that had previously plied their trade in the pleasure craft segment are now moving higher up the ladder, making semi-custom yachts in ever-larger sizes. And with Sunseeker, Riva and now Princess all entering this rarefied end of the market, it’s…
Sanlorenzo’s latest yacht, the 460Exp does not, as you might expect, take her name from her length – the 460 actually refers to her displacement (all 460 gross tonnes of it) and the Exp is an acronym for Explorer (which is the industry term for a go-anywhere self contained vessel).…
Giorgio Armani is Italy’s most successful fashion designer and a self-described perfectionist so it’s little wonder then that he couldn’t put up with chartering others’ substandard yachts and created his own. Twice in fact, because Maìn is his second custom build, and it perfectly encapsulates the designer’s vision of simplicity,…