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The "Express Yacht" LSX 92
t was a seemingly impossible bet, but Lazzara Yachts pulled it off. Less than a year after company President and Chief Designer Dick Lazzara produced the first drawings of his company's newest yacht, he sits at the helm of the stylish LSX 92, a project that set out to redefine the open yacht.
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Engineered Fun For The Yacht
Whether or not you add these sophisticated toys and over-the-top electronics to your toy chest, we are quite sure you will enjoy the creativity, humor and engineering that went into making them
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Cheoy Lee Global 100
On a great summer day we had an opportunity to get onboard the latest Cheoy Lee Global Express 100. The speedy yacht has plenty of charisma with a Cape Cod cottage-style interior and many options for passengers to just enjoy its cruising abilities.
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Riva 92 Duchessa
Riva continues to carve its niche in the megayacht segment, resolutely keeping its designs modern and elegant. For fans of the earliest day cruisers in wood and later-day composite runabouts that elevated the Italian brand to icon status, this newest creation at first look may seem to be a completely different Riva.
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On the “A” list - Designer Martin Francis
The new superyacht A, featured on the cover of our July issue, made quite a splash when it was unveiled, but the hull itself is said to hardly make a wake thanks to a very innovative design that Martin Francis, as technical and naval designer on the project once known as SF99, help turn into reality. As unusual as this project may be this is not Martin’s first venture outside of the boundaries of traditional yacht design. In fact, Martin’s creative world hardly seems to have boundaries at all.
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Bertram 700 Enclosed Fly Bridge
About a year ago, Bertram unveiled a new flagship at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, the Bertram 700 Convertible, then followed suit at the Miami Yacht & Brokerage Show in February with an enclosed flybridge version. We had a chance to sea trial the boat in the days following the winter show, and as Bertram gets ready to introduce yet another model, we offer this first-hand account of our experience on water.
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Stabilizer Systems - Roll Reversal
No matter how large a boat may be, it is going to be affected by wave motion. This is especially true in a beam sea, which can produce a rolling pattern ranging from barely noticeable to uncomfortable to downright dangerous—hardly a seemly state of affairs aboard a luxury motoryacht. No wonder that few yachts larger than 60’ are delivered these days without some kind of modern stabilizer system, a technology designed to automatically reduce roll and quiet the ride to the benefit of everyone on board.
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President 107 - Experience speaks volumes
On a return visit to the tri-deck President 107’, which made its debut at the Miami Yacht & Brokerage Show last winter, we walked past a President flybridge boat docked nearly, which was built sometime in the late 1980s. Although President Yachts, represented in North America by Presidential Yachts Inc., is working on a full new line of models, this one served as a reminder that the company has been building sturdy fiberglass boats for a long time, and experience shows.
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Burger's Big Boat - 153' Ingot
The new 153’ Ingot is Burger Boat’s largest launch ever; this elegant and sophisticated yacht is sure to become the proud new flagship for this custom builder.
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Lazzara LSX 92 - The making of the express yacht
Our return visit to the Tampa-based shipyard of Lazzara Yachts, appropriately enough on the eve of the Labor Day holiday, found an unbeat if tired team working on not one but two major projects that required a great amount of creative thinking, engineering and plain hard work.
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Triple Crown
Yacht builder Lurssen was very present in our July issue, which featured the world's 100 largest yachts. Among the vessels Lurssen has added to its impressive record this year is the 230' Martha Ann, the third of three closely related yachts initially built for one owner. We had an opportunity to visit the yacht in the South of France and discovered the not-so-common story behind this spectular vessel.
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The Making Of The Express Yacht
At the 2006 Fort Lauderdale Boat Show, Tampa-based Lazzara Yachts introduced the LSX Quad 75 to rave reviews. Based on a totally novel concept, the Yachts Trophies winner LSX 75 was among the first designs to integrate the very new Volvo Penta IPS (Inboard Performance System) technology. Quiet, fuel-efficient and compact, the engines and drives afforded the builder the ability to create something truly new, an opportunity Lazzara did not miss. The LSX 75 was the first boat to feature quadruple IPS and did so in a stunning design package that helped change the concept of the open yacht. Since its debut the model has sold well in the U.S. and abroad, but this family-run business is not one to rest on its laurels. The product development team quickly moved onward and upward, as we learned during a recent visit.
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Core Competencies
From his studio located on a peaceful island in the Pacific Northwest, Jack Sarin is busily working on a custom yacht series that will bear his name. For decades he has quietly but steadily put his imprimatur on pleasure yachts worldwide, more than 400 at last count. The first yacht of the Jack Sarin Custom Series will be in aluminum, which may surprise some who associate his name with a landmark all-composite vessel he created in the late 1980s.
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California's Costal Scene
Yachting out West is getting bigger. Destination appeal, the megayacht boom but also improved and growing local infrastructures are supporting the growth with California, and San Diego more specifically, at the heart of it all. We take a look at what is happening on the U.S. Pacific Coast
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Destination Malta
The 2008 Grand Prix of the Sea this past June is only one of the facets of the growing island's boating culture. A historic sailing venue and a well-known stopover at the heart of the Mediterranean, Malta increasingly is a favorite destination for superyachts
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A look at an Emerging Foreship Geometry
Among the most dramatic looking new yacht concepts to rise from the drawing boards of leading designers are those, steadily growing in number, that feature a vertical prow, possibly even angled sternward from waterline to sheer, and hullsides ever-so-gently broadening from a knifelike leading edge through uniformly svelte contours, then curving to a raked transom, tracing a profile that appears to merge with the water.
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A legendary name in yacht design lives on
Few designers to date can equal the kind of range and lasting impact Australian-born Jon Bannenberg has had on the look and feel of today’s superyachts. Browsing through the list of the world’s 100 largest yachts, it is obvious his legacy remains alive and well. Rising Sun, Limitless, Carinthia VI and Coral Island, are among those that acquired their memorable looks in the Chelsea studio that was home to his design firm for a quarter of a century.
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Build Bigger ; Find New Markets
Horizon Yachts Premier 130+, about to be delivered to her Florida owners, opens up a new era for leading-edge Taiwan builders. An overview of Taiwan’s largest builder located at the epicenter of the Taiwan yacht building industry reveals a careful but determined strategy for expansion.
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Hakvoort 125’ Perle Bleue
Perle Bleue is one of the nicest superyachts we have seen in recent years. Experienced American owners Peggy and Stanley Bey, noted English exterior stylist and interior designer Donald Starkey, and picturesque Monnickendam-based Dutch yard Hakvoort have, between them, created a real gem.
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Introducing the Marlow 86E
About 10 years ago David Marlow came out of retirement to build one more boat, for himself. Little did he know then that he would deliver the 100th Marlow yacht this year. The Marlow 86E is the company’s new flagship, an explorer yacht with a 31-knot top speed, built in composite to class for a well-known Miami boating family. We seized a chance to get onboard and found that Marlow has not given up on his quest for perfection.
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Genmar’s Mega Conquest
Genmar’s Chairman Irwin Jacobs is a self-proclaimed optimist. During his career, which includes 30 years in the boating industry alone, the Minneapolis entrepreneur has fundamentally changed the companies he has touched.
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Johnson’s 103
In a famous World War II-vintage photograph by Yousuf Karsh, Winston Churchill’s
image is captured in a characteristically hulking pose, looking for all the world larger than his true height of 5’7”. By virtue of its megayacht-like posture and proportions, Johnson Yachts’ newest offering, a 103’ raised pilot house design by fellow Brit Bill Dixon, creates a comparable illusion.
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Mc Mullen & Wing’s Ermis2
One of the fastest piston-driven, composite-hull superyachts ever built will soon navigate Mediterranean coastal and island hideaways. Able to handle virtually any weather, it is no mere commuter vessel but a sturdy hull with transatlantic range.
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Sleek and Stylish Slice of Aluminum Hanseatic 241’ Silver
After the remarkable 414’ Octopus at Lürssen, and other distinctive builds like Katana-Eco-Enigma, Skat, Queen M and Kismet, versatile naval architect and designer Espen Oeino had an opportunity to create yet another unique vessel, this time the world’s longest private aluminum motoryacht, Silver, now making her maiden voyage from Australia
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Delectable Diversity
Winter charter shows presage great summer
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The Rebirth of the Explorers
There’s a new style of yacht and a new breed of yachtsman on the horizon who is more intrigued by ice flows and arctic winds than tranquil Caribbean seas.With a passion for extreme conditions, this new generation of mariners charts a course for the future that is in many ways reminiscent of the past.
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Mine Games
Trinity Yachts unveiled and christened Mine Games at FLIBS, a 164’ yacht with a highly-customized interior, a helicopter and a two-passenger submarine. She was exhibited next to the 161’ Lohengrin at FLIBS, and at first glance the two appeared very closely related; but several features, not least of all her interior, make Mine Games a different yacht.
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From Russia with Talent
At the Monaco Yacht Show last fall German megayacht builder Thyssenkrupp showed several interesting new designs. One was from a hereto little known young Russian designer. It was not only the 3-D model’s graceful lines but also the designer’s background and nationality that piqued our interest.
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Toys for Boys
For many the dream to find peace onboard a personal yacht may have taken years to achieve, but how long does it really take before yacht owners wish to escape their island of privacy?
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Northern 151' After Eight
The Relationship Between The Northern Marine Yard And Designer Jonathan Quinn Barnett Has Proved To Be An Especially Salutary One, If
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Volvo Penta Turns 100
It Was In The Spring Of 1907 In Gothenburg, Sweden, When Engineers Fritz Egnell And Edvard Hubendick Put The Final Touches On Their First Combustion Engine, The Penta. Last Spring, Volvo Penta, The Company That Fritz And Edvard Founded, Celebrated Their 100th Anniversary.
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Philippe Starck Speaks His Mind
French Designer Philippe Starck, A Prolific Artist Who Has Achieved Star Status In His Home Country Has Received Accolades And Awards Internationally For Changing The Way We Look At The World Through Design.
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Cheoy Lee 148' Marco Polo Series
One Of The Most Interesting Vessels Making Her Debut At This Year's Monaco Yacht Show, Followed By Fort Lauderdale, Is The Ron Holland-Designed 148' Transocean Explorer Marco Polo.
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Sailing to Swiss Time
Six Luxury Watchmakers Lent Their Names To The 32nd Edition Of The Marketing Powerhouse That Is The America's Cup.
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Minimalism Takes Center Stage
If You Think That This Stripped-Down Style Emphasizing Light And Space
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Palmer Johnson 135' Waverunner
The Palmer Johnson 135' Waverunner, A Speedier, Better Functioning, Roomier Version Of Their World-Beating Pj 120' Design That Is Now Almost Five Years Old.
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Middle Eastern Yachting
The United Arab Emirates, And Particularly The Emirates Of Dubai And Abu Dhabi - The Two Largest - Are Very Publicly Open For Business, And They Are Morphing Into Fascinating Yachting Destinations.
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Northern 152' Lia Fail
Peter And Lynn Murphy's Latest Yacht, The 152' Northern The Murphys specified a displacement hull with a maximum speed of 16
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Pershing 72
Fulvio De Simoni, The Designer Of This New Model Of The Now
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