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COVER STORY Top 100 Superyachts 2018
Compiling the annual Top 100 Superyachts of Asia-Pacific needs
TOP 100
a flexible approach. We include spectacular new vessels that are
soon to arrive, and the biggest and best of those already here,
because that is what interests high net worth readers, owners,
agents and yards. The latest fleet is 140m to 46m.
USED FOR NEW
SUPERYACHT SALES
WORDS BRUCE MAXWELL PHOTOS AS CREDITED
Exclusive first pictures of 84m
White Rabbit G during sea trials off
Echo Yachts south of Perth, Western
Australia. The vessel is for a very
experienced Singapore family who
have owned two Feadships, and
still have other White Rabbits at
Marina at Keppel Bay. WRG is
built in aluminium, and the family
has taken delivery of another 46m
support vessel, Charley, which was
at Singapore Yacht Show last year.
© MARK STOTHARD
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Royal Huisman’s 81m
schooner in-build for a keen
East Asia yachtsman
126m Octopus
Sadly Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft with Bill Gates, passed away late 2018. Based in Seattle, two of his superyachts, the 61m Feadship Meduse and 126m Octopus Lürssen,
were regulars in past Top 100s as he cruised the Pacific, North Asia and especially the Philippines, contributing to explorations, wreck searches and many marine ecology ventures. Italy’s Benetti is another long-time Asia-Pacific player, stemming Finally, our apologies to Asia-Pacific owners who have sizeable
back to visits by Paulo Vitelli and Massimo Perotti in the 1980s, and superyachts from 24m to 46m. The good news is that we have decided
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they too are well represented in Top 100. The largest 100m+ vessel in to make this really interesting sector a separate feature in an upcoming
ny Asia-Pacific owned superyacht qualifies, whether at its to Top 100 last year, “Asia-Pacific is already the next big thing for Benetti’s history will be delivered to an Australian next year from their Yacht Style in and in our many online and social media outlets.
usual home port or cruising elsewhere. So do European and superyacht yards”, and it is only going to get bigger. Much bigger. Livorno yard, closely followed by two more.
American owned superyachts that spend significant time in This leading Dutch yard has been active in the market for three Perini Navi super sailboats are always represented. Last year we ©2018 Bruce Maxwell, Asia-Pacific Voyages. We try our best to
these waters. Some never leave. decades, and deliveries continue with vessels like 73m Hasna and 69m included two 50m+ Picchiotti motor yachts in-build by this subsidiary ensure accuracy. To comment on or update information above,
Indian Ocean destinations such as the Seychelles, Mauritius, Samaya making their marks. Australian-owned Hasna has been cruising of Perini Navi - the names are now merged - but until these designated please email bmax8888@bigpond.com and copy Yacht Style
Maldives and Sri Lanka are part of the picture, as Southeast Asia is the in French Polynesia lately. Hong Kong orders become a bit clearer, we decided to leave them out publisher Gael Burlot, gael@lux-inc.com.
usual next stop. But there are as yet few Indian owners, and the Middle Amels also began with custom builds Boadicea, and Ilona for again until 2019, so that other worthy vessels can appear in the interim.
East is excluded, despite all lands beyond Istanbul being once known Frank Lowy, many moons hence, and their Limited Editions, which Otherwise the 140m Fincantieri Ocean Victory was in the Maldives
as Asia Minor. reduce an owner’s waiting time to two years, are definitely in vogue. heading east at our deadline, after lengthy Asia-Pacific sojourns in
Conversely the West Coast of the Americas is lapped by the Pacific Look at the 55m mark in following pages, and half a dozen Amels recent years, and another regular visitor, the Motor Yacht A, was cruising
Ocean too. We mostly track vessels heading for French Polynesia and Limited Edition 180s appear, apart from parent yard Damen’s Support Korea and Japan. Both are Russian owned.
the South Seas, New Zealand and Australia, or for Hawaii, Micronesia, Vessels scattered throughout. New Zealand billionaire Graeme Hart sold his Norwegian-built 107m
Japan and the China Coast. Heesen, another well-known Dutch yard, initially sold two last year, and she is now called Andromeda, lately on the Pacific Coast of
Subjective at times? Sure. When I first wrote a Top 25 Superyachts of superyachts to Malaysian owners, and has larger vessels in this year’s Mexico. His follow-up 116m Ulysses appeared in the Med this year.
Asia-Pacific feature in the 1990s, the International Superyacht Society lists, while Royal Huisman’s super sailboat Twizzle is back and their Delivery of the 84m White Rabbit G by Echo Yachts of Western
had only just been formed. Some vessels called superyachts back then 81m schooner for an Asian client is progressing. Australia for a very experienced Singapore owner is expected before
would not pass muster today. We continue to filter out more elderly refits. Germany’s Lürssen, which builds the world’s largest superyachts, year’s end. White Rabbit E and others have based at Marina at Keppel
Phinisis, traditional wooden sailing craft of Indonesia, are moved has 85m Pacific in Phuket and 76m Rocinante ex-TV crossing the North Bay, where Motor Yacht A also stayed a few years back.
to their own specialist section. No realistic comparison exists between Pacific from Osaka to San Francisco. Biggest superyacht event on the horizon is the 2021 America’s Cup in
these luxuriously-outfitted charter vessels and true superyacht This is the 60-90m range which Lürssen sales director Michael Auckland, New Zealand, and it is no surprise that keen contestant Ernesto
construction costs and charters, except that phinisis are indeed proving Breman says is their stock in trade, but when I was invited to their first Bertarelli already has his 96m Brooke yacht Vava 11 back in Asia-Pacific
popular for those seeking an ethnic experience at relatively lower rates. exclusive media tour in a decade mid-year it was obvious that a lot of waters. We are told that berths in Auckland are fully booked.
Support Vessels, a fairly new concept, are kept in Top 100 because of 100m+ vessels were also in progress, including the spectacular 135m More big boat facilities appear to be urgently needed throughout the
the “in tandem” trend toward explorer-style superyachts. Some such vessels Crescent, which is expected to cruise Asia-Pacific waters shortly. region, not least in Hong Kong and Singapore. Papeete in Tahiti has limited
have separated from their original mother ships, and are being used in their availability, and superyachts have to compete for cruise ship wharves. A second feature on 24m to 46m vessels that didn’t make Top 100 is to follow shortly.
own right, particularly in Asia-Pacific waters. Check out an extraordinary The 74m Lürssen Rocinante, formerly called TV, sailed from Osaka to
surge in Amels and Damen support vessels in the pages that follow. San Francisco across the North Pacific this year. The North Pacific
Release of the list was previously timed for Cannes and Monaco, from Hawaii to Micronesia and Japan has much to offer too. This 46m trimaran built at Australia’s McConaghy Yachts in Zhuhai, China, is designed by Mani Frers, and handled by Camper and Nicholsons Asia. She is due for delivery in 2020.
but has been put back to the Monaco-Ft Lauderdale period, to enable
a better grasp of vessels voyaging through the Suez and Panama Canals
into Asia-Pacific waters at the change of seasons.
Apart from the print edition, Top 100 now circulates in online, social
media and PDF forms for most of the following year, and has become
a widely used sales tool by agents and dealers wishing to spread
knowledge of the superyacht scene in a region destined to drive the
world’s economies.
PDFs attach easily to email pitches, and Top 100 cropped up
regularly last year in relation to all manner of superyacht-related topics.
Even private papers I was commissioned to write for Holland Yachting
Industry members recently are somehow being made available, and
cross-referenced in google searches.
Translations from English into assorted Asia-Pacific languages and
characters are being introduced, which should further assist the spread
of reasonably up-to-date superyacht information.The bottom line is that,
as Feadship marketing director Farouk Nefzi said in an introduction
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Ocean Victory
140m Fincantieri
As the 2018 Med
season drew to a close
in October, an ever-
increasing fleet of
superyachts sailed
south through the
newly wider and deeper
Suez Canal into Indian
Ocean and Asia-Pacific
waters, led by the
globe-girding flagship
Ocean Victory, which
began exploring Asia
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and the South Seas
several years ago. Her
first coral atoll calls
this passage were in Crescent
the Maldives. Italy's 135m Lürssen
Fincantieri builds Featured last issue when Yacht Style was invited on this leading German yard's first media tour
cruise liners and in nearly a decade, Crescent has been kept under wraps apart from an intriguing statement that
warships as well as her build name, Project Thunder, stemmed from the Taoist god Lei Gong, and that she would
private yachts. spend a considerable time voyaging in Asia. The non-yard photo here was taken during early
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sea trials, a year out from delivery. Designer is Espen Øino, who also shaped Ocean Victory.
Motor Yacht A
118m Blohm & Voss
Built a decade back by much-acclaimed
B&V, whose yards were recently absorbed
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into burgeoning compatriot Lürssen, she is
referred to as Motor Yacht A because her
Russian owner also built Sailing Yacht A
at Nobiskrug, another well-known German
superyacht specialist. Motor Yacht A was
cruising the Japanese coast with a side call Ulysses
at Pusan in South Korea at our deadline, 116m Kleven
heading south via Fukuoka. Styled by the New Zealand financial entrepreneur Graeme Hart has owned superyachts called Ulysses
avant garde Philippe Starck, she is no from Holland's Feadship and America's Trinity, but in his latest venture he has built
stranger to Asia-Pacific waters, including enormous 107m and 116m explorer-style vessels at Norwegian commercial yard Kleven.
a long prior sojourn at Marina at Keppel The 107m was sold late last year, and is now called Andromeda, while the 116m Ulysses
Bay's largest "island" berth in Singapore. made her debut in the Med this year, last noticed off Naples in the Ionian Sea.
Vava 11
96m Devonport
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With the 36th America's Cup scheduled to be held
in Auckland, New Zealand, in March 2021, who
should be voyaging back into Asia-Pacific waters
but Swiss biotech billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli. His
Alinghi syndicate won "the auld mug" in Auckland
in 2003, and repeated the feat in Valencia, Spain, in
2007, before a losing tussle with fellow superyacht
owner Larry Ellison. Wife Kirsty is a former Miss
UK and songwriter, and Vava 11 was built at
British yard Devonport, which was later bought by
Pendennis of Falmouth. Refits are done at Amels.
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Equanimity
91.5m Oceanco
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After an extended stay at Sihanoukville on the
Cambodian Coast of the Gulf of Thailand, Equanimity
was seized off Bali in 2018 under a US court order,
then transferred to Port Klang under a Malaysian one.
Burgess Yachts was appointed central agent for her sale
by submission of sealed bids, in a process that it was
hoped would be completed by December 2018.
Lionheart
90m Benetti
British retail entrepreneur Sir
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Philip Green’s Lionheart is believed voyaging
to Southeast Asia and beyond. A repeat Benetti
client, his was the largest vessel built by the
yard when she was launched in 2016, eclipsing
the 1980s-built 86m Nabila, which later visited
Hong Kong as Trump Princess. More records are
about to be broken. See Arctic P entry below.
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Illusion Plus Arctic P
88 m Pride Mega Yachts 88m Schichau Unterwesser
Y.CO are agents for Illusion Plus, latest Chinese superyacht offered Australian gaming mogul James Packer’s sister Gretel
by Pride Mega Yachts, which replaced the already accomplished has taken control of the family’s much-used luxury
Yantai Raffles. Naval architecture is by Azure, an eminent Dutch tug conversion Arctic P, which commutes between the Med and
firm, and interiors by Rainsford Saunders won a prestigious award Sydney Harbour and late 2018 was in the Caribbean. James has a
at this year's Monaco Yacht Show. This is a great opportunity to 100m+ Benetti being delivered in 2019, one of three such vessels
step aboard a sail-ready superyacht. Asking US$145m. at Livorno, which will appear in next year’s list, and has also been
sailing an Amels 180 called EJI after his three children.
Asean Lady
9 88m Yantai Raffles
A founder of superyachting in Asia, Brian Chang cruised his first Asean Lady to Malaysia’s
holiday isles before Langkawi had an airport. He built his unusual two-hull proa in the early
2000s to achieve greater stability at sea. Kept at Raffles Marina in Singapore, Tan Sri Vincent
Tan of Berjaya fame also uses Asean Lady these days, as does brother Julian Chang, a Fraser
Yachts specialist and well-known figure at Monaco Yacht Show with society wife Sandra.
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Ace
87m Lürssen
Intelligence from Monaco
Yacht Show is that Ace
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and her Damen-built 67m
Sea Axe “tender” Garçon have an Asia-
Pacific sojourn planned for 2019.
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Aquijo
86m Oceanco Vitters
Sailing from French Polynesia to Fiji and
Auckland, the fast cruising ketch Aquijo has
startled many harbour-watchers. Designer Bill
Tripp often works with Dutch performance
sailing yard Vitters, which built Lachlan
Murdoch’s Sarissa, but for a project this big
they had to enlist the help of fellow Dutch
builder Oceanco. Charter inquiries via Y.CO.
Seven Seas
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86m Oceanco
Another French Polynesia
aficionado, this was a perfect
vessel to explore Les Isles
Sous Le Vent, including Bora
Bora, plus the Tuamotus and
Marquesas, and she recently
reached La Paz on the Pacific
Coast of Mexico. The
film director Steven Spielberg
has been associated
with Seven Seas.
Pacific
85m Lürssen
Back in Phuket, this magnificent 2010 build
has previously lived up to her name with Pacific
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passages that continued into Asia-Pacific and
globe-girding events. Her exterior styling is by
the Argentinian German Frers, with interiors from
London-based Bannenberg and Rowell.
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Silver Loft
85m SilverYachts
Luxury expedition vessel Silver Loft is latest off the slips since
aluminium exporter China Zhongwang took a substantial interest in
Western Australia-based SilverYachts late last year. Two 73m and 77m
fuel-efficient and technically superb yachts, designed by Espen Øino,
preceded Silver Loft, which has a 5,000 nm range at 18 knots.
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White Rabbit G Hasna
16 84m Echo Yachts
Awaiting sea trials south of Perth at our deadline,
this tri-hull stabilised vessel is the latest attempt by a
73m Feadship
Almost holding her #21 ranking when she
made her debut on the Top 100 list last
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prominent Singapore family to achieve smoother passages in a year, Hasna was custom created for a well-known Australian
seaway. She follows the same-concept but smaller 61m White property finance entrepreneur. Features include a substantial
Rabbit E based at Marina at Keppel Bay, and already has a "beach club" and an 8 metre swimming pool. Exterior and
46m composite "tender for the toys", Charlie. Echo Yachts interior styling are by Britain's RWD. The vessel cruised the
offers similar custom builds at attractive rates. South Seas to French Polynesia this year.
Not Yet Named
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81m Royal Huisman
A work-in-progress for a well-known Asian
yachtsman and philanthropist at this picture-postcard
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Dutch yard, she is under wraps until delivery. Titania
71m Lürssen
Returning for a second charter season,
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which has so far seen her plying
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Rocinante ex-TV Ilona
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between Phuket and Indian Ocean archipelagos, she
76m Lürssen 74m Amels Custom is represented by Burgess. Originally one of three
Bucking a trend that Westfield shopping centres patriarch Sir Frank Lowy, once a poor superyachts ordered by the same client, Lürssen
favours South Seas Hungarian émigré to Australia, bought a fully-custom Amels after a lengthened her by 4 metres in 2012 to allow an aft
passages over North Pacific compatriot, media mogul the late Reg Grundy, did the same with Boadicea. Ilona is kept “beach club”, a second master suite on the upper
ones, the former TV sailed from Osaka to lately in Barcelona, but Lowy and his sons have other smaller superyachts, including deck, and a well-equipped gym on the sun deck. The
San Francisco recently. Shirley Ann named for Lowy's wife, often based at Sydney Superyacht Marina. changes have led to her increasing popularity for
charters in regional waters.
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Felix
70m Jade Yachts
Recently ensconced at the Sydney 24
Game Changer
70m Damen
This is the fourth 70m Yacht Support Vessel built by
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Plvs Vltra Superyacht Marina, Felix has set off again Damen, parent of superyacht yard Amels. If one needs a
74m Amels 242 into the South Seas on a Cairns-Santo- 70m exploration-style ship simply to carry the toys and extra fuel for one's
First of the Amels Limited Edition 242s delivered in 2017, Plvs Vltra is Apia heading. This vessel was constructed in Germany in separate superyacht, the whole concept seems stupendous, and yet owners
Latin for further beyond and is the motto of Spain. Owned by an experienced 1969. Her hull was completely replaced at Jade Yachts in have warmly welcomed it. Damen has now built 12 YSVs for Amels and other
yachtsman and lately cruising from French Polynesia to Southeast Asia, Kaohsiung, followed by a full interior refit in Europe. clients, and both yards have a larger presence in the Top 100 list each year.
she has a sophisticated custom interior by Winch Design which reflects a
penchant for both Versace and the Hotel George V in Paris.
Cloud 9
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69m Feadship
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Sold by Phuket-based Australian Joshua Lee,
74m CRN Samaya has a manta ray insignia, and her owner's
Owned by a Singapore-based businessman, the latest love of diving is reflected in a very advanced dive
Cloud 9 was one of the leading displays for Italian centre aboard. The vessel was delivered late last year.
yard CRN at Monaco Yacht Show last year.
Saluzi
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69m Oceanfast
"Named after a mystical warhorse of the Tang Dynasty
Emperor Taizong, an artwork by Li Jiwei adorns the yacht's
hull as a modern interpretation of the ancient tale", says the
Camper and Nicholsons website. A former boutique liner
from French Polynesia, she offers accommodation for 36
guests, and is beautifully outfitted by Miami-based Luiz de
Basto. Exotic charters are available in Asia-Pacific waters
and elsewhere depending on the season.
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Lady E
69m Amels
This exceptional custom Amels is offered for charter
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67m Damen
Another Yacht Support Vessel by Amels parent shipyard
in Thailand, Malaysia and Myanmar by Burgess Damen, which is now a leading light of the
Yachts during the northern hemisphere "winter". She can
accommodate 12 guests in seven cabins, and has a highly
appraised crew led by Captain Charles Dugas-Standish.
international shipping industry, the name Garçon
perfectly summarises her purpose. She sails with the
87m Lürssen Ace. See also #25 Game Changer.
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Eternity Van Triumph
30 65m Codecasa
Called Family Day when she and another
same-length but radically different "sister
65m Supercraft
David Lieu's vessel, with Brian Chang's first Japanese-built Asean Lady in
Singapore, were the true pioneers of super yachting in Asia. Van Triumph
ship" were launched from this impressive was quite a sight, steaming up Hong Kong Harbour on the stroke of 12.00
Italian yard, she appeared in many famous ports as well each Saturday as Jardine's noon day gun was fired, to pick up guests from
as exotic Asian locations like little visited islands in the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club. David's voyages deep into the South China
Taiwan Straits. Based at Gold Coast Marina in Hong Kong, Sea in this and a smaller prior superyacht are the stuff of legends. Anyone
Eternity has a more modest cruise schedule nowadays. for yellow fin tuna fishing or pig hunting?
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Ambrosia
65m Benetti
Only marginally later on the superyacht scene, Kaohsiung and Hong Kong-based Ambrous 32
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Young was a substantial investor in Italy's leading superyacht yard and built three Benettis
at their Viareggio premises before the new Livorno sheds, soon to disgorge three more 100m+
vessels, came on stream. Still active, Ambrous promotes Kaohsiung big boat facilities at the entrance
to Love River, and sailed Ambrosia to Singapore Yacht Show last year.
Seanna
65m Benetti
Showing up in French
Polynesia, Seanna
continues Benetti's
long dominance in
Asia-Pacific waters,
which began when Mike
Simpson was appointed
agent for Hong Kong and
Japan in the 1980s. This
vessel is a 2011 build,
with RWD and Susan
Young interiors.
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Ventum Maris
65m Amels
Back under her 2011
build name Ventum Maris
or in English Sea Winds,
after a period as Imagine,
this Amels 212 by Tim
Heywood and Andrew
Winch is planning an
Asia-Pacific cruise. A
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centrally-located glass
elevator makes for easy
and elegant access to
all parts of the yacht, SuRi
including the "wet feet" 63m Halter Marine
bar on the sun deck and Last refitted in 2016, this unusual luxury expedition yacht charters between the South Pacific and
large beach club at the Southeast Asia with occasional dips down to Antarctic waters made possible by her vast fuel reserves.
stern. Adventure is her theme, and she is well-equipped for exotic passages in remote locations.
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White Rabbit E
61m North West
Bay Ships
Based at Marina at
Keppel Bay, Tasmanian-
built White Rabbit E has
made many Asian and
Pacific voyages for a
prominent Singaporean
family who have owned
other superyachts in
the past, including two
Feadships. WRE is in
turn being superceded
by the also-aluminium
84m White Rabbit G Diamonds Are Forever
lately doing pre-delivery 61m Benetti
sea trials off builders
Echo Yachts in Western
Australia. See also #16.
Located at Gold Coast Marina in Hong Kong, this superyacht named after one of
the James Bond movies takes advantage of the proximity of the world's two largest
archipelagos, making a passage in the 7,000-isle Philippines recently.
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61m Amels
Also at Gold Coast Marina, this Amels 39
Calypso
61m Amels
Yet another Amels full
199 by Tim Heywood and Laura Sessa custom 199 is making
was originally built for a Russian her way westbound across the
owner and won prestigious superyacht South Pacific after a sojourn in
awards at her launch, but in a deal French Polynesia, and was in Fiji
handled by Burgess was then bought at our deadline. Underscoring
by a prominent Chinese property the custom options available in
developer who, like some other this range, however, Calypso's
Amels aficionados in Asia-Pacific, is exterior and interior styling
particularly keen on soccer. is by Michael Leach.
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Paraffin Slipstream
60m Feadship
A classic De Voogt Feadship presently
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Recently finished the Med season and resting in Palma,
located in Singapore, features include Slipstream is Australian-owned and continues an ever-larger
a jacuzzi and gym with a 360° view, an exceptional
wine cellar, armada of toys and a home cinema. Six
staterooms offset an opulent interior.
succession of vessels of this name. The similarly-sized CMN-
built Cloud 9, also Australian-owned, has lately been replaced
by a 74m at CRN on the Adriatic Coast.
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Formosa 60m Abeking and Rasmussen
60m Benetti
Chartering in the Maldives and then French Polynesia, Isla
Formosa is the Portuguese name for Taiwan, meaning beautiful
Refitted by Bannenberg and Rowell in 2013, and again
last year, Dream is among a steadily increasing number of
superyachts cruising the lovely Fijian archipelago and giving
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island, but for this owner, just beautiful will do. She has three French Polynesia a friendly run for its money, reports long-
sumptuous suites on the upper and principal decks, and superb time agent David Jamieson. One can choose exclusive, totally private isles
amenities throughout. Fraser Yachts acted as central agents. or sample the fare at any number of five-star plus establishments ashore.
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59m Frers Schweers 59m J&K Scheepweren
Also in Fiji, but probably back in New Showing on AIS Marine Traffic at the former
Zealand during the short December-March US naval base Subic Bay near capital
cyclone season, Senses like SuRi has a Manila in the Philippines, Sea Wolf was
more expedition-style than pretty profile, launched as a super-powerful, ocean-going
but interiors are by Philippe Starck, and Dutch tug in 1957, towing US aircraft
she has had an illustrious guest list in the carriers when circumstances
past, providing good vibes for potential dictated, but like the larger
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charterers. Recently she was in exotic Goa Arctic P she has been
on the Indian Coast, so it seems owner, progressively converted into a
captain, crew and agents conspire to suggest still solid but more luxuriously
some interesting options. outfitted charter vessel.
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Pangea
58m Halter Marine
Built like SuRi at Halter Marine, once
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Trinity Yachts' parent in the States,
the vessel is named after our super continent before
it began breaking up in the Triassic Age. She has
undertaken assorted marine and birdlife ecological
expeditions in the Indian Ocean, calling at Phuket or
Langkawi for refuelling and R&R in between, and has
spent most of the last year exploring the Australian
coast, recently arriving in Fremantle from Broome.
Kokomo
58m Alloy Yachts
Australian property developer Lang Walker has had
a series of motor yachts and sailboats called Kokomo,
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mostly the latter, and we recall arriving at Hamilton Island with the
late Ed Dubois when he was to discuss the design of this latest one,
to be built at now-defunct Alloy Yachts in New Zealand. Walker
has recently launched his Kokomo resort on an exclusive island in
Fijian waters. The super sailboat chartered in the Med this season,
so visiting her namesake resort may be some time away.
Salila
58m Daya Radar Utama
Regularly listed in our annual Charter Focus, this
unusual vessel was refitted in 2009 and 2012 in
Jakarta, and she continues to offer custom cruises
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in Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago with
14,000 isles that stretch an equivalent distance
of San Francisco to New York.
Volpini 2
58m Amels
Volpini was listed in earlier Top
100 Asia-Pacific lists, and this year
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the same owner took delivery of
the Amels 188 Limited Edition Volpini 2, whose
build was overseen again by Ben Young of SYM
Superyacht Management. A well-known Melbourne
billionaire, the owner continues a growing coterie
Down Under of super yachtsmen upgrading or
entering the league for the first time. A remarkable
number of orders have been placed with Amels,
stretching back to Reg Grundy and Frank Lowy.
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57m Royal Huisman 57m Aegean Yacht
Lovely Royal Huisman ketch Twizzle was A three-masted schooner,
a centrepiece of Singapore Yacht Show a Loretta was on the
few years ago, and as successive owners Queensland Coast late 2018,
have been keen on exploring further-flung voyaging between Cairns and
parts of the Pacific, Asia and the Indian Brisbane, and is believed
Ocean - one also sailed prior visitor available
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Andromeda La Dea - it is no surprise that for charter
she is still cruising these waters, most for selected
recently in Tahiti and Fiji. periods.
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58 Lili
55m Amels
Add Elixir at #57, and no less than five Amels Limited
Editions 180s are lined up here, a distinct record since
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the list first appeared decades ago. Lili, also featured by
Yacht Style this year, has been represented by Imperial for
both build and charter as she headed to the Indian Ocean
and Southeast Asia, and this well-outfitted vessel remains
available in Asia-Pacific waters.
Lady Candy
56m Benetti 52 La Familia Not Yet Named
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Hong Kong-based Lady Candy
and Genesis owners took advantage 55m Amels 55m Amels
of economies of scale in building superyachts One of the first Amels 180s to arrive at Mark Woodmansey of Burgess Asia handled this sale announced as
at Italy's leading yard, and both were advised Singapore Yacht Show three years back the Cannes and Monaco Yacht Shows got under way in September.
locally by Captain Paul Brackley of Central and making regular return appearances since, La Delivery is to be even faster, in the spring of 2019. "I am delighted
Design Studio, who has undertaken other Familia has a superb interior decor, and epitomises a with this milestone sale of the latest Amels 180", said
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substantial projects in the region, including successful concept that allows owners to take delivery Mark. "Following the sale of EJI earlier in the year, this
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refits and maintenance in Subic Bay in the of quite big yachts in only two years, based on timeless latest purchase cements the successful, long-running
Philippines. styling by Tim Heywood and interiors by Laura Sessa partnership between Amels and Burgess. I would like to
or a designer of the owner's choice. thank Rose Damen and her team.
Genesis Halo Driftwood Ocean Paradise
56m Benetti
See also #52 above. The vessels are based
at Gold Coast Marina on the western New
53 55m Feadship
Another visitor to Marina Taina in Papeete this year,
Halo was inspired by Helix which cruised Asia-Pacific
56 55m Amels
Damen Shipyards owns Amels, and Rose has
become a regular visitor to Singapore and
61 55m Benetti
Singaporean entrepreneur Adrian Lee's custom vessel features Zen
gardens and a minimalist fitout always connected with the sea.
Territories side of Hong Kong, and despite the similarities, for a year on behalf of this leading Dutch yard. It was the last of a series, elsewhere in Asia-Pacific. "We are confident that the Amels She has cruised in the Med for the past two seasons and was at the
they are actually custom outfitted in completely different and could be delivered in a mere 33 months from Feadship's Van Lent 180 is the most successful 55m superyacht design ever, with Benetti base in Viareggio at the end of the last one.
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ways. Venturesome Lady Candy cruised the Borneo and facility. Bought by a lady, she is reported to be "following the sun". more than 20 deliveries since 2007", she says. Driftwood,
Philippines Coasts last year, and this season was back in the another example of the species, has been cruising in French
Med via Phuket and Cochin in India. Polynesia, and was in Honolulu in the Hawaiian Islands at
our deadline, another highly recommended route.
Elixir
Fidelis 57 55m Amels
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56m Perini Navi Featured as a cover story in Yacht Style for Singapore
Samax
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One of a fleet of Perini Navis that constantly Yacht Show in 2017, Elixir is following some of her
cruise Asia-Pacific waters, Fidelis has spent sisters this year and heading for Phuket. Amels executive Victor 55m Feadship
considerable time in the South Seas, and Caminada thinks their Limited Edition 180 is ideal for Asia- Constantly commuting between the Med and
when this was written was exploring the beautiful waters of Pacific waters. See entries that follow. Australian billionaire James Southeast Asia, this vessel was originally
New Caledonia, a French-Melanesian group less than 1000 Packer has also been using one called EJI after the first letter of commissioned from Feadship's Royal Van Lent yard by
nm off the Queensland Coast. It has the world's second his children's names, but is switching steeds next year. Prince Jefri of Brunei, and she has been a denizen of Phuket
largest barrier reef after the nearby Great Barrier Reef. and the Andaman Sea since. Her favourite Med hangouts
are Turkey and Greece, although this year she turned up in
Malta presumably for refits before returning.
Rosehearty
56m Perini Navi
Originally commissioned by ex-Australian
newspaper baron and still keen sailor Rupert
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Murdoch, who has had other Perini Navis, Rosehearty first
made our Top 100 list for that reason. Lately the vessel has
been in French Polynesia, to which son Lachlan Murdoch
also sailed his smaller Vitters Sarissa.
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Sea Shaw
52m Cheoy Lee
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Singapore steed of the late movie mogul Shaw Vee
King, who passed away last year, this Frank Mulder-Dee Robinson
design was completed at Cheoy Lee near Macau. Long kept at
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Republic of Singapore Yacht Club, and making fortnightly "long
weekend" passages to nearby Indonesian and Malaysian waters,
she too was further afield in Bangkok at our deadline.
Elysium
52m Benetti
Formerly Quantum of Solace and part of the famous
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James Bond series ordered by dealer extraordinaire
John Staluppi, she was purchased by the experienced Singapore
and Malaysian property developer David Eng, who had earlier
Tiara Ad-Vantage built two aluminium superyachts at Palmer Johnson on the
55m Alloy Yachts 55m Damen shores of the Great Lakes. Often kept in Phuket but presently
Cruising between Tahiti and Fiji, after a sojourn in Southeast Asia in 2017, Another of the Damen Sea Axe Support Vessels, Ad-Vantage exploring the Gulf of Thailand and Bangkok.
Tiara can be chartered. We fell in love with this yacht's split-level owner's was working with a smaller "mother" ship, Palmer Johnson's
suite while sailing her with the late Tony Hambrook, Alloy Yachts' former MD. sporty 46m Vantage, in French Polynesia, but
Created by John Munford, another of the famous British interior designers, this orange-hulled vessel was bound for Ft
the suite uses Vavona burl and Honduran mahogany, and we would highly
recommend it to any wealthy yachtie who feels like getting away from it all,
with a crew to help run Alloy's custom-made push-button sailing system.
Lauderdale late 2018, possibly to be offered
during Ft Lauderdale Boat Show, so this may
mark the end of her South Pacific sojourn.
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51m Heesen
New to the region and chartering out of Phuket as 73
part of this year's Burgess offerings, MySky adds to
the increasing Heesen presence. She carries 12 guests in three
double cabins, two twins and some Pullmans, plus captain and ten
Maridome crew, and has a wide range of tenders and toys. Sample rates are
54m Brooke Marine
Longest-standing member of the
Melbourne superyacht club, retailer
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Solomon Lew keeps this distinctively-
designed vessel built at England's Brooke Marine
Jade 959
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in the Med lately, a little way along the coast from
Barcelona, but equally he has waved from astern 52m Jade Yachts
during past cruises in Phuket. One trucking mate has A Juan Carlos Espinosa design and built in
just taken delivery of #49 Volpini 2, so a matching Kaohsiung when Jade Yachts was more active
upgrade may be in the wind, although Lew also has there, Jade 959 has been chartering in the Med for the past two
the 45m Texas which he uses for Australian cruises. seasons. Jade VP Memphis Han has been focusing more on the
family's five yards building commercial and fishing craft of late.
Keri Lee 111
Drumbeat 54m Trinity 67
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Part of a growing fleet of superyachts that
call French Polynesia and Fiji home,
Another Australian-owned superyacht that charters far and
wide, her interiors feature some interesting original artworks,
and principal furnishings are French antique. The vessel was offered
Double Haven
51m Feadship
Presently in Brisbane, Double Haven was a trend-setting 74
with occasional refit and repair runs to in Southeast Asia, and in recent seasons has tried the Med market, superyacht of the mid-1990s, taking five years in her
Auckland where Drumbeat was built. David Jamieson of concluding again at La Ciotat for repairs and maintenance. gestation for Hong Kong-based publisher Merle Hinrich
Asia-Pacific Superyachts talks these days of 50-60 big of Asian Sources and later Forbes fame. A book was written
boats in the extensive Fiji archipelago. Bart Kimman, about her, and sketches akin to this vessel soon appeared in
Hong Kong-based leading agent for Camper and nearly every designer's portfolio. Hinrich successfully used her
Nicholsons in the region, says that sales activity among as a floating office, and she was later to be found mostly in the
the super sailboats is quite vibrant. Philippines archipelago or Micronesia.
Luna
52m Perini Navi
A selection of Perini Navi super sailboats 69 75 Pursuit
51m Damen
Enough has been said about Damen's Support Vessels
grace Asia-Pacific waters every year, already, so suffice to say that Pursuit initially turned
and Luna, a ketch presently at Westhaven, the southern up in tandem with another similarly-sized vessel last year, and now
hemisphere's largest marina, in Auckland, is but one. appears to be exploring the islands of eastern Papua New Guinea,
She was in French Polynesia earlier in the year. well-known for their vibrant corals and big fish.
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Umbra Chirundos Legacy Northern Sun
51m Damen
Recently in Singapore
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and Wing
50m Westport
Keeps itinerary as private as
50m HYS
One of the most popular charter vessels in Southeast
and at Phuket Yacht This vessel was built as the high-exposure superyachts Asian waters in recent years, Northern Sun was
Haven, Umbra like other Damens is successor to much-acclaimed 45m can conversely hope to achieve. Last noted originally built in Japan and refitted in Subic Bay. A knowledgeable
included because apart from their original Big Fish, which is still making in East Papua New Guinea waters and the captain and crew help introduce guests to unique getaways in
concept as Support Vessels, they are impressive passages. Chirundos Solomon Sea, after a South Pacific sojourn otherwise well-known cruising spots such as the Andaman Sea.
increasingly being used in their own right benefits from the many innovative ending in New Zealand and Australia. Built
as explorer yachts. This one was refitted ideas applied in these in the States in 2011, both exterior and
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in Whangarei, New Zealand, a few years Greg Marshall designs, interior styling are by renowned Donald
ago, and has been roaming the Pacific,
including work for America's prestigious
Woods Hole Institute.
and is presently on the
West Pacific Coast of
Mexico.
Starkey. Semi-displacement GRP vessel
with a 20 knot cruise speed.
Kalizma
50m Ramage
and Ferguson
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50m Heesen
Burgess advises that another Heesen apart from
Making regular #73 MySky chartering out of Phuket is simply
appearances in exotic Asia-Pacific Sky, available in the Maldives. This is a custom-
and Indian Ocean ports, including built performance vessel with four deck levels
East Africa ones, Kalizma is and generous outside space. It has a 3,000 nm+
one of those delightfully classic, range, and should be an interesting
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laid-back vessels that everybody way to explore these islands.
should try once. Richard Burton
bought her for Elizabeth Taylor
79 in 1967, during one of their
marriages, and she was named
Kalizma after Burton’s children
Kate, Liza and Maria.
Sapphire
50m Trinity
Originally Red Sapphire when she arrived from the Gulf,
this vessel was shown at the 4th Hainan Rendezvous where
stablemate Lohengrin was then located before her move
to Hong Kong. She was subsequently purchased by "a
consortium of Bangkok-based businessmen" and engages
in charters. Not to be confused with the 73m Nobiskrug
superyacht of the same Sapphire name.
Braveheart
50m Swedeship
The late Dutch
designer Peter
Beeldsnijder
created some
of the loveliest
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super sailboat
interior decors ever seen,
particularly for Royal
Thalia Lohengrin Aurora A
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Huisman, but for this motor
yacht which cruises the 49m Vitters 49m Trinity 49m Admiral
China Coast with occasional In Auckland at our Bought during a Ft Lauderdale Boat Show Anyone strolling Shanghai’s
sorties into Southeast Asia, deadline, this immaculate by the Chairman of Hainan Airlines (HNA), famous Bund today has
he styled the exterior as Ron Holland design is now 25 years old, and shown at Hainan Rendezvous with the a good chance of coming across Aurora A,
well. Last year we mentioned albeit has had a complete refit in the likes of Billy Smith 111 aboard, the name an Admiral often berthed on the banks of
related twin Picchiotti now interim. She was cruising French Polynesia of course derives from the opera. HNA has the busy Huangpu River, which leads off
Eileen Perini Navi motor yacht last season, where another Vitters, Sarissa, gone on to become a sizeable conglomerate, the Yangtze Kiang and passes through the
50m Codecasa purchases in Hong Kong, has lately been island-hoppping. Thalia albeit recently selling off centre of modern-day Shanghai. Private
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Listed last year because we heard of Asia-Pacific connections, and the involvement of and although not formally has an ultra-specious main deck salon with some assets to pay down debt, yachts can indeed visit the city, and China
Phuket Yacht Haven denizen Capt Ed Shiels, Eileen was in fact in Newport, Rhode Island
at the time, but she has since lived up to predictions and appeared in the South Pacific on a
westbound passage, calling most recently in Fiji, Honiara in the Solomons and Noumea.
80 reincluding them until next
year, see the introduction to
this feature for an update.
panoramic windows and retractable blinds
provide on-deck shade. Mahogany panelling
and marble showers are interior features.
and Lohengrin moved on to
Hong Kong, from whence she
makes “local” cruises
Coast agents help in making arrangements.
Voyaging further up the Yangtze toward
Nanjing can be a little more complex.
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Michaela Rose Asteria
49m Frers Schweers 49m Anastassiades
Presently at Hamilton Island in the Whitsunday An explorer-style yacht with a 6,000 nm range, recently
Group, off the Queensland Coast, this is the second arrived in Auckland from Fiji, this is one of Chinese
classic yacht built by Frers Schweers in the 2018 list after entrepreneur Tony Fung’s offshore steeds. He has made
Senses, which is 10m longer. Michaela Rose was in Tahiti and various proposals for casinos and resorts on the
Fiji before this latest Australian cruise. Another Diana Yacht
Design, her top speed is 16 knots and she has a maximum
range of 3,800 nm at 14 knots.
Queensland Coast, and is understood to be going
ahead with one new gaming project in Canberra,
the Federal capital.
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Lady Orient
90
48m Sterling
Built at Nishi Zosen on the Ise
Peninsula in 1983, the same year
Australia won the America’s Cup
leading to a defence off Fremantle in Western
Australia, the original Asean Lady was styled
by Sterling Scott of Sterling Yachts. This led to
a spate of superyacht builds for Japanese and
Australians, but Asean Lady went on to become
Southeast Asia’s first superyacht under owner
Brian Chang, who often anchored off the lovely
Langkawi isles before they had an airport.
Rochade No Comment
48m Delta
In Phuket as this year’s list was put together, Rochade had
48m Christensen
Voyaging from Tahiti to Fiji, Noumea and 92
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previously been commuting between Brisbane and Fiji. Her Brisbane, No Comment under Capt Cy
interior fit-out is described as “beautiful and contemporary Wastell is the former Scott Free. She has
Asian style, with accommodation for 10 guests in five suites. a considerable MTU-powered 4,300 nm range, and can
A 3,500 nm range allows for easy Pacific island-hopping. accommodate 12 guests. Interiors are by Kater Graziano.
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47m Sanlorenzo
New flagship of Sanlorenzo’s Asia-Pacific fleet is
this 500EXP just being delivered, augmenting the
Sanlorenzo Steel 46s Forwin and Achilles F which
retain their places in the final segment. Sanlorenzo
is represented by Simpson Marine, the region’s
oldest and most successful agency.
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Aquamarina Perfect Persuasion
47m ISA 47m Oceanfast
Regularly roaming Southeast Asian and Pacific Lately exploring the Langkawi Islands, this vessel known as
ports, she was back in Singapore late 2018. “PP” for short has cruised extensively in the Southeast Asian
Built in Ancona in 2006, her distinctive sleek
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exterior styling is by Walter Franchini. One whence she came, having been built in GRP by Oceanfast
of the superyachts that uses Sutera Harbour during its heyday south of Perth. Donald Starkey was
facilities on the Borneo Coast, a stop-over that responsible for both the exterior and interior, and naval
we annually recommend. architect was Phil Curran.
Skade Princess Iolanthe
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Making her debut last year in French Both Princess Iolanthe and Aquamarina have spent time in
Polynesia and Fiji, this Tripp-designed Sutera Harbour, but the former has lately shown a penchant
sloop moved on to cruise lovely New Caledonian waters for the Philippines archipelago, and is presently ensconced
before the latter’s long-awaited independence referendum in Subic Bay. Built in steel-aluminium in 2006, with
in November 2018, and was last reported in Rabaul on the exterior styling by Luca Dini and interiors by Jean-Pierre
north coast of Papua New Guinea. Fantini, she has previously been listed for sale.
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46m Sanlorenzo
Delivered to a Chinese
owner in 2017 by Simpson Marine,
and often seen cruising between
Hong Kong and Lamma Islands,
this Sanlorenzo 46 Steel has five
decks and a displacement, high
tensile steel hull with aluminium
topsides. She has a 3,500 nm
range at 11 knots, and a top
speed of 17 knots. Cabin layouts
can be customised to suit
owner preferences.
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Mutiara Laut
Achilles F 46m L van
46m Sanlorenzo Oostenbrugge
Although technically Built as a two-masted
a sister ship to Forwin schooner but with
and also based on the at least a nod to
China Coast, Achilles F Indonesia’s famous
is a somewhat different phinisis, such as her
example of these very wooden construction
successful Paszkowski- taking place in
designed vessels. She has Kalimantan, Mutiara
a gold hull and a full-beam Laut charters primarily
master suite, and at our in the Indonesian
deadline was in Keelung, archipelago. Please
the northern port for capital see a related feature
Taipei in Taiwan. Simpson on the large phinisis
Marine was once again the also available in the
sales agent. following pages.
70COVER STORY Phinisis
ASIA'S OTHER SUPERYACHTS
INDONESIAN PHINISIS Silolona 50m
Patti Seery has become a legend in the last decade or two for her
pioneering efforts in promoting the Indonesian phinisi lifestyle, and
Traditional Indonesian phinisis, like gulets in Turkey, compete with superyachts Silolona is her first masterpiece. The vessel is hand-crafted from
for charter bookings, but are in no way comparable in terms of construction the finest tropical hardwoods to German Lloyds specifications by
the Master Konjo boat builders of Sulawesi, formerly known as the
costs or techniques, and their LOAs sometimes include a generous bowsprit to Celebes. Tasteful decor, spacious decks, delightful Asian fusion
cuisine. A second vessel, Si Datu Bua, has been added.
carry the tacks of foresails. Yacht Style features these lovely vessels individually
in other print and online editions, particularly in the annual Charter Focus,
but in Top 100 Superyachts we simply add them as an appendix.
Dunia Baru 51m
Last but definitely not least of the leading
luxury phinisis, Dunia Baru meaning
New World offers luxury escapes in the
world's largest archipelago, Indonesia,
and in surrounding seas. Owner Mark
Robba, like Patti Seery, often engages in
ocean ecology and village relief projects
of which he is particularly proud, if
charterers wish to offset more hedonistic
pleasures with contributing to some very
worthwhile causes. For all vessels, simply
google the name for contacts.
Prana 55m
Launched only months ago, the luxury phinisi
Prana takes her name from a Sanskrit word
meaning breath or life force. We have not
had the opportunity to inspect her yet, but
photography indicates very high quality
appointments and a philosophy that combines
inner learning with travel. Planned routes will
traverse the islands east of Bali, including
Komodo and others off Flores, the Banda spice
islands, and diving mecca Raja Ampat.
Lamima 65m
Like Mutiara Laut included in Top 100 as
#100 this year, Lamima is a hybrid between
a phinisi and a more conventional sailing
vessel too, having been designed in 2012
by the esteemed Marcelo Penna. She took
three years to build at Aru in Sulawesi, and
unusually is certified by the Italian agency
RINA. In addition to Indonesian isles, she
switches with the seasons to Thailand's
Andaman Sea and the Mergui Archipelago
in Myanmar, formerly Burma.
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