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What makes us special, a catamaran entirely built in costa rica in 2021,  designed just for the kind of experiences you will live with us....because we did it , we have the know-how of italian hospitality and the love for this land that has welcomed us, and we can't wait to share it all with you., we are blessed by the natural beauty of the area where we operate, it is impossible not to fall in love with what you see, we believe in respecting the environment, because it is thanks to it that we are here. so we are 100% plastic free.

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Sky & Sand è un veloce catamarano a motore con vela ausiliaria per il trasporto dei turisti, la barca nasce per permettere di organizzare feste e aperitivi al tramonto. Costruita in Costa Rica da Jose Alcoser Simo, per Sky & Sand il nostro studio ha sviluppato il design e la progettazione delle strutture e dei piani di laminazione, in conformità con la normativa ISO 12215-7 2019 e affrontando l'ottimizzazione attraverso l'analisi a elementi finiti (FEA). Questo metodo di calcolo è stato sfruttato in modo particolare per valutare la risposta strutturale della barca ai carichi globali a cui sono tipicamente sottoposti i multiscafi.

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Sky & Sand is a fast power catamaran with an auxiliary sail for the transport of tourists with the target of organizing parties and aperitifs at sunset. Built in Costa Rica by Jose Alcoser Simo, we developed the design and the structures and lamination plans engineering in compliance with the ISO 12215-7 2019 Standards. Moreover the optimization of the structures has been studied through the finite element analysis (FEA). This method has been exploited expecially to evaluate the structural response to the typical multihulls' global loads.

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For charter: On board the 55m Lürssen superyacht Moon Sand

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Moon Sand might be the smallest Lürssen delivered since the turn of the millennium, but her big-thinking design team and luxurious details prove good things can come in smaller packages. Risa Merl steps on board as she joins the charter market. 

It’s a dull, rainy day in London, but along the River Thames there is a glimmer of excitement in the form of a boat. The new 55.5-metre Lürssen Moon Sand is moored at Butler’s Wharf, the grandly ornate Tower Bridge serving as a regal backdrop to her graceful lines, inspired by none other than the classic yacht Carinthia VI . Years prior to the inception of Moon Sand , Bannenberg & Rowell Design had worked on a reinterpretation of the 71-metre Carinthia VI . Launched by Lürssen in 1973 and now renamed The One , she was designed by the late, great Jon Bannenberg, so it’s a fitting continuation of his legacy that his son’s firm would breathe new life into her iconic lines.

“ Moon Sand has an unusual sort of heritage,” says Simon Rowell, her designer. “It grew out of a mini- Carinthia notion. When a yacht is deemed to be among the most beautiful in the world, you really don’t want to muck around with that, but iterating through to a more contemporary design was rewarding.”

Bannenberg & Rowell had also designed the owner’s previous Moon Sand , a 44-metre built by Feadship . When it was time to step up in size, he met the designers in their London office and saw the sketch of the modernised Carinthia concept hanging on the wall. The drawing caught the owner’s eye – it was just what he was looking for, though he wanted a smaller LOA of around 50 metres. The designers said it was a project they had been working on with Lürssen.

“Apparently, the client said, ‘Don’t they only build bigger boats?’” says Michael Breman, Lürssen’s sales director. Over the years, Lürssen has garnered a reputation for building 100-metre-plus behemoths – of the top 25 largest yachts in the world, 13 were built by the German yard. It had been a decade since it had launched a “smaller” yacht, the 61-metre Lady Kathryn V .

“You build big boats and you get noticed; it has its advantages, but it also has its disadvantages,” says Breman. “People think we build only large boats, but actually we have built far more boats under 90 metres than above. We believe the  very large yacht market is an occasional business and it’s important for us to stay in touch with the core of the market – it’s where there are the most buyers.” In recent years, Lürssen had been exploring how to reconnect with the middle of the market. The builder wanted to make sure it had a presence here and was not just seen as an outlier that only builds very large yachts.

It was a perfect confluence of events that Lürssen was already looking to move in this direction and that Moon Sand ’s owner was captivated by a Carinthia -inspired yacht. The concept went through half a dozen iterations before settling on what would become the new Moon Sand . The elegant silhouette with sharp, straight lines running bow to stern is paired with well-sculpted superstructure curves that are noticeable up close. In the final version, the designers introduced a much softer and curvaceous bulwark.

The owner’s brief for Moon Sand wasn’t to have more rooms on board but to enlarge the living spaces he already had. It’s very much a family boat so it was vital that it retained a homely atmosphere. The owner regularly told his team that he didn’t want a big boat. The project started at 51 metres, then went up to 53 and finally to 55.5, which was the owner’s upper limit. “He was very conscious that he didn’t want to grow too much in size – you know, starting at 50 but ending up at 60 metres. It’s easy to get carried away during a custom build,” says the owner’s rep James Hutchinson of Hutchinson Yacht Consulting. “When we were trying to find more space, he was the one reining us back in, saying ‘No, I want to be strict on myself because I don’t want to feel lost in my own boat.’ The feeling of cosiness was important.”

Despite being firm on the LOA, the owner had no hard and fast rules for the volume, leaving it up to the designers to shape things. “We designed this yacht from a blank piece of paper, so rather than having an envelope that the interior works within, we were able to make sure everything in the interior was optimised with the structure,” Rowell says.

But the owner knew that, if he was going over 500GT, it needed to be a worthwhile step. At 835GT, the yacht has gained larger lower deck guest cabins, an expansive master with a walk-in closet, a much better gym and expanded exterior areas. “One huge upgrade is the [main] aft deck,” says Rowell. “The previous Moon Sand also had a pool, but it felt a bit too cramped and close to the exterior stairs leading to the upper deck.” The bottom of the pool raises to be flush with the faux teak deck when not in use.

The beam is just one metre wider than the earlier Moon Sand , but the saloons feel much bigger thanks to her massive windowpanes. “Though she’s only a 55-metre yacht, the yard said the pieces of glass, particularly those in the upper deck lounge, were among the biggest pieces they had ever fitted because there are no mullions,” Hutchinson says.

The lack of mullions meant that Lürssen put some serious R&D into creating a surrounding structure that could support the panes without any flexing. In the main saloon, the designers wanted to dress the windows without using drapes, so they are bordered by glass frames  over an ombré mesh – while sheer blinds lower when privacy is required. “The boss was nervous he was losing window real estate,” says Dickie Bannenberg. “We walked a tightrope between having a softening edge to the windows without blocking light.”

The interior living spaces are also arranged differently, with fewer visual disruptions and an open-plan feel. “The main saloon is amazing,” Bannenberg says. “Main saloons can be transit spaces, but they actually use it.” The saloon has two seating areas, and the pièce de résistance in this space is the dining table, just one of the complicated custom furnishings built by Frank Pollaro. Many of the other furnishings come from Silverlining and Linley.

The interior styling is unabashedly bold, which speaks to the owner’s taste for interesting details. “He’s always given us free rein,” says Rowell.  “If someone is brave enough to commission a bespoke boat, you want to take advantage of that on their behalf.” Yet it is purposefully more subdued than the previous Moon Sand . “We proposed a less claustrophobic scheme. We told the owner, ‘We can make it a calmer backdrop, but still have a lot of fun’,” he says. The owners are glass collectors and at first wanted a Chihuly chandelier, but the designers thought it might make things too busy. Instead, Rowell suggested petal-shaped white glass fixtures by Preciosa. These adorn the main saloon and dining area, affixed on the drop ceilings, which are finished in a subtle blue-sky fresco.

The owner’s preferred colour palette is blues and yellows, the latter of which the designers have drawn out with the use of bronze and brass detailing, instead of just splashes of colour in the soft goods. An example of this can be seen in the bronze detailed chairs Silverlining designed and built for the upper deck lounge. This saloon is the owner’s lair; it’s the place he spends the most time on board. Rowell says it was the most challenging space to design because it’s really four rooms in one – a games area, a lounge, an office and a bar – and is divided as such. The lounge has an eclectic pairing of woods – a coffee table in white “ebony Royale” is set against a custom-designed sofa with a ziricote wood base and built-in end table.

Hutchinson has worked with the owners for nearly two decades, since they owned Sunseekers. “They moved from production boats to custom, so they like all the little things you can do because it’s a custom boat,” he says. “Because we had done several boats with them before, we knew what they wanted. Everything to the smallest detail has a home; everything is here for a purpose. That’s what building a custom boat is all about.” This includes having power units hidden in upper saloon furnishings to charge iPads and a drawer built into the master cabin dresser that is there purely to hide the Crestron remote control.

Regulations that come with going over 500GT that might put other owners off, such as more allowances for fire doors and space for crew, wasn’t an issue. “He actually wanted more space for crew and made a point of telling me there should be big showers for the crew, a comfortable mess and a large galley,” Rowell says. “It was refreshing, because the crew areas are always the spaces that get pinched.”

The captain, engineer and chief stew have all been with the owner for many years, so they were able to guide decisions. “Having worked with them for seven years, you can better tailor the spaces,” says chief stew Katy Mijatovic. All the china is hand-washed, so there was no need for a dishwasher in the pantry, and the owner prefers tea to coffee, so there aren’t any big barista machines. The galley also has a built-in wok on the stovetop.

The technical spaces challenged Lürssen to think differently when returning to building “small” boats. “It’s harder because you have to fit the same systems of a 100 metre in a smaller volume,” says Lürssen project manager Lorenza Allegrini. The size and placement of the engines, generators and equipment all had to be carefully developed, digging into 3D models. Moon Sand ’s chief engineer, Bozidar Mijatovic, worked closely with the yard’s team on this. “We found new ways to route the piping and played with every available centimetre – even gaining five centimetres in a passageway was really important,” he says. Moon Sand is built to IMO Tier III, and the engineering team decided to maximise the onboard urea capacity so the yacht can travel its entire 5,000-nautical-mile range in low-emission mode.

As we make our way down the Thames to Canary Wharf, Moon Sand ’s Captain Lorian Smith is in the bridge along with the Thames pilots. The bridge has excellent visibility, despite the stormy English weather. “We took as many mullions out as we could, then we moved from 19-inch screens up to 27 inches. The technology has changed hugely in those years,” he says.

Fortunately, there was much better weather in London when the owners first stepped on board a week before, and they were able to see their yacht for the first time in the glow of sunlight. The owners are very much hands-on and would have been even more so if it wasn’t for Covid-19. Their last design outing was in February 2020 to select marbles in Italy. After that, they weren’t able to visit the boat until it arrived in London. “It was unusual to not have them see it in the shipyard, but it’s a buzz seeing all the landmarks from the yacht and cruising under Tower Bridge,” Hutchinson says.

As for Lürssen’s re-entry into the world of smaller boats, the yard reports a healthy order book in part as a result of moving in this direction. Breman is quick to note that though she’s not a 100 metre, Moon Sand is far from dinky. “I don’t think she’s a small boat at all;  I think she’s a huge boat!” he says. “I’m always surprised that the human mind can get comfortable with size very quickly. When you’re on board she feels very comfortable and the size is good. Most importantly, the owner and his family are very happy.” One might say they’re over the moon.

Moon Sand is available for charter with Edmiston from €475,000 per week.

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The 25.69m/84'3" 'Sky' motor yacht built by the Italian shipyard Azimut is available for charter for up to 10 guests in 4 cabins. This yacht features interior styling by Italian designer Salvagni Architetti.

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Built with a GRP hull and GRP superstructure, she has impressive speed and great efficiency thanks to her planing hull. Powered by twin Caterpillar engines, she comfortably cruises at 20 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 29 knots. Her low draft of 1.73m/5'8" makes her primed for accessing shallow areas and cruising close to the shorelines.

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​​The World’s First “Air Yacht” Would Sail in the Sky and Sea (With Zero Emissions)

Yachts and private planes make for luxurious ways to zip from one place to another, but recently, a businessman based in Germany and Italian designer Pierpaolo Lazzarini discovered what happens when they combine boats and jets: the ultra-sleek sky yacht. Equipped with eight counter-rotating electric engines powered by super-lightweight batteries and solar panels, the nearly 500-foot-long yacht can traverse the sky (and sea) at 60 knots for more than two days straight with zero emissions. Plus, aside from its full-electric mobility, the air yacht is sustainable in other ways too: It will be built entirely from carbon fiber, which is as high-strength as it is lightweight.

The 500-foot futuristic vessel comprises three main parts: a central compartment with a living room and dining area flanked by two inflatable helium blimps that house 10 suites.

Lazzarini’s design looks like something out of the future: a spacious living room and dining area housed within the sky yacht’s central torpedo-shaped structure that’s connected via eight carbon bridges (four on each side) to two 150-foot-long blimps. And the blimps that contain a whopping 14,125,867 cubic feet of helium that keep the vessel high in the sky, flanking the main compartment, aren’t just there to elevate the jet: Between the two, there are 10 guest suites, all of which boast 360-degree views.

The two balloon-like compartments on either side of the impressive vessel comprise an inflatable base that allows the innovative machine to float atop the water surface when the owner is in the mood to sail the sea versus the sky. Though being able to choose which medium makes the most sense for specific destinations sounds like an ideal way to travel, the sky yacht is, unfortunately, still quite a ways off from replacing typical ships and planes. 

The enormous sky yacht is too big to simply park at a marina while its guests climb aboard, so it comes equipped with a retractable staircase.  

For the private owner who commissioned the estimated $627,511,500 sky yacht, however, his new mode of transportation is the way of the future. In fact, Lazzarini has promised that a first-scale model prototype will lift into the air later this year, and a collection of slightly varying designs (of different lengths) is currently in the early phases of both engineering and prototyping. So, perhaps we’ll all be passengers onboard a boat that flies before the end of the decade.

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Sailing yachts like Mike Lynch's are 'unsinkable bodies', CEO of boat manufacturing firm says

Bayesian superyacht which sank off Italy is an "unsinkable" vessel, Giovanni Costantino, CEO of The Italian Sea Group, said.

By Ashna Hurynag, news correspondent and Eleonora Chiarella, producer

Sunday 25 August 2024 08:48, UK

Vessels like Mike Lynch's stricken superyacht are "unsinkable", according to the chief executive of the firm which makes and sells them.

Giovanni Costantino, CEO of The Italian Sea Group, told Sky News there are no flaws with the design and construction of the Bayesian superyacht which capsized in a storm off the coast of Porticello, Sicily, on Monday.

Five bodies were found by divers on Wednesday - taking the number of confirmed dead to six.

The Italian Sea Group also owns the firm that built British tech tycoon Mr Lynch's Bayesian, and Mr Costantino said the vessels "are the safest in the most absolute sense".

"Being the manufacturer of Perini [boats], I know very well how the boats have always been designed and built," he said.

"And as Perini is a sailing ship... sailing ships are renowned to be the safest ever."

He said their structure and keel made them "unsinkable bodies".

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Mr Costantino said news of the sinking "put me in a state of sadness on one side and of disbelief on the other".

"This incident sounds like an unbelievable story, both technically and as a fact," he said.

It is understood Italian prosecutors investigating the incident are continuing to hold interviews with the survivors.

On Tuesday they questioned the captain for more than two hours to help reconstruct what happened and provide useful technical details.

Four British inspectors are also in Porticello and have begun a preliminary assessment of events.

It is understood they will look at all relevant aspects of the incident, including the design, stability, and operation of the vessel. They will also examine the effects of the weather conditions experienced.

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Twenty-two people were on board the vessel, 15 of whom were rescued - including Briton Charlotte Golunski and her one-year-old daughter Sofia.

Divers will resume efforts on Thursday morning to bring ashore a body they found earlier. One more person remains missing.

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The 55-metre Bannenberg & Rowell-designed yacht is a bespoke family retreat and proof that size does not matter when it comes to building a true Lürssen – the quality of engineering and design on the large scale as well as the smallest detail is evident throughout. As a private family yacht, the owners wanted minimal crew and the ability to cruise in secluded locations not easily accessible for larger yachts. Moon Sand’s functionality for family gatherings ranges from the safety gates and high bulwarks on her exterior to her cleverly designed flexible guest cabins. In their initial design concept, Bannenberg & Rowell were influenced by studies based on the classic yacht Carinthia VI, designed by Bannenberg the Elder, and built by Lürssen in 1973. Through several design iterations, MOON SAND evolved into a yacht with a strong new identity whilst incorporating her Lürssen/Bannenberg heritage. A fearless use of colours and textures as well as museum quality interior furniture pieces underline the approach of tremendous attention to detail – not only in the interior spaces but also in her technical areas.

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air yacht concept by pierpaolo lazzarini sails both skies and seas with zero emissions

Pierpaolo lazzarini introduces zero-emission air yacht .

while long-distance traveling by air doesn’t allow full electric mobility yet, italian designer pierpaolo lazzarini thinks there is actually a solution to sailing both skies and oceans without emissions in the future — the ‘air yacht ‘. this latest boundary-pushing watercraft takes shape as a 150-meter-long vessel that can fly in the sky pushed by a 400.000 m3 (200.000 m3 on each side) of helium. the flying object can hypothetically reach a maximum speed of 60 knots, for more than 48 hours consequently, and can then safely land on the sea surface, thanks to its inflatable base. 

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150-meter-long yacht flies in the sky and floats on the sea

the air yacht by pierpaolo lazzarini (find more here ) incorporates two extended side blimps, resulting in an overall length of 150 meters and a width of 80 meters. each floating structure (20m x 20m x 150m ) is subdivided into hive areas (cells), ensuring hermetic isolation of each helium compartment. inside the blimps, there are also tanks of compressed helium which release the necessary quantity in order to balance the aircraft. the two airships are connected through four carbon bridges on each side, connecting the main central structure to the two floating balloons. in the lower part, these floating structures incorporate an inflatable base to accommodate the yacht while it floats on the water surface.

lazzarini’s creation is also equipped with eight counter-rotating electric engines of 950hp each, powered by ultra-light batteries and solar panels, allowing it to fly at high speed. the entire construction is conceived to be entirely made with dry carbon fiber.

conceived for a private owner looking for evolution in aviation

 the air yacht is not designed to be used for public transportation or touristic purposes. on he contrary, it is conceived to accommodate a private owner with a vision who looks for evolution in the world of aviation. in the central area of the ship, there is a spacious living room with a dining area, while five suites for the passengers are available on each blimp side and a special shipowner suite is placed on the center with a 360° view.

the particularity of the sky yacht is the possibility to land on the ground or either in the water. while the air yacht is pushed down from the rotation of the engines, it can stand on the water through the depressurization of helium and its ballast anchor system and then sail quietly with a speed of 5 knots .’ hypothetically with € 550.000.000, there will be enough budget to build on-demand a first air yacht (or sky yacht) for a client.’ pierpaolo lazzarini shares.

the flying object can hypothetically reach a maximum speed of 60 knots, for more than 48 hours consequently

project info:

name: air yacht designer: : lazzarini design

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