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MARCH/APRIL 2019

Mangusta moves into fast displacement territory with

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GEORGE H.W BUSH: AN AMERICAN YACHTSMAN

20 MAKING WAVES NEWS, NOTES AND WHAT’S TRENDING IN THE YACHTING SCENE

30 STERNLINES A LEGEND LIVES ON

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I try to avoid politics in this column, and I’m not about to change that now But indulge

me a moment to reflect on a president and his love for the water

Those of you who watched the funeral service for President George H.W Bush

at National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., in December witnessed the solemn

maj-esty with which the military lays to rest a veteran and its commander in chief You may

have choked up, as I always do, hearing the Armed Forces Chorus and the U.S Marine

Orchestra perform the stirring “Eternal Father, Strong to Save,” also known as the Navy

Hymn You saw an audience composed of people from every facet of the political spectrum

lay to rest a president—always a somber ritual

But you also heard some lighthearted stories about Bush, among them, at least two

that referenced his love of boating and fishing Bush took sly pleasure in leaving the Secret

Service and U.S Coast Guard chase boats in his wake as he sped away in one of the

high-performance muscle boats and steroidal center consoles he owned over the years

You might think a guy who was fished out of the Pacific by a submarine after his Avenger

bomber was shot down in 1944 would have some issues with the sea, but not Bush During

his time as president and in the years that followed, the otherwise genteel Bush owned a

number of boats better suited for a more macho mind-set

The first boat I remember seeing him photographed on as president was a 28-foot

Cigarette, from which he fished for the bluefish and striped bass that inhabit the waters off

his family compound in Maine The idea of anyone fishing from such a boat is a bit odd, but

I guess he wasn’t into wasting time getting the lines in

From there, he moved to a series of Fountain center consoles His last, Fidelity V, was

38 feet long and had a trio of 300-horsepower outboards hanging off the transom He looked

a bit fishier on that boat, but it still was a fire-breather, and by all accounts, he still loved to

go fast

Other presidents have been yachting enthusiasts; in fact, most in the past century have

taken to the water to escape the rigors of the office Most, including Bush, also have spent

time chasing the little white ball Maybe I’m biased, but I’ll always see him as a boat guy and

a fisherman first, and a golfer second

No matter your politics in this severely partisan era, I propose that there is common

ground to be found—on boats and the sea When we’re out there on the waves, we’re not

defined by red or blue We’re defined by the colors of the ensigns on our transoms On the

water, we’re all brothers and sisters

The rest of us may not be able to give back on such a grand scale, but the efforts of

own-ers such as these will shed benefit to us all They may not need our money, but they surely

deserve our gratitude and support

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MAKING WAVES

Oceanco’s 357-foot (109-meter) Bravo Eugenia—with naval architecture by Lateral

Naval Architects, exterior design and layout by Nuvolari Lenard, and interior by Reymond Langton Design—is unlike any preceding yacht from the shipyard She is the first Oceanco with the builder’s LIFE design (lengthened, innovative, fuel-efficient and eco-friendly) Hybrid propulsion incorporates battery capability, and a single-tier engine room allows more space for guest accommodations The yacht has a modern

contemporary interior to complement the exterior design builtbyoceanco.com

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First for Oceanco

The Silent 79 (24-meter) is an evolution of the Silent-Yachts 55-foot (16.7-meter)

model The oceangoing, solar-electric catamaran uses silent electric propulsion

Designed by Marco Casali of Too Design, with naval architecture by Insenaval,

the yacht has an unlimited range and, as the name suggests, runs with minimal

vibration She is fitted with a pair of electric engines—50 kW each in the standard

Cruiser version, or 250 kW each in the E-Power version, both with common shafts

In the most powerful version, the Silent 79 can reach speeds up to 20 knots, and

she reportedly cruises at 6 to 7 knots in complete silence As she is solar powered,

there is no engine room, which allows for a larger garage Three 79s are under

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CRN Breaks Mold with Lobanov Concept

Lürssen, known for yachts as large as the 590-foot

(180-meter) Azzam, has secured a contract for Project

13800, a 177-foot (54-meter) motoryacht The Asian owner chose Bannenberg & Rowell Design for interiors and exteriors “We are really excited to rekindle our long-standing relationship with Lürssen and to work on

the first interior and exterior collaboration since Coral

Island in 1994,” Dickie Bannenberg stated in a press

release “Project 13800 marks an important step into

a new market segment for both Bannenberg & Rowell and Lürssen, and we greatly look forward to her launch

in spring 2021.” Lürssen is now targeting projects in the 164- to 262-foot (50- to 80-meter) range, in addi-tion to building larger hulls Peter Lürssen, managing partner, stated in the same release: “While we are very grateful for the success of our large builds, it is essential not to forget that our core business must be

between 50 to 80 meters.” lurssen.com

Lürssen to Launch 177-Footer in 2021

CRN’s latest venture is Begallta, a 246-foot (75-meter) concept developed in cooperation with Lobanov Design on exteriors and Pulina DNA on interiors Begallta has a futuristic silhouette with slanting lines, a tapered bow and a faceted stern De- signed to appeal to cosmopolitan owners who love extended cruises, Begallta has panoramic windows, terraces and an open sundeck The interior includes bespoke materials and a judicious use of glass amid a minimalistic décor crn-yacht.com

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MAKING WAVES

Italian designer Federico Fiorentino of the Rebel

series has once again teamed up with Sacs, the Italian

builders of inflatable boats, to create the X-80, an

80-foot (24-meter) go-fast cruiser The X-80 has foam

flotation tubes and engine configurations up to 5,000

horsepower, in twin or triple inboard configurations

She has 646 square feet (60 square meters) of deck

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Johnson Yachts is building what will become its ship: a 115-footer (35-meter) offered with five or six staterooms Designed by Bill Dixon of Dixon Yacht Design, this trideck has a plumb bow that carries volume forward The yacht is drawn with bulwarks inlaid with glazing, to offer extensive views from

flag-on board The interior design by Design Unlimited includes a salon with opening after-bulkhead doors Finishes and furnishings will be the owner’s choice

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Hodgdon has launched a 31-foot (9.5-meter) Venetian Limousine tender and a 26- foot (8-meter) Venetian Center Console, with delivery scheduled in early 2019 to a shipyard in Germany Michael Peters Yacht Design was responsible for both The limo ten-der can carry 12 guests It has mirrored windows that raise and lower electrically; port and starboard side doors that swing open; and a power roof that lifts for standing headroom The center console matches the

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STERNLINES

BY DUDLEY DAWSON

The sternwheeler Patty Gordon is being restored for museum display.

A Legend Lives On

one of my most memorable is a sternwheel steamboat that came out of Jack Hargrave’s design studio in the early 1980s There’s just some-

thing that stirs the soul when a sternwheeler passes

by, its buckets gently churning brown water into white

foam When the whistle blows—or better yet, the

cal-liope plays—emotions soar

With a hull length just under 65 feet, Patty Gordon

may be the most complicated and expensive yacht,

per ton, ever completed She was built for a special

client, an Alabama steam enthusiast who wanted her

to be as authentic as possible The yacht’s name was

not that of the owner’s wife, but, much to her chagrin,

that of a Civil War-era madam renowned for charging

Yankees double, in order to offer services to Southern

soldiers for free

To say the owner was involved in the project would

be a gross understatement He was seeing his lifelong

dream come true, and he didn’t want to miss a single

bit of it As the design developed, he’d provide us with

century-old drawings and clippings from his extensive

file, asking whether the technology could be

incorpo-rated in his yacht As just one example, the sternwheel

was built with staggered paddles to reduce vibration

On the roof of the pilothouse, four gilded eagles

anchored the corners, and a magnificent 40-pipe

cal-liope echoed off the shoreline wherever she cruised

Twin boarding ramps extended from the bow, just

for-ward of a foremast that carried both the U.S ensign

and the Alabama state flag Abaft the pilothouse, a

tall, black smokestack sported silver bands and an

elaborate crown One break from tradition, owing to

the owner’s age, was an elevator for easier access to

the upper deck’s four staterooms, each with period

décor and antique furnishings

On a technical note, we had carefully limited the

regulatory length of Patty Gordon to 65 feet in order

to avoid mandatory U.S Coast Guard inspection, but

a change to the law a few years later created quences that the USCG quickly acknowledged were unintended Enforcement was suspended pending corrections to the law, but in the ways of Washington, D.C., that took several years A new USCG com-mander in the owner’s district decided to make points

conse-by making trouble, so one day, I got a call from the owner’s son asking for help

Within a few days, in a stroke of pure luck and coincidence, a fax arrived from Washington informing

me that the long-awaited correction to the law had passed through the U.S Congress, and a copy bear-ing President Reagan’s signature was attached I for-warded it to the owner’s son, with a short note that it should solve the problem

Profoundly impressed, as he wrongly assumed I had gotten a new law enacted just for him in less than

a week, he replied, “That’s great! There’s one more thing, though I’m having trouble getting a liquor license for a club down here in Alabama Do you think you could help me with that, too?”

Patty Gordon lived on, and her legend grew

Her second owner was actress and singer Debbie Reynolds The yacht hosted many of Hollywood’s elite as Reynolds’ guests, and it is reported that singer Ricky Nelson spent the last night of his life aboard

Today, 37 years after she launched, Patty Gordon has been renamed Jean Mary and is undergoing

a refit to serve as the floating centerpiece for the Apalachicola Maritime Museum in Florida

A video of her underway, including images of the unique interior, can be found at:

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MANGUSTA MOVES INTO FAST DISPLACEMENT

THE FIRST IN ITS GRANSPORT 54 SERIES.

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for what the Italians call Maxi Open yachts:

arrow-slim and ciously fast fiberglass cruisers At the top of the pile is the 40-knot Mangusta 165, generally regarded as the quickest

fero-50-meter boat on the water But times are changing

Owners who want high performance now also expect

more comfort, lower fuel consumption and longer

range Combining all these features is a hard ask, one

that Mangusta has spent the past five years or so

work-ing to resolve

The result is a new flagship The Gransport 54 El

Leon is the first 177-footer (54-meter) in an

all-alumi-num series of fast displacement yachts Tellingly, she

was delivered to the repeat owner of three Mangusta

Maxi Opens

“The top requirement was to create a yacht over

165 feet that could reach a top speed of around 30

knots, but was also capable of efficient cruising at

low speeds,” says Francesco Frediani, Overmarine’s

commercial director “We began a series of in-depth

studies to research how best to achieve this target, and

together with naval architect Pierluigi Ausonio came

up with what we call the Fast Surface Piercing Hull

This is basically a round-bilge hull form with bulbous

bow that cuts through the sea surface without planing.”

El Leon’s hull form was optimized using

computa-tional fluid dynamics and tank testing to provide a top

speed of 30 knots with relatively low installed power

But she also has a transatlantic range of 4,200 nautical

miles at 12 knots, and 3,500 nautical miles at 14 knots

In other words, the Fast Surface Piercing Hull (FSPH) combines the range and comfort of a full-displacement yacht with the speed of a semi-displacement design In

December, El Leon became the first Mangusta to cross

the Atlantic on her own bottom when she transferred from the Mediterranean to Barbados

“El Leon behaved outstandingly, confirming the

seakeeping features of her hull I had already ciated during our summer cruising in the Med,” says her captain, Paolo Bozzo Costa “The yacht impressed

appre-us with her great comfort, stability and performance

I kept up an average speed of approximately 14 knots, something very few boats can achieve, and reached the Caribbean with enough fuel in our tanks to enjoy our first cruise.”

The yacht’s propulsion package is the result of efficiency tweaks throughout the Mangusta range

The Mangusta 165, for example, used to carry three 4,610-horsepower MTU 4000 engines coupled to water jets These engines, originally intended for com-mercial applications, were big, heavy and fuel hungry

More recently, the Mangusta 165E (the “E” stands for evolution) was fitted with four 1,600-horsepower MTU 2000 engines, which are specifically designed for use on yachts They are much lighter and more fuel efficient, with only marginal loss in terms of top speed

The Gransport 54 has the same 1,600-horsepower, four-engine configuration, but with shaft-driven props instead of water jets, which are less efficient at low cruising speeds Apart from occupying a smaller foot-print in the engine room, the lighter engines also allow for better weight distribution without the need for ballast tanks Humphree Interceptors are used to fine-tune the trim

H2 Yacht Design’s exterior styling is both modern and

classic, while GO’s turquoise

hull is intended to enhance the yacht’s connection to the sea

The foredeck incorporates a touch-and-go helipad

The Gransport 54 El Leon is the first 177-footer (54-meter) in an all-aluminum series of fast displacement yachts Tellingly, she was delivered to the repeat owner of three Mangusta Maxi Opens.

A Mangusta Gransport 45 currently in build at the shipyard in Pisa, Italy, will

carry a variant setup of three MTU 2000 engines and a Rolls-Royce KaMeWa water

jet Two engines drive propeller shafts, while the central unit is coupled to the water

jet Expectations are for a top speed of 26 knots and a range of 3,500 nautical miles

at 11 knots or more than 1,000 nautical miles at 20 knots, as well as quiet nighttime

cruising and enhanced maneuverability using just the water jet

“It all boils down to the power-weight ratio,” says Nicola Onori, Overmarine’s

chief engineer “To build fast boats, you want light but powerful engines Lighter

yachts also mean more speed for less fuel, which in turn means lower emissions

In combination with the FSPH, we believe we’re at least 15 percent more efficient

than our competitors Moreover, four engines provide better redundancy, and the

yacht can run on three or even two engines in an emergency.”

Other fundamental design elements in the Gransport concept are low draft for

cruising in the Bahamas and Florida, and reduced noise and vibration A 3-D model

of the vessel was generated using statistical energy analysis, while a global finite

ele-ment model was produced to capture high and low frequencies Preliminary noise

ABOVE: Four 1,600-hp MTU engines power

El Leon to a top speed

of 30 knots FACING PAGE TOP: The beach club contributes to around 3,000 square feet of open-air living space BOTTOM: The master stateroom has

a deployable terrace.

‘The top requirement was to create a yacht over 165 feet that could reach a top speed of around 30 knots, but was also capable of efficient cruising at low speeds.’

—Francesco Frediani

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levels at 20 knots were 55 decibels in the owner’s suite

and 53 decibels in the main salon, according to the

builder That’s about as loud as background music or a

leafy suburban street

Having four propellers helps distribute the power

more evenly, but to prevent increased cavitation the

yacht has low-wake seawater intakes, and exhaust

out-lets that don’t interfere with the flow around the props

mounted on single shaft struts

Despite her long-range vocation, El Leon’s fluid

exterior lines lack none of the feisty spirit of the Maxi

Opens Italian designer Alberto Mancini, now

respon-sible for the styling of all Mangusta models, created an

aggressive yet graceful profile that is arguably the most

satisfying and balanced of any Mangusta to date

Mancini also devised the interior design around

the owner’s desire to use his yacht for family holidays

and working on board The custom layout includes

a private office and deployable terrace in the master

stateroom Four guest staterooms and a gym are on the

lower deck For outdoor relaxation, there’s a beach club

with a fold-down transom door and side platforms aft;

an oversized forward garage with gull-wing doors; and

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