Luxury Yachts

The new Princess R 35 yacht brings Pininfarina’s car design expertise to the sea. This is a worthy rival to the Italian maker Riva and looks set to win many fans of Italian supercars such as Ferrari and Alfa Romeo over to the water. Plus it comes in sports red, sure to turn heads in even the smartest ports all over the world.

The works of nautical art made to measure by Custom Line are winning the hearts of an increasing number of owners and enthusiasts. Two new launches were held in the same week at Ferretti Group’s Superyacht Yard in Ancona: the “Maria Theresa”, the sixth Custom Line Navetta 33, and the “Dilly Dally”, the sixth Custom Line Navetta 37.

In the Oxford dictionary luxury is defined as  ‘A state of great comfort or elegance, especially when involving great expense’. It is a fascinating topic as throughout history it always characterised specific levels of societies all around the world. It manifested itself with very different degrees of expressions depending on territory and accessibility to materials that would intrinsically define the luxurious nature of the products.

 Hunton Yachts are one of the truly great British luxury brands. They produce the most stylish, quality, luxury yachts in the world and they are hand made in England, down in Hampshire, where state-of-the-art technology meets traditional craftsmanship.
Bespoke is the new luxury. When it comes to luxury yachts, the most discerning clients today are searching for traditional craftsmanship, hand-built quality and attention to detail with a personalisation that has clearly not originated on big production lines in anonymous factories.
 

Fiona pool, CEO of ultra-luxury yacht maker Hunton Powerboats and a former executive director at Goldman Sachs investment bank, is on a mission to expand production at the British-based business to “40 to 50 yachts a year” over the next five years and grow the firm’s revenues to the US$50m mark by tapping the international market for luxury yachts.

Everyone’s Choice Is Pleasingly Different: They Can All Be Number One  
Freedom of the Seas: Spoilt for Choice

The Monaco Yacht Show was in fine fettle this year; those working with the largest yachts possessed the biggest smiles.  The aristocrats of the seas were all there with some extraordinarily fine yachts: Royal Huisman, Feadship and Lurssen included.  Joining in that league this year was Oceanco with the largest yacht in the show: the motor yacht ‘Equanimity’ at 91.5 m.  Her technical specification is taken to new heights from Ice Class 1E to the very demanding Passenger Yacht Code – the first superyacht to do so.