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A General Description of Motor Yacht AMAZON EXPRESS

From the Cantieri Navali Officine Meccaniche Venezia (Cnomv) yard in Italy the AMAZON EXPRESS is 67 m 219 (ft) in length. Superyacht AMAZON EXPRESS is able to accommodate up to 12 passengers with 14 crew. She is a classic trawler style yacht. Her old, former or build project names are Albacora; Crustamar; Amazon Express; Kisuca. She will attain a high speed of 14 knots.

Motor yacht AMAZON EXPRESS spent eighteen years as a deep sea fishing vessel before being converted to a private yacht in 1984 by the Norwegian shipyard Horten. She changed hands after ten years and was again refitted, this time at her original shipyard in Venice, Italy where external modifications were under the direction of Espen Øino. Amazon Express does not have a typical exterior of a super yacht and is often mistaken for a commercial or military vessel. There are few known photographs of her interior however it has been reported she is modern and been fitted in good taste. The yacht has six guest staterooms, a sauna, a cinema, a gymnasium, a galley, dining room, main salon and the pilothouse. The large sundeck is completely covered by a roof which accommodates the helipad. AMAZON EXPRESS is owned by a famous Italian photographer

Construction & Design with respect to Luxury Yacht AMAZON EXPRESS

Dwinger Marineconsult was the naval architect firm involved in the professional nautical composition for AMAZON EXPRESS. Also the company Dwinger Marineconsult successfully collaborated on this project. Italy is the country that Cantieri Navali Officine Meccaniche Venezia (Cnomv) built their new build motor yacht in. After the official launch in 1966 in Venezia she was thereafter passed over to the happy owner having completed final finishing. A fairly large feeling is brought about with a widest beam (width) of 10.61 m or 34.8 feet. With a 5.25m (17.22ft) draught (maximum depth) she is deep. The material steel was used in the building of the hull of the motor yacht. Her superstructure over the hull is created out of steel. In 1994 further refitting and modernisation was additionally performed.

Main Engines And The Speed That M/Y AMAZON EXPRESS is Able To Achieve:

The 6AXA engine installed in the motor yacht is made by WICHMANN. She is driven by a single screw propeller. The main engine of the ship creates 1210 horse power (or 940 kilowatts). She is fitted with 1 engines. The combined output for the boat is therefore 1210 HP or 940 KW. As for stabalisers she was supplied with Vosper. The bow thrusters are Brunvoll.

With Superyacht AMAZON EXPRESS She has The Following Accommodation Layout:

Providing cabins for a maximum of 12 visiting passengers staying on board, the AMAZON EXPRESS accommodates them in luxury. This ship utilises approx 14 professional crewmembers to manage.

A List of the Specifications of the AMAZON EXPRESS:

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AMAZON EXPRESS features a teak deck.

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The luxury yacht AMAZON EXPRESS displayed on this page is merely informational and she is not necessarily available for yacht charter or for sale, nor is she represented or marketed in anyway by CharterWorld. This web page and the superyacht information contained herein is not contractual. All yacht specifications and informations are displayed in good faith but CharterWorld does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for the current accuracy, completeness, validity, or usefulness of any superyacht information and/or images displayed. All boat information is subject to change without prior notice and may not be current.

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1965 expedition vessel Amazon Express sold

The 66.7m expedition m/y amazon express has been sold with stuart larsen from fraser yachts representing the seller and edmiston representing the buyer.….

The 66.7m expedition M/Y Amazon Express  has been sold with Stuart Larsen of Fraser Yachts representing the seller and Edmiston representing the buyer. Her final asking price was $3.25 million.

Built entirely of steel, Amazon Express was designed as a fishing vessel and was delivered in 1965 by CNOMV in Venezia, Italy, before being taken to Arsenale shipyard in Venice in 1984 to be converted into a world-cruising privately owned expedition vessel. In 1994 she underwent further redesign work at Horten Verft, Norway, under the inspiration of renowned Monaco-based designer Espen Oeino.

66.7m Amazon Express

Her refined interior, designed by famous Italian architect Ettore Sottsass, allows hosting for up to 14 guests over seven spacious staterooms, comprising an owner’s suite on the upper deck.

Typical expedition vessels have a marginally higher interior volume than the average motoryacht, but her gross tonnage of 1,058 GT falls below the average for 65 – 70m motoryachts (1,373.7 GT). If considerable modifications were to be made, such as a lengthening of the superstructure, her hull length certainly permits for what could be a much larger gross tonnage.

One feature of note is her 299,400 litre fuel capacity that allows her to travel up to an enormous 12,000 nautical miles at 9.5 knots. To put this into perspective, this is over 100,000 litres more than the average of 194,439 litres for 65 – 70m motoryachts – a range that could see her carry out a return trans-Atlantic crossing with excess. Other notable features of the yacht are a strengthened 'touch-and-go' helipad and extensive tender, toy and storage options.

She may not be as glamorous as other listings on the market, but if you break down the asking prices of current central agency listings, you’ll see that some 2010-2015 builds have an asking price that exceeds €50,000 per gross ton, staying as high as €20,000 for builds that are 20-25 years old. Given that Amazon Express has a low gross tonnage for her size, $3,072 (or €2,716, XE Converter) per gross ton represents a fantastic deal for the buyer, who also has countless options for interior and exterior modifications.  

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Amazon Express

Length 66,70m l 218'77"

No. of guest staterooms 7, beam 10.06m l 32'99", draft 4,85m l 15'90", cruising speed (kn) 10, builder arsenale, venice, max speed (kn) 12, built / refit 1965 / 1994, range (nm) 12.000, amazon express arsenale, venice.

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A favourite among yacht-spotters, Lürssen's 71-metre trendsetter SKAT has earned her place as one of the most photographed superyachts of all time. We take a rare glimpse inside as she's snapped up by new owners less than 18 months after joining the market... 

Look at these pictures and you either get SKAT or you don’t… but you won’t forget her. This yacht has been provoking discussion since her launch in 2002, and as Lürssen sales director Michael Breman notes, nearly 20 years on she is just as unforgettable and still fulfilling her owner’s brief for a yacht “pas tout à fait comme les autres”. A yacht like no other.

Grey, straight sides, high bow, faceted superstructure, a conning tower of a mast, launched by a builder renowned for military vessels – and 9906 emblazoned on her side like a warship. A Danish and Norwegian word for treasure, “skat” can be used as a term of endearment; 9906 stands for naval architect Espen Øino ’s sixth design commission in 1999 and grey is the owner’s favourite colour. And while not exactly mainstream, SKAT ’s unique look has mellowed over the years – or perhaps we have.

So how did a brilliant mathematician and computing genius who prefers to stay out of the limelight enter yachting with a boat so striking that it is a yacht-spotter magnet?

“He reached out to me through a mutual connection,” says Stuart Larsen of Fraser Yachts , the client’s broker. “His concept was so visionary that there was nothing on the market to satisfy the amazing futuristic needs of how he felt he should live on a yacht. He was ready to build a yacht and he asked me who I thought we should ask to design it. I thought about who was young and thinking outside the box and I suggested contacting Espen Øino. I didn’t even name any other designers.”

“It would have been the Octopus connection,” Øino notes. “Lürssen had held a competition to see who would design Octopus . I won, and that’s how Stuart, who was also that owner’s broker, saw how I work.” Larsen briefed Øino on a project that as yet had few boundaries, “other than something about not wanting a boat looking like it was carved out of a block of cheese – and that I needed to see the client’s house to understand. It was the end of April when I flew to meet him in the Pacific Northwest. He was so gracious and showed me every detail of the extraordinary house [a masterwork of late modernist architect Wendell H Lovett]. We talked about the boat, how he expected to live on it and that he likes circles, arcs, flat planes and straight lines – nothing extraneous. He didn’t want complicated shapes. He said if we are working with steel and aluminium, let’s respect the materials. I did explain that for the sake of hydrodynamics there would have to be a few curves in the hull surfaces.”

Øino was given four weeks to prepare a concept and he shares that on the flight home, reflecting on the client and the scope of the project, “I wondered what I had gotten myself into.” Precisely four weeks later a meeting was arranged in Monaco. It was the week of the Monaco Grand Prix and the client had chartered a 50-metre yacht.

“I arrived and there was a party going on, the boat was full of really important people. He invited me inside and we sat at a table reviewing my plans. All of a sudden, it started raining and everyone rushed inside. The saloon of that boat is not so big. The next thing, everyone was crowded around and I was making my presentation to all these people. “I wasn’t so confident then as I am now,” says Øino, laughing at the memory. “I wasn’t sure I could get through it. When I finished, I think I pushed the drawings towards him and waited in silence. Then he said, ‘I like it. Let’s do it,’…on the spot.”

Øino began with the GA, which was also unlike anything he had ever presented before. Design, he says, is about problem-solving and in this case the challenges involved putting the guest and owner’s cabins on the main deck, maximising crew areas, creating a large guest workspace, bringing as much natural light into the boat as possible, not stowing tenders on deck, incorporating a helipad and a gym and having clear sight lines. Fortunately the client appreciates multi-functionality of objects and spaces.

The entire design process took just six or seven months to complete. “Working with this fascinating client was a wonderful experience. To him, nothing was a problem, merely a challenge,” Øino says.

“With the basic GA in hand, I prepared a preliminary spec,” says Larsen, who sent the bid package to five shipyards before Lürssen was selected. In 1999 Lürssen’s yacht division was still gaining traction. It had built Be Mine , Limitless , Izanami and Coral Island but the projects were usually coming along one at a time.

“Lürssen was supervising the construction of Octopus at HDW in Kiel because she was too big for its yard, and I thought SKAT might be a good fit for the Lemwerder [Bremen] yard. I also thought, that with its military projects, it might be a bit more creative on technology,” he adds. That last part turned out to be especially true when it came to meeting requirements for a super quiet yacht.

Lürssen’s project manager, Jörg Buttscher, elaborates. “We knew reducing noise was very important so we approached it in two ways, and yes, we used military technology. We designed the engine room so that all of the equipment would be elastically mounted to a steel raft [an enormous steel structure that floats on resilient mounts].” This included the engines, generators in their soundboxes, watermakers, air compressors – virtually everything that produced noise and vibration. Elastic mounts were specified based on the frequency of each engine or machine. The raft was in turn floated off the structure of the engine room’s lower level on shock mounts. All conduit, pipes and exhaust lines running from the equipment on the raft were isolated as well.

“We insulated the entire two-level space from the rest of the yacht’s interior,” Buttscher says. “We used a technical material we had used before but on other yachts we probably used about 60 per cent of the amount we used on SKAT .” The proof is in sound levels that measure far lower than most owners demand or yards deliver: 34dB in the master at cruising speed.

One of the granular details of the build was how few changes were made to the specifications and design once construction started, despite the fact that the owner visited the yard monthly. “We had never had a client show that much attention to the process before,” Buttscher says. It became a mark of pride with the build team. “We took our time with the planning. The bridge was mocked up 1:1 for example so he could see exactly where everything would be before we built it. If you don’t plan properly, problems come up and the owner loses the fun of building.”

SKAT ’s interior is also one of a kind. “I recommended Marco Zanini for the project,” Øino says. The pair had worked together earlier on an unusual conversion project called Amazon Express and on two smaller boats and Øino believed Zanini, who had been a designer for famed architect Ettore Sottsass before becoming a founder of the iconoclastic 1980s design powerhouse Memphis Group, would be a good fit.

“After Espen proposed me and one other designer, the owner asked us to design one room. Then he asked me to come and see his house and I flew there with Jörg,” Zanini says.“He said, ‘Look, this is my house, this is my plane. I want a seamless experience from my house to my jet to my yacht.’ He’s very mathematical. I understood how his mind works within an hour. The rest was just details. For example, he questioned why wall switches are always arranged as a horizontal instead of vertical like outlet covers. He’s right of course, it’s much more logical.”

Once he understood the goal, Zanini says, “it was easy. Clean, precise, uncluttered, practical, useful and, if possible, multi-useful. I designed for him a yacht that sails, not a Tudor palace. I suppose it helps that I had been sailing for years. The interior is extremely modern, in tune with the owner’s vision of the world and the outside design of the ship.”

Zanini realised that to the client, grey is a neutral colour – his favourite neutral colour, and that elements of his art collection, mostly pop art by Victor Vasarely and Roy Lichtenstein, are so bold that they demanded a neutral background to be appreciated. Instead of wall panels and cabinets in intricate grains, he proposed solid sheets of Wilsonart laminate outlined geometrically in teak bands and a few counters of grey Guanabara granite.

“Plastic laminate is seaworthy, comfortable and practical,” Zanini says unapologetically. “We worked out the thematic colours – grey, dark blue, red and white – and he took to the idea of the smooth laminate quickly.” The surface material may be common, but that does not mean there was not a lot of intricate design to the flat panels, consistent teak banding, reveals and tight tolerances of the interior crafted by interior outfitters Zago and Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau. Aside from the art, the only other interior colour comes from a few occasional chairs. The space is restful and speaks with one consistent design language.

Zanini gives considerable credit to Brazilian designer Flávia Alves De Souza , who worked with him on SKAT . “She did most of the actual design of each space, built mock-ups [the saloon was also mocked up 1:1], developed details and followed the execution... I may have read [the owner’s] mind and had most of the basic ideas, but she did hundreds of drawings and worked hundreds of hours to get it right.”

At launch, SKAT ’s extensive use of glass nearly caused necks to snap. The 270-degree surround of windows on the bridge deck created a conservatory effect heretofore unseen but perfect for viewing surroundings and brightening the interior. Port and starboard the bay windows stand proud of the superstructure and angle inward to join the overhead. The amount of glass was such that class insisted on exterior water-cooling spray rails linked to the fire system. “Thankfully, they have never been needed, but they allow for fast washdown,” the captain quips.

“The bridge deck is where everyone hangs out and it’s been designed for multiple functions,” Larsen says. More organised than divided, most of the area aft of the main staircase is open plan. “The thought that went into it is fantastic.” Two functional areas, the library on port and the guest office to starboard, can be closed from the rest by pocket doors or allowed to cleverly flow along the bay windows aft on to the informal saloon and a bar/games/snack area. This in turn opens through glass doors to the aft deck, shaded by the helipad above. Here are breezy options for large or small group dining, napping or views out over the stern.

Like the captain, many of the yacht’s crew have been aboard for many years and that, too, was part of the plan. Long before MLC 2006 mandated better working and living environments for mariners, SKAT ’s owner understood that the boat wasn’t just his home on water but the crew’s home also and was determined to provide a good living space. As a result, the entire lower deck, save for the beach club and dive store, is dedicated to crew. Their double cabins are spacious, each has a desk and wardrobes and an en suite head with enclosed shower, something that was uncommon in 1999. A comfortable crew lounge is separate from the crew mess; both are separate from the galley. An extra plus is the dedicated workshop with more than enough space and storage for all manner of tools.

There is just one lift on SKAT but it has two doors, one opening on to guest corridors and one to the crew side, and it extends from the gym deck all the way to the tank deck. The lift’s wall panels hide fold-out shelves that crew employ during guest meal service. Instead of jockeying around a bulky food cart, crew flip up the shelves and put the plated dishes and service items on them to whisk them from the galley to service pantries on the main, bridge or gym deck.

The finish of the crew quarters uses exactly the same practical surfaces and attention to design detail as the guest areas. “I’m proud to be part of that egalitarian effort,” Zanini comments.

Nearly 20 years down the line, the yacht’s interior and layout have remained close to the original apart from substantial refreshing of sofas, chairs and other soft furnishings as the interior transitioned from a bachelor’s yacht to a family home. “The owner’s office became a child’s cabin, the large spa bathtub was reduced in size, a guest cabin was modified to be convertible to another child’s cabin and a door was added to allow the family cabins to be a private wing. And we found a place for a swingset, trampoline and sea pool,” the captain notes.

The plan wasn’t to build an innovative yacht, just a highly personal one. “That yacht was a lot of firsts for us, first helideck and our first yacht with all the accommodations on main deck or above. The arc at the bow was difficult to build and it was also a difficult boat to paint with all those unforgiving flat surfaces. It was hard to make it perfect,” Breman says.

“It was a difficult design to understand on paper,” Øino says. “Remember there wasn’t 3D modelling or photorealistic renderings 21 years ago. There was one fellow at the launch who, when the boat came out of the shed, was really surprised. He said from the drawings he thought it was going to be the ugliest boat ever, but seeing it he said, ‘It’s cool.’” Or perhaps, “spaendende” – Danish for exciting – is more appropriate for such a treasure. 

SKAT was sold in November 2021 with Stuart Larsen of Fraser representing both buyer and seller. This feature is taken from the January 2021 issue of BOAT International. Get this magazine sent straight to your door, or subscribe and never miss an issue.

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Amazon’s billionaire founder Jeff Bezos is already the world’s richest man. Now he’s finally set to join the gilded ranks of the haves and have-yachts.

The world’s richest man has been named as the soon-to-be proud owner of one of the most expensive and extravagant superyachts ever built.

At 127metres (420ft) the craft - known only by its project name Y721 - will be as long as the Great Pyramid at Giza is tall, and loaded with state-of-the-art treasures including an in-deck swimming pool and ‘ambient’ cinema, all contributing to a rumoured price tag of around $500million.

It will be one of the finest sailing yachts in existence.

Bezos, whose fortune is around $200 billion, would also have to foot an estimated $50 million annual running costs bill.

Plans for the luxury sailing ship are being kept under wraps but some details have now emerged via its Netherlands-based manufacturer Oceanco’s website and through enthusiast forums.

The details so far available suggest it may be modelled on the 106-metre Black Pearl, pictured below, currently the largest and most technologically advanced sailing yacht in the world.

It will stretch across several decks and be powered with the assistance of three giant masts. Those sails mean it will not sport a helipad - instead, in a twist worthy of the wealthiest Bond villain, sources say it comes with its own yacht.

Bezos and partner, Lauren Sanchez, a helicopter pilot, have commissioned a separate support vessel with a dedicated landing facility.

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Bezos is understood to have put the order in before the virus hit, having spent time on Eos - another three-masted schooner - owned by film and Fox TV mogul Barry Diller and his wife Diane Von Furstenberg, the celebrated fashion designer, in 2019.

He was later pictured on board David Geffen’s yacht in the Balaerics, alongside model Karlie Kloss, Josh Kushner and former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.

Bezos is not short of a few bob, and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission suggest he added to his vast fortune with the sale of nearly $2 billion worth of shares in his company last week.

That came after Amazon reported blockbuster first-quarter earnings results, trouncing Wall Street’s expectations, and took his total disposals to around $10bn in a year.

He had previously outlined proposals to sell around $1bn in Amazon stock each year to fund his space exploration company, Blue Origin, which intends to launch its first astronaut crew to space this summer.

In his forthcoming book on Bezos, Amazon Unbound , Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone discloses further details of the ship, which is also likely to play a central role in Bezos’s life as he steps back from running the online behemoth he created.

He writes: “What did the future hold for their founder? At least part of the answer to that could be found in the shipyards of the Dutch custom yacht builder Oceanco.

“There, outside Rotterdam, a new creation was secretly taking shape: a 127-meter-long, three-mast schooner about which practically nothing was known, even in the whispering confines of luxury boat builders—except that upon completion, it will be one of the finest sailing yachts in existence.”

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Jeff Bezos , Amazon founder and the world’s richest man, will reportedly soon be the owner of a mega-yacht he bought for $500 million, almost double the price he paid to buy the Washington Post newspaper in 2013.

While the details of the vessel have largely been kept under wrap, the 417-foot superyacht is so massive that it has a yacht of its own, along with a helipad, reported Bloomberg.

Developed by Dutch yachtmaker, Oceano, it is named project Y721 and has several decks along with three huge masts, reported the outlet. Said to be the largest sailing yacht built in the Netherlands, it is due to be finished next month, almost two years after it was ordered.

While the cost of the yacht is inconceivable for many, the amount is only a fraction of Mr Bezos’s total worth which currently stands at $191 billion. In fact, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index , Mr Bezos gained about $75 billion in 2020, as the world was fighting the pandemic.

Amazon’s stocks gained 75 per cent last year as consumers turned towards its services for shopping during the pandemic, reported CNN. Bezos isn’t the only billionaire to have gained fortune during the pandemic.

According to a report published by Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Tax fairness, US billionaires have collectively increased their wealth by $1.1 trillion during the pandemic, making them 40 per cent richer than they were before the pandemic began.

While Covid-19 was not a factor when Mr Bezos invested his fortune in the superyacht, a Bloomberg analysis showed that its market has grown especially during the pandemic. “The market’s been roaring,” Sam Tucker, head of superyacht research at London-based VesselsValue, was quoted as saying by the outlet.

He further said that the demand for extravagantly high-end yachts has outstripped supply. “It’s impossible to get a slot in a new-build yard,” Mr Tucker said. “They’re totally booked.”

Aino Grapin, chief executive officer of superyacht interiors studio Winch Design, told the outlet that the yacht allows the explorer to cruise for 9,000 nautical miles without the need to refuel it. “Clients can enjoy life at sea for long periods of time without having to go mix with others,” she said.

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