Articles included : Stirring demand starts to refill sails But there is a widely held view that recovery will be slow and the market may never be the same again. “Customers are more likely than before to opt for discretion over conspicuous consumption“. Chartering : the ultimate in discretionary spending “Owners want to keep chartering [...]
Coventry University Alastair Callender has been chosen to display his award winning Superyacht design, Soliloquy, at the world’s most famous Yacht Show in Monaco next week. Alastair’s scaled model of the design, constructed with support from Coventry Based firm Visioneering Ltd., will be in pride of place in the exhibition area of Là¼rssen Yachts. Alastair [...]
Ethereal : the world’s most technologically advanced large hybrid sailing yacht. Bill Joy is one of the most gifted and successful computer programmers of his generation. As co-founder of Sun Microsystems he helped create Java script, the programming language now used in computers worldwide. As you might expect with such a resume, his design brief [...]
Eco-friendly luxury yachting is one of the newest travel trend among the super rich. Taking clean boating to the next level, the super green luxury superyacht called ‘Soliloquy‘ designed by Alastair Callender of Coventry University, will get its power from wind, solar and Hybrid Marine Power (HMP) technology from Solar Sailor Holdings Ltd. Initially aimed [...]
A 23-year-old British student has designed a “super-green superyacht” built using only sustainable materials and which produces virtually no carbon emissions. “Soliloquy’s” unique eco-luxury design allows the boat to run on two different sources of sustainable energy by incorporating 600 square meters of solar panels on the exterior of the boat and giant rigid “wings” [...]
This is another one of them green yachts. But this is the first hydrogen powered yacht with a fully integrated laboratory to study pollution in the Mediterranean. The Zero CO2 project can sail using a clean carbon-free auxiliary motor. A scientific platform installed on the yacht by the University Joseph Fourier (UJF) and its technology [...]
Depuis cinq ans, les projets de yachts de plus de 50 mètres ont explosé à travers le monde. Enchères de luxe, de taille et de puissance. Les propriétaires se sont aussi affrontés sur le terrain du mauvais goût. La crise sonne la fin de la récré. La tendance est à l’esthétisme, aux propulsions hybrides et [...]
My name is Daisy and I am a twelve year old eco-enthusiast on a mission to help the world of yachting become green. I have grown up sailing, surfing, swimming and kayaking around the beaches of Cornwall, New Zealand and Hampshire. My dad’s company, Tim Haynes Ltd, rigs superyachts so the sea and our coast [...]
