The Very First yacht designed by Jon Bannenberg. Beginning of glorious saga.
Thanks a lot for these wonderful and rare scans. Actually she was the 5-th yacht designed by Jon Bannenberg and represented the stretched variant...
Looks like a traditional Expedition Yacht and very probably intended for the Japanese Owner.
There exist another 2 Videos of this yacht: [MEDIA] and [MEDIA]
Looks like to me as diminished "Blue".
Bow quarter
The owner repeated his trick with the yacht name as he did with Topaz. The name of the yacht project became the yacht name.
Since the owner is the same as of old Topaz which has its name changed to A+ recently , I suggest the name of this new vessel could be TOPAZ -II.
No doubt the Legendary Yacht! Heidi Horten ordered her to overwhelm Bannenberg's Limitless which turned to be an enlarged version of Carinthia...
If so they become bankrupt. Many leading yacht companies sufvived during last decades only due to russian orders.
As to external design there are too many features of typical Heywood. Probably a mix of project May and project Topaz.
To me it looks like replica of TOPAZ.
[ATTACH] Due to very small and thin exhaust pipes there is a solid suggestion that new fuel cells are implemented in this Project instead of...
If allow the width 24 m the Full Displacement might be about 12 000 tons.
Maybe Tim Heywood's Mayan Queen 4?
Thanks for very interesting pdf file. The scetch of Pelorus was signed by Tim Heywood indeed but he worked then altogether with JB as his aid...
Naturally Opera is the successor of Coral Island not in design, but in Name and the Owner. Initial 73m Coral Island had Jon Bannenberg...
This ship was reported as Project OPERA 147m long, replacement of Sassi and "new Coral Island". The latter sounds strange since Project Coral...
I saw he photos as well and realized that only upper part of the yacht (superstructures) was destroyed and as to the hull up to the main deck...
Legendary Blohm and Voss company now belongs to Lurssen and Sassi more probably was not destroyed entirely by fire in Sept-18 but altogether with...
