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Holterman launches first 23.6m X-treme 78 Sport yacht

Dutch boatbuilder Holterman has launched the first unit in its 23.6 metre X-treme 78 Sport series at its Meppel facility in The Netherlands.

The model is the latest in the yard’s X-treme range and follows in the footsteps of its larger sibling, the 32.65 metre X-105 , the first hull of which was launched earlier this year and christened Lady Fleur . 

Described as “innovative and sporty”, the X-treme 78 Sport features a “study” exterior designed by Bernd Weel Design in collaboration with Holterman Shipyard. Key exterior details include an aluminium hull and large windows.

The “stylish and luxurious interior” interior meanwhile is designed by Kitty van der Kamp Design. Accommodation is for eight guests including the owner’s suite and three additional ensuite guest cabins.

The aft deck features a large seating area, which leads through to the saloon and kitchen via sliding doors. Stairs lead down to the lower level, with the wheelhouse sitting on a raised floor above the aft deck.

Power comes from twin Volvo-Penta D13 IPS-1350 engines for a top speed of 28 knots.

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Hot on the trail of 56 superyachts owned by Russian oligarchs and subject to seizure

• Published: Mar. 06, 2022, 2:04 p.m.

French authorities have seized the yacht Amore Vero linked to Igor Sechin, a Putin ally who runs Russian oil giant Rosneft, as part of EU sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The boat arrived in La Ciotat on Jan. 3 for repairs and was slated to stay until April 1 and was seized to prevent an attempted departure. (AP Photo/Bishr Eltoni) AP

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The massive superyacht Dilbar stretches one-and-a-half football fields in length, about as long as a World War I dreadnought. It boasts two helipads, berths for more than 130 people and a 25-meter swimming pool long enough to accommodate another whole superyacht.

Dilbar was launched in 2016 at a reported cost of more than $648 million. Five years on, its purported owner, the Kremlin-aligned Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, was already dissatisfied and sent the vessel to a German shipyard last fall for a retrofit reportedly costing another couple hundred million dollars.

That’s where she lay in drydock on Thursday when the United States and European Union announced economic sanctions against Usmanov — a metals magnate and early investor in Facebook — over his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine.

“We are joining with our European allies to find and seize your yachts, your luxury apartments, your private jets,” President Joe Biden said during his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, addressing the oligarchs. “We are coming for your ill-begotten gains.”

But actually seizing the behemoth boats could prove challenging. Russian billionaires have had decades to shield their money and assets in the West from governments that might try to tax or seize them.

Several media outlets reported Wednesday that German authorities had impounded Dilbar. But a spokeswoman for Hamburg state’s economy ministry told The Associated Press no such action had yet been taken because it had been unable to establish ownership of the yacht, which is named for Usmanov’s mother.

Dilbar is flagged in the Cayman Islands and registered to a holding company in Malta, two secretive banking havens where the global ultra-rich often park their wealth.

Still, in the industry that caters to the exclusive club of billionaires and centimillionaires that can afford to buy, crew and maintain superyachts, it is often an open secret who owns what.

Working with the U.K.-based yacht valuation firm VesselsValue, the AP compiled a list of 56 superyachts — generally defined as luxury vessels exceeding 79 feet in length — believed to be owned by a few dozen Kremlin-aligned oligarchs, seaborne assets with a combined market value estimated at more than $5.4 billion.

The AP then used two online services — VesselFinder and MarineTraffic — to plot the last known locations of the yachts as relayed by their onboard tracking beacons.

While many are still anchored at or near sun-splashed playgrounds in the Mediterranean and Caribbean, more than a dozen were underway to or had already arrived in remote ports in small nations such as the Maldives and Montenegro, potentially beyond the reach of Western sanctions. Three are moored in Dubai, where many wealthy Russians have vacation homes.

Another three had gone dark, their transponders last pinging just outside the Bosporus in Turkey — gateway to the Black Sea and the southern Russian ports of Sochi and Novorossiysk.

Graceful, a German-built Russian-flagged superyacht believed to belong to Putin, left a repair yard in Hamburg on Feb. 7, two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine. It is now moored in the Russian Baltic port of Kaliningrad, beyond the reach of Western sanctions imposed against him this past week.

Some Russian oligarchs appear to have not gotten the memo to move their superyachts, despite weeks of public warnings of Putin’s planned invasion.

French authorities seized the superyacht Amore Vero on Thursday in the Mediterranean resort town of La Ciotat. The boat is believed to belong to Igor Sechin, a Putin ally who runs Russian oil giant Rosneft, which has been on the U.S. sanctions list since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.

The French Finance Ministry said in a statement that customs authorities boarded the 289-foot Amore Vero and discovered its crew was preparing for an urgent departure, even though planned repair work wasn’t finished. The $120 million boat is registered to a company that lists Sechin as its primary shareholder.

On Saturday, Italian financial police in the port of San Remo seized the 132-foot superyacht Lena, which is flagged in the British Virgin Islands. Authorities said the boat belongs to Gennady Timchenko, an oligarch close to Putin and among those sanctioned by the European Union. With an estimated net worth of $16.2 billion, Timchenko is the founder of the Volga Group, which specializes in investments in energy, transport and infrastructure assets.

The 213-foot Lady M was also seized by the Italians while moored in the Riviera port town of Imperia. In a tweet announcing the seizure on Friday, a spokesman for Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said the comparatively modest $27 million vessel was the property of sanctioned steel baron Alexei Mordashov, listed as Russia’s wealthiest man with a fortune of about $30 billion.

But Mordashov’s upsized yacht, the 464-foot Nord, was safely at anchor on Friday in the Seychelles, a tropical island chain in the Indian Ocean not under the jurisdiction of U.S. or EU sanctions. Among the world’s biggest superyachts, Nord has a market value of $500 million.

Since Friday, Italy has seized $156 million in luxury yachts and villas in some of its most picturesque destinations, including Sardinia, the Ligurian coast and Lake Como.

Most of the Russians on the annual Forbes list of billionaires have not yet been sanctioned by the United States and its allies, and their superyachts are still cruising the world’s oceans.

The evolution of oligarch yachts goes back to the tumultuous decade after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, as state oil and metals industries were sold off at rock-bottom prices, often to politically connected Russian businessmen and bankers who had provided loans to the new Russian state in exchange for the shares.

Russia’s nouveau riche began buying luxury yachts similar in size and expense to those owned by Silicon Valley billionaires, heads of state and royalty. It’s a key marker of status in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and size matters.

“No self-respecting Russian oligarch would be without a superyacht,” said William Browder, a U.S.-born and now London-based financier who worked in Moscow for years before becoming one of the Putin regime’s most vocal foreign critics. “It’s part of the rite of passage to being an oligarch. It’s just a prerequisite.”

As their fortunes ballooned, there was something of an arms race among the oligarchs, with the richest among them accumulating personal fleets of ever more lavish boats.

For example, Russian metals and petroleum magnate Roman Abramovich is believed to have bought or built at least seven of the world’s largest yachts, some of which he has since sold off to other oligarchs.

In 2010, Abramovich launched the Bermuda-flagged Eclipse, which at 533 feet was at the time the world’s longest superyacht. Features include a wood-burning firepit and swimming pool that transforms into a dance floor. Eclipse also boasts its own helicopter hangar and an undersea bay that reportedly holds a mini-sub.

Dennis Cauiser, a superyacht analyst with VesselsFinder, said oligarch boats often include secret security measures worthy of a Bond villain, including underwater escape hatches, bulletproof windows and armored panic rooms.

“Eclipse is equipped with all sorts of special features, including missile launchers and self-defense systems on board,” Cauiser said. “It has a secret submarine evacuation area and things like that.”

Eclipse was soon eclipsed by Azzam, purportedly owned by the emir of Abu Dhabi, which claimed the title of longest yacht when it was launched in 2013. Three years after that, Usmanov launched Dilbar, which replaced another slightly smaller yacht by the same name. The new Dilbar is the world’s largest yacht by volume.

Abramovich, whose fortune is estimated at $12.4 billion, fired back last year by launching Solaris. While not as long as Eclipse or as big as Dilbar, the $600 million Bermuda-flagged boat is possibly even more luxurious. Eight stories tall, Solaris features a sleek palisade of broad teak-covered decks suitable for hosting a horde of well-heeled partygoers.

But no boat is top dog for long. At least 20 superyachts are reported to be under construction in various Northern European shipyards, including a $500 million superyacht being built for the American billionaire Jeff Bezos.

“It’s about ego,” Cauiser said. “They all want to have the best, the longest, the most valuable, the newest, the most luxurious.”

But, he added, the escalating U.S. and EU sanctions on Putin-aligned oligarchs and Russian banks have sent a chill through the industry, with boatbuilders and staff worried they won’t be paid. It can cost upwards of $50 million a year to crew, fuel and maintain a superyacht.

The crash of the ruble and the tanking of Moscow stock market have depleted the fortunes of Russia’s elite, with several people dropping off the list of Forbes billionaires last week. Cauiser said he expects some oligarch superyachts will soon quietly be listed by brokers at fire-sale prices.

The 237-foot Stella Maris, which was seen by an AP journalist docked this past week in Nice, France, was believed to be owned by Rashid Sardarov, a Russian billionaire oil and gas magnate. After publication of an earlier version of this story, AP was contacted Sunday by yacht broker Joan Plana Palao, who said his company represents a U.S. citizen from California who purchased the Stella Maris last month. He declined to disclose the name of the buyer or the person from whom the boat had been purchased.

On Thursday, the U.S. Treasury Department issued a new round of sanctions that included a press release touting Usmanov’s close ties to Putin and photos of Dilbar and the oligarch’s private jet, a custom-built 209-foot Airbus A340-300 passenger liner. Treasury said Usmanov’s aircraft is believed to have cost up to $500 million and is named Bourkhan, after his father.

Usmanov, whose fortune has recently shrunk to about $17 billion, criticized the sanctions.

“I believe that such a decision is unfair and the reasons employed to justify the sanctions are a set of false and defamatory allegations damaging my honor, dignity and business reputation,” he said in a statement issued through the website of the International Fencing Federation, of which he has served as president since 2008.

Abramovich has not yet been sanctioned. Members of the British Parliament have criticized Prime Minister Boris Johnson for not going after Abramovich’s U.K.-based assets, which include the professional soccer club Chelsea. Under mounting pressure, the oligarch announced this past week he would sell the $2.5 billion team and give the net proceeds “for the benefit of all victims of the war in Ukraine.”

Meanwhile, location transponders showed Solaris moored in Barcelona, Spain, on Saturday. Eclipse set sail from St. Maarten late Thursday and is underway in the Caribbean Sea, destination undisclosed.

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Fiberglass and Plastic Yachts

Fiberglass and plastic yachts are light, agile, fast and inexpensive. even when it is being driven by a sail, rest assured you’re going to come in first. the fiberglass yachts are the record holders in the world of racing watercraft..

The price depends on the following:

• type of material (plastic reinforced with fiberglass, composites)
• the form complexity

The last factor will be described further on.

Considering the fact that plastic is cheaper than wood, aluminum, or steel, it is only logical to conclude that the final price of such yacht would be lower as well.

Manufacturing process and the net cost.

The manufacturing cost is comprised of two factors.

• the cost of the master mold
• the cost of molding

The hull is made very easily: first, at the wharf, the cast iron mold is designed and made. Then the plastic is poured into the mold. The mold itself costs more than the entire hull made of metal. Plastic hulls, however, have a minimum net cost.

Thus, if you wanted to order an individually designed yacht, it would be very costly and the waiting period would also be quite extensive. Mass produced hulls are quite different. In other words, its cost doesn’t exceed the cost of the material. But don’t be fast to jump to the conclusion that mass-produced hulls are the same as the serial yachts. On top of those hulls, manufacturers can create some truly exclusive vessels using superstructures, interior pieces, and various equipment.

Performance Features.

If graded by performance, the plastic yachts have no competition. A light boat is easily rolled, so the manufacturers are constantly modernizing the industrial process and tweaking the yachts’ construction. Another disadvantage of a plastic yacht is its low durability. Plastic is not as flexible as metal, it simply breaks. At low temperatures it becomes very fragile. Due to this reason, fiberglass and plastic yachts are operated during warm seasons or in climates close to equator. Going up to the northern seas in such a yacht is a great risk. If there is any slight collision, the hull will tear. Patching it on your own (especially in the open sea) is very difficult, if not impossible.

In North Russian and North American climates, such yachts should be used after all of the ice is melted and only in rivers and ponds wide enough to avoid risks of colliding. On the other hand, a little plastic yacht is easier to steer away from obstacles, making accidents pretty rare.

Plastic also tends to melt when exposed to high temperatures, let alone a fire. If your vessel should catch on fire due to a wiring malfunction, carelessness or other reasons, you are more than likely to lose the entire yacht if the flames are not extinguished within 5 to 10 minutes.

Maintainability.

Overall maintenance of a fiberglass and plastic yacht is low, but if the hull gets damaged, you are likely to spend a lot of time and money fixing it. Not a lot of companies repair such yachts. Finding a good specialist is also a challenge: a simple crack can be fixed by any welder, but when it comes down to repairing some plastic details and we’re talking quality repairing, it is very hard to find a professional for the job.

In short, a plastic body is an inexpensive solution for speed lovers at seas. But as a universal watercraft, plastic yachts leave little to be desired.

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When looking to purchase a fiberglass or plastic yacht, it is important to determine what features matter most to you as a buyer.

Our selection of new and previously owned plastic and fiberglass yachts include these brands: Richmond Yachts, West Port 2016, Christensen, Sunseeker 2015, Admiral, Hargrave, Nedship, Benetti, Azimut and more.

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Plastic yachts are built for performance over sustainability. So, if you’ve considered yacht racing, plastic or fiberglass yachts are fast and inexpensive compared to other materials like steel, aluminum, or wood, used when building yachts

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