Articles tagged with: Yacht

Aqua Submersible Watercraft Prototype
Posted in Concept, Designer, Yacht on 22 July 2008

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Driven by one-man, the submersible watercraft concept has a tendency to sail both on and under the water surface. Considering the possibility that with growing pollution and population, it would be a tough thought to survive on land. Hence, the concept called Aqua was devised offering a stay under the ocean. Formed like a dolphin, this underwater means of transportation is an ideal one for a stay in water. The designer structure by Korean designers Sungchul Yang and Woonghee Han monitors optimism, supplies oxygen and look for ways to shield the driver from getting hurt with the water pressure.

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Gimaballed Champagne Holder: For a Hedonistic Yacht & You!
Posted in Designer, Luxury, Shopping, Yacht on 13 July 2008

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If profligate lifestyle and excuse of having piled up dough is the reason for your extravagance then excuse me please! How about enjoying another glass of wine while seating in an open sky over the yacht? One noticeable and self-confessed fact about the hedonistic clan is their possession of a yacht, which according to them comes equipped with every luxury. But the Gimaballed Champagne Holder (pictured above) is surely a missing luxury. The champagne holder respects every drop of Moet ordered from the vineyards based in the north east of France.

The designer Bottler was designed and developed for Dutch company Bottler BV by an established interior yacht designer, who was stimulated by Gerolamo Cardano. It was in 1537 he developed his ‘cardanic suspension’ (gimbals) to hold the breadth firmly adjacent to the ship arrangements. With a starting price tagged at €5,000, the designer wine holder comprise of three concentric rings, where the compass hung always upright. Ready to install in your luxury yacht, the hand-crafted Bottler is designed using watch-making precision and is customized as per the customers’ needs.

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Innespace Seabreacher Submarine Dons Dolphin’s Mirror Image
Posted in Designer, Yacht on 9 July 2008

Innespace Seabreacher

Ahhh…to be friends with dolphins is the submarine called the Innespace Seabreacher. The two-seater submersible that looks and moves like a dolphin. Interestingly, the Seabreacher uses the same canopy as an F-22 fighter jet to insure that the inside stays nice and dry with a watertight seal. When the automobile comes in motion, it looks no less than a jet fighter with energy to breakthrough the tough water. Developed with an intention to impersonate a dolphin’s movement, it uses the downhill elevate of the wings to leap out of the water, and even do cask spins.

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Terra Wind Amphibious RV Cum Yacht Offers Ride On water
Posted in Designer, Luxury, Yacht on 1 July 2008

Terra Wind Amphibious RV

If you are looking for ways to do justice to that piled up dough and fond of wheels then here comes a neat prospective purchase for you. The vehicle in reference is an Amphibious RV ($850,000-$1.2 million) from Terra Wind that unfolds as a boat with a mission to drive right into a lake and keep on departing. It’s time to carry your amphibious PC and carry on with your schedules while strolling in the Amphibious RV. Designed and developed considering the comfort level of filthy rich, one part of the RV features decked-out motor home and from other angle it seems crazy-lake-going-vessel.

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Limited Edition 20ltd Caillou Boat Costs $10,740
Posted in Designer, Yacht on 27 June 2008

20ltd Caillou Boat

Limited edition stuff is what my elite audience crazy about and why not the exclusivity of the products bearing a ceiling-top price gives them every right to ink deals and populate their abode with deluxe thingamajigs. Adding to their kit is an opulent summer fantasy of a limited edition boat cum kayak from Caillou. Called 20ltd Caillou Boat, it features concrete fiberglass floor and hull with mahogany garnish, two fiberglass seats with hovering cushions’, two kayak paddles, a carbon fiber mast followed by a Dacron sail rig with carbon fiber cudgels.

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Phoenix 1000: The Luxurious Undersea Vehicle
Posted in Worlds Most Expensive, Yacht on 24 June 2008

Phoenix 1000

Phoenix 1000 is the biggest and luxurious private submarine ever designed. The fantastic super yacht is a 65-meter (213′) personal luxury submarine and is able to deal with ocean crossings at a speed of 16 knots. Spread at a surface area of 460 sq meters, it assures long journeys in most luxurious and comfortable way. On board, it offers accommodation for around 12 guests divided into 6 cabins with private bathrooms; while on the main deck have a fantastic deck saloon from which they can admire the unusual and fascinating landscapes of navigation in depth. But the real surprise is the comfortable flying Bridge and its ability of its material to stand immersion.

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World’s Largest and Expensive Cruise Ship All Set to Hit the Seas
Posted in Luxury, Worlds Most Expensive, Yacht on 23 June 2008

Project Genesis

Ready to take a cruise in a world’s giant cruise ship? But hang on as it hasn’t yet hit the seas. Called the “Project Genesis” cruise liner, Royal Caribbean is engaged in raising this 1,180 feet long water gargantuan. Weighing 220,000 tones and valued at $1.24 billion, the ship claims to be the world’s priciest ship as well. But if besides the ‘est’ factor, figures do make a difference to you then read further. Alleged to be 43% wider than Queen Elizabeth II, it can house 5,400 sea lovers and sponge 6,400 under Sardine circumstances. It sports a Central Park, an AquaTheater along with seven different “neighborhoods” offering lodging to people.

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Kite Flying…Oops Kite Sailing Goes Stylish, Courtesy Monique Mindeis
Posted in Entertainment, Products, Shopping, Technology, Yacht on 5 June 2008

Kite boat

If kite flying and boat sailing enlightens your dead soul then rush now to enjoy the twosome activities by taking a ride over the Kite Boat developed and designed by Monique Mindeis at Polous Design. Called the Powerkite Kite Boat, it provides the dexterity of flying kite while cruising in the company of your beloved, who can reside in a folding seat placed in the back. Sailing up in the aniti-wind course is favorable for the Kite Boat.
Demanding a great level of practice, the art of kitesailing is defined as being hard-pressed by a kite in some vessel permiting the kite forces being relocated through the body of the driver whilst other believes the vessel movement is due to the slim push by kite.

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World’s First Solar Speedboat Rides at 30-knot, 80kw Czeers Mk1
Posted in Eco-friendly, Yacht on 24 May 2008

MK1 model solar speedboat

We often witness people around us making efforts keep electricity and water at two different poles and little does we realize that the electric engine revolution is spreading like a virus in the boating world as well. But if you happen to be riding over the speedboat on water then there cannot be a better power source than sun. Featured above is the Czeers MK1 model solar speedboat, a 30-knot photovoltaic dream in luscious shades of carbon fiber, solar cell and lush orange leather. Dutch founders claim it to the world’s first solar speedboat.

The Delft Technical University Solarboat Team designed this original platform to enter into the 2006 Nuon Frisian Solar challenge, which they finally won and then started evolved their interest in attracting serious investment power from Rabobank to develop a full scale test boat.

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CRN Maraya: A Mirrored Megayacht
Posted in Architecture, Yacht on 20 May 2008

CRN Maraya

Maraya, a 54 meters long vessel is no less than a myriad of lights and credit for this goes to CRN who developed this is association with Studio Zuccon International Project, dedicated to design the face of the yacht. Maraya falling in Arabic dictionary means “mirror,” is a project entirely custom-built to meet the needs of the owner expecting lights to rule the ambience.

Renowned interior designer Claude Missir Agency worked upon offering state-of-art interiors that are highlighted by lights and mirrors all gleaming in bright shades. It takes pride in being the first mega yacht of the yard that utilizes the lighting system based utterly on the use of fiber optics and LEDs.

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