Avoiding Seasickness

If you have ever been seasick it is something that you don’t forget in a hurry, and if you haven’t, you are one of the lucky ones. A boat that is rolling about can not only produce seasickness, but it can also cause difficulty in moving about, and even lead to serious falls, to say nothing of the broken dishes. This is why we set such store in all-weather stability with all out yacht and motor yacht designs.

One break-through design is the Frers MY78 motor yacht Bill and Me built by Baltic Yachts. The unique aspect of this design is the strong crossover she has between sail and powerboats” Says Mani Frers adding. “Our client was making the transition from sail to power, having previously sailed around the world, and now wanted the convenience of a power boat matched to the better sea keeping and comfort qualities of his yacht.

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A History of Mani Frers Yacht Designs

Germán ‘Mani’ Frers is the third generation of a family of yacht designers all bearing the same name. His grandfather began designing yachts back in the 1920’s and by 1930 the Frers yard employed 60 boat builders, mostly constructing his own designs.

Germán Frers Snr began by designing and building Colin Archer styled double-enders in Buenos Aires back in 1926 and went on to draw more than 600 boats ranging from plywood day sailers like the Yachting World Light Crest to a range of motor yachts, and a series of very successful ocean racing yachts.

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German Mani Frers Yacht Designs Have Been Built By Several Major Yacht Builders.

German Mani Frers is a brand of yacht design descended from three generations ago when German Frers Snr began designing yachts in Argentina back in 1928. His son, also German Frers, and grandson, German Mani Frers, between them have designed something over 1,300 different yachts over the years, and the German Mani Frers design is recognised throughout the world. 

These designs of yachts have been built by several different yacht builders, among them Royal Huisman Yachts in Holland, Nautor Swan in Finland, and Wally Yachts which is based in Monaco.

Wally Yachts was founded in 1994 by Luca Bassani Antivari and over the succeeding years has built 46 sailing boats and over 120 motor yachts. Wally combines the latest technology with contemporary design and is always looking at ways of improving enjoyment and fun on the water with performance, style, and comfort. Luca Bassani Antivari is quoted as saying: “We will always keep our soul as a company that always brings something new and functional to the market. We never consider the adventure, the design experience, as being over.”

Nautor Swan was founded in Finland in 1966 by Pekka Koskenkyla who had a passion for cruising and racing in contact with nature and the water. Pekka was educated in the USA and designed his first sailing yacht in fibreglass trimmed with wood in conjunction with one of the best-known yacht designers at the time, Sparkman and Stephens of New York. At that time, nobody had built a boat over ten metres in fibreglass. The result of the design was a boat that had greater steering stability and living space, but with less weight.

Nautor Swan has used many of the German Frers designs for its’ boats over the years and has produced over 700 yachts in these designs including Frers first ever Swan, the Swan 51 in 1981. In 2006, to commemorate Nautor’s 40th anniversary, Frers designed the Swan 66, a model that is the quintessence of everything that ‘Swan’ stands for. The Swan 66 was conceived using forty years’ worth of knowledge in premium yacht building and cutting-edge technology.

What’s New In The World Of Superyachts?

There is a trend in the world of yachts today that seems to suggest that bigger is better. This became the way forward some 15 years ago when Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, took delivery of Octopus in 2003. At 414ft it was then the world’s largest explorer yacht with room for 26 guests, a cinema, a recording studio, and -would you believe – a basketball court. It also has two helicopter landing pads and not one, but two submarines on board, one of which is big enough to seat ten people.

You might think that a yacht of 414ft is about as big as people might want to go, but just ten years after the launch of Octopus came Azzam built for Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan with a length of 591ft. That’s the length of two football pitches. At present it is the world’s biggest superyacht, but who knows for how long it will hold that record?

However, not all today’s superyachts are being built just, it seems, as though to outdo the last one. Among yachts in build at present is Mystique which is being constructed in Germany and is a comparatively tiny 250ft. Nonetheless, it has an amphibious light aircraft, a submarine (let’s face it: you just HAVE to have a submarine these days if you are not to be a nobody), and a catamaran. In addition, it has a hydroponic garden, a solar powered fish farm, and a food laboratory! You might wonder why it needs a fish farm when you are sailing through nothing but fish and could just drop a line over the side.

Among the yachts in build are some which are moving towards eco awareness by using more fuel-efficient engines and hybrid propulsion systems. Some yachts in build are also designed to use the heat of gas from exhaust systems to heat water, which leaves the yacht cooler and you get hot water as well. Some of the newer explorer yachts that are designed to go anywhere have systems to make potable water, while a number of others process all their own waste so that nothing goes overboard and they are then able to visit protected waters.