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Douglas Sharp Yacht Design, Inc., known throughout the yachting industry as Sharp Design, has developed a fresh concept for yachtsmen interested in sport fishing on an international scale. “The new concept is really a system that builds on the strengths of two special purpose vessels whose combination provides superior sport fishing capabilities with the ability to voyage anywhere in the world”, explains Doug Sharp, Principal Naval Architect at Sharp Design.
Douglas Sharp Yacht Design, Inc., known throughout the yachting industry as Sharp Design, has developed a fresh concept for yachtsmen interested in sport fishing on an international scale. “The new concept is really a system that builds on the strengths of two special purpose vessels whose combination provides superior sport fishing capabilities with the ability to voyage anywhere in the world”, explains Doug Sharp, Principal Naval Architect at Sharp Design.
“This concept occurred to me after our office completed two recent projects—a 127 feet (38.7 m, ed.) sportfisherman and a 300 feet (91 m) expedition yacht—both done for clients whose fundamental interest was fishing”, Sharp continues.
Sharp’s office has been designing innovative, long-range sportfishermen for 25 years and exploration-style yachts for almost 20 years.
Sportfishermen with their sleek lines, powerful engines and high speed hulls, the yacht-equivalent of a performance sport car, would appear to be the polar opposite of the slower, more spacious and ship-like, expedition-style yachts. Sharp, however, finds that both yacht styles have a lot in common in terms of the interest and motivation on the part of the clients who commission them.
Over the last 20 years sizes of typical commissions at his firm for both those yacht styles have almost doubled. In that time, typical sportfisherman commissions have grown from around 70 feet (21.3 m) in the 1980’s to 136.5 feet (41.6 m) with Sharp Design’s recent redesign of Marlena, believed to be the worlds largest privately operated sport fishing yacht. Expedition-style yachts designed by the firm have shown a similar growth trend. In the 1990’s Sharp’s’ office completed the design of Andiamo, the international design award-winning expedition yacht, which came in at 139 feet (42.4 m). Sharp Design’s most recent expedition-style yacht, at 300 feet, is just over double Andiamo’s size.
According to Sharp, sportfishermen have been growing in size as clients demand more and more luxury amenities while still wishing to preserve the sleek lines, powerful engines and high speed hulls for which the type is known.
Expedition-style yachts have added more and more too, in their case, its has been in terms of toys: the various personal watercraft, tenders, miniature submarines, specialist diving gear and aircraft that quickly fill up all available deck space or even require special “toy garages” to house them and require highly skilled crew to deploy and maintain them. Sharp believes there are smarter ways to address current desires for more in yachts oriented towards fishing besides just making them larger and then, like Noah’s Arc, putting “two of everything in them until you fill up all available space.” In a wide ranging two-hour conversation at his Shelter Island office, Mr. Sharp discussed the fundamental issues as he sees them and some alternate solutions that draw from his extensive personal experience and also draw from a naval architect’s most valuable toolkit—previous designs that have proven successful and that have evolved in their fundamental role over many years.
“The problems with just making the traditional sportfisherman larger stem from the fundamental nature of the type; a fast, sleek, highly maneuverable vessel that’s meant to get from here to there quickly and fish like crazy. Once you start adding all the facilities expected in an expedition-style or tri-deck luxury yacht to a sportfisher you run into trouble. You need a much longer yacht to create enough room to house everything. If you want that longer yacht to look like a sportfisher lot of that new length is going to end up as foredeck and not as superstructure. In theory, longer foredecks give you new room for tenders and toys and such but once you start placing a lot of stuff on the foredeck it starts to look cluttered and lumpy and it really spoils the lines. Also, in order to preserve the speed in the larger designs, you have to add power; lots of power. For example, Marlena our 136’-6” [41.6m] design is fast but requires engines that produce 7,000 horsepower to achieve that speed.
An even larger boat attaining similar speed will require more powerful engines yet, which require larger transmissions, propellers, propeller shafts, propeller tunnels and so on. Each of those larger things eats up more of the space you wanted for other purposes. In short, you may have to make the vessel much longer than desired to get room for the amenities and toys you wanted in the first instance.
And, as the sportfisher gets longer it becomes less and less compatible with its fundamental role as a nimble fisherman able to maneuver easily. With expedition-style yachts the superstructure is much more vertically oriented than the sportfisher. True, the expedition-style has a lot of foredeck too but a significantly larger percentage of the boat is superstructure and it is largely straight up and down, lending itself to people-oriented spaces and recreational amenities. But, just like the sportfisher, if you put lots of equipment on the foredeck or stern area the design starts to suffer. Push things too far and you have a boat analogous to a residence where the owner parks his boat and automobile on the front lawn instead of in the garage–it’s unsightly and offends the eye, spoiling the design of the home.”
Sharp, a third generation San Diegan and 45 year observer of San Diego’s active fishing and sportfishing fleets, went on to talk about the need for something different, a new yacht type for clients oriented towards fishing but one providing the voyaging abilities and luxury amenities of the expedition-style yacht in a package with aesthetics as pleasing as the sportfisherman and with speed superior to the slower expedition-style yacht.
Sharp then related: “I began thinking about how the sportfisher could be modified to become a more spacious voyager and still preserve its fishing abilities but I couldn’t arrive at something truly fresh or better. That got me wondering if fishing abilities and agility might be preserved in a separate, smaller vessel, offloading that responsibility, decreasing the need for speed in the mother ship while allowing improvements in accommodations and facilities. But, the fundamentals of the sportfisher-style simply do not fill the role well. There is no way to put substantial cargo handling equipment or deck machinery on the sportfisher without spoiling the lines. I was frustrated.
According to Mr. Sharp, improved fishing abilities are not the only benefit the Tuna Clipper style provides. Sharp went on to state: “The Tuna Clipper style is enormously flexible. One can easily vary the length of the superstructure on deck, how far it extends back to the stern or the amount of deck space aft of the superstructure and still get a great looking boat. You can put huge deck loads or lots of toys on the rear deck of it and still look good. The hull form is wide and deep in all the places where you want accommodations or recreational spaces, which the sportfisherman does not handle well. We’re very excited about the possibilities with the Tuna Clipper style. Over the next few months we plan to develop some alternate arrangements that showcase other strengths of the type. Through developing those concepts we will be looking to find a yachtsman who wants to have superior yacht for fishing but also get improved amenities and true world-class voyaging in a smart, sleek package that is fresh and not just another ’me too‘ sportfisher design.”
Mr. Sharp reports that his Tuna Clipper yacht concept has been enthusiastically received among yachtsmen viewing it and also among yacht brokers. In fact, one broker has already put the initial concept forward as a candidate to a client looking to build a new sportfishing yacht. A second brokerage firm is considering featuring Sharp Design’s Tuna Clipper yacht concepts in a special section of their website devoted to the full variety of sportfishing designs produced by the company.
Preliminary specifications for the Tuna Clipper yacht concept as given by Sharp Design:
LOA: 138’ / 42 m
Length on Waterline: 122’ / 37.2 m
Beam: 29’6” / 9 m
Max. Draft: 8’10” / 2.69 m
Engines: 2 x Caterpillar 3512B at 1,300 bhp (969.4KW)
Generating Power: 2 x Northern Lights 130KW, M1066A1
Stabilizers: Quantum OnAnchor Series with QIS-160 Powerpack
Fuel: 5,500 US Gal. / 20,820 Liters
Fresh Water: 16,250 US Gal. / 61,513 Liters
Watermakers: 2 x Sea Recovery Aqua Whisper AW1800-2 @1,800 GPH
Cruising Speed: 17 Knots
Maximum Speed (Half Load): 19 Knots
Guest Suites: 3 with Ensuite Baths
Owner’s Staterooms: 1 with Adjacent Ensuite Baths
Crew Cabins: 4
Galleys: 2
Day Heads 2
Salons, Entertainment Areas and Bars: 3
Contact:
Lonnie Smith, V.P. of Marketing Design, Inc.
Tel: +1 619 223 486
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