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Luna - available for charter Luna
Length115m
Number of guests22
Winter on request
Summer on request
Turama - available for charter Turama
Length116m
Number of guests70
Winter 630,000 €
Summer 630,000 €
Alexander - available for charter Alexander
Length122m
Number of guests80
Winter 630,000 €
Summer 630,000 €
Serene - available for charter Serene
Length134m
Number of guests24
Winter 3,750,000 €
Summer on request


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Bandido 75 - for sale Bandido 75
Length24m
Number of guests8
Price 2,650,000 €
MS 33 - for sale MS 33
Length33m
Number of guests8
Price 7,000,000 €
Angel 42M - for sale Angel 42M
Length42m
Number of guests20
Price 9,000,000 €
Angel 51M - for sale Angel 51M
Length51m
Number of guests10
Price 19,000,000 €


3/25/08   Views 5455
Majestic grace is the overwhelming feeling one has looking up from below to the most beautiful sailing yacht ever built. The long extended keel drafts a little more than 16ft and the yacht rests in heavy launch-carts, adding another 3 feet to the height of the aft deck at 30 ft above the slipway.


Majestic grace is the overwhelming feeling one has looking up from below to the most beautiful sailing yacht ever built. The long extended keel drafts a little more than 16ft and the yacht rests in heavy launch-carts, adding another 3 feet to the height of the aft deck at 30 ft above the slipway.

ATLANTIC was designed by William Gardner, one of America’s foremost designers of the beginning of the 20th century. The builders then were Townsend & Downey at Shooter’s Island, New York. She was launched on July 28th 1903 and made her first trial trip in October at the rate of 15 knots. No one could then foresee that the schooner would gain enduring fame in 1905 under command of the renowned captain Charlie Barr setting the record for a transatlantic crossing from New York to The Lizard on the south coast of England at 12 days, 4 hours and 1 minute. A mono-hull record that stood for 100 years.

At 10:30am this morning, coinciding with local high water, the launching ceremony for the recreated ATLANTIC is performed by 9 year old Atlan Kastelein, whose father Ed is masterminding the build of the legendary schooner. The christening is followed by the sound of a breaking champagne bottle against the raven black bow and subsequently the majestic yacht very slowly slides into the water of the river Merwede. She is welcomed by the blowing horns of all vessels in the vicinity. Two tugs make fast fore and aft, towing the yacht a few miles west down the river where she is moored faultlessly at the quay. Here she will be rigged and fitted out for a passage to the south of France early next year. There the finishing is expected to take another year.

The schooner measures 56.43 meters (185’) over the bows, excluding bowsprit and mizzen boom outboard of respectively 8.76 meters (28’8) and 4.05 meters (13’3). With her beam of 8.85 meters (29’) and draft of 5.00 meters (16’5) her displacement is 395 tons. From the different sail plans of the original, the record setting 1905 rig of 1,720m² (18,500 square feet) has been chosen for the recreated yacht. Assisted by yacht historian John Lammerts van Bueren, Ed Kastelein has gathered copies of drawings of the original schooner from various archives in the USA, amongst which the MIT Museum in Massachusetts. Doug Peterson, acting as consulting naval architect, has digitized the original plans guaranteeing the authenticity of the lines and floatation. The structural designs for the construction by today’s methods and materials, like a welded instead of a riveted hull, have been produced by the naval engineering company MasterShip Services at Eindhoven. They too have completed the task of updating the design without changing an inch to the sacred aesthetics of the original. In the old design for example all 96 steel frames were spaced at 558.8mm (22 inches) and this has been adhered to for the sake of authenticity. The building takes place under Bureau Veritas classification for charter yachts.

The yard of the Van der Graaf brothers have delivered another masterpiece. Eight years ago they launched Eleonora, the replica of Westward, and now the dedicated craftsmen are watching another famous historic design leaving the yard. The teak deck-houses, hatches and skylights have been meticulously copied from illustrations of the original. The cast anchors are lying on deck next to the steel bowsprit, which has not been mounted yet. For equipment like the anchor chain stoppers, stanchions, belaying pins and pin rails new casting patterns have been custom manufactured based on original designs. The manufacture of the 45 meter long masts will start shortly. The base of the three masts will be made of alloy and the top masts, booms and gaffs will be built in Sitka spruce.

It will still be a while before the new ATLANTIC will serve for luxury charter. Below decks accommodation is to be realized for twelve guests and eleven crew with every imaginable comfort. The crew quarters and the modern galley are ready to be installed. The pantry and laundry will follow within weeks.

Though not yet fully finished, ATLANTIC will be sailing again soon. And no doubt she will have a crack at beating the time the original yacht made to cross the Atlantic in 1905!

For more information, please contact:

Martin A. Romein 
Tel: + 31 6 51 61 25 97

John Lammerts van Bueren
Tel: + 31 6 53 19 53 53
 

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