By Ellie Brade
New Zealand has produced another new superyacht order, this time from Alloy Yachts. This is very encouraging news considering the lack of new orders placed the world over during the last year. This week The Yacht Report had the privilege of being the first members of the media to see the new order – Hull number AY43 – underway at the Alloy Yachts yard, the order for which was placed in the middle of last year.
Work began on AY43, which as of yet has no working name, three weeks ago. She is being built for a repeat Alloy Yachts customer. She is a 47m aluminium M/Y, 41.73m on the waterline, and is built to Lloyds classification. Designed by Dubois, her interior is by Donald Starkey. AY43 will have a beam of 9.19m and a draft of 2.21m, reaching a maximum speed of 17kn, and cruising at 14.5kn on CAT engines. Alloy Yachts success in procuring a new order is testament to their solid reputation as a yard and the faith from owners in the yachts that they build. Having recently celebrated their 25th birthday (which we will report on fully at a later date) they are long established and look set to continue their building success for many years to come.
Here, for the first time, we can bring readers a rendering of this new order.
This brings the total number of orders underway at Alloy Yachts to three: the 44m S/Y AY40, Imagine II, which will hand over in May this year, AY41 and AY43. AY42, Paraiso, remains suspended for now.
Whilst at the yard we were privy to visiting and learning more about the top secret Phillipe Briand designed S/Y AY41, which will deliver at the end of this year. We will bring you further information on this exciting project at a later date within our print outlets.
Full specs on all the Alloy yachts in build can be found at SuperyachtIntelligence.com
Related Links:
Alloy Yachts: company profile | company website
