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Fountainhead is a motor yacht built in 2011 by Feadship for American billionaire Eddie Lampert. [1] [2] [3] With an overall length of 87.78 m (288.0 ft) and a beam of 13.90 m (45.6 ft). [6] [7] The yacht is named after the novel The Fountainhead, written by Ayn Rand. [8]
The Electric Launch Company, later renamed Elco Motor Yachts ("Elco"), is an American boat building and electric motor company that has operated from 1893 to 1949 and from 1987 to the present. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Azzam (Arabic: عزام, literally "Resolute") is a private superyacht built by German shipyard Lürssen Yachts. Azzam was launched on 5 April 2013. At 180 metres (590 ft) in length, she is the longest private motor yacht in the world. [1] She has a beam of 20.8 metres (68 ft) and an unusually shallow draft of 4.3 m (14 ft 1 in).
Scheherazade is a motor superyacht built by Lürssen Yachts of Germany. [2] With a length of 140 m (460 ft), it is currently one of the longest motor yachts in the world. While being built, it used the project name "Lightning". [6] The exterior design was done by the designer Espen Oeino, and the interiors by the firm of Francois Zuretti. [5]
A closer view of Athena. Athena is a clipper-bowed three-masted gaff-rigged schooner built by Royal Huisman in 2004 for Internet entrepreneur James H. Clark.Clark purchased a 47.4 meter sloop, Hyperion, from Royal Huisman in 1998.
Destriero was a 67-metre (220 ft) long, 13-metre (43 ft) wide, 400-ton displacement, yacht built by Fincantieri in their Muggiano yard at La Spezia in 1991. She was fitted with three GE Aviation LM1600 gas turbines totalling 60,000-horsepower (45,000 kW), [1] providing her with a maximum speed of 110 kilometres per hour (68 mph; 59 kn).
It is the largest private sail-assisted motor yacht in the world. [9] Sailing Yacht A was delivered by Nobiskrug on 3 February 2017, and left Kiel on 5 February 2017. [10] [11] [12] It exited the Baltic Sea in light mode on near-empty fuel tanks in order to clear the Drogden Strait with minimum draught.
The main engines are twin Pielstick diesel engines, each with power of 7,990 horsepower (5,960 kW). This is enough power for the yacht to reach a service speed of 22.9 knots (42.4 km/h; 26.4 mph), while the maximum speed is over 25.5 knots (47.2 km/h; 29.3 mph).