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This 218ft ketch is the biggest yacht Baltic have launched to date and in many ways she remains in a class of her own.

Despite her classic looks with a plumb stem and sweeping counter, she is a thoroughly modern high performance yacht taking full advantage of Baltic’s carbon composite building and engineering expertise.

Apart from her powerful sailplan, Hetairos sports not only a lifting keel, but also an unusual lifting rudder enabling her to fulfill her potential while sailing and access shallower anchorages and harbours when at rest.

She has proved to be a force to be reckoned with on the race course, but is just a capable as a world girdling cruising yacht capable of independent sailing for long periods of time.

Hetairos was one of the most challenging projects undertaken by Baltic Yachts and she remains one of the most outstanding sailing superyachts in the world.

Hetairos was delivered in 2011.

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• L.O.A. 59.90 m
• D.W.L. 49.76 m
• BEAM 10.54 m
• DRAFT 3.5/6/9 m
• DISPLACEMENT 220 ton
• BALLAST 83,000 kg
• NAVAL ARCHITECT Dykstra & Partners Naval Architects
• CO-NAVAL ARCHITECT Reichel Pugh Yacht Design

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About the Project

The 197ft (66.7m) S.Y. Hetairos has set many new benchmarks in superyacht construction. It is, for example, the largest yacht that has been built from carbon-fibre composite to date.

The owner’s brief was to build the largest and fastest yacht that would still be capable of crossing the Panama Canal, and still have that classic look. However she is capable of speeds to rival many racing yachts, achieving a top speed of 25.7 knots during an Atlantic crossing.

She sports a full set of ECsix rigging.

There is a very small window for clearance below the Panama Bridge and because of this, the equipment on top of both the main and mizzen masts, such as aerials have been designed to be removable.

Designer: Dykstra & Partners/Reichel Pugh LOA: 197ft Mast Height: 62.5 metres

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Sailing the Atlantic circuit, Iceland & the Arctic on superyacht Hetairos

Since her launch in 1993, the 42.85 metre Abeking & Rasmussen ketch Hetairos  (now Asgard ) has sailed approximately 300,000 miles, and has often raced in two regattas every year.

In 2010, she logged two superyacht regattas and 15,000 miles between February and October sailing from the Mediterranean , across to the Caribbean , north to Iceland, the desolate Jan Mayen Island and Spitsbergen in the high latitudes at 80 degrees north, before returning to the Mediterranean and a final, victorious regatta.

As the yacht's winter refit approached completion at La Ciotat, France, a string of deep low pressure systems continued to roll east across the Atlantic delivering fierce storms to western Europe. With the St Barths Bucket firmly in _Hetairos_'s diary, her British captain, Bill Lawrence, was constantly looking for an escape window out into the North Atlantic and across to the Caribbean.

Sailing before a storm

On 10 February, an opportunity arrived and Hetairos set sail with a constant 45 to 50 knots of breeze from behind and gusts peaking at 58 knots.

"There was so much water coming over the back of the boat that a pair of binoculars was lifted right out of the cockpit and a Jonbuoy was torn from the stern," recalls Lawrence.

With the wind forecast to shift to the west, the prospect of beating into a gale was unacceptable and Lawrence stopped in the Spanish port of Mazagón, just west of the Straits of Gibraltar, before another dash in 45 knots of following breeze 350 miles south to the small port of Safi on the coast of Morocco.

The judgement and timing were impeccable for as Hetairos sheltered in Safi's port, 400 miles due west in Madeira a storm raged, triggering mudslides and flooding, which caused 32 deaths and around 70 non-fatal casualties.

To the tropics

Once the storm broke, _Hetairo_s set off for Antigua in the Caribbean, stopping for only two hours in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands during the 14-day journey in a southerly breeze with no sign of the usual north-east trade winds.

Arriving in Antigua on 9 March, the crew stayed long enough to set up a storage base and for the yacht's first mate, Adam Williams, to get engaged, before setting off to the St Barths Bucket. The owner and family came on board for the regatta, joined by friends for the final day of racing.

This became a very successful regatta, with Hetairos achieving second place out of 39 entries. It was followed by a short cruise around St Kitts, Barbuda and Nevis. The yacht then returned to Antigua for six weeks of preparation ahead of the long trip north.

Voyage to Iceland

Rejoining the crew in Antigua, the owner cruised through the British Virgin Islands to Bermuda before leaving Hetairos and the yacht's core crew - Lawrence, Williams, engineer Sam Parfitt, and deckhand Henry Stell - and two additions for the 2,500 mile voyage to Iceland.

The crew used a two-man watch system of two hours on, six hours off. "We'd sail fairly cautiously," confirms Bill Lawrence. "The crew would usually fly a jib with a jigger from the mizzen and leave the mainsail down. 'If we were off-wind, we'd leave the mizzen mast bare and sail with a reefed main," he adds.

Remarkably, the boat motored for under three days during the voyage north as Lawrence kept Hetairos east of the Rhumb line, skirting south-east of the Grand Banks: "We wanted to keep clear of any areas of fog," confirms Lawrence.

Sailing a more easterly course, the breeze veered from south to south-east just as Hetairos cleared the Flemish Cap area and turned north-east towards Iceland, supplying a comfortable beam and broad reach.

Although the crew reported very little shipping as the yacht climbed north, they did encounter fallout from the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull: "We were sailing through the dust cloud," reports Lawrence. "There wasn't much, but visibility did drop. It was just strange that the boat was getting a little bit dirty right out in the middle of the ocean."

Landfall in Iceland

Hetairos  arrived on Iceland's northern coast at Akureyri, a fishing port and cruise liner destination at the head of the Eyjaförður fjord. For the entire crew, this was the first introduction to Iceland.

"It was a really good stop over and the people were very friendly. If you needed anything, one of the locals would give you a lift anywhere in their car," says Lawrence.

Having met up with the owner in Akureyri,  Hetairos  sailed west for 50 miles along the coast into Húnaflói Bay and moored off the small settlement of Blönduós while the owner fished in the famous Blanda River at the height of the local salmon season.

Originally, the plan had been to sail west and explore the east coast of, but a northerly breeze and frequent reports of ice drifting south through the Greenland Sea and into the Denmark Strait, which separates Iceland from Greenland, caused a change of plan.

Seal for dinner

Hetairos  returned to Akureyri for supplies, picking up a load of Russian birch for the yacht's log burner and some local delicacies: 'The Icelandic writing on all the food packaging was a little confusing,' admits Lawrence. 'It took us three days to work out we were eating whale and seal!'

With a French ice pilot, Eric, added to the crew, Hetairos headed further north to the Svalbard Islands of Spitsbergen and Nordaustlandet, making a brief stop at the small and desolate island of Jan Mayen, 360 miles north-east of Iceland.

"It was just a speck in the ocean with a Norwegian weather station," says Lawrence. At 34 miles long with the 2,277 metre Beerenberg volcano at the northern tip, the island is a formidable landfall.

"It's very steep-sided and if you arrive there in the wrong weather, the chances are you won't be able to land.' The owner and crew were given a guided tour of the weather station, but the scenery was bleak. 'We only glimpsed the volcano once," the captain confirms. "On average, the peak is only visible on three days each year."

Northern reaches

As the yacht moved north, the number of private and commercial vessels reduced dramatically.

"It was unusual to see a boat like H etairos  that far north," says Lawrence. "Other than icebreaking mini-cruise liners, there were some 12 metre yachts being cruised by couples."

On board  Hetairos,  life was comfortable. "It wasn't ever that cold and the log burner kept the boat extremely warm," he continues. "With the water temperature between one and three degrees, you certainly wouldn't want to fall in, but we did notice that the watermaker would only function at half capacity. There was really no hardship."

Landfall was made in Spitsbergen's capital Longyearbyen on the north-west coast. It was here that ice pilot Eric and the background work done for H etairos  by Richard Hawthorn's Arctic and Antarctic sailing support company High Latitude, became extremely useful.

"If you stay within a settlement's limit, you don't usually require special visas or permits," explains Lawrence. "Once you leave town, it gets complicated."

The threat of polar bears is taken seriously, so an armed guide is mandatory. "They're there to fire a warning shot to scare the bears, or, in the worst case, shoot to kill.' Fortunately, the need never arose. 'We did see a family of five polar bears feeding on a whale carcass," adds Lawrence.

With racing at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in early September a set date in the yacht's programme, 4,000 miles away to the south, there was time for one more trip. So Hetairos sailed out of Longyearbyen, around Spitsbergen's most northern headland, Verlegenhuken, crossing 80 degrees north and sailing south-east into the Hinlopenstretet channel between Spitsbergen and Nordaustlandet.

'It was really very spectacular,' says Lawrence. The channel's shores are encased in ice with the Valhallfonna glacier on the western Spitsbergen shore, and the Vestfonna and Sørfonna glaciers on the Nordaustlandet shore.

"The channel became choked-up with ice and bergy bits fairly quickly," says the mahogany-hulled yacht's captain without flinching. "The glaciers were constantly calving off into the water."

The trip south to the regatta in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, was broken with a brief stop in the captain's home port of Lymington on the English south coast to prepare H etairos for the Mediterranean.

While in the Med she raced with 20 crew and took first place in the Supermaxi Class.

Photography: Carlo Borlenghi/Rolex; M.Könitzer; Photolibrary; Jeff Brown/Superyacht Media

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Superyacht Challenge Antigua : "Hetairos" crew in record-breaking mood: A giant in her element

Tatjana Pokorny

 ·  11.03.2022

Otto Happel's "Hetairos" has started the Superyacht Challenge Antigua with a new round Antigua record. The 40-strong crew used the start of the racing series in the Caribbean for an impressive performance. The 218-foot Dykstra/Reichel-Pugh ketch, built by Baltic Yachts in 2011, completed the almost 50 nautical mile course in just 3 hours, 46 minutes and 8 seconds. This was not only enough to win the "Line Honours", but also the overall ORCsi victory. In the handicap classification, the performance resulted in a narrow five-minute lead over the 121-foot-long Dykstra slup "Action". The "Hetairos" team led by skipper Graham Newton and tactician Cameron Appleton improved on the previous record set in 2018 by the Volvo 70 "Warrior" by 9 minutes and 30 seconds in the race around the Caribbean island surrounded by coral reefs. The 180-foot Dykstra ketch "Kamaxitha" sailed to the podium in third place in the ORC.

"It's a very special boat"

"The conditions were a little more moderate than we thought," said "Heitairos" tactician Cameron Appleton after returning to the superyacht dock in Antigua. "The boats ahead of us had a few knots more wind at the start. We had up to 18, 19 knots on the clock. We sailed quite conservatively for most of the race, partly because we wanted to conserve our equipment for the series. The plan was to carry out the manoeuvres cleanly and well. The 'Hetairos' team did an excellent job and the boss was great at the helm. The boat is quite a machine. As long as you treat her well and plan ahead, go into the manoeuvres with a good philosophy, everything goes according to plan. It's a challenge because the loads are big and you have to think a lot. You have to be ahead of the game at all times. A boat like 'Hetairos' deserves immense respect - it's a very special boat."

According to the motto "length runs", the "Hetairos" team was able to keep the almost 100-foot smaller slup "Action" with double Olympic champion Shirley Robertson and Volvo Ocean Race winner Ian Walker on board at bay. Walker was nevertheless satisfied with his team's performance and said shortly after the start of the eleventh Superyacht Challenge Antigua: "There have been a few crew changes on 'Action' since our last start here two years ago. Today was a good opportunity to test everything and check the boat thoroughly. It was a bit rough up above the island, where we had gusts of up to 23 knots. So it was good that everything stayed together. We sailed really cleanly and the boat ran well. Sailing a cruising superyacht in regatta mode means action. So we have to minimise the manoeuvres, which means you have to compromise on the ideal strategy. We had a really nice day of racing and the owner was steering 95 per cent of the time - a fantastic start for all of us and the boat." Click here for the homepage of the Superyacht Challenge Antigua The results and an overview of the superyacht series, which continues with further short races until 13 March (please click!).

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Ferretti 530 Yacht to make her Russian premiere at Moscow Boat Show

This year’s Moscow Boat Show will also offer the Ferretti Group the opportunity to announce all yachting enthusiasts in Russia and Northern Eurasia a new important achievement in its international growth: the renewal of its exclusive dealership agreement for the Russian Federation with its partner Premium Yachts , one of the leading dealers operating in the boating sector in Russia , which will represent the Ferretti Yachts , Pershing , Itama , Bertram , Riva e Mochi Craft and Ferretti Custom Line brands.

The agreement – which was officially announced today during a press conference attended, among others, by Ferruccio Rossi (Ferretti Group’s CEO), Alexey Kurochkin (Premium Yachts’s President), and Stefano Campanelli (Sales Manager for the EMEA area for Ferretti Yachts, Pershing, Itama, Bertram, Riva, Mochi Craft and Ferretti Custom Line) – is part of Ferretti Group’s strategy for a further expansion on the European markets offering the best short/medium-term growth perspectives, also thanks to the financial soundness regained following the strategic partnership forged with the Weichai Group.

More specifically, the Russian boating market holds a great potential for the Ferretti Group’s development because of the rapid growth of average wealth among the population and an increasing interest for Made in Italy luxury goods, like Ferretti Group yachts.

Through the renewal of the agreement with Premium Yachts, the Group will further strengthen its highly selected distribution network – which currently includes approximately 60 dealers ensuring the best possible customer care in more than 80 countries worldwide – as well as its presence in the traditional EMEA ( Europe , Middle East , Africa ) area, one of the three macro-regions (besides the America and the Asia-Pacific) into which the Group’s sales structure is divided.

Moreover, in a medium/long-term perspective, the Ferretti Group is expecting an increasing interest on the Russian market not only for flying bridge yachts above 70’ in length, but also towards smaller crafts, both flybridge and open/coupé ones, which are particularly suitable for river cruising or pleasure boating in Russia’s large lakes. Consequently, the renewal of the dealership agreement with Premium Yachts also allows to look ahead at the future aiming to conquer new market segments where less competitors are currently present in terms of both products and geographic location.

The press conference, which was held today at the Lotte Hotel in Moscow, had also the objective of introducing attending journalists and yachting enthusiasts to the main new products launched by the Ferretti Group over the last few months, namely: motor yacht Ferretti 870 , Ferretti 690 yacht , and the project of the new flagship Ferretti 960 superyacht for the Ferretti Yachts brand; luxury yacht Pershing 82 ’ and superyacht Pershing 108’ New Edition for Pershing; Riva 63’ Virtus and the project of the new Riva flagship, 122’ Mythos yacht , as well as the entire range of the Itama, Bertram and Mochi Craft brands.

The yachts launched over the last few months by CRN – the Group’s brand specialising in the construction of steel and aluminium yachts between 40 and 90 metres – were also presented during the conference: the two superyachts: CRN superyacht Jade (60 metres long) and CRN mega yacht Chopi Chopi (80 metres long), the latter being one of the largest pleasure vessels ever built in Italy and the largest one ever built by the Ancona-based shipyard.

“The renewal of our dealership agreement with an important partner like Premium Yachts – which has worked on the Russian market for almost 10 years and can boast an outstanding product knowledge and an excellent local market penetration – and the presentation of the Group’s latest models are an integral part of our development strategy on the EMEA markets offering the best growth perspectives in the short-medium term,” stated Ferruccio Rossi, Ferretti Group’s CEO. “The Moscow Boat Show 2013, which has now reached its sixth edition, will extend over approximately 45,000 square metres this year and will be attended by more than 350 international boating companies. This Show represents an interesting business opportunity for us and an unmissable event in terms of visibility, since we are identifying a considerable growth potential in this area thanks to the timeless attractiveness of our products – true ambassadors of Made in Italy production all over the world”.

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Two of the world’s most famous luxury yachts owned by a pair of the richest people in the world collided in a fender-bender accident while anchored off the coast of Naples, Italy this week.

Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego's luxury yacht, Lady Moura, on July 5, 2023 .

Mexican retail and broadcasting billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego took to Instagram Wednesday to share a video of a sleek boat drifting toward his mega yacht Lady Moura as crew members blast the horn, scream and shout in a bid to get the crew’s attention.

The oncoming vessel, Salinas said, was the Venus luxury yacht famously built for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and now owned by his widow, Laurene Powell Jobs.

The video shows Venus bounce off the side of the Lady Moura without breaching the ship’s hull before it drifts away backwards.

Salinas posted there was no major damage but that his ship was left with “a big scratch that’s going to be a lot to fix.”

He then told his followers to buy Apple products through his Group Elektra retail chain to help Powell Jobs pay for the damage.

Neither billionaire owner was on board the ship at the time of the crash, according to Dagens news of Media Group Denmark.

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The yacht ordered by Apple's late founder Steve Jobs named "Venus docked at the De Vries shipyard in ... [+] the Netherlands, on Oct. 29, 2012.

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“I would like to know what the captain and crew were doing that they didn’t see a yacht the size of mine,” Salinas said on Instagram. “You see that there are no shortage of idiots in the world.”

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Construction began on Venus , Jobs' $120 million yacht , in 2009 and was completed three years later. The boat was designed by French industrial designer and architect Philippe Starck and was created to look like an Apple product with sleek lines and 15 tons of glass walls. Jobs himself never boarded the 78.2-meter vessel—he died before it was completed. Lady Moura has been renowned as one of the world’s most lavish yachts since it was launched in 1990. The vessel is almost 105 meters long and can accommodate 27 guests and 72 crew members.

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Powell Jobs was ranked as the 126th richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $14.4 billion as of Thursday. She inherited much of her fortune from her late husband, Jobs, who died in 2011. She is the founder of two philanthropy organizations, the Emerson Collective and the Waverley Street Foundation, and has committed to giving billions of dollars to charitable organizations. Salinas is the heir to the publicly-traded Grupo Elektra, which was founded by his grandfather in the 1950s. He now runs the financial and retail corporation and TV Azteca, the No. 2 Mexican TV broadcaster. As of Thursday, he was ranked as the 221st richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $10 billion.

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