COVER STORY Top 100 2018

Compiling the annual Top 100 Superyachts of Asia-Pacific needs a flexible approach. We include spectacular new vessels that are soon to arrive, and the biggest and best of those already here, because that is what interests high net worth readers, owners, TOP 100 agents and yards. The latest fleet is 140m to 46m. USED FOR NEW SALES WORDS BRUCE MAXWELL PHOTOS AS CREDITED

Exclusive first pictures of 84m White Rabbit G during sea trials off Echo south of Perth, Western Australia. The vessel is for a very experienced Singapore family who have owned two Feadships, and still have other White Rabbits at Marina at Keppel Bay. WRG is built in aluminium, and the family has taken delivery of another 46m support vessel, Charley, which was at Singapore Show last year. © MARK STOTHARD

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Royal Huisman’s 81m schooner in-build for a keen East Asia yachtsman

126m Octopus

Sadly Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft with Bill Gates, passed away late 2018. Based in Seattle, two of his superyachts, the 61m Feadship Meduse and 126m Octopus Lürssen, were regulars in past Top 100s as he cruised the Pacific, North Asia and especially the Philippines, contributing to explorations, wreck searches and many marine ecology ventures. ’s is another long-time Asia-Pacific player, stemming Finally, our apologies to Asia-Pacific owners who have sizeable back to visits by Paulo Vitelli and Massimo Perotti in the 1980s, and superyachts from 24m to 46m. The good news is that we have decided they too are well represented in Top 100. The largest 100m+ vessel in to make this really interesting sector a separate feature in an upcoming ny Asia-Pacific owned superyacht qualifies, whether at its to Top 100 last year, “Asia-Pacific is already the next big thing for Benetti’s history will be delivered to an Australian next year from their Yacht Style in and in our many online and social media outlets. usual home port or cruising elsewhere. So do European and superyacht yards”, and it is only going to get bigger. Much bigger. yard, closely followed by two more. American owned superyachts that spend significant time in This leading Dutch yard has been active in the market for three Perini Navi super sailboats are always represented. Last year we ©2018 Bruce Maxwell, Asia-Pacific Voyages. We try our best to these waters. Some never leave. decades, and deliveries continue with vessels like 73m Hasna and 69m included two 50m+ Picchiotti motor yachts in-build by this subsidiary ensure accuracy. To comment on or update information above, AIndian Ocean destinations such as the Seychelles, Mauritius, Samaya making their marks. Australian-owned Hasna has been cruising of Perini Navi - the names are now merged - but until these designated please email [email protected] and copy Yacht Style and Sri Lanka are part of the picture, as Southeast Asia is the in French Polynesia lately. Hong Kong orders become a bit clearer, we decided to leave them out publisher Gael Burlot, [email protected]. usual next stop. But there are as yet few Indian owners, and the Middle Amels also began with custom builds Boadicea, and Ilona for again until 2019, so that other worthy vessels can appear in the interim. East is excluded, despite all lands beyond Istanbul being once known Frank Lowy, many moons hence, and their Limited Editions, which Otherwise the 140m Fincantieri Ocean Victory was in the Maldives as Asia Minor. reduce an owner’s waiting time to two years, are definitely in vogue. heading east at our deadline, after lengthy Asia-Pacific sojourns in Conversely the West Coast of the Americas is lapped by the Pacific Look at the 55m mark in following pages, and half a dozen Amels recent years, and another regular visitor, the Motor Yacht A, was cruising Ocean too. We mostly track vessels heading for French Polynesia and Limited Edition 180s appear, apart from parent yard Damen’s Support Korea and Japan. Both are Russian owned. the South Seas, New Zealand and Australia, or for Hawaii, Micronesia, Vessels scattered throughout. New Zealand billionaire Graeme Hart sold his Norwegian-built 107m Japan and the China Coast. Heesen, another well-known Dutch yard, initially sold two last year, and she is now called Andromeda, lately on the Pacific Coast of Subjective at times? Sure. When I first wrote a Top 25 Superyachts of superyachts to Malaysian owners, and has larger vessels in this year’s Mexico. His follow-up 116m Ulysses appeared in the Med this year. Asia-Pacific feature in the 1990s, the International Superyacht Society lists, while Royal Huisman’s super sailboat Twizzle is back and their Delivery of the 84m White Rabbit G by Echo Yachts of Western had only just been formed. Some vessels called superyachts back then 81m schooner for an Asian client is progressing. Australia for a very experienced Singapore owner is expected before would not pass muster today. We continue to filter out more elderly refits. ’s Lürssen, which builds the world’s largest superyachts, year’s end. White Rabbit E and others have based at Marina at Keppel Phinisis, traditional wooden sailing craft of Indonesia, are moved has 85m Pacific in Phuket and 76m Rocinante ex-TV crossing the North Bay, where Motor Yacht A also stayed a few years back. to their own specialist section. No realistic comparison exists between Pacific from Osaka to San Francisco. Biggest superyacht event on the horizon is the 2021 America’s Cup in these luxuriously-outfitted charter vessels and true superyacht This is the 60-90m range which Lürssen sales director Michael Auckland, New Zealand, and it is no surprise that keen contestant Ernesto construction costs and charters, except that phinisis are indeed proving Breman says is their stock in trade, but when I was invited to their first Bertarelli already has his 96m Brooke yacht Vava 11 back in Asia-Pacific popular for those seeking an ethnic experience at relatively lower rates. exclusive media tour in a decade mid-year it was obvious that a lot of waters. We are told that berths in Auckland are fully booked. Support Vessels, a fairly new concept, are kept in Top 100 because of 100m+ vessels were also in progress, including the spectacular 135m More big boat facilities appear to be urgently needed throughout the the “in tandem” trend toward explorer-style superyachts. Some such vessels Crescent, which is expected to cruise Asia-Pacific waters shortly. region, not least in Hong Kong and Singapore. Papeete in Tahiti has limited have separated from their original mother ships, and are being used in their availability, and superyachts have to compete for cruise ship wharves. A second feature on 24m to 46m vessels that didn’t make Top 100 is to follow shortly. own right, particularly in Asia-Pacific waters. Check out an extraordinary The 74m Lürssen Rocinante, formerly called TV, sailed from Osaka to surge in Amels and Damen support vessels in the pages that follow. San Francisco across the North Pacific this year. The North Pacific Release of the list was previously timed for Cannes and Monaco, from Hawaii to Micronesia and Japan has much to offer too. This 46m trimaran built at Australia’s McConaghy Yachts in Zhuhai, China, is designed by Mani Frers, and handled by Camper and Nicholsons Asia. She is due for delivery in 2020. but has been put back to the Monaco-Ft Lauderdale period, to enable a better grasp of vessels voyaging through the Suez and Panama Canals into Asia-Pacific waters at the change of seasons. Apart from the print edition, Top 100 now circulates in online, social media and PDF forms for most of the following year, and has become a widely used sales tool by agents and dealers wishing to spread knowledge of the superyacht scene in a region destined to drive the world’s economies. PDFs attach easily to email pitches, and Top 100 cropped up regularly last year in relation to all manner of superyacht-related topics. Even private papers I was commissioned to write for Holland Industry members recently are somehow being made available, and cross-referenced in google searches. Translations from English into assorted Asia-Pacific languages and characters are being introduced, which should further assist the spread of reasonably up-to-date superyacht information.The bottom line is that, as Feadship marketing director Farouk Nefzi said in an introduction

40 41 COVER STORY Top 100 Superyachts 2018 1 Ocean Victory 140m Fincantieri As the 2018 Med season drew to a close in October, an ever- increasing fleet of superyachts sailed south through the newly wider and deeper Suez Canal into Indian Ocean and Asia-Pacific waters, led by the globe-girding flagship Ocean Victory, which began exploring Asia and the South Seas several years ago. Her first coral atoll calls this passage were in 2 Crescent the Maldives. Italy's 135m Lürssen Fincantieri builds Featured last issue when Yacht Style was invited on this leading German yard's first media tour cruise liners and in nearly a decade, Crescent has been kept under wraps apart from an intriguing statement that warships as well as her build name, Project Thunder, stemmed from the Taoist god Lei Gong, and that she would private yachts. spend a considerable time voyaging in Asia. The non-yard photo here was taken during early sea trials, a year out from delivery. Designer is Espen Øino, who also shaped Ocean Victory.

Motor Yacht A 3 118m Blohm & Voss Built a decade back by much-acclaimed B&V, whose yards were recently absorbed into burgeoning compatriot Lürssen, she is referred to as Motor Yacht A because her Russian owner also built A 4 at Nobiskrug, another well-known German superyacht specialist. Motor Yacht A was cruising the Japanese coast with a side call Ulysses at Pusan in South Korea at our deadline, 116m Kleven heading south via Fukuoka. Styled by the New Zealand financial entrepreneur Graeme Hart has owned superyachts called Ulysses avant garde Philippe Starck, she is no from Holland's Feadship and America's Trinity, but in his latest venture he has built stranger to Asia-Pacific waters, including enormous 107m and 116m explorer-style vessels at Norwegian commercial yard Kleven. a long prior sojourn at Marina at Keppel The 107m was sold late last year, and is now called Andromeda, while the 116m Ulysses Bay's largest "island" berth in Singapore. made her debut in the Med this year, last noticed off Naples in the Ionian Sea.

Vava 11 5 96m Devonport With the 36th America's Cup scheduled to be held in Auckland, New Zealand, in March 2021, who should be voyaging back into Asia-Pacific waters but Swiss biotech billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli. His Alinghi syndicate won "the auld mug" in Auckland in 2003, and repeated the feat in Valencia, , in 2007, before a losing tussle with fellow superyacht owner Larry Ellison. Wife Kirsty is a former Miss UK and songwriter, and Vava 11 was built at British yard Devonport, which was later bought by Pendennis of Falmouth. Refits are done at Amels.

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Equanimity 6 91.5m Oceanco After an extended stay at Sihanoukville on the Cambodian Coast of the Gulf of , Equanimity was seized off Bali in 2018 under a US court order, then transferred to Port Klang under a Malaysian one. Burgess Yachts was appointed central agent for her sale by submission of sealed bids, in a process that it was hoped would be completed by December 2018.

Lionheart 90m Benetti 7 British retail entrepreneur Sir Philip Green’s Lionheart is believed voyaging to Southeast Asia and beyond. A repeat Benetti client, his was the largest vessel built by the yard when she was launched in 2016, eclipsing the 1980s-built 86m Nabila, which later visited Hong Kong as Trump Princess. More records are about to be broken. See Arctic P entry below.

Illusion Plus 8 Arctic P 88 m Pride Mega Yachts 88m Schichau Unterwesser Y.CO are agents for Illusion Plus, latest Chinese superyacht offered Australian gaming mogul James Packer’s sister Gretel 10 by Pride Mega Yachts, which replaced the already accomplished has taken control of the family’s much-used luxury Yantai Raffles. Naval architecture is by Azure, an eminent Dutch tug conversion Arctic P, which commutes between the Med and firm, and interiors by Rainsford Saunders won a prestigious award Sydney Harbour and late 2018 was in the Caribbean. James has a at this year's Monaco Yacht Show. This is a great opportunity to 100m+ Benetti being delivered in 2019, one of three such vessels step aboard a sail-ready superyacht. Asking US$145m. at Livorno, which will appear in next year’s list, and has also been sailing an Amels 180 called EJI after his three children.

Asean Lady 88m Yantai Raffles A founder of superyachting in Asia, Brian Chang cruised his first Asean Lady to Malaysia’s 9 holiday isles before Langkawi had an airport. He built his unusual two-hull proa in the early 2000s to achieve greater stability at sea. Kept at Raffles Marina in Singapore, Tan Sri Vincent Tan of Berjaya fame also uses Asean Lady these days, as does brother Julian Chang, a Fraser Yachts specialist and well-known figure at Monaco Yacht Show with society wife Sandra.

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Ace 87m Lürssen Intelligence from Monaco 11 Yacht Show is that Ace and her Damen-built 67m Sea Axe “tender” Garçon have an Asia- Pacific sojourn planned for 2019.

Aquijo 86m Oceanco Vitters Sailing from French Polynesia to Fiji and 12 Auckland, the fast cruising ketch Aquijo has startled many harbour-watchers. Designer Bill Tripp often works with Dutch performance sailing yard Vitters, which built Lachlan Murdoch’s Sarissa, but for a project this big they had to enlist the help of fellow Dutch builder Oceanco. Charter inquiries via Y.CO.

Seven Seas 86m Oceanco Another French Polynesia 13 aficionado, this was a perfect vessel to explore Les Isles Sous Le Vent, including Bora Bora, plus the Tuamotus and Marquesas, and she recently reached La Paz on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. The film director Steven Spielberg has been associated with Seven Seas.

Pacific 85m Lürssen Back in Phuket, this magnificent 2010 build has previously lived up to her name with Pacific passages that continued into Asia-Pacific and globe-girding events. Her exterior styling is by 15 the Argentinian German Frers, with interiors from London-based Bannenberg and Rowell.

14 Silver Loft 85m SilverYachts Luxury expedition vessel Silver Loft is latest off the slips since aluminium exporter China Zhongwang took a substantial interest in Western Australia-based SilverYachts late last year. Two 73m and 77m fuel-efficient and technically superb yachts, designed by Espen Øino, preceded Silver Loft, which has a 5,000 nm range at 18 knots.

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White Rabbit G Hasna 84m Echo Yachts 73m Feadship 16 Awaiting sea trials south of Perth at our deadline, Almost holding her #21 ranking when she 22 this tri-hull stabilised vessel is the latest attempt by a made her debut on the Top 100 list last prominent Singapore family to achieve smoother passages in a year, Hasna was custom created for a well-known Australian seaway. She follows the same-concept but smaller 61m White property finance entrepreneur. Features include a substantial Rabbit E based at Marina at Keppel Bay, and already has a "beach club" and an 8 metre swimming pool. Exterior and 46m composite "tender for the toys", Charlie. Echo Yachts interior styling are by Britain's RWD. The vessel cruised the offers similar custom builds at attractive rates. South Seas to French Polynesia this year.

Not Yet Named 81m Royal Huisman A work-in-progress for a well-known Asian yachtsman and philanthropist at this picture-postcard 17

© MARK STOTHARD Dutch yard, she is under wraps until delivery. Titania 71m Lürssen 23 Returning for a second charter season, which has so far seen her plying Rocinante ex-TV Ilona between Phuket and Indian Ocean archipelagos, she 76m Lürssen 74m Amels Custom is represented by Burgess. Originally one of three 18 Bucking a trend that 19 Westfield shopping centres patriarch Sir Frank Lowy, once a poor superyachts ordered by the same client, Lürssen favours South Seas Hungarian émigré to Australia, bought a fully-custom Amels after a lengthened her by 4 metres in 2012 to allow an aft passages over North Pacific compatriot, media mogul the late Reg Grundy, did the same with Boadicea. Ilona is kept “beach club”, a second master suite on the upper ones, the former TV sailed from Osaka to lately in Barcelona, but Lowy and his sons have other smaller superyachts, including deck, and a well-equipped gym on the sun deck. The San Francisco recently. Shirley Ann named for Lowy's wife, often based at Sydney Superyacht Marina. changes have led to her increasing popularity for charters in regional waters.

Felix Game Changer 70m Jade Yachts 70m Damen Recently ensconced at the Sydney This is the fourth 70m Yacht Support Vessel built by 25 Plvs Vltra 20 Superyacht Marina, Felix has set off again 24 Damen, parent of superyacht yard Amels. If one needs a 74m Amels 242 into the South Seas on a Cairns-Santo- 70m exploration-style ship simply to carry the toys and extra fuel for one's First of the Amels Limited Edition 242s delivered in 2017, Plvs Vltra is Apia heading. This vessel was constructed in Germany in separate superyacht, the whole concept seems stupendous, and yet owners Latin for further beyond and is the motto of Spain. Owned by an experienced 1969. Her hull was completely replaced at Jade Yachts in have warmly welcomed it. Damen has now built 12 YSVs for Amels and other yachtsman and lately cruising from French Polynesia to Southeast Asia, Kaohsiung, followed by a full interior refit in Europe. clients, and both yards have a larger presence in the Top 100 list each year. she has a sophisticated custom interior by Winch Design which reflects a penchant for both Versace and the Hotel George V in Paris. Samaya 21 69m Feadship Cloud 9 Sold by Phuket-based Australian Joshua Lee, 74m CRN Samaya has a manta ray insignia, and her owner's Owned by a Singapore-based businessman, the latest love of diving is reflected in a very advanced dive 27 Cloud 9 was one of the leading displays for Italian centre aboard. The vessel was delivered late last year. yard CRN at Monaco Yacht Show last year.

Saluzi 26 69m Oceanfast "Named after a mystical warhorse of the Tang Dynasty Emperor Taizong, an artwork by Li Jiwei adorns the yacht's hull as a modern interpretation of the ancient tale", says the Camper and Nicholsons website. A former boutique liner from French Polynesia, she offers accommodation for 36 guests, and is beautifully outfitted by Miami-based Luiz de Basto. Exotic charters are available in Asia-Pacific waters and elsewhere depending on the season. © JEFF BROWN

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Lady E Garçon 69m Amels 67m Damen This exceptional custom Amels is offered for charter 28 Another Yacht Support Vessel by Amels parent in Thailand, Malaysia and Myanmar by Burgess Damen, which is now a leading light of the Yachts during the northern hemisphere "winter". She can international shipping industry, the name Garçon accommodate 12 guests in seven cabins, and has a highly perfectly summarises her purpose. She sails with the appraised crew led by Captain Charles Dugas-Standish. 87m Lürssen Ace. See also #25 Game Changer. 29

Eternity Van Triumph 65m 65m Supercraft 30 Called Family Day when she and another David Lieu's vessel, with Brian Chang's first Japanese-built Asean Lady in same-length but radically different "sister Singapore, were the true pioneers of super yachting in Asia. Van Triumph ship" were launched from this impressive was quite a sight, steaming up Hong Kong Harbour on the stroke of 12.00 Italian yard, she appeared in many famous ports as well each Saturday as Jardine's noon day gun was fired, to pick up guests from as exotic Asian locations like little visited islands in the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club. David's voyages deep into the South China Taiwan Straits. Based at Gold Coast Marina in Hong Kong, Sea in this and a smaller prior superyacht are the stuff of legends. Anyone Eternity has a more modest cruise schedule nowadays. for yellow fin tuna fishing or pig hunting? 31

Ambrosia 65m Benetti Only marginally later on the superyacht scene, Kaohsiung and Hong Kong-based Ambrous 32 Young was a substantial investor in Italy's leading superyacht yard and built three Benettis at their premises before the new Livorno sheds, soon to disgorge three more 100m+ vessels, came on stream. Still active, Ambrous promotes Kaohsiung big boat facilities at the entrance 33 to Love River, and sailed Ambrosia to Singapore Yacht Show last year. Seanna 65m Benetti Showing up in French Polynesia, Seanna continues Benetti's long dominance in Asia-Pacific waters, which began when Mike Simpson was appointed agent for Hong Kong and Japan in the 1980s. This vessel is a 2011 build, with RWD and Susan Young interiors.

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34 Ventum Maris 65m Amels Back under her 2011 build name Ventum Maris or in English Sea Winds, after a period as Imagine, this Amels 212 by Tim Heywood and Andrew Winch is planning an Asia-Pacific cruise. A centrally-located glass elevator makes for easy and elegant access to 35 all parts of the yacht, SuRi including the "wet feet" 63m Halter Marine bar on the sun deck and Last refitted in 2016, this unusual luxury expedition yacht charters between the South Pacific and large beach club at the Southeast Asia with occasional dips down to Antarctic waters made possible by her vast fuel reserves. stern. Adventure is her theme, and she is well-equipped for exotic passages in remote locations.

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White Rabbit E 61m North West Bay Ships Based at Marina at Keppel Bay, Tasmanian- built White Rabbit E has made many Asian and Pacific voyages for a prominent Singaporean family who have owned other superyachts in the past, including two Feadships. WRE is in turn being superceded by the also-aluminium 84m White Rabbit G Diamonds Are Forever lately doing pre-delivery 61m Benetti sea trials off builders Located at Gold Coast Marina in Hong Kong, this superyacht named after one of Echo Yachts in Western the James Bond movies takes advantage of the proximity of the world's two largest Australia. See also #16. archipelagos, making a passage in the 7,000-isle Philippines recently. 37

Event Calypso 61m Amels 61m Amels 38 Also at Gold Coast Marina, this Amels 39 Yet another Amels full 199 by Tim Heywood and Laura Sessa custom 199 is making was originally built for a Russian her way westbound across the owner and won prestigious superyacht South Pacific after a sojourn in awards at her launch, but in a deal French Polynesia, and was in Fiji handled by Burgess was then bought at our deadline. Underscoring by a prominent Chinese property the custom options available in developer who, like some other this range, however, Calypso's Amels aficionados in Asia-Pacific, is exterior and interior styling particularly keen on soccer. is by Michael Leach.

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Paraffin Slipstream 60m Feadship 60m CMN A classic De Voogt Feadship presently 40 Recently finished the Med season and resting in Palma, located in Singapore, features include Slipstream is Australian-owned and continues an ever-larger a jacuzzi and gym with a 360° view, an exceptional succession of vessels of this name. The similarly-sized CMN- wine cellar, armada of toys and a home cinema. Six built Cloud 9, also Australian-owned, has lately been replaced 41 staterooms offset an opulent interior. by a 74m at CRN on the Adriatic Coast.

42 Dream Formosa 60m Abeking and Rasmussen 60m Benetti Refitted by Bannenberg and Rowell in 2013, and again Chartering in the Maldives and then French Polynesia, Isla last year, Dream is among a steadily increasing number of 43 Formosa is the Portuguese name for Taiwan, meaning beautiful superyachts cruising the lovely Fijian archipelago and giving island, but for this owner, just beautiful will do. She has three French Polynesia a friendly run for its money, reports long- sumptuous suites on the upper and principal decks, and superb time agent David Jamieson. One can choose exclusive, totally private isles amenities throughout. Fraser Yachts acted as central agents. or sample the fare at any number of five-star plus establishments ashore.

44 Senses Sea Wolf 59m Frers Schweers 59m J&K Scheepweren Also in Fiji, but probably back in New Showing on AIS Marine Traffic at the former Zealand during the short December-March US naval base Subic Bay near capital cyclone season, Senses like SuRi has a Manila in the Philippines, Sea Wolf was more expedition-style than pretty profile, launched as a super-powerful, ocean-going but interiors are by Philippe Starck, and Dutch tug in 1957, towing US aircraft she has had an illustrious guest list in the carriers when circumstances past, providing good vibes for potential dictated, but like the larger charterers. Recently she was in exotic Goa Arctic P she has been on the Indian Coast, so it seems owner, progressively converted into a captain, crew and agents conspire to suggest 45 still solid but more luxuriously some interesting options. outfitted charter vessel.

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Pangea 58m Halter Marine Built like SuRi at Halter Marine, once 46 Trinity Yachts' parent in the States, the vessel is named after our super continent before it began breaking up in the Triassic Age. She has undertaken assorted marine and birdlife ecological expeditions in the Indian Ocean, calling at Phuket or Langkawi for refuelling and R&R in between, and has spent most of the last year exploring the Australian coast, recently arriving in Fremantle from Broome.

Kokomo 58m Alloy Yachts Australian property developer Lang Walker has had 47 a series of motor yachts and sailboats called Kokomo, mostly the latter, and we recall arriving at Hamilton Island with the late Ed Dubois when he was to discuss the design of this latest one, to be built at now-defunct Alloy Yachts in New Zealand. Walker has recently launched his Kokomo resort on an exclusive island in Fijian waters. The super sailboat chartered in the Med this season, so visiting her namesake resort may be some time away.

Salila 58m Daya Radar Utama Regularly listed in our annual Charter Focus, this unusual vessel was refitted in 2009 and 2012 in 48 Jakarta, and she continues to offer custom cruises in Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago with 14,000 isles that stretch an equivalent distance of San Francisco to New York.

Volpini 2 58m Amels Volpini was listed in earlier Top 49 100 Asia-Pacific lists, and this year the same owner took delivery of the Amels 188 Limited Edition Volpini 2, whose build was overseen again by Ben Young of SYM Superyacht Management. A well-known Melbourne billionaire, the owner continues a growing coterie Down Under of super yachtsmen upgrading or entering the league for the first time. A remarkable number of orders have been placed with Amels, stretching back to Reg Grundy and Frank Lowy.

50 Twizzle Loretta 57m Royal Huisman 57m Aegean Yacht Lovely Royal Huisman ketch Twizzle was A three-masted schooner, a centrepiece of Singapore Yacht Show a Loretta was on the few years ago, and as successive owners Queensland Coast late 2018, have been keen on exploring further-flung voyaging between Cairns and parts of the Pacific, Asia and the Indian Brisbane, and is believed Ocean - one also sailed prior visitor available Andromeda La Dea - it is no surprise that for charter she is still cruising these waters, most for selected recently in Tahiti and Fiji. periods. 51

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58 Lili 55m Amels Add Elixir at #57, and no less than five Amels Limited Editions 180s are lined up here, a distinct record since the list first appeared decades ago. Lili, also featured by Yacht Style this year, has been represented by Imperial for both build and charter as she headed to the Indian Ocean

© JEFF BROWN and Southeast Asia, and this well-outfitted vessel remains available in Asia-Pacific waters. Lady Candy 56m Benetti Hong Kong-based Lady Candy 52 La Familia Not Yet Named and Genesis owners took advantage 55m Amels 55m Amels of economies of scale in building superyachts One of the first Amels 180s to arrive at 59 Mark Woodmansey of Burgess Asia handled this sale announced as at Italy's leading yard, and both were advised Singapore Yacht Show three years back the Cannes and Monaco Yacht Shows got under way in September. locally by Captain Paul Brackley of Central and making regular return appearances since, La Delivery is to be even faster, in the spring of 2019. "I am delighted Design Studio, who has undertaken other Familia has a superb interior decor, and epitomises a with this milestone sale of the latest Amels 180", said substantial projects in the region, including successful concept that allows owners to take delivery Mark. "Following the sale of EJI earlier in the year, this refits and maintenance in Subic Bay in the of quite big yachts in only two years, based on timeless latest purchase cements the successful, long-running Philippines. styling by Tim Heywood and interiors by Laura Sessa partnership between Amels and Burgess. I would like to 60 or a designer of the owner's choice. thank Rose Damen and her team. © JEFF BROWN

Genesis Halo Driftwood Ocean Paradise 56m Benetti 55m Feadship 55m Amels 55m Benetti See also #52 above. The vessels are based 53 Another visitor to Marina Taina in Papeete this year, 56 Damen owns Amels, and Rose has 61 Singaporean entrepreneur Adrian Lee's custom vessel features Zen at Gold Coast Marina on the western New Halo was inspired by Helix which cruised Asia-Pacific become a regular visitor to Singapore and gardens and a minimalist fitout always connected with the sea. Territories side of Hong Kong, and despite the similarities, for a year on behalf of this leading Dutch yard. It was the last of a series, elsewhere in Asia-Pacific. "We are confident that the Amels She has cruised in the Med for the past two seasons and was at the they are actually custom outfitted in completely different and could be delivered in a mere 33 months from Feadship's Van Lent 180 is the most successful 55m superyacht design ever, with Benetti base in Viareggio at the end of the last one. ways. Venturesome Lady Candy cruised the Borneo and facility. Bought by a lady, she is reported to be "following the sun". more than 20 deliveries since 2007", she says. Driftwood, Philippines Coasts last year, and this season was back in the another example of the species, has been cruising in French Med via Phuket and Cochin in India. Polynesia, and was in Honolulu in the Hawaiian Islands at 62 our deadline, another highly recommended route. Elixir Fidelis 55m Amels 56m Perini Navi 57 Featured as a cover story in Yacht Style for Singapore One of a fleet of Perini Navis that constantly Yacht Show in 2017, Elixir is following some of her Samax 54 cruise Asia-Pacific waters, Fidelis has spent sisters this year and heading for Phuket. Amels executive Victor 55m Feadship considerable time in the South Seas, and Caminada thinks their Limited Edition 180 is ideal for Asia- 63 Constantly commuting between the Med and when this was written was exploring the beautiful waters of Pacific waters. See entries that follow. Australian billionaire James Southeast Asia, this vessel was originally New Caledonia, a French-Melanesian group less than 1000 Packer has also been using one called EJI after the first letter of commissioned from Feadship's Royal Van Lent yard by nm off the Queensland Coast. It has the world's second his children's names, but is switching steeds next year. Prince Jefri of Brunei, and she has been a denizen of Phuket largest barrier reef after the nearby Great Barrier Reef. and the Andaman Sea since. Her favourite Med hangouts are and , although this year she turned up in presumably for refits before returning. Rosehearty 56m Perini Navi Originally commissioned by ex-Australian 55 newspaper baron and still keen sailor Rupert Murdoch, who has had other Perini Navis, Rosehearty first made our Top 100 list for that reason. Lately the vessel has been in French Polynesia, to which son Lachlan Murdoch also sailed his smaller Vitters Sarissa.

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Sea Shaw 52m Cheoy Lee 71 Singapore steed of the late movie mogul Shaw Vee King, who passed away last year, this Frank Mulder-Dee Robinson design was completed at Cheoy Lee near Macau. Long kept at Republic of Singapore Yacht Club, and making fortnightly "long weekend" passages to nearby Indonesian and Malaysian waters, 64 she too was further afield in Bangkok at our deadline.

Elysium 52m Benetti Formerly Quantum of Solace and part of the famous 70 James Bond series ordered by dealer extraordinaire John Staluppi, she was purchased by the experienced Singapore and Malaysian property developer David Eng, who had earlier Tiara Ad-Vantage built two aluminium superyachts at Palmer Johnson on the 55m Alloy Yachts 55m Damen shores of the Great Lakes. Often kept in Phuket but presently Cruising between Tahiti and Fiji, after a sojourn in Southeast Asia in 2017, Another of the Damen Sea Axe Support Vessels, Ad-Vantage exploring the Gulf of Thailand and Bangkok. Tiara can be chartered. We fell in love with this yacht's split-level owner's was working with a smaller "mother" ship, Palmer Johnson's suite while sailing her with the late Tony Hambrook, Alloy Yachts' former MD. sporty 46m Vantage, in French Polynesia, but Created by John Munford, another of the famous British interior designers, this orange-hulled vessel was bound for Ft the suite uses Vavona burl and Honduran mahogany, and we would highly Lauderdale late 2018, possibly to be offered MySky recommend it to any wealthy yachtie who feels like getting away from it all, during Ft Lauderdale Boat Show, so this may 65 51m Heesen with a crew to help run Alloy's custom-made push-button sailing system. mark the end of her South Pacific sojourn. New to the region and chartering out of Phuket as 73 part of this year's Burgess offerings, MySky adds to the increasing Heesen presence. She carries 12 guests in three double cabins, two twins and some Pullmans, plus captain and ten Maridome crew, and has a wide range of tenders and toys. Sample rates are 54m Brooke Marine US$259,000 to US$280,000 a week depending on the season. Longest-standing member of the 66 Melbourne superyacht club, retailer Solomon Lew keeps this distinctively- designed vessel built at England's Brooke Marine in the Med lately, a little way along the coast from Jade 959 Barcelona, but equally he has waved from astern 52m Jade Yachts during past cruises in Phuket. One trucking mate has 72 A Juan Carlos Espinosa design and built in just taken delivery of #49 Volpini 2, so a matching Kaohsiung when Jade Yachts was more active upgrade may be in the wind, although Lew also has there, Jade 959 has been chartering in the Med for the past two the 45m Texas which he uses for Australian cruises. seasons. Jade VP Memphis Han has been focusing more on the family's five yards building commercial and fishing craft of late. Keri Lee 111 Drumbeat 54m Trinity 54m Alloy Yachts Another Australian-owned superyacht that charters far and 67 Double Haven 68 Part of a growing fleet of superyachts that wide, her interiors feature some interesting original artworks, 51m Feadship call French Polynesia and Fiji home, and principal furnishings are French antique. The vessel was offered Presently in Brisbane, Double Haven was a trend-setting 74 with occasional refit and repair runs to in Southeast Asia, and in recent seasons has tried the Med market, superyacht of the mid-1990s, taking five years in her Auckland where Drumbeat was built. David Jamieson of concluding again at La Ciotat for repairs and maintenance. gestation for Hong Kong-based publisher Merle Hinrich Asia-Pacific Superyachts talks these days of 50-60 big of Asian Sources and later Forbes fame. A book was written boats in the extensive Fiji archipelago. Bart Kimman, about her, and sketches akin to this vessel soon appeared in Hong Kong-based leading agent for Camper and nearly every designer's portfolio. Hinrich successfully used her Nicholsons in the region, says that sales activity among as a floating office, and she was later to be found mostly in the the super sailboats is quite vibrant. Philippines archipelago or Micronesia.

Luna Pursuit 52m Perini Navi 51m Damen A selection of Perini Navi super sailboats 69 75 Enough has been said about Damen's Support Vessels grace Asia-Pacific waters every year, already, so suffice to say that Pursuit initially turned and Luna, a ketch presently at Westhaven, the southern up in tandem with another similarly-sized vessel last year, and now hemisphere's largest marina, in Auckland, is but one. appears to be exploring the islands of eastern Papua New Guinea, She was in French Polynesia earlier in the year. well-known for their vibrant corals and big fish.

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Umbra Chirundos Legacy Northern Sun 51m Damen 50m McMullen 50m Westport 50m HYS Recently in Singapore 76 and Wing Keeps itinerary as private as 78 One of the most popular charter vessels in Southeast 82 and at Phuket Yacht This vessel was built as the high-exposure superyachts Asian waters in recent years, Northern Sun was Haven, Umbra like other Damens is successor to much-acclaimed 45m can conversely hope to achieve. Last noted originally built in Japan and refitted in Subic Bay. A knowledgeable included because apart from their original Big Fish, which is still making in East Papua New Guinea waters and the captain and crew help introduce guests to unique getaways in concept as Support Vessels, they are impressive passages. Chirundos Solomon Sea, after a South Pacific sojourn otherwise well-known cruising spots such as the Andaman Sea. increasingly being used in their own right benefits from the many innovative ending in New Zealand and Australia. Built as explorer yachts. This one was refitted ideas applied in these in the States in 2011, both exterior and in Whangarei, New Zealand, a few years Greg Marshall designs, interior styling are by renowned Donald ago, and has been roaming the Pacific, and is presently on the Starkey. Semi-displacement GRP vessel Kalizma Sky including work for America's prestigious West Pacific Coast of 77 with a 20 knot cruise speed. 50m Ramage 50m Heesen Woods Hole Institute. Mexico. and Ferguson 83 Burgess advises that another Heesen apart from Making regular #73 MySky chartering out of Phuket is simply appearances in exotic Asia-Pacific Sky, available in the Maldives. This is a custom- and Indian Ocean ports, including built performance vessel with four deck levels East Africa ones, Kalizma is and generous outside space. It has a 3,000 nm+ one of those delightfully classic, range, and should be an interesting laid-back vessels that everybody way to explore these islands. should try once. Richard Burton bought her for Elizabeth Taylor 84 in 1967, during one of their 79 marriages, and she was named Kalizma after Burton’s children Kate, Liza and Maria.

Sapphire 50m Trinity Originally Red Sapphire when she arrived from the Gulf, this vessel was shown at the 4th Hainan Rendezvous where stablemate Lohengrin was then located before her move to Hong Kong. She was subsequently purchased by "a consortium of Bangkok-based businessmen" and engages in charters. Not to be confused with the 73m Nobiskrug superyacht of the same Sapphire name.

Braveheart 50m Swedeship The late Dutch designer Peter Beeldsnijder created some 81 of the loveliest super sailboat interior decors ever seen, particularly for Royal Huisman, but for this motor Thalia Lohengrin Aurora A yacht which cruises the 49m Vitters 49m Trinity 49m Admiral China Coast with occasional In Auckland at our 85 Bought during a Ft Lauderdale Boat Show Anyone strolling Shanghai’s 87 sorties into Southeast Asia, deadline, this immaculate by the Chairman of Hainan Airlines (HNA), famous Bund today has he styled the exterior as Ron Holland design is now 25 years old, and shown at Hainan Rendezvous with the a good chance of coming across Aurora A, well. Last year we mentioned albeit has had a complete refit in the likes of Billy Smith 111 aboard, the name an Admiral often berthed on the banks of related twin Picchiotti now interim. She was cruising French Polynesia of course derives from the opera. HNA has the busy Huangpu River, which leads off Eileen Perini Navi motor yacht last season, where another Vitters, Sarissa, gone on to become a sizeable conglomerate, the Yangtze Kiang and passes through the 50m Codecasa purchases in Hong Kong, has lately been island-hoppping. Thalia albeit recently selling off centre of modern-day Shanghai. Private Listed last year because we heard of Asia-Pacific connections, and the involvement of and although not formally has an ultra-specious main deck salon with some assets to pay down debt, yachts can indeed visit the city, and China Phuket Yacht Haven denizen Capt Ed Shiels, Eileen was in fact in Newport, Rhode Island reincluding them until next panoramic windows and retractable blinds and Lohengrin moved on to Coast agents help in making arrangements. at the time, but she has since lived up to predictions and appeared in the South Pacific on a 80 year, see the introduction to provide on-deck shade. Mahogany panelling Hong Kong, from whence she 86 Voyaging further up the Yangtze toward westbound passage, calling most recently in Fiji, Honiara in the Solomons and Noumea. this feature for an update. and marble showers are interior features. makes “local” cruises Nanjing can be a little more complex.

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Michaela Rose Asteria 49m Frers Schweers 49m Anastassiades Presently at Hamilton Island in the Whitsunday 88 An explorer-style yacht with a 6,000 nm range, recently Group, off the Queensland Coast, this is the second arrived in Auckland from Fiji, this is one of Chinese classic yacht built by Frers Schweers in the 2018 list after entrepreneur Tony Fung’s offshore steeds. He has made Senses, which is 10m longer. Michaela Rose was in Tahiti and various proposals for casinos and resorts on the Fiji before this latest Australian cruise. Another Diana Yacht Queensland Coast, and is understood to be going Design, her top speed is 16 knots and she has a maximum ahead with one new gaming project in Canberra, 89 range of 3,800 nm at 14 knots. the Federal capital.

Lady Orient 48m Sterling Built at Nishi Zosen on the Ise 90 Peninsula in 1983, the same year Australia won the America’s Cup leading to a defence off Fremantle in Western Australia, the original Asean Lady was styled by Sterling Scott of Sterling Yachts. This led to a spate of superyacht builds for Japanese and Australians, but Asean Lady went on to become Southeast Asia’s first superyacht under owner Brian Chang, who often anchored off the lovely Langkawi isles before they had an airport.

Rochade No Comment 48m Delta 48m Christensen In Phuket as this year’s list was put together, Rochade had Voyaging from Tahiti to Fiji, Noumea and 92 previously been commuting between Brisbane and Fiji. Her Brisbane, No Comment under Capt Cy interior fit-out is described as “beautiful and contemporary Wastell is the former Scott Free. She has Asian style, with accommodation for 10 guests in five suites. 91 a considerable MTU-powered 4,300 nm range, and can A 3,500 nm range allows for easy Pacific island-hopping. accommodate 12 guests. Interiors are by Kater Graziano.

93 Ocean Dreamwalker 3 47m Sanlorenzo New flagship of Sanlorenzo’s Asia-Pacific fleet is this 500EXP just being delivered, augmenting the Sanlorenzo Steel 46s Forwin and Achilles F which retain their places in the final segment. Sanlorenzo is represented by Simpson Marine, the region’s oldest and most successful agency.

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Aquamarina Perfect Persuasion 47m ISA 47m Oceanfast Regularly roaming Southeast Asian and Pacific Lately exploring the Langkawi Islands, this vessel known as ports, she was back in Singapore late 2018. “PP” for short has cruised extensively in the Southeast Asian Built in Ancona in 2006, her distinctive sleek archipelagos and explored the Australian Coast from exterior styling is by Walter Franchini. One 94 whence she came, having been built in GRP by Oceanfast of the superyachts that uses Sutera Harbour during its heyday south of Perth. Donald Starkey was facilities on the Borneo Coast, a stop-over that responsible for both the exterior and interior, and naval 95 we annually recommend. architect was Phil Curran.

Skade Princess Iolanthe 46m Holland Jachtbouw 46m Mondo Marine 96 Making her debut last year in French Both Princess Iolanthe and Aquamarina have spent time in Polynesia and Fiji, this Tripp-designed Sutera Harbour, but the former has lately shown a penchant sloop moved on to cruise lovely New Caledonian waters for the Philippines archipelago, and is presently ensconced 97 before the latter’s long-awaited independence referendum in Subic Bay. Built in steel-aluminium in 2006, with in November 2018, and was last reported in Rabaul on the exterior styling by Luca Dini and interiors by Jean-Pierre north coast of Papua New Guinea. Fantini, she has previously been listed for sale.

Forwin 98 46m Sanlorenzo Delivered to a Chinese owner in 2017 by Simpson Marine, and often seen cruising between Hong Kong and Lamma Islands, this Sanlorenzo 46 Steel has five decks and a displacement, high tensile steel hull with aluminium topsides. She has a 3,500 nm range at 11 knots, and a top speed of 17 knots. Cabin layouts can be customised to suit owner preferences.

99 100 Mutiara Laut Achilles F 46m L van 46m Sanlorenzo Oostenbrugge Although technically Built as a two-masted a sister ship to Forwin schooner but with and also based on the at least a nod to China Coast, Achilles F Indonesia’s famous is a somewhat different phinisis, such as her example of these very wooden construction successful Paszkowski- taking place in designed vessels. She has Kalimantan, Mutiara a gold hull and a full-beam Laut charters primarily master suite, and at our in the Indonesian deadline was in Keelung, archipelago. Please the northern port for capital see a related feature Taipei in Taiwan. Simpson on the large phinisis Marine was once again the also available in the sales agent. following pages.

70 COVER STORY Phinisis ASIA'S OTHER SUPERYACHTS INDONESIAN PHINISIS Silolona 50m Patti Seery has become a legend in the last decade or two for her pioneering efforts in promoting the Indonesian phinisi lifestyle, and Traditional Indonesian phinisis, like gulets in Turkey, compete with superyachts Silolona is her first masterpiece. The vessel is hand-crafted from the finest tropical hardwoods to German Lloyds specifications by for charter bookings, but are in no way comparable in terms of construction the Master Konjo boat builders of Sulawesi, formerly known as the costs or techniques, and their LOAs sometimes include a generous bowsprit to Celebes. Tasteful decor, spacious decks, delightful Asian fusion carry the tacks of foresails. Yacht Style features these lovely vessels individually cuisine. A second vessel, Si Datu Bua, has been added. in other print and online editions, particularly in the annual Charter Focus, but in Top 100 Superyachts we simply add them as an appendix. Dunia Baru 51m Last but definitely not least of the leading luxury phinisis, Dunia Baru meaning New World offers luxury escapes in the world's largest archipelago, Indonesia, and in surrounding seas. Owner Mark Robba, like Patti Seery, often engages in ocean ecology and village relief projects of which he is particularly proud, if charterers wish to offset more hedonistic pleasures with contributing to some very worthwhile causes. For all vessels, simply google the name for contacts.

Prana 55m Launched only months ago, the luxury phinisi Prana takes her name from a Sanskrit word meaning breath or life force. We have not had the opportunity to inspect her yet, but photography indicates very high quality appointments and a philosophy that combines inner learning with travel. Planned routes will traverse the islands east of Bali, including Komodo and others off Flores, the Banda spice islands, and diving mecca Raja Ampat.

Lamima 65m Like Mutiara Laut included in Top 100 as #100 this year, Lamima is a hybrid between a phinisi and a more conventional sailing vessel too, having been designed in 2012 by the esteemed Marcelo Penna. She took three years to build at Aru in Sulawesi, and unusually is certified by the Italian agency RINA. In addition to Indonesian isles, she switches with the seasons to Thailand's Andaman Sea and the Mergui Archipelago in Myanmar, formerly Burma.

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