![]() ![]() So they changed tack, designed and built the 55.5 metre Feadship motor yacht Twizzle, named after a favourite puppet character of one of the children. A customised, Lloyd’s-approved snorkel-and-ball system ensures watertight integrity when the boat is heeled wouldn’t form the best mode of transport, where motoring would probably take precedence over sail and a fixed keel would hinder them reaching secluded anchorages. Left: The absence of cowls or dorades is achieved by a series of eight ventilation ports in the bulwarks. Then the urge to travel further afield kicked in and this was when they deemed that a sailing yacht Far left: Radio Zeeland and Marine Technologies designed the communications monitoring, navigation and data via the integrated bridge system. The owners are no strangers to superyachts, having started out on the water in a 34 foot Sunseeker, through a series of ever larger motor yachts and then to Andromeda La Dea, the 47 metre Perini Navi built by Tom Perkins of Maltese Falcon fame. Remembering a poignant moment while standing on deck with the owner’s wife when she turned to me looking quite concerned and asked, ‘Do you think people will get it?’ Well, let’s find out. With the complexity of the build we have covered the yacht in two parts, the full technical article can be found in BI288, but here we look at the finer points of custom designing. T w i z z l e The custom-developed exhaust system for the generators uses soot burners in addition to water separators and sound mufflers When the owners of Twizzle invited me to a meeting in Holland I hadn’t envisaged that I would be part of a discussion about the ongoing development of their 57.49 metre fully custom sailing yacht, and I had no idea that they would, at that time, let Boat International literally crawl all over their yacht to get an exclusive insight into her DNA.
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