In the past two years, I’ve gotten to see quite a few shipyards where megayachts get built, but most have been in Europe. (I’d name them but fear I’d leave one off.) In the process, I’ve learned a lot about construction methods and how projects reach completion.
But I can most clearly see the impact of a yard’s success in Northeastern Wisconsin for no other reason than I used to live there and I have family that still does. My grandpa knows people who have worked in local yards, the builders and welders and other skilled craftsmen.
Neptune Group YachtingBanyan’s new profile while underway Capt. Andrew GregoBanyan’s original launch.Rock SteadyAn extensive refit, complete with two Seakeeper gyros, put
My father is a boating man. He owns a 26-foot Sea Ray Sundancer that he keeps in Savannah, Georgia. Being where he is on the
I am walking down the quay at the megayacht marina in Genoa, Italy. I see a big, white trideck. And a big, white trideck. And a big, white trideck. Palmer Johnson’s HokulaniAnd a big… gold… performance cruiser? A 150-footer, to be exact, painted “champagne” with black accents–even the liferaft canisters and
The 123-foot raised-pilothouse model shares some of the “cosmopolitan” looks that Palmer Johnson has honed in its Sport Yacht series.When I stepped from the aft deck into the main saloon of the new Palmer Johnson 123 Muse, my first instinct was to say “ciao.” That’s an unusual reaction to an American-built raised-pilothouse
#61: HELIOS 2—168’0”A $3-million refit saw this yacht gain a blue hull, a few feet in length (she was launched as 161 feet), and a few safety upgrades with kids in mind. Of course adults weren’t forgotten: They get to use the eight-person Jacuzzi tub. She’s named for the god of the sun.Y: 2002; B: Palmer Johnson, USA;
Palmer Johnson’s PJ63: A First of its Kind.
In the past two years, I’ve gotten to see quite a few shipyards where megayachts get built, but most have been in Europe. (I’d name them but fear I’d leave one off.) In the process, I’ve learned a lot about construction methods and how projects reach completion.
But I can most clearly see the impact of a yard’s success in Northeastern Wisconsin for no other reason than I used to live there and I have family that still does. My grandpa knows people who have worked in local yards, the builders and welders and other skilled craftsmen.
Neptune Group YachtingBanyan’s new profile while underway Capt. Andrew GregoBanyan’s original launch.Rock SteadyAn extensive refit, complete with two Seakeeper gyros, put
My father is a boating man. He owns a 26-foot Sea Ray Sundancer that he keeps in Savannah, Georgia. Being where he is on the
I am walking down the quay at the megayacht marina in Genoa, Italy. I see a big, white trideck. And a big, white trideck. And a big, white trideck. Palmer Johnson’s HokulaniAnd a big… gold… performance cruiser? A 150-footer, to be exact, painted “champagne” with black accents–even the liferaft canisters and
The 123-foot raised-pilothouse model shares some of the “cosmopolitan” looks that Palmer Johnson has honed in its Sport Yacht series.When I stepped from the aft deck into the main saloon of the new Palmer Johnson 123 Muse, my first instinct was to say “ciao.” That’s an unusual reaction to an American-built raised-pilothouse
#61: HELIOS 2—168’0”A $3-million refit saw this yacht gain a blue hull, a few feet in length (she was launched as 161 feet), and a few safety upgrades with kids in mind. Of course adults weren’t forgotten: They get to use the eight-person Jacuzzi tub. She’s named for the god of the sun.Y: 2002; B: Palmer Johnson, USA;
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