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After looking at several Feadships on the brokerage market, the
owner decided that helicopter operations would need to be appended to his list
of requirements.
The owner's suite. (Click images to enlarge)
"We were examining the feasibility of putting a touch-and-go
pad on the back, building up either the bridge deck or the sun deck to
accommodate that. We had seen Dennis Washington’s—later Wayne Huizenga’s—boat,
which was one of the ones under consideration. I’ve always been a pilot and
recently have enjoyed the exploration of helicopters, so that was part of our
program, and that’s the way we were going."A while later, we were in the process of negotiating to buy
one of the [brokerage] boats and spent some time at the boat show. It turned out
that I pulled back from the memory base what was going on with [the Hakvoort
project]; I had kind of heard that the old owner…had some issues that compelled
him to make a change, but I didn’t know whether it was feasible and what the
economic terms would be—whether it would be in reach. "It all kind of came together at the boat show two years ago.
We found that it probably was going to work, and work at a price that was
certainly more generous than anything I’d been thinking about in the [used]
Feadship world. But it represented the potential to have all of the things I
wanted in a boat, which was a good-volume, family kind of boat [that could
handle] helicopter activity and that lent itself to having the toys not
in your way all of the time. And…I loved the lines."
Top: The bridge-deck lounge incorporates a beach-cottage look. Middle: There are exterior lounges on each deck. Bottom: A giant waterslide for play while at anchor. (Click images to enlarge)
In the end, however, the clincher was delivery time.
"The notion of building was not abhorrent to me," the owner
explained. "What was abhorrent was the notion of waiting three or four
years. So, the idea of getting my hands in there and getting my fingerprints on
it a little bit was appealing, plus it cut short the time by about two
years." With the deal done, the design team—with the addition of
Barbara Barry, the owner’s Los Angeles–based interior designer—began working
to transform the boat, which already had much of her interior installed. The
first matter at hand was to rearrange the guest area of the cabin deck. A pair
of VIP staterooms and a second pair of guest cabins were installed in place of
the children’s cabins. A fifth cabin forward could be used by a pilot or nanny
and, opposite to starboard, another cabin was reserved as a massage room that,
thanks to a set of Pullman berths, could serve double duty as a sixth
stateroom. The original interior was executed in teak and had a
contemporary Scandinavian feel with complex joinery details. The new mandate for
Espen Øino, Reverberi and Barry was to create an interior that would have the
look and feel of a beach cottage. The result was a design that, in the
bridge-deck lounge, saw the installation of bulkhead panels coated in ivory
eggshell lacquer and trimmed in naturally finished cherry and, in the main
salon, a more contemporary setting that, like the lounge above, takes advantage
of large expanses of glazing to extend the view and bring in copious amounts of
natural light.
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