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Celebrating 100 issues.
by Marilyn M. Mower
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08/01/2005
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1990
• The Donald,
believing he can sell 282' Trump Princess to Japanese buyers for a 200 percent profit on his $27 million deal for
the ex-Nabila,
announces a design competition for a 420-footer. Amels wins the contract, but in 1991
almost loses the war when Trump abandons the project. The Donald loses
The
Princess to The
Creditors a year later, who sell her to Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi
Arabia. The boat is renamed Kingdom 5KR.
1990- Top: Just two years after cousins Freidrich and Peter
Lürssen open a dedicated yacht division in their mostly military shipyard, their
first project, 131' Be
Mine, wins two ShowBoats Awards. By 2005 Lürssen holds
claim to building the world’s first, second and third largest private motor
yachts. Bottom: Dock Express revolutionizes private cruising and the charter
industry for yachts without transoceanic range. The inaugural sailing
from Fort
Lauderdale to Porto Cervo carries seven yachts. (Click images to enlarge)
• SBI hosts its
first Rendezvous in
Monaco and
announces formation of the Bal de la Mer charity to raise funds for coral reef
research at Musée Oceanographique.
1990- Top: ShowBoats only cover without a yacht, this issue
featured the Hales Trophy and the quest for the transatlantic crossing
record. (Click images to enlarge)
• A year after John McMillian, the first nonfamily member to
own Burger
Boat, opens a yard
in Florida, the second nonfamily Burger owner, Tacoma/United Shipbuilding,
declares bankruptcy.
1991
• Martin Francis’ 35-knot 239' Eco, built by Blohm & Voss for Emilio Azcarraga, wins two
ShowBoats
Awards. Azcarraga creates his own dockage by partnering with George Nicholson to
build North
Cove Yachting Center
– the country’s first megayacht marina – on choice Lower Manhattan real estate.
1991- Top: Alloy Yachts rolls the dice on a new style of luxury performance cruising sailboat with a stairstep transom design by Ed Dubois.
Esprit debuts at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. Bottom: Hatteras launches its first yacht over
100'. Much
of its custom series, which tops with a 130' tri-deck, is ordered and
marketed by former Hateras dealer Felix Sabates, now a partner in Trinity
Yachts. (Click images to enlarge)
• Pendennis,
the only 1990s-era British yacht builder that will remain standing a decade
later, begins building 123' Taramber for Peter de Savary.
1992
• John Staluppi’s 116' Norship Moonraker hits 66.7 knots. Norship, Norway’s
only yacht builder, goes over the horizon just as fast.
 1992- Denison Marine – which holds the dubious honor of
building Lady Anna,
the only ShowBoats cover yacht to sink – closes its doors,
thus ending competition with crosstown family rivals at Broward
Marine. (Click image to enlarge)
• Naiad introduces the first tunnel and retractable bow thrusters.
Westmar
counters by introducing the first thruster with counter-rotating dual
props.
• Destriero,
a 215-footer built
at Fincantieri for Sardinia’s Aga Khan, sets new Atlantic crossing record – 58
hours, 39 minutes.
1993- Top: The devastating 10 percent luxury tax on yachts
costs an estimated 20,000 U.S. marine industry jobs, but fuel is still cheap
and jet boats still rule. Bottom: Admiral Marine delivers 161' Evviva, the largest
yacht design by Bill Garden to appear in ShowBoats.
Evviva belongs to former Bayliner exec Orin Edson, now a partner in Westport
Yachts. (Click images to enlarge)
1993
• Alaska Diesel’s Northern Lights division invents the STARS
self-cleaning catalytic genset filter.
• Italy allows the lira to float; yacht building in Italy
suddenly costs 20-30 percent less than in Holland or Germany.
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