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Codecasa raises the bar with the interior on the 203-foot Moneikos.
by Justin Ratcliffe
photography by Alessandro Braida
06/01/2007
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In the wheelhouse, with its splendid green leather upholstery
and six 23-inch monitors (four of which can retract into the console), the
captain requested multiple redundancy and a powerful Selesmar Selex radar. An
Italian company with more than 30 years of experience in navigation
equipment for merchant shipping, Consilium Selesmar is an unusual choice for a
private yacht. As the captain points out, however, handling a 203-foot yacht is
effectively like driving a small cruise ship.
Top: The large pool on the sun deck can be accessed
directly from the gym and is equipped with active current. (Click images to enlarge)
"When I cut the power on the owner’s previous [164-footer], it
stopped dead in the water. At minimum revs, Moneikos makes 7.5 knots, and
when I stop the engines it will keep on moving at much the same speed."
The difference in stopping distance lies in the significant
increase in volume: The 164-footer displaced some 450 tons; the 203-footer
displaces twice as much and will keep moving forward under its own inertia. For
added navigation security—especially in the Caribbean where actual bottom
soundings do not always accord with chart readings—Moneikos is also
fitted with a telescopic Skipper sonar in the bow with a 3,000-meter range. On
the communications front, an item high on the captain’s wish list was VSAT in
addition to the more conventional Inmarsat B, C and mini-M. A cost-effective and
highly reliable means for receiving and transmitting data, voice and fax between
remote locations on a 24/7 basis, VSAT also means the owner can use his GSM
mobile phone in the middle of the ocean to keep in real-time contact with his
business interests.
Moneikos is based in Monaco and herein lies the origin of her
Greek-sounding name. Monoikos was the name of the colony of Phoceans from
Massalia, today Marseilles, who settled Monaco in the sixth century B.C. Phocea,
near modern-day Izmir in Turkey, was in turn colonized by the Greeks, which
explains the Greek name. Hercules is said to have passed through the settlement
on his travels, and Moneikos will be moored in Port Hercule, which still
bears his name. This is the stuff of legend indeed.
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