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The European-influenced 155-foot motor yacht launched in New Orleans this summer is not your typical Trinity.
by Louisa Beckett
photography by Jim Raycroft
01/01/2005
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As Trinity’s design team, headed by
naval architect Geoff van Aller, began
drawing plans for Trinity Hull
029, the owner’s privacy became the driving force
that shaped the yacht
inside and out. Charter would not be an option.
To
that end, the
owner decided to move the master suite from its standard main-deck
location to the bridge deck, where it fills the entire area aft of the
pilothouse. Significantly larger than the four-stateroom guest
accommodation on
the lower deck, encompassing even more space than the
main-deck salon and dining
room combined, it includes an owner’s salon,
a master stateroom with separate
his-and-hers baths and spectacular
views aft, and a private aft deck with
Jacuzzi. The owner can invite
guests into his salon, or close off the suite
entirely.
With the master suite now in the place of the
skylounge, the owner
and design team opted to enclose the top deck with
a hardtop and removable
windows, creating an informal lounge where
guests could socialize and take in
the scenery and around the yacht.
United States Marine manufactured the
one-piece, lightweight composite
hardtop. “It looked like the world’s biggest
surfboard when they were
building it,” Smith said. Heavy-duty air conditioning
keeps the
observation deck cool.
The yacht’s climate-control capability in
general was a major concern for the owner. At his request, Trinity
installed a
60-ton Aqua Air air-conditioning system, rack-mounted to
reduce noise and
vibration. “Normally, it would have been thirty to
thirty-five tons,” Smith
said.
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