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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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Several other systems help to extend
the 155-footer’s range in extreme
climates. “If the outside air is a
hundred and ten or a hundred and fifteen
[degrees Fahrenheit], you’re
close to the maximum operating temperature of the
Caterpillars. The
intake vanes can be adjusted to send air to the hotspots in
the engine
room,” Smith said. The boat is also equipped with two 99-kW Kilo-Pak
generators, two watermakers that can produce 17,034 liters per day
apiece, a
heavy-duty fuel centrifuge and zero-speed stabilization.
“This boat should be
able to go anywhere its owner is able to send it,”
Smith said. The twin 2,250-hp
Caterpillar 3512B diesels give her a
cruising speed of 19 knots and a top speed
of 22 knots. Range is 4,000
nautical miles at 11 knots.
At the wheel for her
voyages will be
Capt. Sandy Yawn, who has worked for the owner for five years.
Her
crew’s quarters were greatly expanded when the master suite was moved. The
main deck now has a deluxe, beech-trimmed captain’s cabin and a second
crew
cabin. Counting three double crew cabins on the lower deck,
forward, and an
engineer’s cabin and office aft, the new 155 can
accommodate 10 crew – two more
than the old Trinity 150 – giving her a
one-to-one crew-to-guest ratio. “This
boat became so service-oriented,”
Robinson said. A crew entry was added to the
guest stateroom foyer, and
the galley gained a pantry and a separate
refrigerator/freezer
room.
Forward, a hidden compartment with a clamshell
door
opening onto the foredeck stores two personal watercraft and a crane. “It
took a quite a bit of engineering to get this to work,” Smith said.
“The owner
didn’t want to see his Jet Skis.”
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