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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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Even connoisseurs of the Trinity 150 Tri-Deck series, most recently
incarnated as Seahawk and Mia Elise, wouldn’t recognize the most recent
launch
in the series as a sistership. Its hull is a shippy navy blue
instead of
Trinity’s standard white; it is topped by an enclosed
observation deck instead
of an open flybridge. “She looks nothing like
a Trinity,” said Billy Smith, vice
president.
 Extending the hull by five feet gave the yacht a huge watersports platform,
above. The flybridge was enclosed to create an observation deck, below. (Click image to enlarge)
Her international owner brought the project directly to the New
Orleans shipyard. He had owned a string of Hatteras yachts and liked
American
boatbuilding quality. He commissioned Trinity to create a new
155 based on its
fully ABS-classed, MCA-compliant 150-foot aluminum
hull. But when it came to the
superstructure and interior, he rejected
Trinity’s classic American look.
“We
said, ‘Tell us what you
like,’” Smith said. “It was just an evolution of showing
him different
profiles, and finally he said that’s the one he wanted.”
Interior designer Dee Robinson, who has worked on many Trinity
projects, was
engaged to design the accommodation – and rip up
everything she had done before.
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