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Yachts and yachting are about bringing together family for meaningful time away from the
hustle and hassles of the workaday world. A yachting family can be defined as
blood relatives or family in the broader sense—close friends, business
associates or trusted crew. When a family member has special needs a standard
yacht design can’t accommodate, a yacht owner generally faces building
custom or struggling to work around the various impediments a production yacht
can impose on someone with physical challenges.
When one such owner approached the Tampa, Florida-based
semi-custom builder Lazzara Yachts with a request to accommodate a physically
challenged family member, the company rose to the occasion. The result was on
display at last fall’s Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show in the form of
the company’s new flagship, the Lazzara 116. (Click image to enlarge)
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The 116 rides on the same hull as the Lazzara 110, in
production for several years, but has an extended swim platform, updated styling
features that derive from the company’s successful LSX Quad 75 and a number of
custom features to accommodate the owner’s relative. Lazzara has built three
110s, each with a different configuration: a skylounge model, an open flybridge
model and a hardtop model with an extended aft cockpit set up for sportfishing.
The 116 is an open flybridge boat with an integrated hardtop. As it is doing
with several of its models, the company is beginning to update the exterior
styling to emulate the innovative LSX Quad 75 introduced in Fort Lauderdale in
2006. The updates include the addition of long windows on the main deck with
squared-off trailing ends and squared-off windows in other parts of the boat.
The updates depart somewhat from the hallmark Lazzara overlapping teardrop
lines, but the result is a more appealing, "less stacked" profile. The LSX
pick-ups continue below with doors trimmed in leather and accented by stainless
steel.
Top and bottom: The 116 represents several firsts for Lazzara.
Among them are wood floors in the salon instead of carpet, and a skylight in the
galley. (Click images to enlarge)
The 116 sports a number of firsts for Lazzara. In place of
carpeting in the salon are cherry floors with boards laid fore and aft, which,
with the yacht’s walkaround decks, enhance the feel of beaminess in that space.
The joinery is Lazzara’s traditional American cherry, but the 116 is the first
to incorporate a satin pecan finish, which lends a richness to the yacht’s
contemporary interior. A skylight over the helm features electronically tinted
glass that goes from frosted to clear with the push of a button—the same
equipment Lazzara uses for privacy in the accommodations area of the LSX.
And the 116 is the first large Lazzara to have a skylight in the country
kitchen-style galley.
The standard accommodations configuration of the 110 and the
116 is four staterooms and an office/study. A well-appointed full-beam master
with his-and-hers heads is amidships just forward of the engine room.
The guest accommodations occupy the space forward to the bow.
In keeping with a current trend, the floor of the foyer in the accommodations
area is veiny, underlit marble, which adds a further touch of visual intrigue to
an already elegant interior ambiance. The yacht is equipped with a Crestron
audio/video system and has programmable lighting in all the interior spaces.
Top: The underlit marble floor in the
accommodations foyer. Middle: The full-beam master. Bottom: Dual sinks in the master
bathroom. (Click images to enlarge)
Among the features the owner of the first 116 ordered was the
conversion of the office to a twin bunk, twin Pullman kids cabin. Quarters for
three or four crew are aft. Lazzara made a number of alterations to the standard
specs to accommodate the owner’s physically challenged relative. Notable among
them are a wider boarding gate in the starboard bulwarks, wider entryways in the
port VIP stateroom and bathroom, and a foldaway partition between that and the
starboard VIP, which enhances access for an attendant should one be needed. An
electric lift was installed in the accommodations stairway to provide the
owner’s relative maximum freedom of movement on board. Air-operated doors to the
outside spaces make access easier still.
The extended swim platform raises and lowers, which will help
swimmers of any physical aptitude board more easily and facilitates the loading
of watercraft. Among its complement of tenders and toys, the yacht carries a PWC
that allows a rider to operate the vehicle when seating or prone. Access to the
swim platform is down easy-sloping stairs port and starboard.
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