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An owner expands his 205-foot yacht’s capacity for fun by adding a 186-foot support vessel to his fleet.
by Louisa Rudeen Beckett
photography by Brad Hagadone
11/01/2004
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After purchasing her at what
Hagadone termed,
“a very economical price,” Capt. Antrim, who served as project manager, moved
the vessel to Quality Shipyards in Houma, Louisiana, for a
complete
refit. Boris
Kirilloff of Kirilloff & Associates
signed on as naval
architect. The
project team had its work
cut out for it. After more
than 20 years of hard use
transporting crews, pipes and supplies back
and forth from
offshore oil rigs,
Capt. Antrim said, “She was pretty
stinky.”
(Click image to enlarge)
Amazingly, the job was
finished
in three and a half months, in time for Lady Lola
Shadow to
join the mother ship
for a spring tour of the
Spanish Riviera.
Nicknamed “The Swan” by Capt. Antrim,
the
former ugly duckling looked
good running in Lady Lola’s wake thanks to
a
newly faired hull and
sparkling paint job.
The
biggest change in Shadow’s
exterior is her new aft-deck house,
designed by Kirilloff. On top is a
floodlit
helipad with full
emergency equipment. Below is a hangar to
store the Bell 430
Executive twin jet-engine helicopter on ocean
transits. A
seven-ton crane on the
main deck plucks the chopper off the
pad and lowers it to the hangar entrance,
where an electric
winch pulls
it inside. The blades are stored in special
sidewall racks. Shadow also
carries 2,000 gallons of jet
aviation fuel and
provides accommodations
for the pilot and
mechanic.
“We had to develop a way
to get
ourselves
and our guests
from the Shadow to Lady Lola safely,”
Hagadone said.
He added a swim platform to Shadow at exactly
the same height as
the
platform on the mother ship. Then he
acquired a 32-foot Stan-Craft
shuttle boat to ferry guests
back and forth. Custom-built in Honduran
mahogany, and featuring an
electric side door, it holds 10 passengers
in its
glass-domed
forward cockpit and 10 in a circular aft seating
area. (Click image to enlarge)
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