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Jongert updates and supercharges its popular line of sailing yachts.
by Marilyn M. Mower
photography by Ed Holt
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08/01/2005
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The line’s updating continues belowdecks where Ameena
sports a contemporary interior brightened by appealing satin-finished pearwood
joinery. Jongert never forgets it is building sailing boats and insists on
making furniture with rounded corners and bullnosed fiddles and including
handholds on the companionways. The lines are clean and simple with Scandinavian
overtones. The main salon offers a large U-shaped dining table with overstuffed
cushions on port and an L-shaped sofa to starboard. Storage cabinets on
starboard terminate in a rounded countertop. Served by two low stools, it makes
a handy snackbar. A sliding partition in the adjacent forward bulkhead opens to
the handsome galley forward, which is finished to a high standard.
Top: In addition to creating space aft, carrying the
tender on the foredeck has the added benefit of incorporating a whirlpool
when the tender is offloaded. Bottom: The composite deckhouse features sweeping modern
lines. (Click images to enlarge)
A lounge area for the crew is opposite the galley with doors
opening forward to two bunk cabins.
Aft of the salon, five steps descend to the owner and guest accommodations. On the first two 2900Ms, the guest cabins are arranged
identically as a double and a twin cabin. Ameena’s master cabin is
arranged with a king-size bed on centerline and a desk and lounge chair to starboard. A simple bathroom with walk-in shower and double sinks runs fore and
aft along the stateroom’s port side. Ample hanging lockers are arrayed along the
forward bulkhead.
Ameena displaces 92 tons and is equipped with a single
250-hp Caterpillar diesel that can push her 12.2 knots. Jongert, which used
to build its yachts in steel, has thoroughly embraced the idea of
performance cruising in its Modern Line. Lightening holes are cut in frames
and interior aluminum where practical and within classification rules to reduce
structural weight. Some of the weight savings is then plowed back into materials
for noise and vibration reduction, making the builder’s already quiet hulls
border on silent.
Contact Jongert at 31 (0)227 54 25 44. www.jongert.nl
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