Imagine living in a quiet town near Rotterdam, and when you look at your window you see a colossus for you, 14 meters wide and with the height of a three -storey building. It is what has happened (once again) to the inhabitants of the quiet town of Alphan (Netherlands).
According to published the local media AD Those who have approached one of the channels that are going through the population have seen how A 200 million superyate of dollars Lawrence Strollowner of the Aston Martin Formula 1 team 1 and head of Fernando Alonso, juggled to reach the sea sailing through narrow channels and raffling bridges and all kinds of obstacles in his odyssey.
The megayate odyssey
Feadship is one of the world’s main manufacturers in the world. From their shipyards in Aalsmeer they have left colossi like the Launchpad by Mark Zuckerbergwith 118 meters of length. All of them have had to go through that intricate journey of narrow channels, curves that test the expertise of the engineers involved in the transfer and several traffic cuts in the populations through which they pass.
This type of operations are not simple. They require millimeter planning and the perfect execution of each step. Any calculation or maneuver error could have ended up damaging the helmet of a vessel valued at more than 200 million dollars or, worse, putting people’s safety at risk. The epic odyssey of PROJECT 714production name that the Stroll Yate has received, was recorded on video for the Dutch Yachting Channel.
Some sections of the transfer were especially tense, such as the pass There were hardly a few centimeters of margin so that the superyate helmet scratches its pillars. The tight turns in the channels, as a chicane in an F1 circuit as in which their owner competes, also contributed their touch of tension during the hypnotic transfer to high seas.
Project 714 Leaving the shipyards
When even money can pave the way
PROJECT 714 is neither the first nor the last supereyate that makes this journey, but its complexity reaches the extreme when it comes to large vessels such as the commission of the owner of the Aston Martin Formula 1 team 1, with an estimated heritage in 3.8 billion dollars, according to Forbes.
The journey of Koru de Jeff Bezos From the Oceanco shipyards in Alblasserdam, it was a challenge the exit to the high seas through some channels similar to those that has had to travel the Spery of Stroll.
On that occasion, the Dutch builder had to face A serious problem: A historical drawbridge built in 1927 was not high enough for the 70 -meter masts of the Koru to pass under its structure, so the construction company proposed to temporarily dismantle the bridge so that the sailboat could cross it.
According to The published by the local medium Truuwthe refusal of the neighbors forced the refusal of the City Council, so the builder had no choice but make the journey without masts to complete the construction of the Koru in the shipyards that the company has in Greenport.
A floating mansion
Ad picked up some of the reactions of Alphan’s neighbors who came to see how Project 714 slid over the waters of their narrow channels. “This is quite impressive,” “is not normal”, “the closer, more impressive” or “we are in first class” are some of the comments that raised in its path the impressive mole of steel and aluminum.
The luxurious yacht is designed to be A floating mansion destined for leisure and It has five covers, A beach club with pool in the stern, an sharp bow cover that could well host a helipad and wooden floors in all covers. When being in manufacturing phase, Feadship does not give many details about his Interior equipment and finishessomething that will be addressed after overcoming the navigation tests that it now faces.
Which He has shared It is that the yacht has a more efficient diesel-electric hybrid propulsion system that reduces vibration and improve comfort on board.
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Image | Feadship, Aston Martin F1
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