Displaying items by tag: Sailing Yacht A

14th March 2022

Sailing Yacht A Seized by Italian Police After EU Sanctions Against Russian Oligarch Owner

Italian police have taken one of the world’s largest yachts as the country continues to impound vessels and seize properties owned by Russian oligarchs.

Reuters quotes the Italian government as saying the 143-metre Sailing Yacht A was sequestered at the port of Trieste over the weekend.

It’s one of a number of superyachts seized from wealthy Russians on the EU sanctions list instituted in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last month.

A vessel owned by Russia’s richest man, a mining magnate with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, was impounded in the port of Imperia last week.

Afloat.ie previously reported on Sailing Yacht A as it underwent sailing tests in 2016.

The Philippe Starck-designed luxury ship was built in Germany for Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko as a replacement for his 2008 vessel Motor Yacht A, another Starck design.

Originally priced at €365 million, Sailing Yacht A is now said to be worth more than half a billion euro.

Reuters has more on the story HERE.

Published in Superyachts

Tagged under

Sailing Yacht A

'World’s Largest Sailing Superyacht' Takes To The Water

Sailing Yacht A afloat in the Kieler Förde in northern Germany

#Superyacht - Sailing tests have begun on what’s purported to be one of the world’s largest sailing yachts, as Mail Online reports.

Sailing Yacht A’s functional name is very much an understatement, as this enormous vessel is more than 140m long, comprising eight decks with 90m masts, making it more like a skyscraper than the boats moored at your local marina.

Priced at some €365 million, and designed by the renowned Philippe Starck, the luxury ship was built in Germany for Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko as a replacement for his 2008 vessel Motor Yacht A, another Starck design.

The new A also boasts the latest in sailing technology, with digitally controlled sails, a carbon-fibre-impregnated hull and bomb-proof glass.

It’s not the only superyacht in the news, as Royal Huisman has taken an order for its largest vessel to date — and the largest aluminium hulled yacht yet conceived — at a comparatively modest 81m in length. Yacht Harbour has more on the story HERE.

This story has been updated with additional information.

Published in Superyachts

Tagged under

Competitions

The most significant events for the Half Ton Class has been the annual Half Ton Cup which was sailed under the IOR rules until 1993. More recently this has been replaced with the Half Ton Classics Cup. The venue of the event moved from continent to continent with over-representation on French or British ports. In later years the event is held biennially. Initially, it was proposed to hold events in Ireland, Britain and France by rotation. However, it was the Belgians who took the ball and ran with it. The Class is now managed from Belgium.