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Type: Schooner
LOA: 203’0” / 62.00m – LWL: 132’0” / 40.18m – Beam: 36’0” / 10.88m – Draft: max 26’0” / 8.02m min 12’0” / 3.64m – Designer: Hoek Design Naval Architects – Original Name: ATHOS – Original Owner: Private – Year Built: 2010 -Built by: Holland Jachtbouw – Hull material: Alcan Sealium Aluminium – Sail Area: upwind 5,784 ft2 – Spinnaker: 4303 ft2 / 1312m2 – Displacement: 370 tonnes – Engine: 2 x Volvo D16C-A MH EVC (479 kW / 651 hp) – Flag: United Kingdom (GB) – Location: Marine Traffic
Historical:
Athos is one of the most spectacular and innovative sailing yachts to be launched in recent years.
She is the world’s largest privately-owned two-masted schooner and the most technologically sophisticated classic sailing yacht to date.
Athos is the result of the combined efforts of award-winning designer Andre Hoek, renowned Dutch builder Holland Jachtbouw and the yacht’s own highly committed owner who personally oversaw a raft of engineering innovations being introduced to the project.
Zijlmans Jachtbouw – “In 2005 I took him to see the 55m ketch Adèle and he loved the twin deckhouse owner’s privacy concept that Hoek Design pioneered on this yacht. Initially, he felt that Adèle was a little too large for his requirements, which seems ironic now when you consider how the project grew from 44m to 58m by the time HJB joined the team in 2006. As we developed Athos, more space was added for the crew, guests and equipment.”
“The initial brief for a 90kW bowthruster was superseded by a request for a more powerful bowthruster,’ remembers Zijlmans. ‘The amount of power [150kW] was unprecedented and when it became clear that he would have to finance some serious development work, the owner decided to commission a sternthruster at the same time with the same power.”
“Moreover, both thrusters had to be able to be operated simultaneously with both main engines running on a fixed rpm of just 1,500 because he also wanted to have the option to run the complete installation in combination with gearbox-driven generators. This was quite a puzzle to work out and required well over 2,000 engineering hours.”
“By this time, we had prepared a hull construction and layout for a system one fifth of the size so we had to rethink the proposed design, working everything around the entire installation to keep it all concealed,’ says Zijlmans. ‘The pumps on the main engines and generators are huge and the piping needed to transfer and hold the pressure involved in such a vast system power is tremendous.”
Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):
- Owner/Guardian: (2010) Private
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Yacht ATHOS
Zijlmans Jachtbouw