Feadship 101mt Symphony

The largest Feadship ever built, the 101 metre superyacht Symphony, has been delivered. New photos show her leaving The Netherlands on her way to the Mediterranean for summer cruising season.

Symphony, formerly known as Project 808, was launched in January 2015, at which time engine room commissioning and work on her upper deck was completed.

She is the first Feadship yacht to exceed the 100-metre mark, surpassing the builder's previous flagship, 99-metre Madame Gu, launched in 2013. It's also the first Feadship yacht built to be fully compliant with the new Passenger Yacht Code (PYC) regulations, which allows for pleasure yachts to carry 13 to 36 passengers. Building with PYC has allowed for a custom interior that makes use of veneers, leathers and exotic materials that are compliant with the new rules. She is also certified for chartering with helicopter operations.

The yacht features exterior design by legendary yacht designer Tim Heywood with naval architecture by Feadship De Voogt Naval Architects. Her accommodation is spread over six decks, with up to 20 guests hosted in six staterooms, including one full-beam VIP cabin, double owner’s stateroom and additional guest cabins on the lower deck.

Symphony is kitted out with a gym, a beauty salon and massage room and carries no less than three custom Pascoe tenders of 9.6, 8.3 and 7.85 metres, as well as two wave runners, two Seabobs, windsurfers, watersides and various inflatable toys. Her layout includes an observation lounge, bar and Jacuzzi on the sun deck, while the bridge deck features a terrace and outdoor cinema. The main deck hosts a six-metre contraflow, glass-bottom swimming pool with waterfall, and below the pool on the lower deck is a lounge, beach club and wellness centre, as well as an ultra-high-definition megayacht cinema.

The owner's deck boasts a full-beam stateroom, his-and-hers bathrooms, dressing rooms and a sauna, a private office and study, and a forward terrace with Jacuzzi. The owner's aft deck hosts al fresco dining for 20.

Powered by four MTU 16V 4000 M73 engines, she is anticipated to reach a maximum speed of 22 knots and achieve a range of 5,000 nautical miles.

Symphony made a quite a stir when she was moved from the Feadship Van Lent yard earlier this spring to start her sea trials. She cast off in darkness and wintry conditions, heading south through the Zweiland and canals past Leiden to the North Sea port. The beamy superyacht had to slip through narrow locks and waterways, one that went over a highway, giving us the amazing shot seen above.

The 14 metre beam of the steel-and-aluminium, twin-screw project 808 was a tight fit through the bridges on the way out to sea. The Feadship Fan Club Facebook page reports, “The passages of the bridges were a close fit. The shore support even had to use thin mats instead of the common fenders.” The page also reports that despite the late hour of the move, mid-winter, many Feadship fans were riverside to watch the superyacht make her way seawards.

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Feadship 99mt Madame Gu

Feadship has launched the largest Feadship to date. The 99-metre masterpiece was created by the Feadship yard in Makkum and is also the largest superyacht ever built in the Netherlands. Sleek and quick, and with exquisite exterior detailing, she is a well-honed masterpiece bound to turn heads in the marinas of the world.
More than four years in the making, project name ‘Dream’ left the massive building hall today. She is an elegant and striking tribute to her visionary owner, the talented design team of Andrew Winch and the hundreds of Feadship staff who built her.

As is usually the case with Feadship, confidentiality is a given, but is no secret that Feadship’s advanced hull construction system, fine-tuned over many decades, has enabled its craftsmen to construct a slender lightweight vessel that, despite her 99-metre length, can attain a speed well over 24 knots. Capitalizing on Feadship's engineering experience on motoryachts Predator and Tango, she is capable of such speeds thanks to her highly efficient hull form and quadruple engines driving controllable pitch propellers swift and efficiently.

The project is also a prime example of Feadship’s unrivalled ability to build superyachts exactly according to client specifications – in this case a striking and sleek concept presented by AWD, resulting in a totally custom creation. Says marketing manager Francis Vermeer: "Because we start every project afresh and are not building from an existing platform, all things are possible for a Feadship owner. It’s all part of the experience that makes creating a Feadship such fun for our clients.”

Experience of a different kind underpinned some of the other special requests for this latest member of the Feadship fleet. Leveraging on the expertise accrued on 81-metre Air, launched in 2011, and the fully enclosed helicopter hangar which was developed for 86-metre Ecstasea from 2004, project name ‘Dream’ is the second Feadship to feature such a certified helicopter storage system.

“Feadship enters 2013 on a crest of a wave as we continue to set new standards in partnership with discerning owners,” concludes Vermeer. “With a solid order book and superyachts under construction ranging from 44 metres to 101.50 metres, there will be many more surprises as the year unfolds.”

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