Pendennis build new 54m 'secret' yacht

Cornish expedition yacht undergoes sea trials

By IBI Magazine/Michael Howorth


Featuring an unusually green coloured hull, topped off with a funnel and superstructure the colour of Cornish clotted cream and sporting a somewhat strange snub nosed bow, the steel-hulled superyacht Steel has been seen recently undertaking sea trials at the hands of its builder Pendennis, the Falmouth, UK-based shipyard.

The 54m (177ft) long range discovery yacht, originally codenamed Project 57, has been designed by Liebowitz & Pritchard Architecture and Yacht Design Ltd, the same team that worked with the builder to construct the 47.5m (156ft) motorsailor MitSeaAh.

Designed and built for somewhat secretive owners whose business interests are reflected in the yacht's name, she is powered by twin Caterpillar engines and is expected to be delivered during the first few weeks of 2009.

(5 January 2009)

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