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22nd ISS Yacht Design & Superyacht Industry Awards of Distinction, October 25, 2012

May 16, 2012

Now in its 22nd year of introducing yacht builders, designers as well as industry leaders with the highest accolades presented on the world’s superyacht stage, ISS continues to fulfil its mandate to reward important achievement. All ISS awards — in the Design, Leadership and Awards of Distinction categories — are based exclusively on peer-review. ISS’s International Awards for Design and Leadership is well known as the first and longest running awards program in the large yacht industry and one that keeps a completely unbiased nomination and selection format.

ISS yacht awards honour the previous year’s greatest achievements in design as determined by some of the superyacht industry’s most accomplished professionals. New last year, ISS added a Best Yacht Refit award to reflect ISS’s awareness of marketplace trends. Eligible refit yachts must meet the following description to be considered as nominees:

“ISS Best Yacht Refit Award vessels must include a complete design update with substantial changes to interior and exterior structure, outfit and finish that enhance yacht function, performance and aesthetic appeal.”

Registration of yachts is handled by builders, architects and designers who receive communication from ISS which includes detailed instructions. These stakeholders should contact the ISS office, if they have not yet received the specific website link.

Owners and industry alike can prepare to enjoy a truly festive Gala on 25 October 2012. The Gala Committee—comprised of some of the most notable names in the industry—has plans well underway. Embracing the theme “World Adventures,” the committee strives to present a milieu fitting the splendour of design, the measure of leadership and the glamour of yachting.

Festivities will again be at the Marriott Harbor Beach Resort in Fort Lauderdale. Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be held during the evening in the glow of the sunset on the Ocean View Terrace. The awards presentation follows in the adjacent ballroom and the evening concludes on the terrace with dessert and aperitifs and the Cigar Bar—a great hit year after year.

In addition to yacht recognition, ISS will also present its highly anticipated Awards of Distinction—the ISS Leadership, Innovation, Business (Person) of the Year, Distinguished Crew Awards and the ISS Fabien Cousteau Blue Award which celebrates personal excellence, innovation and environmental stewardship respectively.

Jongert 3900 Lucia M superyacht designed by Guido de Groot – 2011 ISS Design Awards Finalist

December 15, 2011

The Jongert 3900 motor yacht Lucia M was added to the 2011 ISS Design Awards´ list of finalists. Jongert built Lucia M superyacht´s sophisticated exterior and stunning interior were both created by the world-renowned Guido de Groot Design studio.

Jongert 3900 super yacht Lucia

Luxury yacht Lucia designed by Guido de Groot

For more than 20 years, ISS’s Annual Design Awards – based entirely on peer review – has celebrated the very finest naval architecture, design, interiors, engineering and builds in the large yacht industry.

Motor yacht Lucia by Jongert

The ISS Design Awards honours the finest new super yachts, built and delivered to their owners over the previous twelve months. It is a notable achievement in itself to be named as a Finalist in this prestigious field.

Luxurious interior on the Jongert super yacht Lucia designed by Guido de Groot

The office of Guido de Groot Design is very much honored by this latest achievement.

Motor yacht Sapphire by Nobiskrug

December 12, 2011

Feature yacht: Motor Yacht SAPPHIRE, a 73.5m Nobiskrug superyacht launched in 2011 was nominated for the peer-reviewed 2011 ISS Design and Leadership Awards, in the ‘Power 65m+’ category. The finalists for the best Power over 65m at the 2011 ISS Design and Leadership Awards included 86m Superyacht Cakewalk by Derecktor’s Shipyard, 68m Motor yacht Lady Christine by Feadship/Royal Van Lent, 95m M/Y Palladium by Blohm & Voss, 86m Megayacht Seven Seas by Oceanco and 68m Yacht Sycara V by Nobiskrug. The winner of the best Power over 65m was the Blohm + Voss 96m charter yacht Palladium (also known as ORCA superyacht)

The Newcruise designed superyacht Sapphire

Nobiskrug’s motor yacht SAPPHIRE (built under hull 781) is a 73.50 steel displacement vessel launched in 2011. The Sapphire superyacht was built by Nobiskrug is a masterpiece that combines the talents of designers and naval architects Frank E. H. Neubelt and Roland Krueger with interior architecture of Katharina Raczek, all from the German design house NEWCRUISE. Charter yacht Sapphire was delivered to her owners in April 2011 in time for the busy superyacht summer in the Mediterranean.

73.5m Superyacht Sapphire by Nobiskrug and NEWCRUISE - Yacht Projects & Design

SAPPHIRE is impressively large and spacious. Her first class design and layout featuring timeless and elegant long straight lines interspaced with sweeping gentle curves means she really does offer everything, both inside and outside. She has a multi-functional layout containing many outstanding innovations.

Special attention was given to the development of her hull lines and naval architecture and the careful matching of equipment to give motor yacht Sapphire a comfortable cruise speed of 15 knots and maximum speed of 17 knots powered by twin 2,360hp MTU diesel engines with a range of over 5,000 nautical miles. She is equipped with zero speed stabilisers and contains large tender garages on port and starboard.

NEWCRUISE follows their in-house design philosophy of well-balanced inside – outside design themes which reflect a real masterpiece full of character in all aspects from the Interior to the Exterior and back.

The very carefully created arrangement plan on the Sapphire yacht offers a full-width owners apartment plus four amazing guest cabins, a beach club, an upper deck superior cabin, a sky lounge and a cinema.

73.5m motor yacht Sapphire interior – A world Cruiser superyacht by Nobiskrug and NEWCRUISE - Yacht Projects & Design

The interior styling consists of modernism inspired by Art Deco whichfeatures clean and pure lines underlined by very strong light and dark contrasts and very elaborate details reflected in all aspects of the interior, furnishing and accessories. The muted schemes reflect the palette of clear and mellowed blue tones, which are a tribute to the name of the yacht

73.5m motor yacht Sapphire interior by NEWCRUISE - Yacht Projects & Design

One very spectacular features onboard motor yacht motor yacht Sapphire is the aft folding “Touch+Go” Heli-Pad, which becomes a giant balcony above the sea and can also be used as a sunbathing area or as a stage and dance-floor for sunset partying.

73m Motor Yacht Sapphire by Nobiskrug nominated for the 2011 ISS Design and Leadership Awards, in the ‘Power 65m+’ category

The sun-deck has large “lounge” style sun-beds aft in order to provide all comfort to watch a real outdoor cinema while a huge Jacuzzi and bar area invites guests to relax at the forward deck or bask in the sun on generous cushions.

A great deal of attention has been taken in the design of the exceptional outdoor illumination. Sapphire excites with an exquisite and stunning “Night-Time Look” highlighting her lines and her furniture while she literally floats on a bed of light courtesy of her underwater array.

AB 116 motor yacht BLUE FORCE ONE by AB Yachts

December 01, 2011

This stunning striking 36.25 metre AB Yachts built superyacht Blue Force One has been launched in 2010 and was nominated for the prestigious and peer-reviewed 2011 ISS Design and Leadership Awards, in the ‘Power 24m – 40m’ category. The winner of this category was the 24.1m Tricon Marine built superyacht NISI designed by NISI Yachts and Ward Setzer.

AB Yachts superyacht Blue Force One - Image credit to AB Yachts

AB 116 motor yacht Blue Force One was built by AB Yachts shipyard belonging to FIPA GROUP, that summarises the new concept of sport power of the AB Yachts style, with a hull having slender appearance and smooth, tapering, and winning lines.

Blue Force One superyacht by AB Yachts - AB 116

The interior spaces of the superyacht Blue Force One – AB 116 have been conceived in order to grant the utmost comfort in an environment able to create a continuity between exterior and interior. When entering from the main door, the spaciousness of the room together with the choice for natural essences like wenge’ and durmast put together with fabrics and leathers with subtle colour, create a salon with a big impact for its largeness and brightness.

AB 116 motor yacht Blue Force One - Image credit AB Yachts

The big windowing gives the idea of open spaces and the distribution of rooms has been studied in order to create a unique environment to live the sea.

AB 116 luxury motor yacht Blue Force One - Image credit AB Yachts

AB Yachts has been able to conceive also for this new AB 116 luxury yacht Blue Force One a valuable design, with a high level stylistic approach, that is manifest also for the utmost care for the smallest detail. The main deck of is a true loft, and contains a living area thought to live spaces in the utmost relax: it guests a wide U-shape sofa, followed by a dining table for 10 guests, and, on the right, a piece of furniture with a 50’’ TV that can be lowered in the furniture, and a bar corner that includes fridge, ice maker and sink.

AB 116 yacht Blue Force One - Aft deck - Image credit to AB Yachts

The wheelhouse of the Blue Force One yacht is separated from the salon in a very discreet way through a panel put in the centre of the area that remains at half the height of the room, in order to allow a 360° visibility of the exterior from any point in the main deck.

Superyacht Blue Force One - Sundeck table - Credit to AB Yachts

Downstairs we find a suggestive salon used as TV room lightened by the upper deck windowing, the owner cabin on the stern is a true suite, bright and spacious, thanks to the wide windowing on both sides. Besides the owner cabin, in the night area there are two twin cabins with twin beds and private bathroom and a VIP cabin on the bow, and an additional cabin that can be used as gym or guest cabin. The crew quarters, containing three cabins and bathrooms, also contain a fully accessorised galley.

Dining on board the stunning Blue Force One yacht - Credit to AB Yachts

And the exterior of the AB 116 motor yacht Blue Force One is not less: going onboard, the cockpit, covered with teak like all the external floor, reveals immediately the attention given to the maximisation of the spaces for relax: as a matter of fact we find here a wide sunbed that can be used as a sofa, and, on the bow, a convivial area with table and sofas. Sofas and a really huge sunbed are also on the Flying bridge, where we find a wheelhouse in the centre and on the bow a comfortable dining area with icemaker and fridge.

Blue Force One Superyacht - Master Stateroom - Image credit to AB Yachts

Like for the other sea jewels built by the Massa shipyard, from the structural point of view the yacht shows hull and superstructure built with materials borrowed from aerospace industry that grant lightness and solidity. The three engines MTU 16V2000 M93 CR of 2400 HP each with the 3 MJP waterjets allow the new AB 116 superyacht Blue Force One to reach a maximum speed of 46 knots with the utmost confidence and total absence of vibrations.

AB 116 motor yacht Blue Force One - Master Head - Image Credit to AB Yachts

Blue Force One Superyacht - Master Stateroom - Image credit to AB Yachts

AB 116 superyacht Blue Force One - Galley - Image credit to AB Yachts

Luxury Explorer yacht Big Fish by Aquos Yachts wins 2 more prestigious yachting awards

November 03, 2011

The 45.00m (147′ 7″) luxury explorer yacht BIG FISH has taken home two more top design honors during the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show 2011, moving her into the rare field of history-making yachts. Superyacht Big Fish now has a trophy case with five coveted yacht awards, an unprecedented achievement as the first launch from her builder, Aquos Yachts.

BIG FISH - Main

BIG FISH - Jacuzzi

BIG FISH - Main Salon

BIG FISH - Top Deck

The first new honor bestowed on the charter yacht Big Fish was a Neptune Award for Best Naval Architecture of all 2010-launched motor yachts. The award was presented Tuesday evening, Oct. 25th at the ShowBoats International Design Awards ceremony, held at the glamorous Mar A Lago resort in Palm Beach. The ShowBoats Design Awards is the longest-running awards program in the luxury yacht industry. These awards are judged by a select panel of industry experts and yacht owners based on a list of nominees presented to the judges by the editors of ShowBoats International.

The second award given to the Big Fish yacht was top honors for the Best Full Displacement motor yacht in the 40 to 60 meter size range, at the SuperYacht Awards. Presented at the annual International Superyacht Society gala Oct. 28th at the Marriott Harbor Beach Resort, the SuperYacht Awards are selected by a panel of industry experts, and then are voted on by the entire membership of the Society.

In both prizes, the charter yacht Big Fish beat out a large number of other worthy contenders launched last year at many of the industry’s premier yacht builders.

In addition to the ShowBoats International and the International Superyacht Society awards, Big Fish has been honored by Boat International with a Judge’s Commendation at their World Superyacht Awards, and by both Yachts International France and by Asia Pacific Yachting magazines as The Most Innovative Yacht launched in the past year.

“We are thrilled by the reception and recognition of Big Fish by the yachting industry,” said Richard Beattie, owner of Big Fish, and chairman of Aquos Yachts, which commissioned the yacht’s construction at McMullen & Wing Shipyard in Auckland, New Zealand. “These honors, voted on by the leading lights of the super yacht industry, underscore the success of the Aquos Yachts vision, to produce rugged, seaworthy yachts that also offer the very highest standards of contemporary design and technological innovation, while at the same time providing the extraordinary comfort, service, safety and security that today’s yacht owners demand from their boats.”

Beattie added, “These awards truly reflect the efforts and talents of the entire Aquos Yachts team. It’s one thing to say you’re going to design and build a world-class luxury expedition yacht, and it’s another thing entirely to deliver on that claim. These awards prove not only that we captured the imagination of the industry with the vision behind Big Fish, but we delivered on that vision by successfully completing the longest, most difficult shakedown cruise in the history of luxury yachting.”

Only 15 months after her launch, motor yacht Big Fish is now on her second trans-Atlantic crossing and nearing 45,000nm on her own bottom. On her maiden voyage she crossed the Pacific Ocean, transited the Panama Canal twice, chartered in Antarctica, and cruised extensively in Tahiti, the Galapagos, the Amazon, northern Sweden and Norway, and the Caribbean. In the process she has booked more than $2.5M in charter income in addition to entertaining Beattie and his guests for another 7 weeks.

Jim Gilbert, Aquos Yachts’ marketing consultant and former editor-in-chief of ShowBoats International, said Big Fish has played a key role in the current economic revival of the yachting industry. “We first began promoting Big Fish and Aquos Yachts at the very bottom of the recession,” Gilbert said. “The fact that Richard Beattie was willing to invest in developing an important emerging market niche – yachts aimed at a younger, less traditional, and tech-savvy generation of owners – helped stimulate the market and spur interest in new ways to enjoy the ocean.

“As a lifelong student of yachting, I have never witnessed a more ambitious and successful inaugural cruise than that of Big Fish. She was a household name before she launched, and now with her extraordinary media coverage and design honors she has become one of the true legends of yachting.”

Yacht Big Fish is in the Canary Islands on her way to the Antigua Charter Show. She has already booked several weeks of charter for the Caribbean holiday season. In the New Year she will return via the Panama Canal to the South Pacific, where she will spend the winter charter season.

By the time motor Yacht BIG FISH reaches the Canal (for her third transit!) she will have completed more than 45,000nm of cruising on her own bottom, having touched six continents in the process!

Meanwhile, construction on Aquos Hull #2, yacht StarFish, continues to proceed on schedule for a service launch in one year’s time, and delivery in early 2013. Please be on the lookout early next week for a full set of renderings and animation sequence of StarFish.

Luxury yachting awards presented to the charter expedition yacht Big Fish.

Yachts France – Most Innovative Motor Yacht of 2010
Asia Boating Awards – Most Innovative Yacht Design of 2010
World Superyacht Awards – Best Displacement Motor Yacht Under 500grt, Judges’ Special Commendation
ShowBoats International Design Awards – Best Naval Architecture of 2010
International SuperYacht Society – Best Motor Yacht of 2010 (40-65M)

Motor Yacht BIG FISH

Mcmullen & Wing, Gregory C Marshall Naval Architects, Greg Marshall Design

Year:	2010	L.O.A.:	45.00m (147' 7")	Beam:	9.00m (29' 6")
Max Speed:	16 knots	Cruise Speed:	10 knots	Engines:	Caterpillar 3508B DI-TA 1
Cabins:	5	Charter Guest:	10	Crew:	10

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NISI 2400 motor yacht Wins International Superyacht Society Design Award 2011

November 02, 2011

The NISI 2400 motor yacht was named best power yacht in the 24 to 40-meter category at the 2011 International Superyacht Society (ISS) Design Awards gala. The event was held on October 27th at the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show. The winning yachts represent the world’s finest naval architecture, design, interiors, engineering and builds within the superyacht industry.

NISI 2400 motor yacht Wins International Superyacht Society Design Award 2011

Finalists for the ISS Design Awards included Diverse Projects’ charter yacht Black Pearl, Moonen Shipyard’s motor yacht Livia, Jongert’s yacht Lucia M, and Hakvoort Sheepswerf’s superyacht Snowbird. ISS awards finalists are selected by ISS peers, with winners selected by a distinguished and independent international panel. Built and recently launched by NISI Yachts, NISI’s 2400 ground-breaking design infuses casual opulence, legendary styling and unsurpassed engineering in a 24-meter megayacht. She is the first and only yacht under 30 meters built to commercial RINA Charter Class and MCA Commercial (MGN 280) certification.

NISI 2400 motor yacht wins a 2011 International Superyacht Society (ISS) Design Award

“It is an absolute honor to receive this award from the International Superyacht Society. On behalf of the entire NISI Yachts team, we thank the respected panel of ISS judges and our peers for distinguishing NISI as the year’s most celebrated yacht in her class,” said Christos Livadas, Chairman of NISI Yachts. “NISI, with naval architecture by Ward Setzer, is a true modern classic, renowned for her casual opulence and charm combined with state-of-the-art technology and outstanding performance.”

The NISI 2400 yacht made her European debut in France at the 2011 Cannes International Boat Show. While in Cannes she was awarded Best Design at the 2011 World Yachts Trophies gala in Cannes. NISI was also recently named a Robb Report ‘Best of the Best’ winner in the annual ‘wings and water’ category, celebrated alongside the most sought after business and personal aircraft, Gulfstream, Bombardier and Piaggio.

Ron Holland Designs Sailing Yacht Christopher and S/Y Panthalassa ISS finalists

September 28, 2011

Two Ron Holland Designs, superyacht Christopher and sailing yacht Panthalassa are among the finalists of the “Best Sail – 40m+” category of the International Superyacht Society Awards 2011 (ISS). The winners of the International Superyacht Society Awards 2011 will be announced at the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show in October.

Yacht Christopher

Pendennis Superyacht CHRISTOPHER by Ron Holland Design

Sailing yacht Christopher is a 46m ketch, built by Pendennis in Falmouth, UK in partnership with Ron Holland Design and Palm Beach Yachts International.

Ron Holland’s brief for yacht Christopher was to design a yacht combining classic style with the most advanced sailing technology. Below the waterline, twin rudders and an extraordinarily deep centreboard, which increases draught from 12ft 6ins to more than 31ft, dramatically enhance sailing performance.

S/Y Christopher made her first appearance at St. Barth’s Bucket Regatta in the Spring of 2011 where her imposing red chilli spinnaker made a bold statement over Gustavia.

Sailing Yacht Christopher

Ron Holland Yacht Design, Ron Holland, Pendennis

Year:	2010	L.O.A.:	46m (150'9'')	Beam:	9.5m (keel down) 9.5 (kee
Max Speed:	12.5 knots under power	Cruise Speed:		Engines:
Cabins:	6	Charter Guest:	12	Crew:	8

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Superyacht Panthalassa

56 metre Sailing Yacht Panthalassa by Perini Navi /Ron Holland

S/Y Panthalassa is a 56m ketch, that is the eighth in the very successful Perini Navi /Ron Holland Design 56m series superyachts and features many important innovations.

The Panthalassa yachts’ hull lines have been optimised in order to further sailing performance. The aluminium superstructure is totally new and marked by a more racy and aerodynamic line than the earlier 56m designs and Panthalassa’s spacious interior has been designed by Foster and Partners.

Yacht PANTHALASSA by Perini Navi

Ron Holland Yacht Design, Ron Holland, Perini Navi

Year:	2010	L.O.A.:	56m (184')	Beam:	11.52 m (38')
Max Speed:	16 knots	Cruise Speed:		Engines:	two 1239 horse power Die
Cabins:	6	Charter Guest:	12	Crew:	10

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Baracuda - Layout

Melek - Salon

Panthalassa - Double Cabin

Baracuda - Salon

Melek - Foredeck

Panthalassa - Library Nook

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NISI 2400 motor yacht a 2011 International Superyacht Society (ISS) Design Awards Finalist.

September 27, 2011

Thw NISI 2400 motor yacht by NISI Yachts has been chosen as a finalist for ‘Best Power (24 to 40 meters)’ in the 2011 International Superyacht Society (ISS) Design Awards.

NISI 2400 motor yacht a 2011 International Superyacht Society (ISS) Design Awards Finalist.

Each year, the prestigious ISS Awards celebrate the world’s best in naval architecture, design, interiors, engineering and builds. Finalists are selected based on peer review. Other finalists for “Best Power (24 to 40 meters)” include Diverse Projects’ motor yacht Black Pearl, Moonen Shipyard’s Livia yacht, Jongert’s M/Y Lucia M, and Hakvoort Sheepswerf’s superyacht Snowbird.

“The ISS awards both encourage and recognize excellence in the design and construction of superyachts around the world. It is an honor for NISI 2400 and Setzer Design Group to be recognized by our ISS peers”, said Christos Livadas, Chairman of NISI Yachts. “I am extremely proud of the NISI 2400 team for crafting the year’s most celebrated yacht, a modern classic that combines casual opulence, charm and legendary styling with state-of-the-art technology, outstanding performance and comfort.”

NISI was recently awarded ‘Best Design’ at the 2011 World Yachts Trophies gala in Cannes, France, and named a Robb Report ‘Best of the Best’ winner in the annual ‘wings and water’ category, celebrated alongside the most sought after business and personal aircraft, Gulfstream, Bombardier and Piaggio.

ISS Design Awards finalists will be judged for their external appearance, internal design, innovation and practicality by a distinguished and independent international panel. Winners will be announced at the annual ISS Design Awards gala dinner on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at the Marriott Harbor Beach Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

ISS Announces 2011 Design Awards Finalists, Including New Refit Award

September 19, 2011

Industry’s Original Awards Program, One Based Purely on Peer Review and Selection

ISS (International Superyacht Society) has released its lists of finalists for the 2011 International Design Awards. For more than 20 years, ISS’s Design Awards—based entirely on peer review—has celebrated the very finest naval architecture, design, interiors, engineering and builds the large yacht industry presents annually.

Each year, nominees are submitted to ISS by the large yacht industry’s leading builders, designers and stewards. The categories are as follows:

Power: (3) awards for size categories 24m-40m, 40m-65m, 65m+

Sail: (2) awards for size categories 24m-40m, 40m+

Interior Design: (1) award for power or sail

Best Refit: (1) award for power or sail

The individual selection of five finalists in each award grouping results from the privilege to vote that ISS membership affords. A distinguished and impartial group of judges then weighs the qualifications of each yacht with the winning yachts announced at ISS’s annual International Design Awards Gala, this year on Thursday, 27 October from 7:00 P.M. at the Marriott Harbor Beach Resort, Fort Lauderdale. The theme celebrates Launchings!

ISS also recognizes achievement in the business and service of superyachts. During the Gala, ISS Awards of Distinction—Business or Business Person of the Year, Innovation, the ISS Fabien Cousteau Blue Award as well as the Leadership Award and Distinguished Crew Award—are presented.

The ISS Business (Person) of the Year is awarded to those demonstrating excellence in their area of superyacht expertise within the previous year; nominations come from both the industry and the ISS board with the board making the finalist selections. Previous honourees have included Frans Heesen, Heesen Yachts, John Dane, Trinity Yachts and Corporation of Trinity House.

Open to every aspect of the industry—from crew training to technological advances—the Excellence in Innovation award is given to an individual or business that has demonstrated innovation in their endeavours. Nominations come from the industry and ISS board members vote to determine finalists. In 2008, 2009 and 2010 respectively, Agrimond, Carlisle and Finch and Sailing Yacht Soliloquy, Callender Designs were awarded the Excellence in Innovation honour.

The new ISS Fabien Cousteau Blue Award, introduced at the 2010 Awards Gala, celebrates stewardship of marine ecosystems. Environmental leadership, global oceanic conservation and resource preservation are prerequisites for nomination. The integration of environmental technologies and resource management with the goal of setting achievable standards and models for wide adaptation in the design, engineering and building of large yachts—and the use of the Earth’s waterways—are essential criteria. Nominations are made by owners and the yachting industry; selection is by panel of judges, including Mr. Cousteau.

ISS’s Leadership Award recognizes an individual or business whose distinctive work and commitment to the industry has contributed—over a substantial period of time—to the sustainable growth of the superyacht community worldwide. Nominations and selection for The Leadership Award are made by those who have received the award in previous years with the previous year’s winner presiding.

The Distinguished Crew Award is presented in years when the DCA award judges are presented with a nomination that represents the essence of the award (nominations are sought industry-wide). Specifically, these honours are designed to recognize yacht crew whose distinguished acts of service best exemplify the standards to which professional yacht crew aspire.

ISS would like to acknowledge the invaluable, and continuing, support of its Annual Gala event sponsors—Robb Report, Show Management, The Yacht Report Group, Yachts International, Burger Boat Company, Westrec Marinas and Wright Maritime Group.

—2011 Yacht Finalists of the ISS 2011 Design Awards–

Derecktor 85 m Motor Yacht Cakewalk The Largest in USA History

2011 INTERNATIONAL SUPERYACHT DESIGN AWARDS FINALISTS – “BEST POWER” 65m+

NAME / LENGTH / BUILDER
DESIGNER INT.
DESIGNER NAVAL ARCH.
STYLIST

Superyacht Cakewalk 86m/280’10” Derecktor’s Shipyard
Tim Heywood Designs
Dalton Designs Azure NA
Tim Heywood Designs

Motor yacht Lady Christine 68m/223’ Feadship/Royal Van Lent
DeVoogt NA
Rodney Black Design
DeVoogt NA
DeVoogt NA

M/Y Palladium 95,1m/312’ Blohm & Voss
Michael Leach Design
Michael Leach Design
Blohm & Voss Michael Leach Design

Megayacht Seven Seas 86m/282’ Oceanco
Nuvolari & Lenard
Nuvolari & Lenard
Oceanco/Azure NA
Molly Isaksen

Yacht Sycara V 68,1m/223’6” Nobiskrug
Nobiskrug/Pure Detail
Craig Beale/Pure Detail
Nobiskrug
Nobiskrug

The Yacht BIG FISH

FINALISTS – “BEST POWER” 40m to 65m

NAME LENGTH BUILDER
DESIGNER INT.
DESIGNER NAVAL ARCH.
STYLIST

Expedition Yacht Big Fish 45m/147’8” Aquos Yachts/McMullen & Wing
Gregory C Marshall
Gregory C Marshall
Gregory C Marshall
Gregory C Marshall

M/Y Calliope 42m/137’10” Holland Jachtbouw
Langan Design Partners
Rhoades Young Design
Langan Design Partners
Candace Langan

Superyacht Exuma 50m/164’1” Picchiotti/Perini Navi Group
Vitruvius
Perini Navi
Philippe Briand
Perini Navi/Vitruvius

Motor yacht Sea Owl 43,4m/142’5” Burger Boat Company
Andrew Winch Design
Andrew Winch Design
Vripack
Andrew Winch Design

M/Y Solemates 60m/196’10” Lürssen Yachts
Espen Øino Design
Glade Johnson Design
Lürssen Yachts
Espen Øino Design

The Motor yacht BLACK PEARL

FINALISTS – “BEST POWER” 24m to 40m

NAME LENGTH BUILDER
DESIGNER INT.
DESIGNER NAVAL ARCH.
STYLIST

Yacht Black Pearl 31,6m/103’8” Diverse Projects
LOMOcean Design
Chris Connell/ LOMOcean Design
LOMOCEAN
LOMOcean Design Design

Livia 30m/98’5” Moonen Shipyard
René van der Velden
Art-Line Interiors
Diana Yacht Design
René van der Velden

Yacht Lucia M 39m/127’ Jongert
Guido de Groot Design
Guido de Groot Design
Azure NA
Guido de Groot Design

NISI 24,1m/79’ NISI Yachts
NISI Yachts/Setzer Design Group
NISI Yachts/Setzer Design Group
Ward Setzer
NISI Yachts/Krina Cozias

Motor yacht SnowbirD 39m/127’ Hakvoort
Sheepswerf
Cor de Rover
Michela Reverberri
Azure NA
D. Ostrander

Pendennis Superyacht CHRISTOPHER by Ron Holland Design

FINALISTS – “BEST SAIL” 40m +

NAME LENGTH BUILDER
DESIGNER INT.
DESIGNER NAVAL ARCH.
STYLIST

Sail Yacht Christopher 46m/150’11” Pendennis
Ron Holland
Ron Holland /Pendennis/Courtney & Co.
Ron Holland
Pendennis/Courtney

Yacht Imagine 44,2m/145’ Alloy Yachts
Dubois NA
Alloy Yachts
Dubois NA
Dubois NA

Sailing Yacht Marie 54,6m/180’ Vitters Shipyard
Hoek Design NA
Hoek Design/David Easton
Hoek Design NA
Hoek Design NA

Panthalassa 56m/183’9” Perini Navi
Perini Navi Design
Foster + Partners
Perini Navi/Ron Holland
Perini Navi

S/Y Twizzle 57,5m/188’7” Royal Huisman
Redman Whiteley Dixon
Redman Whiteley Dixon
Dubois NA
Todhunter Earle Interiors

32m Sailing Yacht AKALAM by Barracuda Yacht Design and Pendennis - Credit Lloyd Images

FINALISTS – “BEST SAIL” 24m to 40m

NAME LENGTH BUILDER
DESIGNER INT.
DESIGNER NAVAL ARCH.
STYLIST

Yacht Aegir 25,1m/82’4” Carbon Ocean Yachts
Rogers Yacht Design
Rogers Yacht Design
Rogers Yacht Design
Rogers Yacht Design

S/Y Akalam 32m/104’ Pendennis
Barracuda Yacht Design
Javier Munoz
Barracuda Yacht Design
Javier Munoz

Yacht Firefly 35,2m/115’6” Claasen Shipyards
Hoek Design NA
Hoek Design NA
Hoek Design NA
Hoek Design NA

Kiboko 28,6m/94’ Southern Wind Shipyard
Nauta Yacht Design
Nauta Yacht Design
Reichel/Pugh Yacht
Nauta Yacht Design

Sailing yacht Nilaya 34,1m/111’ Baltic Yachts
Nauta Yacht Design
Nauta Yacht Design
Reichel/Pugh Yacht
Nauta Yacht Design

Superyacht Illusion post refit at Pendennis Shipyard

FINALISTS – “BEST REFIT”

NAME LENGTH BUILDER/ REFIT
DESIGNER INT.
DESIGNER NAVAL ARCH.
STYLIST

Angel’s Share 39,9m/130’11” Wally/Lürssen
Amanda Levete Architects
Eidsgaard Design
Owen Clarke Design/ Javier Soto Acebal Levete Architects
Amanda Levete Architects

Illusion 55,7m/182’9” Feadship/Pendennis
Bannenberg & Rowell Design
Bannenberg & Rowell Design
DeVoogt NA
DeVoogt NA

Mari Cha III 44,2m/145’ Derecktor/Derecktor
Philippe Briand
Clear Yacht Interiors
Philippe Briand
Philippe Briand

MiniSkirt 32m/105’ Windship/Ares Custom Yachts
Ron Holland
Andrew Winch
Ron Holland
Ron Holland

Odyssey 41,1m/134’10” Feadship DeVries/Feadship DeVries
DeVoogt NA
Redman Whiteley Dixon
DeVoogt NA
Francis Gumbs

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22nd ISS Yacht Design & Superyacht Industry Awards of Distinction, October 25, 2012

Jongert 3900 Lucia M superyacht designed by Guido de Groot – 2011 ISS Design Awards Finalist

Motor yacht Sapphire by Nobiskrug

AB 116 motor yacht BLUE FORCE ONE by AB Yachts