Southern Wind Shipyard is pleased to announce that the new SW82#02 Sailing Yacht GRANDE ORAZIO is scheduled for launch in January  2014. Superyacht GRANDE ORAZIO is the second of the new SW82 mini-series by the renowned shipyard and her launch follows the recent delivery of Feelin’ Good superyacht.

Sailing Yacht GRANDE ORAZIO by Southern Wind Shipyard

South African based Southern Wind shipyard is working actively to ultimate the outfitting of luxury yacht Grande Orazio, hull number 2 of the new SW82 mini-series.  Just three months ago the delivery of the first hull Feelin’ Good yacht was announced and the yacht has arrived in Genoa a couple of weeks ago after a challenging maiden voyage from Cape Town.

SW82 #2 Grande Orazio is conceived to achieve owner’s expectations to have a yacht capable to deliver thrilling performance on the most important offshore regatta fields and  comfortable family vacations.

The deck layout chosen for this project is the Flush Deck version with sleek and sporty coach-roof geometries.

SW82 super yacht GRANDE ORAZIO - Saloon and Owner Quarter

As her Owner is a passionate racer, she has a strong focus on performance, featuring high racing-oriented deck and rigging solutions such as high modulus Southern Spars carbon mast and boom, EC6 + carbon rigging, carbon foil for furler, racing winches, racing removable bow sprit and a keel with deeper draft (4,20 m vs 4m).

For what concerns  the interior layout, it has been strongly customized in order to be as flexible as possible offering  ample volumes which may have different uses according to how the yacht is employed:  cruising with family and short crew or racing with professional crew and friends.

In cruising mode, the volumes are distributed into an ample owner-quarter afore the saloon, which includes a private studio. In addition to this, the yacht offers four cabins, one or two of which to be devoted to crew.

Main dimensions:

Length Overall (LOA)     24.72 m

Waterline Length (LWL)   21.52 m

Beam (maximum) 5.91 m

Draft 4,2 m

Displacement (lightship)  40.50 tons

Ballast   13.7 tons

Fuel capacity 2450 l

Water capacity 1375 l

Sail Area   348 sqm

Main engine  Steyer MO 190hp@3500rpm

Designers:

Naval Architecture: Farr Yacht Design

General Concept, Interior & Exterior design: Nauta Yacht Design

Systems: Southern Wind Shipyard.