Are these the 50 Most Beautiful Superyachts ever?

Lulworth was (and presumably is still) beautiful down below. As a lad, I once went on board her with my dad at Crableck, for tea with Rene Lucas who owned and lived aboard her for many years. Lots of gorgeous woodwork, mostly maintained by Mrs L. herself, I think.

I recently read that she and her husband also bought Endeavour a few hours before she was due to be broken up, so we owe the two of them a great deal.
 
The detailed research and sympathetic restoration of Lulworth is pretty amazing really, especially compared to Endeavour, Velsheda and Shamrock which have very little original remaining of them. What’s most impressive is that she isn’t just a museum piece. Lulworth
 
Hi JFM... we all missed you last week!

I completely agree with your list. As always, I think there should have been more sailboats (oops wrong forum...sorry!). Salute is nice, and a sloop, so we like her, and Ethereal, cause she's "green" and Ron's. Also I really like Rebecca (Pendennis).

At the end of the day you have to recognize that the bigger boat yards get more exposure. A cynic may suggest that it is linked to advertising dollars spent in the magazines. So if you build your boat at Vospers you probably won't get much exposure. But seriously....we were pretty disappointed that they ignored MV, but I guess she's yesterday's news!.
 
Hi Joe. Yep, sorry to miss last week! Hope all's well with you and your clan and the fleet.

I hadn't thought about advertising dollars and exposure but yes there must be a link. But in this case I think the list was dull because the compilers didn't do a good job and didn't research. It feels like they just googled superyachts or something. I mean, Felicita West instead of MV? That's just ignorance surely. Capt Jim will have told you what a pedestrian parts-from-catalogue boat FW is. There is a nice story about him in bars that when asked how FW sails he replies "I dunno mate. Such a nightmare of a boat we never put the sails up". FW's only claim to fame was that it was (then, not now) the biggest alloy hull. Even if they'd wanted to include a Perini on the list (MFalcon apart, cos that's special) Salute would have been the better choice. Perini don't advertise in ipc magazines, I believe, so no direct advertising $ link, but even if there were Salute would have made more sense than FW.

BTW, Salute is 2008, so she is on the same 4yr rig service cycle as MV. You should both book La Ciotat at the same time, then split the bill for the crane that comes on 14 trucks (in the ratio 75:88.5 of course) :-)
 
OK, maybe less cynical apprach is to say not advertising dollars, but general market presence. Anyway, can't slam FW too much...she's also one of Ron's.

Perhaps wrong forum for chat about rig service cycles, but it's a great idea and I will suggest we get in touch with them..that would be quite a sight. It is a heart stopping process, so to do it twice in 2 days might actually kill someone.

BTW on Perini web site they list the mast at 72.27m you know how sensitive we are about relative size! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Capt is now Ben ... he's a really good sailor with a great crew who I am sure will soon break the record you and I set a while ago.
 
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