Artemisia - new build thread for a Prestige 680

[jfm]

I like the sound of the electric "bimini" that will extend aft from HT. When you get pics and details please can you post them? I'm interested in something along those lines (for my flybrdge aft overhang not HT, but same principle). Looking at design of 680, that seems a very smart addition:encouragement:

 

[Benny59]

Wow - what a fantastic looking craft MAFWeiss - congratulations

 

[Whitelighter]

Wow (I think I already said that) - I love these build threads. Looks like an amazing bit of kit. It must be so very exciting to be involved in the build of a boat.

Prestige have come a long way and this boat certainly looks world class.

 

[MAFWeiss]

I like the sound of the electric "bimini" that will extend aft from HT. When you get pics and details please can you post them? I'm interested in something along those lines (for my flybrdge aft overhang not HT, but same principle). Looking at design of 680, that seems a very smart addition:encouragement:

OK do do. Just waiting for the drawings.

BTW important to state that the 680 on view at LIBS, which is hull 3, and hull 1 which will be at Dusseldorf are lacking many of the changes and improvements - some minor, some major - that have been subsequently instigated and that are to be included on my hull 7. One major one is the redesigned cockpit sliding doors, which now open centrally rather than from the right hand side.

Jean-Francois de Premerol, the Prestige director of Product Development, is a vastly experienced yachtsman whose guiding hand is responsible for the design and production of the boat, and my 'reflective' wife.

 

[jrudge]

We have and S65 with 1000 lt water tanks. It seems to vanish. People, washing machine, dishwasher etc. With a moderate load it will last 2-3 days. Full we kill it in a day. Last boat was a Targa 40 that I think has 300 lts we could make it last 4 days. Go figure!

Nagging people who are on board a big boat to take short showers is a pain and they ignore you anyway!

Fit a water maker!

It also lets you hose the boat down at anchor which is nice.

 

[Hurricane]

Mark I'm not getting these chocks. They look heavy and big. What's the reason for not having something simple and fairly light, and only 600mm long, and cheap, like this and a million other chocks? Just the one knob on the right spins undone to remove them as the other end is locked down by a keyhole slot

Thanks to JFM and others, I'm building chocks just like these - the teak and Stainless Steel was ordered last Monday - I have the profile but I'm waiting for the dinghy to arrive before finally cutting the wood.

 

[MAFWeiss]

Thanks to JFM and others, I'm building chocks just like these - the teak and Stainless Steel was ordered last Monday - I have the profile but I'm waiting for the dinghy to arrive before finally cutting the wood.

The significant benefit of the other stainless steel system is that the tender can be pushed out away from the transom when moored up either in a marina or at sea, giving much easier access to the transom door. I viewed this as a major benefit, since the ''skipper's'' toilet can then be used rather than trekking all the way back into the boat. And for access to whatever toys and stuff we might end up storing in the skipper's cabin, and indeed of course for access to the engine room.

 

[jfm]

The significant benefit of the other stainless steel system is that the tender can be pushed out away from the transom when moored up either in a marina or at sea, giving much easier access to the transom door. I viewed this as a major benefit, since the ''skipper's'' toilet can then be used rather than trekking all the way back into the boat. And for access to whatever toys and stuff we might end up storing in the skipper's cabin, and indeed of course for access to the engine room.

Ah ok, fair enough. I hadn't realised that the tender's position was relevant to being able to open the transom door. When underway at sea with the tender in its forward position, you still need to get to e/room in emergencies, but I'm guessing you have a hatch in the deck + ladder as a second way of getting into e/room.

 

[jfm]

Separately, I'm loving your evolution in boat names . It's like on the last boat you were somewhat formal in using her surname, and now you've got past first base and progressed to first name terms. Your next boat might have to be a nickname and the boat after that a pet name, like "Arty" then "Babe"

These backlit stainless names are charged by the letter as you are probably acutely aware from G (hence my boat's name - I'm from Yorkshire) so you'll bag a substantial cost saving once you get onto nicknames

(I realise that your p550 "G" probably referred to G senior, but the above makes a better story!)

 

[MAFWeiss]

Ah ok, fair enough. I hadn't realised that the tender's position was relevant to being able to open the transom door. When underway at sea with the tender in its forward position, you still need to get to e/room in emergencies, but I'm guessing you have a hatch in the deck + ladder as a second way of getting into e/room.

It is not critical for access via platform, it will just make for a lot more room when at rest, rather than squeezing through. And yes, there is of course still the second entrance via the hatch in cockpit floor.

Separately, I'm loving your evolution in boat names . It's like on the last boat you were somewhat formal in using her surname, and now you've got past first base and progressed to first name terms. Your next boat might have to be a nickname and the boat after that a pet name, like "Arty" then "Babe"

These backlit stainless names are charged by the letter as you are probably acutely aware from G (hence my boat's name - I'm from Yorkshire) so you'll bag a substantial cost saving once you get onto nicknames

(I realise that your p550 "G" probably referred to G senior, but the above makes a better story!)

Sorry JFM, there is more to it than that! My 550 called Gentileschi was named after the Italian 17^th century painter Orazio Gentileschi, and in particular a small masterpiece that I sold by him that was painted on the very rare precious stone Lapis Lazuli. That painter is commonly known by his surname. His (arguably) more famous daughter was called Artemisia, about whose remarkable life and career a film was made a few years ago, and a recently aired BBC documentary fronted by Michael Palin.

Check out http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06t3w73/michael-palins-quest-for-artemisia

And I have just acquired a masterpiece by her! So its only appropriate that the lineage of the Prestige line is mirrored by the names. What happens when we come to buy yet another (even larger?!?) boat, I have not yet worked out.

 

[MapisM]

Impressive thread (and boat!) indeed, many thanks for taking the time to share the experience with us! :encouragement:

If you don't mind me asking, did you possibly take a pic where the hull is shown bottom up, like in your opening pic below, but where also the bow is visible?
I'd be curious to see how they joined the V shaped hull bottom with the larger deck on top.

 

[SammyB]

Great thread! Looks like it's all coming together now. It doesn't seem so long ago that we saw you at the Cannes Boat Show. You are in for a really exciting summer!!
S and G

 

[benjenbav]

=MAFWeiss;5565423]

And I have just acquired a masterpiece by her! So its only appropriate that the lineage of the Prestige line is mirrored by the names. What happens when we come to buy yet another (even larger?!?) boat, I have not yet worked out.

Lomi?

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Congratulations
I believe they have one at LIBS this year.
I was going to check it out

Me too. The master cabin location is really something different in this class

 

[Whitelighter]

About the master cabin. All the blurb and MBY say its on the main deck, which I take to mean same level as the saloon etc. But looking at the boat the fordeck seems normal height. Can someone clarify, are there steps at all to the forward master (as it sounds like) - if so, whats under the master cabin? Or is it just a slightly raised forward cabin?

The layout plans dont make it clear

 

[MapisM]

Or is it just a slightly raised forward cabin?

Glad to stand corrected if appropriate, but that's my understanding.
The full beam master cabin is typically placed under the saloon floor, and it's down a few steps from the VIP/guest cabins.
But also as a forward cabin, It obviously can't be at the same level of the saloon, anyway.

 

[admillington]

We have and S65 with 1000 lt water tanks. It seems to vanish. People, washing machine, dishwasher etc. With a moderate load it will last 2-3 days. Full we kill it in a day. Last boat was a Targa 40 that I think has 300 lts we could make it last 4 days. Go figure!

Nagging people who are on board a big boat to take short showers is a pain and they ignore you anyway!

Fit a water maker!

It also lets you hose the boat down at anchor which is nice.

Is it worth considering having the skin fittings, electrics and pipework installed now for the watermaker - I have seen this a lot recently on boat specs - far easier to install now rather than later.

 

[Whitelighter]

Glad to stand corrected if appropriate, but that's my understanding.
The full beam master cabin is typically placed under the saloon floor, and it's down a few steps from the VIP/guest cabins.
But also as a forward cabin, It obviously can't be at the same level of the saloon, anyway.

So I dont really understand whats so special about it?

We've had forward cabins for years, is it such a big deal to put one a little higher?

If so, Fairline got there first with the 58T

 

[MapisM]

So I dont really understand whats so special about it?

Well, I don't know what the MBY blurb was all about.
And I'm not sure of what Deleted User meant either - though he said different, not special...
'fiuaskme, for what I can see on paper, I like the privacy of completely separate access, and (I think) a proper full bulkhead in between.
Otoh, I suppose someone might argue about the slapping waves noise while at anchor, which (aside from larger spaces) is a typical argument pro-center cabin.

 

[Whitelighter]

Yes, the seperate access and full bulkhead I get, and prestige have done this very well in the 500/550 using the mid stairs for the full beam central master, so they could have done this again.

Dont get me wrong, I really like the layout and and 4 cabins is good for this size of boat but from the MB&Y article they said it was a 'main level' or 'saloon level' cabin which really would have been ground breaking super yacht style thing but it doesnt look like it is