Artemisia - new build thread for a Prestige 680

[Hurricane]

You wont get much TV alas with 45STV domes.

IMO, the 45s will be as good as anything these days.
Unfortunately, these days only Sky channels remain and even those are gradually disappearing.
I've now dumped my Sky subscription - just wasn't worth it.
Sky News in transmitted in clear and a fairly good signal throughout the Med.
Western Med gets a good Sky News off Astra 2 (28.2 degrees) but where you are going, you will probably need to receive it from Astra 1 at 19 degrees.
It is a bit of a fiddle, if you are using a Sky box to receive off Astra 1 but it can be done.

I'm now concentrating on IPTV using 4G and some Raspberry Pis scattered around the boat.

 

[Nigelpickin]

No worth keeping the subscription for Sky go? Or have they blocked vpn access?
Hope not as we use sky for our Game of Thrones/walkingDead fix

 

[Hurricane]

No worth keeping the subscription for Sky go? Or have they blocked vpn access?
Hope not as we use sky for our Game of Thrones/walkingDead fix

BBC are definitely going round blocking VPNs
I think that Sky are doing the same but I've never checked.
If I'm going to use IPTV, there are other ways of getting that kind of stuff.

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

The magazines talk about the midships double cabin being an alternative master cabin - it isn't, and is no better than the typical bow cabins of other designs; the forward cabin is the master cabin for sure.

Agree entirely. Surely the whole USP of the 680 is the forward master cabin which is only a few shallow steps down from the saloon and separated from the guest accommodation. I can't imagine why the owner would want to give that cabin to a guest

that Prestige have done all this with a substantially lower retail price than the mainstream builders and have to be applauded for that - it's what the industry needs.

Amen to that

 

[MAFWeiss]

Many congratulations Mark and I hope this final weekend goes well

Thank you JFM. It promises to be quite an adventure! :triumphant:

The magazines talk about the midships double cabin being an alternative master cabin - it isn't, and is no better than the typical bow cabins of other designs; the forward cabin is the master cabin for sure.

​Sorry but I really have to disagree with you and Deleted User here. In all the other boats of this size that we looked at and considered, including some bigger - such as the Sunseeker 75 - the floor space is much smaller in other VIP cabins, and rarely without steps. The bed is usually is pushed into the bow with no walk around space, and invariably require guests to access it from half way down. Also ceiling heights lower, and with less storage space and no desk unit.

M, are you having the whole hull wrapped in blue, as per the first page of this thread? If yes then I'd love to see pictures - it will look amazing.

Yes the hull, and all the hardtop being wrapped too… and its is looking AWESOME. Pictures to follow imminently

You wont get much TV alas with 45STV domes.

Not a problem, as we are not having satellite TV. We will be making do with regular, DVDs, and hopefully Netflix streamed by 4G.

Can you remind us what tender you are planning to install?

Keeping the old one off Gentileschi, which we had revamped with better grab handles. Pics again to follow.

Will the tender be wrapped too (eg the dashboard)?

Nope, didn't think of that

What's with the backwards facing horns? Doesn't compute!

I am sure that will not impact too much on my being heard!

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[MAFWeiss]

Having arrived in arrived in the massive resort marina at Port Camargue around two weeks ago, the boat was lifted and the final big push began with two teams working hard to complete their respective tasks. Landau UK had a long list of things to do, including completing works on the entertainment system (including, which JFM will be pleased to hear) boxing in the fixings at the back of the TVs in the master and VIP cabins. They also were tasked with fitting the Glendinning cabling system, the water maker, a fuel cell, the two fixed rear view cameras as well as a remote controlled one too, plus the wifi system as well as the illuminated name on the transom. Whilst all this was going on, Grapefruit were continuing to try to complete the wrapping.

Before

​Before

​Nearly there, but not quite. the rest of hard top to do.. plus the transom which will be completed the day before handover!

​My gleaming stainless steel Glendinning connector covers

​The fuel cell to assist keeping the batteries charged and to run the remote cameras when away from the boat.

​Screen shot from the chart plotter of views from all the cameras.

The remote controlled PTZ has been fitted underneath the rear of the hard top

 

[rafiki_]

Having arrived in arrived in the massive resort marina at Port Camargue around two weeks ago, the boat was lifted and the final big push began with two teams working hard to complete their respective tasks. Landau UK had a long list of things to do, including completing works on the entertainment system (including, which JFM will be pleased to hear) boxing in the fixings at the back of the TVs in the master and VIP cabins. They also were tasked with fitting the Glendinning cabling system, the water maker, a fuel cell, the two fixed rear view cameras as well as a remote controlled one too, plus the wifi system as well as the illuminated name on the transom. Whilst all this was going on, Grapefruit were continuing to try to complete the wrapping.

Before

​Before

​Nearly there, but not quite. the rest of hard top to do.. plus the transom which will be completed the day before handover!

​My gleaming stainless steel Glendinning connector covers

Love the wrapping. Looks fantastic. Interested in the Fuel Cell. How do you manage the fuelling and cooling when you are away from the boat?
​The fuel cell to assist keeping the batteries charged and to run the remote cameras when away from the boat.

 

[MAFWeiss]

Rafiki check out the company's website for info on the fuel cell and how it works

http://www.fuelcellsystems.co.uk/product/efoy-pro-800-duo/

 

[rafiki_]

Thanks. I understand the technologies, but was not aware of the cartridge fuelling for this application, but looks to make sense for this level of power. I think fuel cells have a significant opportunity in the future at much higher outputs, but we have a lot of progress to make with costs and reliability.

 

[Nigelpickin]

Looks like a Prestige Magellano, love it!!

Agree re the midships cabin, it's huge iirc. We saw one in build at Les Herbiers in Januarary and were very impressed with the detail, esp the engine room and the finishing behind the scenes...

Looking forward to hearing how the trip goes.

 

[MAFWeiss]

Nearly up to date now, and this last Monday was a ''moving into new home day''. I am not sure many people would have attempted the complex, and nearly disastrous logistical plan I had for getting as much of our personal possessions onto the boat before handover.

The starting point was how to get the tender, plus as much of the contents that we had emptied from our old boat that we had stored in our storage unit in Salerno to Port Camargue, to enable us to enjoy our maiden voyage in the comfort to which I have become accustomed. Stepping up to the plate was my good friend Agostino Gallozzi, the owner of the Marina d'Arechi, whose company fortuitously ran the container port in Salerno. He very kindly arranged at very little cost, and at a great deal of extra effort on his team part, to transport everything in a container by sea to Marseille. I then organised for my handyman from our house in the Lot-et-Garonne to travel by train last Sunday to Marseille, to then hire a van for the day to pick up everything, drive the hour and a half to Port Camargue, meet us there, empty the van and return to Marseille and catch a train home the following day. We ourselves then drove the four and a half hours from our country house, where we had spent the weekend, in a hire car stuffed other goods and with 10 cases of miscellaneous great wines from my collection to fill yet another second fridge to be kept in my storage unit at the marina.

However the French did their very best to f*ck this all up. The strikes the previous week meant that the port is Marseille was behind on clearing goods, and initially we were told that the container would not be released till the following day, with the van hire company saying that the van was only free for that Monday! It took some serious begging and pleading to get our possessions released that afternoon, but by the time the van arrived, the boat was back in the water and moved to a part of the marina that was inaccessible to the van. Also I had had leave by then and fly back to london leaving my wife our handyman plus James, a technician from Ancasta, to carrying everything several hundred metres back and forth to the boat. Since the keys for the tender were not initially found, James then had to paddle it a good distance back to the boat too. This whole episode left my poor wife in tears and exhaustion. It being Monday, by the time they made it back to the hotel they found the restaurant closed. All in all not a great day for them.

 

[Hurricane]

Love the colour.
And being wrap, it should keep that colour - gelcoat would have just faded.

 

[MAFWeiss]

Check out my beautiful 60kg Ultra anchor!

Wife checking out the rear view cameras

Preparing to be lifted and launched

On the move

Gently does it!

In the water

Preparing to reverse out. The transom still to be wrapped, and the tender chocs yet to be fitted.

On the move.

Sailing away, and my last sight of Artemisia until our return tomorrow evening and handover day on Friday.

 

[petem]

Looking great. Colour came out well, I wouldn't wrap the transom and like it as it is!

 

[longjohnsilver]

Fab!!

 

[petem]

You could name the colour 'boatlift blue'!

 

[MapisM]

I wouldn't wrap the transom and like it as it is!

+1. I'd rather wrap the sat domes.

 

[Cheery]

On another thread jrudge says that lifting a wrapped boat can cause the wrap to crinkle. Did yours or did you take any precautions?

 

[Steruth1]

Good luck on your maiden trip,
what a great colour she will certainly stand out from the crowd ��

 

[jfm]

Fantastic stuff Mark. The blue looks amazing. I guess the remaining bits are the sharkfins and transom, and actually they would alos look good left white, but equally will look great in the blue too.

Have you changed the HT "curtain" to blue fabric too? I admire your "no half measures" attitude :encouragement:

Love the anchor. I have used Ultras on a couple of charter boats and was very impressed. And good going with boxing in the TVs

Rear view cameras: on my first boat with cameras I set them up as you have done, ie not mirror image. The aft port quarter of the boat shows on the right hand side of your TV monitor, and vice versa. On my current boat I switched to mirror image view, so it is like looking in the mirror of your car, and I much prefer that. Each to their own though - it's a first world problem and you can just see how you like them.

I agree about TV - we stream Netflix HD on a single 4G sim card and it is perfect. I've never even tuned my sat domes in since getting the boat. Waste of money.

I looked at those efoy fuel cells and couldn't quite see what it would usefully do, given the tiny Kw rating of the things. you say it will drive the cameras, but why not use the batteries and shorepower for that? The biggest leisure Efoy is 105watts, and will put 205AH charge into your 12v batteries if given 24 hours and won't do anything at 24v - that amount of energy is kinda nothing, and remote starting of the genset (if you need it) will do that task in 30minutes. A bottle of the fluid is about £45 for 925AH, which you can get from £3 of diesel. So I decided not to bother with them, but am happy to hear the case for them if I've missed something in my deliberations

Anyway, congratulations on the near conclusion of a very nice project. I hope you have a very nice delivery trip, and with luck I'll at least a glimpse of her during the weekend. (Some drone footage would be rather nice!)