springer
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If you fancy a 90 foot flybridge........................................ How BIG would the hull be????????????Better than the odds of me getting my Christmas present....a ninety foot flybridge
New build Sanlorenzo SL96A 2024
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Hurricane
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Gosh - with more than one toilet, I don't think this forum would cope.Better than the odds of me getting my Christmas present....a ninety foot flybridge
Seastoke
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Hi jfm thank you for a great thread,just one question have you ever thought of asking Mr Google to do any work on your SL. Just asking.
jfm
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Reasonably high
I was at the factory last week and have a ton of pictures. It just takes a bit of time to get them all uploaded on here, but I'll try. Build is ahead of schedule and planned launch date is week 3 of January 2024. There will then be some work still to finish in the water, plus all the sea trials and set up, so handover to me approx end of March/early April. Please stay tuned and thank you for the nudge
jfm
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No I imagine he's far too busy
A couple of forum members are kindly making things for the boat: Colin (Colhel) and Petem. And BartW musicmeister is supplying the outside music/disco. EME is obviously supplying the u/w lights on mothership, williams tender and chase boat.
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MrB
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Every night I log in to see if there is an update.
MapisM
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If you click the "Watch" button (on the right above the posts sequence), you're automatically notified of new posts.Every night I log in to see if there is an update.
colhel
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No I imagine he's far too busy
A couple of forum members are kindly making things for the boat: Colin (Colhel) and Petem. And BartW musicmeister is supplying the outside music/disco. EME is obviously supplying the u/w lights on mothership, williams tender and chase boat.
Often wondered what other forum members specialise in. Got anymore details on @BartW contribution to the build? I presume Petem is making the name plates? And if anyone's interested, I'm a machinist/toolmaker type of thing.
Seastoke
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If jfm asked me to work on it , I would work my way through the fridges , there must be at least 8.
colhel
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I'm hoping for the contract to make all the toilet roll holders. I could retire
jfm
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Hi Colin. Bart (a legend) is a sound/electronics expert morphed into a business owner. He owns and founded Amptec, a business that does high end sound systems eg in night clubs, and he did the ceiling-suspended sound system in the Belgian Houses of Parliament. Big company now.
He is kindly supplying /specifying the exterior (flybridge) sound /DJ system, which is going to be quite punchy.
Petem is making name plates for transom (his business is called smart marine .Co.uk)
I’ll get you some drawings asap. Designing the things has been trickier than I thought.
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billskip
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Which of course would necessitate sea trials....
colhel
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Maybe a sketch of what you want to achieve and I might be able to throw some ideas into the mix?
Croftie
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There fixed it for you
Mr Googler
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I’ll find time to vinyl wrap vast areas of your interior for you J….dont you worry. A proper job…none of this 20 layers or lacquer over rare wood veneers, plus endless hours of polishing malarkey. I could even paint your tender tubes too. You’ll be in the water by 1st Feb with my helpNo I imagine he's far too busy
A couple of forum members are kindly making things for the boat: Colin (Colhel) and Petem. And BartW musicmeister is supplying the outside music/disco. EME is obviously supplying the u/w lights on mothership, williams tender and chase boat.
stelican
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Is that date a typo!
Mr Googler
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Sorry….yes…..30th Feb
henryf
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Great to know we’ve got some stuff in common - stainless name supplier
Re: the sound system is now a good time to mention I worked as a DJ in my formative years……
Glad to hear things are coming on well with the build it seems an age since we took delivery but I can still remember the combination of excitement and trepidation. Really looking forward to seeing the project come to life.
jfm
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Here’s an update, and sorry it’s been a while. The boat is well on its way to launch and is looking fantastic. I was at the factory in September, and then again last week, and I have exchanged zillions of pictures and drawings with the factory in between. The last in-build pics I posted from Italy were from early september 2023. The pics below in this post are all from late September 2023
Actually it’s hard to get good pictures. One reason is that as soon as Sanlorenzo install or make anything, they cover it in protective cardboard. Another reason is that the boat is sandwiched between two others in the build shed and surrounded by scaffolding with walkways at 3 levels, so it’s just hard to get good photographs.
First pic below shows boat in the build shed in Ameglia – mine is the one in centre of shot and as you can see there are 3 layers of scaffolding etc
Below is aft and transom etc. (by the eway, looking at this pic, I might have a made a mistake by not having underwater lights at the far port/starboard points of the transom, but can easily add them later):
The boat was surrounded by equipment delivered and about to be installed. Below are watermaker -I'm trying the spot zero system from florida, which uses low pressure reverse osmosis to purify the dock water, as well as normal high pressure RO to purify seawater. The exact model is XZII2200/2000 with a colour touchscreen control on the unit itself plus and extra one in the pilothouse. Also below is the Sleipner hydraulic pack, for thristers and stabiliser fins. Third pic below is grey/black/backup pumps, made by giannesch. All 3 phase 400v obvsi:
Note that the pumps above are all connected to bronze fittings - there is no DZR used where this boat touches corrosive or sea water
Below shows hull reinforcement on the outside for the stabilisers, and then two shots of stabiliser work inside the boat. They are fin stabilisers by Sleipner, with two very curved 1.65m square fins, which is quite an upgrade over the standard 1m square flat CMC fins fitted to all other SL96A so far (about 20 boats). Although this is the first ever SL96A fitted with these stabiliser fins, Sanlorenzo are now fitting them to other boats in their range.
Now a few assorted pictures walking around the boat. First below is the owner cabin looking across to the starboard side. The lower part to left of picture is the dressing area, which is 4 steps down from the main cabin, As is the case throughout the boat, everything is insulated and foil lined...
Next below is the raised pilothouse, still pre fit out but insulated and foil lined for electrical interference reasons. The hole on the right is a serving hatch to the galley, whose purpose/detail I'll photograph later.
Below is looking forward into the salon, with the hatch for installing the engines not closed yet. The red metalwork is steel framing: the salon is framed in ~70mm square stainless steel framing, to support the flybridge and receive the glazing, painted in red primer.
Below is the crew corridor, forward on the lower deck, looking towards the bow. This has 3 crew cabins leading off it. This crew area is all finished in light oak veneer with a darker fake oak wood floor (an amtico type plastic material) but you can't see any of that because all surfaces are covered in white protection material.
Next, the foredeck and aft cockpit:
Below shows a steering actuator. These are electric obviously, one on each tiller, so there are no steering hydraulics and the steering wheels at the helm are mounted onto rotary encoders rather than hydraulic pumps. I love this system and it is becoming the future. The two tillers are connected by a tie rod, and one tiller actuator is 230v while the other is 24v. The primary one is the 230v, because this is a generator-always-on boat, and with two generators there is redundancy. If the whole 230v side fails, the 24v steering actuator is clutched in, and this can be fed by the main house batteries plus the emergency 24v batteries. so that's 2 actuators and 4 power sources before you run out of steering, which is pretty decent.
The white hoses running across top of picture are w/c water for the two transom showers.
Not sure "emergency batteries" are discussed on here much. This boat is built to RINA so has two 24v battery banks - main one in engine room and emergency batteries on flybridge. When main batteries fail all critical systems automatically flip over to the emergency batteries, which should work till the end if the boat is sinking, being so high up. To illustrate, I'll explain how that works with bilge pumping, which is similar to steering.
First, there are normal submersible 24v DC bilge pumps with high level indication alarms, etc, much as you would get on say a FairPrinSeeker. Next there is a 3 phases x 230v bilge pumping system, with the suction provided first by the dedicated bilge pump, and then as back up by the grey water pump, or back up grey water pump. On the suction side these pumps suck from the bilge area chosen by the skipper, by means of 230v electric valves on the suction side. all controlled from touchscreens at the helm, or an ipad, or by manual switches in emergency. Of course te power supply for all this comes from 2 generators, so there is redundancy there there. Next, as if that wasn't enough, there is a 24v "third line of defence" bilge pump system, fed by the house 24v batteries and then if necessary by the emergency batteries. This has a 24v DC pump, and 24v electric valves again on the suction side to allow the skipper to choose where to suck from. All these electric valves have reed switches at each end of their travel to tell the skipper their open/closed status. This is all very nice, and results in some big switch panels that I have spent a lot of time with Sanlorenzo choosing the labelling of (in both EN and IT). It's all standard RINA class spec.
More to follow in a bit...
Actually it’s hard to get good pictures. One reason is that as soon as Sanlorenzo install or make anything, they cover it in protective cardboard. Another reason is that the boat is sandwiched between two others in the build shed and surrounded by scaffolding with walkways at 3 levels, so it’s just hard to get good photographs.
First pic below shows boat in the build shed in Ameglia – mine is the one in centre of shot and as you can see there are 3 layers of scaffolding etc
Below is aft and transom etc. (by the eway, looking at this pic, I might have a made a mistake by not having underwater lights at the far port/starboard points of the transom, but can easily add them later):
The boat was surrounded by equipment delivered and about to be installed. Below are watermaker -I'm trying the spot zero system from florida, which uses low pressure reverse osmosis to purify the dock water, as well as normal high pressure RO to purify seawater. The exact model is XZII2200/2000 with a colour touchscreen control on the unit itself plus and extra one in the pilothouse. Also below is the Sleipner hydraulic pack, for thristers and stabiliser fins. Third pic below is grey/black/backup pumps, made by giannesch. All 3 phase 400v obvsi:
Note that the pumps above are all connected to bronze fittings - there is no DZR used where this boat touches corrosive or sea water
Below shows hull reinforcement on the outside for the stabilisers, and then two shots of stabiliser work inside the boat. They are fin stabilisers by Sleipner, with two very curved 1.65m square fins, which is quite an upgrade over the standard 1m square flat CMC fins fitted to all other SL96A so far (about 20 boats). Although this is the first ever SL96A fitted with these stabiliser fins, Sanlorenzo are now fitting them to other boats in their range.
Now a few assorted pictures walking around the boat. First below is the owner cabin looking across to the starboard side. The lower part to left of picture is the dressing area, which is 4 steps down from the main cabin, As is the case throughout the boat, everything is insulated and foil lined...
Next below is the raised pilothouse, still pre fit out but insulated and foil lined for electrical interference reasons. The hole on the right is a serving hatch to the galley, whose purpose/detail I'll photograph later.
Below is looking forward into the salon, with the hatch for installing the engines not closed yet. The red metalwork is steel framing: the salon is framed in ~70mm square stainless steel framing, to support the flybridge and receive the glazing, painted in red primer.
Below is the crew corridor, forward on the lower deck, looking towards the bow. This has 3 crew cabins leading off it. This crew area is all finished in light oak veneer with a darker fake oak wood floor (an amtico type plastic material) but you can't see any of that because all surfaces are covered in white protection material.
Next, the foredeck and aft cockpit:
Below shows a steering actuator. These are electric obviously, one on each tiller, so there are no steering hydraulics and the steering wheels at the helm are mounted onto rotary encoders rather than hydraulic pumps. I love this system and it is becoming the future. The two tillers are connected by a tie rod, and one tiller actuator is 230v while the other is 24v. The primary one is the 230v, because this is a generator-always-on boat, and with two generators there is redundancy. If the whole 230v side fails, the 24v steering actuator is clutched in, and this can be fed by the main house batteries plus the emergency 24v batteries. so that's 2 actuators and 4 power sources before you run out of steering, which is pretty decent.
The white hoses running across top of picture are w/c water for the two transom showers.
Not sure "emergency batteries" are discussed on here much. This boat is built to RINA so has two 24v battery banks - main one in engine room and emergency batteries on flybridge. When main batteries fail all critical systems automatically flip over to the emergency batteries, which should work till the end if the boat is sinking, being so high up. To illustrate, I'll explain how that works with bilge pumping, which is similar to steering.
First, there are normal submersible 24v DC bilge pumps with high level indication alarms, etc, much as you would get on say a FairPrinSeeker. Next there is a 3 phases x 230v bilge pumping system, with the suction provided first by the dedicated bilge pump, and then as back up by the grey water pump, or back up grey water pump. On the suction side these pumps suck from the bilge area chosen by the skipper, by means of 230v electric valves on the suction side. all controlled from touchscreens at the helm, or an ipad, or by manual switches in emergency. Of course te power supply for all this comes from 2 generators, so there is redundancy there there. Next, as if that wasn't enough, there is a 24v "third line of defence" bilge pump system, fed by the house 24v batteries and then if necessary by the emergency batteries. This has a 24v DC pump, and 24v electric valves again on the suction side to allow the skipper to choose where to suck from. All these electric valves have reed switches at each end of their travel to tell the skipper their open/closed status. This is all very nice, and results in some big switch panels that I have spent a lot of time with Sanlorenzo choosing the labelling of (in both EN and IT). It's all standard RINA class spec.
More to follow in a bit...
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kashurst
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WOW! thanks for posting. Look forward to the next pics when you get chance.