colhel
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Update coming soon 
New build Sanlorenzo SL96A 2024
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Bouba
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What are you getting into a lather about ?
colhel
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colhel
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jrudge
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Do bear in mind it is a build thread a d the boat is built !
MapisM
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I for one wouldn't mind a sequel on how the boat is now being enjoyed.
Give me a thread like that rather than one on a seacock replacement any day of the week, and twice on Sunday...!
Give me a thread like that rather than one on a seacock replacement any day of the week, and twice on Sunday...!
Bouba
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Mapis, even I would prefer cruising the Med in luxury on JFM’s superyacht rather than sweating away in the hull of my boatI for one wouldn't mind a sequel on how the boat is now being enjoyed.
Give me a thread like that rather than one on a seacock replacement any day of the week, and twice on Sunday...!
Fr J Hackett
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If you installed a lath and a milling machine in your workshop it would encourage me to visit you from time to time. I could also teach you how to weld as well.
MapisM
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Very frankly speaking, I don't mind at all if you sweat away in your boat.
It's just trying to give my 2c to someone asking for suggestion and be dismissed with no reason, that I find slightly annoying - though I didn't lose a second of sleep on that, I hasten to add.
Anyhow, as I understand you are happy with what you did, and it's your boat, so who am I (as well as several others) to argue?
Bouba
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I’m sorry you feel that way as I have always respected your knowledge...I just felt that people were going off on a tangent....anyhow this is JFM’s thread about his fabulous SL and I don’t want it to be about my little boatVery frankly speaking, I don't mind at all if you sweat away in your boat.
It's just trying to give my 2c to someone asking for suggestion and be dismissed with no reason, that I find slightly annoying - though I didn't lose a second of sleep on that, I hasten to add.
Anyhow, as I understand you are happy with what you did, and it's your boat, so who am I (as well as several others) to argue?
Parabolica
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I have just viewed the pics of your finished boat on page 51 John. It is simply beautiful throughout. Well done and thank you for sharing it all.
One question though, your pictures show a Williams tender but if i recall correctly, you had ordered and specified a RibEye. Have a got that wrong ?
One question though, your pictures show a Williams tender but if i recall correctly, you had ordered and specified a RibEye. Have a got that wrong ?
rafiki_
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JFM has a RibEye chase boat. The tender for Match is the Williams I believe.
jfm
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Evening all and here is a quick update, mostly with pictures not words. Sorry to have been offline so long.
The boat was handed over to me mid May, and we sailed it to Antibes. Overall I'm incredibly pleased, but there have been a several weeks of de-snagging that is taking rather longer than it should. Some snags don't annoy me in that they are complex first-time-through issues, but other snags should have been sorted out by builder and dealer pre-handover, who simply weren't careful enough, and now its burning up too much of my time. This happens plenty with new boats but that doesn't make it ok.
Anyway, that 1/2% aside, the other 99.5% is amazing. The deck spaces and the interior are a delight (imho at least!). The stabilisation is fantastic. The upgraded engines have turned out to be a very smart move as this thing wants to do 24 knots cruise and can do 30. During the 5 hour delivery trip factory captain was driving at the upper helm, while I was talking to the UK dealer in the lower helm, and I said I was concerned that we would be late into Antibes and could we ask the captain to speed up. Dealer said "look at the speedo" and we were doing 24kts. I thought it was more like 14. Engines are near silent and the thing punches through normal waves with almost no pitching.
It's a piece of cake to drive. Feels a bit big at first but then you're parking it in bigger spaces. The remote (wired, and mostly used on the aft deck) is great and basically the boat is a delight to park and manoeuvre. The camera locations have turned out to be perfect. The substantially upgraded bow+stern thrusters (and upgraded PTO pumps to feed them) were a good idea.
The built in music system is great. I have not yet fired up the separate disco system supplied and specced by BartW on here, but will get to that soon.
Ref post 1041, Colin has kindly machined (beautifully) some special attachments to hang a piece of artwork on a bulkhead, and also some supports for the carbon sun awning poles (because I don't like the Makefast original mount system) so thank you Colin for that amazing work.
Ref post 1,051, the boat has a Williams 435SJ in the garage (which I love) plus a Ribeye Prime 8.21 chase boat with Yam 300 (pictures a long way up in this thread). Both tenders are in identical colours/materials and both have turned out to be great machines.
The new crew has turned out to be fabulous - we never want them to leave. The boat has had plenty of guests in about 5 weekends of busy use, including several from here and several more in the diary, and I think they have found it to be ok
Some pictures are below, from theyachtphotographer.com. First a few exterior (drone) shots...
Next the below picture shows the pilothouse. I love how this has turned out. The screens definitely do not restrict the view whatsoever - not a single millimetre. There is a lot of tech - everything is digitally switched (so there are no Carling switches anywhere). I can turn on the left hand bedside table lamp in cabin #4 from my iPad (um, if I want to) but there are a load of really useful features built into all this and basically you can control and analyse anything from anywhere. Playing Spotify /Soundcloud onto any or all of the sound system is super easy via an iPad in virtually every room, and the Starlink internet is awesome - I get 300+megs download all the time. You can see the Starlink antenna (black square) stbd side of the mast on the hard top in the second pic above. The boat has no domes because they are just legacy things now and they would date the boat.
Below pic shows upper helm. Seats are in lowest position in this pic for some reason but I drive boat with them 300mm or so higher
Now a few interiors. First is owner's cabin on main deck, then a few shots of guest cabins and bathrooms on lower deck. Lots of detail here - various surface finishes, custom furniture construction with slatted wood panels and some bronze framing, bronze for the metalwork generally (not chrome/stainless steel) and absolutely no handles/knobs on any cupboard doors anywhere on the entire boat....
/continued below because of the 20 picture limit...
The boat was handed over to me mid May, and we sailed it to Antibes. Overall I'm incredibly pleased, but there have been a several weeks of de-snagging that is taking rather longer than it should. Some snags don't annoy me in that they are complex first-time-through issues, but other snags should have been sorted out by builder and dealer pre-handover, who simply weren't careful enough, and now its burning up too much of my time. This happens plenty with new boats but that doesn't make it ok.
Anyway, that 1/2% aside, the other 99.5% is amazing. The deck spaces and the interior are a delight (imho at least!). The stabilisation is fantastic. The upgraded engines have turned out to be a very smart move as this thing wants to do 24 knots cruise and can do 30. During the 5 hour delivery trip factory captain was driving at the upper helm, while I was talking to the UK dealer in the lower helm, and I said I was concerned that we would be late into Antibes and could we ask the captain to speed up. Dealer said "look at the speedo" and we were doing 24kts. I thought it was more like 14. Engines are near silent and the thing punches through normal waves with almost no pitching.
It's a piece of cake to drive. Feels a bit big at first but then you're parking it in bigger spaces. The remote (wired, and mostly used on the aft deck) is great and basically the boat is a delight to park and manoeuvre. The camera locations have turned out to be perfect. The substantially upgraded bow+stern thrusters (and upgraded PTO pumps to feed them) were a good idea.
The built in music system is great. I have not yet fired up the separate disco system supplied and specced by BartW on here, but will get to that soon.
Ref post 1041, Colin has kindly machined (beautifully) some special attachments to hang a piece of artwork on a bulkhead, and also some supports for the carbon sun awning poles (because I don't like the Makefast original mount system) so thank you Colin for that amazing work.
Ref post 1,051, the boat has a Williams 435SJ in the garage (which I love) plus a Ribeye Prime 8.21 chase boat with Yam 300 (pictures a long way up in this thread). Both tenders are in identical colours/materials and both have turned out to be great machines.
The new crew has turned out to be fabulous - we never want them to leave. The boat has had plenty of guests in about 5 weekends of busy use, including several from here and several more in the diary, and I think they have found it to be ok
Some pictures are below, from theyachtphotographer.com. First a few exterior (drone) shots...
Next the below picture shows the pilothouse. I love how this has turned out. The screens definitely do not restrict the view whatsoever - not a single millimetre. There is a lot of tech - everything is digitally switched (so there are no Carling switches anywhere). I can turn on the left hand bedside table lamp in cabin #4 from my iPad (um, if I want to) but there are a load of really useful features built into all this and basically you can control and analyse anything from anywhere. Playing Spotify /Soundcloud onto any or all of the sound system is super easy via an iPad in virtually every room, and the Starlink internet is awesome - I get 300+megs download all the time. You can see the Starlink antenna (black square) stbd side of the mast on the hard top in the second pic above. The boat has no domes because they are just legacy things now and they would date the boat.
Below pic shows upper helm. Seats are in lowest position in this pic for some reason but I drive boat with them 300mm or so higher
Now a few interiors. First is owner's cabin on main deck, then a few shots of guest cabins and bathrooms on lower deck. Lots of detail here - various surface finishes, custom furniture construction with slatted wood panels and some bronze framing, bronze for the metalwork generally (not chrome/stainless steel) and absolutely no handles/knobs on any cupboard doors anywhere on the entire boat....
/continued below because of the 20 picture limit...
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jfm
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... continued:
Next the main deck - the salon
Finally, below are some night/dusk shots.
So overall I'm incredibly pleased with how this has turned out, after 2.5 years of quite significant effort. Huge thanks to the dealer Sanlorenzo UK, the builder Sanlorenzo SpA in Italy, and a load of their suppliers and contractors who have done so much one-off work in this project. And to Colin on here for his machine shop wizardry.
Next the main deck - the salon
Finally, below are some night/dusk shots.
So overall I'm incredibly pleased with how this has turned out, after 2.5 years of quite significant effort. Huge thanks to the dealer Sanlorenzo UK, the builder Sanlorenzo SpA in Italy, and a load of their suppliers and contractors who have done so much one-off work in this project. And to Colin on here for his machine shop wizardry.
Bouba
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Incredible !
Greg2
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Absolutely stunning!
Snagging aside, which as you say is relatively minor and to be expected, you must be absolutely delighted, particularly given the significant role you played in making it happen.
Snagging aside, which as you say is relatively minor and to be expected, you must be absolutely delighted, particularly given the significant role you played in making it happen.
Mr Googler
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Many congratulations J. She looks absolutely stunning! Slightly disappointed…..where’s the engine room porn!
benjenbav
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The new Match looks amazing, John. Thanks for completing the thread. Hope the snagging will now be quickly resolved.
In this pic - view looking forward is stunning - are the two unlit lamps immediately above the wheel red or separately switchable white lights?
In this pic - view looking forward is stunning - are the two unlit lamps immediately above the wheel red or separately switchable white lights?
DavidJ
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Wow! just Wow!
andy59
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Absolutely stunning, colors, proportions, finishes, all just look "right". Another superlative achievement by JFM / builder 
. Wishing you many hours of well earned relaxation / enjoyment.
. Wishing you many hours of well earned relaxation / enjoyment.