The name says it all...

[Metabarca]

Ladies and gentlemen,
allow me to present this new gem of Italo-Monegasque technology: three turbines generating 16,800 hp, able to push this cutting-edge vessel at a top speed of up to 65 knots, carrying a crew of 6 and 6 guests. It's (her?) name? Wallypower...

...nuff said methinks.

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[kingfisher]

I think even the nutters at the Mobo forum consider this a hideous thing (they, being neanderthales, use other words to that effect)

Wally, old-BMW-style sailing boats, new-BMW-style motor yachts

<hr width=100% size=1>Group of people on the pontoon: skipper is the one with the toolbox.
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[tcm]

yes, the wallypower has been well reported during build. Not really an object of desire, it seems, especially at over £15 million plus vat. Mind you, an excellent device for redistributing wealth, and environmentally fairly sound too - 2 tonnes of diesel every hour means it won't be going far...

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[jamesjermain]

Anyone else see a resemblance between this shape and the original Turbinia of 19??? Also shades of Nigel Irens ILAN Voyager

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[Mirelle]

In a word, James, no.

1897 is the year you are looking for. TURBINIA was two things; a floating test bed and one of the best "publicity stunts" ever, but beyond the fact that she had a bar stem and the stem came clear of the water at speed, there is no resemblance that I can detect. TURBINIA had no accomodation and was almost all boiler and furnaces; she was very narrow in beam with an almost circular section, to minimise resistance.

Don't see a lot of similarity with Nigel Irens' Ilan Voyager, either. That boat, like TURBINIA had a hull form imposed by the need to do something; this aptly named object is just for the megarich to go posing around in.

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[pkb]

Like Turbinia - not really. It has quite sinister looks - reminds me of a new stealthy warship concept being developed in the US for what they call littoral warfare. Maybe instead of passengers it could carry a six pack of land attack missiles. Peter

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[Sybarite]

For information the boat is reviewed in the November edition of Boat International.

In addition to her three turbines she has twin (normal) diesel engines of 370hp each which take her range from 380 to 2000 miles (at 9 knts) with 22 tonnes of fuel.

Imagine though hitting a floating container at 65 knts...

John



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[Mirelle]

That 2000 mile range is for the crew to bring it round to wherever the Wally himself wants to water ski behind it.

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[snooks]

Wally

Wally have been making sailing boats for years, so before wallypower came wallysail. Wally's boats take elegance to another level IMHO....Yes they are play things for the rich, but you don't have to own a wally to enjoy looking at them.

Having been on the wally power during it's build, I think it's a fantastic boat, whether you like sail or power, having something that's 118 feet long and capable of 65knots at the mo (they are playing with the turbine blades to get the forcast 70 knots out of her) is incredible...there was a full write up in MBY last month and it does look out of this world

On the water more boats are looking the same, whether that be the AWB or motorcruiser, yet wally have produced something so different, so extreme that it's noticable at an instant...fair play to them...the world would be a more interesting world with more wallys in it ;-)

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[tcm]

Re: Wally

typical photographer - no mention of ever actually wanting to own one of these things, just that he hopes OTHER people havem eh? Complexitywise I hear strange things about the sailboats too, with ageing hidden systems doing weird things and the boats spending oodles of time at the fixers. Agreed a wacky and wild contraption. Alto the world is a bit more intertesting with Wally, it would be a whole load more interesting if we had skyscrapers that migrated south in winter and a reliable method of efficiently detonating human farts to power a selection of arm and leg attachments for personal transportation purposes. I also fancy some 7-league boots.

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[snooks]

Re: Wally

I'd love to own one, it's just that thing call money...maybe I'm just being realistic, I see how many nugget I take home each month, by the time I've taken SHMBO for a few meals and I've been down the pub a few times, that gives me magic beans to survive on

I've heard that the wally blow boats are lacking in hand rails on deck, and because everything is below decks there ain't too much to hold on to, but I haven't sailed one, so I wouldn't know for sure...the do look good tho

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[Metabarca]

Re: Wally

yup, there's no rails on the stern and nothing except the superstructure to hang on to anywhere else. Which could provide an exotic and rather expensive way of getting rid of someone you don't want: plonk said victim on sunbed (preferably the sort with wheels) by the stern, weigh anchor, switch on the diesels and then cut in the turbines... et voilà! your boat has just been lightened by 70kg of human and 1 tonne of fuel.

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[spark]

Re: Wally

I had a close inspection of three Wally yachts at the Monaco show a couple of years ago. Prices tags ranged from £8m to £12m. Lots of flash paintwork and gizmos but I was surprised at the poor quality of the finish in many places as well as some potential horrors such as stainless rod rigging attached directly to the carbon hull with stainless pins and saloons that were so wide and open traversing them in a chop would be dangerous to life and limb. The overall impression was of style rather than substance. There are some very good seagoing superyachts on the market - Wally's don't fall into the category, as far as I can see.

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[Mirelle]

Re: Wally

What oft was thought....I've never seen one in the carbon fibre, but looking at the silly pictures I very quickly concluded that they were dayboats for poseurs, not sailing yachts as one understands the term. The list of impracticalities in the deck layout suggested as much.

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[BrendanS]

Re: Wally

Lets face it, anyone spending 12m on a yacht is going to have very different priorities to the average sailor who fancies lunch in Bembridge, or a weekend sail cross channel.

<hr width=100% size=1> I asked an economist for her phone number....and she gave me an estimate

 

[tcm]

Wally sailing - not that bad?

unlike the hideous and far more extravagant power yacht, wally sailing boats look the business, all secret pop-up anchors and forth. They may have huge things for £12million but they also do the "popular plus" wally 65 (ish) at (i think) a around 3million dollars inlcuding the year 1 race series. Second hand wallies (spose one has to get over the name...) go from $1.5 and the race series must be quite a laugh, boasting large fields (double figures anyway) which is not bad for 20m+ boats with handicaps and rules that include (in one race anyway) that the owner helms. Look very swish i must say and i think some built in british shipyards, no? Frers design, i think. The above is near the limit of my knowledge of Wally boats.

erm Oh yes, Genie of the lamp is green, um, er Slingshot is the aforementioned 67 footer, 2nd hand, sold recently asking $1.5, um, and Kenora was in teh gulf of st tropez frying his generators with steam coming out of the outlet. Yes, that about the lot.

why are they all a bit sniff no good then? I mean, they do 20 knots, not bad eh? oops there's my speed merchant tendencies.... Somnebody above sed the deck layout was no good althoughh since there's not a fat lot on the deck other than two hel;m positions and several grands worth of teak?...

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[BrendanS]

Re: Wally sailing - not that bad?

You still don't see many in Bembridge though

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[tcm]

Re: Wally sailing - not that bad?

well, there was several million squids worth of wally II moored up at hamble point during the mercury weekend i think. oh yes - and a champagne moment as the skipper of a 25 foot bayliner decided to try and raft alongside.

None in bembrigde cos there not much water, and bembridge is after all a teensy bit crap. But otherwise, the boating aims of anyone with a boat can only be a wekekend here or a day trip over there. I mean, that's what boats do innit? Rich peeps eat cheap sarnies and drink tea, no? They don't have a morning of "see how far you can lob some 20ct diamonds over the side", followed by a bath in 1960 chateau d'Yquem and then race their private jet over to Cannes airport for cocktails. Not every day anyway?

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[BrendanS]

Re: Wally sailing - not that bad?

At least three times a week surely, or I have nothing to aspire to?

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[Salty]

Is it a stealth bomber that's crash landed? I'm not so keen on Wally yachts either - not sure the designs will live up to the test of time, IMHO - will look very dated within a few years.

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