New luxury yacht name: WHY
New megayacht builder for the super rich to create luxury vessels that beggar beliefThe Monaco-based sleek sailing yacht builder Wally has combined with the luxury French fashion house Hermes to create a new company WHY (Wally Hermes Yachts) to produce a new standard in up-market boating.
A model of the yard's first "revolutionary" 190 ft yacht, which is a staggering 125 feet wide, is being displayed to potential buyers at the company's Ancona shipyard on Italy's Adriatic Coast.
Based off a Norwegian-designed Ramform hull, the vast yacht will offer what is being claimed as "unparalleled living space". The design includes patios, an opening roof that folds back like a Venetian blind, a 82 ft long swimming pool and an aft "beach" deck that is 118 ft long.
In a nod to the increasing environmental concerns in Europe, the yacht is claimed to use up to 200 tonnes less of diesel fuel than a conventional yacht of the same size. It also features 900square metres of thermo photovoltaic solar panels.
The two companies signed the joint agreement last year and will have equal input in each stage of design and construction.
The new yacht will offer 3400 square metres of living space and have cabins for up to 12 guests and 20 crew. It will have a cruising speed of 12 knots and a maximum speed of 14 knots.
Pierre-Alexis Dumas, the artistic director of Hermes, says the WHY yacht looks very unfamiliar but retains a human scale.
For more details check out the WHY-Yachts website.
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