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Palmer Johnson's 42m SuperSport
The largest carbon composite superyacht ever built with lightweight wave-piercing hullAmerican superyacht builder Palmer Johnson created some new design parameters for its latest SuperSport Series, namely, to have the most gorgeous shapes and still have the space and comfort of a traditional yacht; to be fast yet as efficient as a displacement yacht; to be a wave-piercing displacement hull at 32 knots and not a planing hull; and to be the largest yacht built entirely from the advanced material of, you guessed it, carbon.
Enter the latest PJ launch, a 42m SuperSport, said to be free from dogma and compromise, and innovating at a level that changes your lifestyle on board. Who are we to doubt them?
The North American yard says the transformational design and performance challenges basic assumptions about superyacht design and it has the figures to back that up.
A slender main hull is employed to get the super lightweight 500 gross-tonne SuperSport to 32 knots using MTU 2000 series engines for 50 per cent less fuel burn than traditional superyachts of this length.
Meantime, a special wave-piercing bow reduces slamming and pitching in head seas at speed, while the pronounced sponsons are said to increase natural stability by a factor of three.
The 11-metre beam is said to create an amazing and unique experience on main deck with open views through the side haunches. There are six-metre single side glass panels, twin garages carrying a seven-metre tender and three jet skis, and a salubrious fit-out in the stunning gold hull, of course.
PJ reckons the new 42m SuperSport is truly beautiful from every angle. It may well be the shape of the future, above and below the waterline, what with half the fuel burn andplenty of liveaboard room, unlike smaller expedition-style yachts of this wave-piercing form. Test to come (in our dreams).
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