AIR

machurley22 · #1 15-06-05, 02:23

Sailed south through Oban Bay on Saturday and passed a humungous motor yacht at anchor. From a distance she appeared to have a white superstructure over a black hull but although we passed very close and the hull then appeared to be a metallic charcoal grey, it's mirror finish made it very difficult to determine it's true colour.

She was far too big for me to judge her size accurately (I sail a 22 footer in case you hadn't guessed) but was definitely much closer in size to a football pitch than a tennis court. The only distinguishing marks were the letters AIR in chrome characters a metre high on the superstucture which had at least 4 or 5 decks. Her ensign was wrapped around the jackstaff and was mainly red but didn't look like a duster.

I've googled but "air" is just too common a word.

Any ideas?

jfm · #2 15-06-05, 10:46

She is the new Lurssen explorer style yacht, AIR. Very recent completion, being handed over to owner maybe around now. Very serious machine, diesel electric propulsion with 8 diesel gensets and electric motor drives in azimuthing pods - first ever megayacht to have the pods (the diesel electric is rare but not unknown on megayachts - Limitless had it, a 1997 launch). Interesting styling. Didn't know she was in Scotland. Probably has gone there directly from Lurssen, as she hasn't been to Med or anywhere else much, yet, afaik

If you google for Lurssen Air, instead of just Air, you will find loads more. And if you can put an umlaut (sp?) on the "u" in Lurssen you will find even more! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

machurley22 · #3 15-06-05, 16:07

Thanks for all the information. I'd been looking for a pic for my latest blog entry. (Subtle plug huh?)

jfm · #4 15-06-05, 18:33

There are very fe wpix of AIR thus far. None were leaked during the build and that pic -taken about 2 months ago soon after launch - was virtually the first one anyone ever saw. So if you had got some in Scotland lots of folk would have been grateful!

Nice Blog. If you see a navy hulled trawler yacht, 52 foot, called Silver Dee, with rahter too much superstructure for the hull, that'll be my younger brother. He kept it in dunstaffnage last year but I'm not sure if he has it in in one of the other marinas at the moment, mebbe Largs. It's out and about a lot around the islands, diving usually.