Welcoming Ultra G

A lot of events have taken place at the Heesen shipyard in the past year and even more is in store for the company in2023. Let’s take a look at some past events and catch a glimpse of what’s to come.

As of May 2022, Heesen became a100% Dutch company. A smooth transition allowed the company to return to ‘business as usual’ relatively quickly. Thanks to its proverbial Dutch powers of pragmatism and blue-sky thinking, Heesen manoeuvred around supply chain hiccups intelligently and secured the company’s future. With een yachts under construction and a workforce of 1,000 skilled people, the Heesen shipyard is as busy and well organised as abeehive.

The 2022 boat show season was a great success; the 60m full custom Lusine debuted at the Monaco Yacht Show, Heesen announced the sale of YN 20555 Project Serena, they launched the XV67 design concept by Winch, and the 50m Ocean Z premiered at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. The sale of YN20857, Project Setteesettanta, a full custom 57m all-aluminium motor yacht, and the launch of a new design – the 50m series by Harrison Eidsgaard – graced the end of 2022.

The Year of the Water Rabbit

What’s in store for Heesen Yachts in 2023? The company anticipated the Chinese New Year with great enthusiasm and expect 2023, the Year of the Water Rabbit, to be another intense and exciting one. InChinese culture, this sign symbolises longevity, peace, and prosperity. The 45-year young company looks forward to many more years of designing, engineering, and building cutting-edge motor yachts at the forefront of innovation and breakthrough technology. Right from

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the get-go, 2023 promises to be a very busy year.

On 27 January, the full custom 59m YN19959 Project Skyfall was launched. And during the course of the year, Heesen will launch three more superyachts: YN 20067, the full custom 67m Project Sparta by Winch Design; YN 20255, Project Apollo, the rst in the restyled 55m Steel Series; and the Smart Custom YN 20150 Project Oslo24. We cannot wait to see the new projects come along, so stay tuned to follow their progress with us in SuperYacht Industry.

Project Skyfall

Let’s take a closer look at project Skyfall. Project SkyFall was launched at the facility in Oss and christened MY Ultra G. This was the shipyard’s rst launch of 2023, a year that promises to be exciting and busy for Heesen Yachts.

Heesen is famous for designing, engineering, and constructing lightweight, ultra-fast yachts built to the smallest tolerances. Two luxury sport shing yachts built in the nineties occupy a special place in Heesen’s eet and were somehow the inspiration for this project. MY Obsession was the largest sport shing yacht at the time, until overtaken by MY Red Sapphire. MY Ultra G is the ultimate expression of theknowledge and experience gained in over forty years of shipbuilding to the nest Dutch quality standards. Despite its phenomenal top speed, there is no shortage of luxury on board this exceptional 60m beauty.

Social events and privacy

The layout is conceived to welcome friends aboard for sociable shing adventures while allowing the master apartment to maintain a necessary level of privacy, peace and quiet on the bridge deck with its private terrace. A jacuzzi, large walk-in wardrobe and an ample bathroom with a central oval bath and separate shower stall provide all the home comforts.Entertaining family and friends is the raison d’être of all social areas, indoors and out. A custom wine fridge with discrete sections at di erent temperatures takes pride of place in the main saloon. The media room, home to a Samsung The Wall screen of 1,814mm by

8,063mm and an elegant games table on the main deck forward, is undoubtedly the pièce de résistance. The sundeck, with its in nity pool facing a , is ideal for receptions and musical entertainments.

Canine guests are well taken care of too, thanks to a series of carefully thought-out details to make their life at sea as safe and stress-free as possible. Among several features the most notable is certainly the ‘relief area’, a self- ushing area of the side deck nished in synthetic grass, complete with sensors, cameras and sprinklers.Thirteen crew will be on hand to take care of ten guests, with discrete separate routing allowing them to seamlessly service every area of the yacht.

Smoother, atter ride

This bespoke luxury is the perfect complement to an ultra-technological and sophisticated propulsion system. MYUltraG’s thunder will come from 22,000horsepower generated by four MTU20V 4000 engines, driving four Kongsberg S90 waterjets. The outer engines, compliant with the latest Tier III environmental regulations, drive steerable jets, while the center engines operate xed booster units. With less back-pressure and a slightly higher power output, the center engines will be used solely for the highest speeds. Waterjet drives lower the yacht’s draught to less than 3m and reduce vibration by 40% compared to traditional sha s and propellers.

Thanks to its lightweight aluminium Fast Displacement Hull Form, complete with course ns, gyro stabilisers and interceptor trim plates, MY Ultra G will reach an extraordinary top speed of 37 knots in light load conditions. Her e cient FDHF hull will also deliver a much smoother, atter ride compared to a conventional semidisplacement shape, while its extra volume o ers plenty of space for equipment and amenities. Three gyro-stabilisers will keep the yacht comfortable at low speeds. MYUltra G will undergo system commissioning testing before leaving Oss for intensive trials in the North Sea.

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