SARISSA
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owners’ vision
Owners who are considering building a yacht visit a shipyard with a vision. This vision is based upon the freedom to create and, ultimately, the freedom of sailing. For our clients and the Vitters team, this freedom is not limited to what has been done before. It is about setting new standards and making the impossible possible.
vitters shipyard, creative minds and skilful hands
Over the past 20 years, Vitters Shipyard has developed into one of the world’s leading builders of custom sailing yachts of 30 metres (100 ft) and above. Led by managing directors Jan Vitters and Louis Hamming, this Dutch yard realises what its clients envision. Creative minds and skilful hands build yachts of superior quality, on budget and in time.
SARISSA
With her 42.6 metres LOA, Sarissa is the largest carbon fibre sloop built to date in the Netherlands. Naval architect Bill Tripp designed this performance globetrotter with a fully modern hull shape, sail plan, and spectacular vertical portlights. Sarissa will sail all over the world with the owners and their family, while also taking part in superyacht regattas.
Sarissa’s hydraulic and deck systems enhance response times, load and stiffness to safely facilitate the sailing performance for which she was designed. Other custom technical features are a Vitters’ developed hydraulic steering system with rudder feedback, as well as a unique system of back and running stays to operate both the cruising and racing sail configurations.
The main sheet has been placed on an arch spanning the cockpit to keep the deck clear. Protected behind the superstructure are several living areas: a large cockpit, dual helm and sailing stations, and sun beds. The aft cockpit can be transformed into a paddling pool for the children when it is not safe to swim in the ocean. A large convertible dodger and bimini stow in the superstructure.
Naval Architect Bill Tripp: “Sarissa is exactly at the point where the state-of-the-art large sailing yacht world lies. Technology and modern design merge, providing the owner with luxurious comfort, accessible and easy sailing, integrated design, advanced performance, and the confidence to sail anywhere in safety. Sarissa’s design was guided by close client input and involvement.”
INTERIOR
The interior design brief was for a modern and spacious interior, yet warm and inviting like a family home. Jonathan Rhoades: “To create the feeling of a much larger interior, we have visually borrowed volume and length from other spaces, integrated the double use of certain areas and positioned the accommodation blocks diagonally, thereby stretching the visual length of the interior.� The yacht is entered through the light upper saloon. A navigation area is situated in the aft port corner with a bar forward with views through to the lower saloon and dining area.
The spectacular paired vertical portlights designed by Bill Tripp flood the interior with daylight and give fantastic views of water and sky. The lower saloon is designed to be a TV room with an open connection to the other family living areas. Curved corridors are a key feature of Sarissa’s interior, as well as a unique combination of various finishing materials like limed oak panels and cherry furniture with brushed stainless steel fittings. These are in contrast to the outboard parts, which have carbon frames, dark leather porthole surrounds and rosewood cabinets.
A flush door in the curved wall starboard to the lower saloon gives access to the study. This room can be converted into a double guest cabin. It has a connection to the day head and shower forward to become a self-contained suite. The galley and dining are open plan with a folding sliding door that deploys to separate them. The crew area for six is accessed through a hidden door in the forward bulkhead.
Stairs aft from the upper saloon lead to a curved corridor with flush doors to the guest room starboard and the children’s and nanny cabins to port, which are linked with a connecting bathroom. The children’s overhead glows with fibre optic stars of either the northern or southern hemisphere depending on where Sarissa is sailing. At the end of this corridor is the full beam master stateroom, which features a carefully detailed skylight above the bed head. The vertical window face forms one of the walls of the paddling pool area on the aft deck.
technical specifications
Type
Lifting keel performance sloop
Naval Architect
Tripp Design Naval Architecture LLC
Interior Designer
Rhoades Young Design Ltd.
Owner’s Representative
Jens Cornelsen Yacht Consultant GmbH.
Length hull overall
42.6 m (138 ft)
Length waterline
38.5 m (126 ft)
Beam (max)
8.6 m (28 ft)
Draft
4.0 m (13 ft) keel up / 6.2 m (20 ft) keel down
Ballast
38 tonnes
Displacement
163 tonnes
Hull & superstructure Carbon composite by Green Marine Classification
GL / MCA Cayman Islands
Delivery
August 2011
Main engine
Caterpillar C12, DI-TA, C-rating
Power
490 bhp (366 kW) at 2300 rpm
Gearbox
Mekanord 270 HS/LS
Shaft & Propeller
Korsør controllable pitch, Scandinavian CP10-RS
Generators
Kilopak, 2 x 50 kW (1500 rpm - 50 Hz)
Exhaust systems
Halyard
Fuel tank capacity
12,000 litres
Water tank capacity
10,000 litres
Winches and deck hardware
Lewmar
Spars
Southern Spars with furling boom
Mast
56 m (184 ft)
Standing rigging
EC6+ continuous carbon
Owner & guest cabins
5 (1 master stateroom and 4 Guest suites)
Crew cabins 3 (1 captain’s cabin and 2 crew cabins)
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credits
Photography
- Albert Brunsting, Meppel, The Netherlands
- Tom Nitsch Images, Hamburg, Germany
Concept, design and layout
- Oranja, Meppel, The Netherlands
Printed by
- Scholma Druk, Bedum, The Netherlands
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