This year’s 4th Dubois Cup will officially kick off at 12:00, today, on June 2, 2013. It will be attended by such spectacular vessels as the Oyster 100 superyacht Sarafin, the Oyster 125 yacht Twilight, charter yacht Salperton, and many others.
It is a very busy year 2013 for Southern Spars, with an order book full of projects. One of the most significant 2013 Southern Spars projects represents the second WallyCento superyacht Magic Carpet 3.
The first day of this year’s America’s Cup in San Francisco will be marked by New Zealand Superyacht Day, organized by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, in association with participating companies: Alloy Yachts, Events Clothing, Fitzroy Yachts, McMullen and Wing, as well as Southern Spars.
New Zealand-based Southern Spars is thrilled to announce that it has supplied spars for four luxury vessels, being announced as World Superyacht Awards 2013 Winners. These include Rainbow yacht, charter yacht Endeavour, luxury yacht Hamilton, as well as catamaran yacht Quintessential.
Complete Marine Freight has recently overseen the transport of two of the tallest masts in the world of yachting: the 67m mast for the new yacht Ganesha, heading to Vitters Shipyard in Holland, as well as the 47m mast for Baltic Yachts in Finland, both of them leaving Southern Spars in New Zealand.
Claasen Shipyards is coming close to completing its all-new Bougainville yacht, a modern 72-foot racer/cruiser. She is designed by Berret Racoupeau, with interior design by Rhoades Young.
It was a double victory for the prominent NZ manufacturer, Yachting Developments, at the 2013 World Superyacht Awards. The company has won in both the Refitted category for their refit of the J Class charter yacht Endeavour JK4, as well as Judges Special Award for Catamarans, for the 100-foot sailing catamaran yacht Quintessential (Q5).
Fitted with the patented Dynamic Stability Systems (DSS) technology by Hugh Welbourn, the all-new Infiniti 100S yacht is a beautiful and highly innovative vessel, presented by Danish Yachts and Infiniti Yachts. Set to be launched in late 2014, the yacht bears interior design by well known Design Unlimited.
Silo Marina, located on Auckland’s waterfront in New Zealand, has increased its capacity and doubled its size, in order to accommodate yachts and to make it easier to install masts as it is getting ready for the upcoming season.
The 34th America’s Cup will be marked by the first official Superyacht Regatta. To be hosted by San Francisco, the event will run over the three America’s Cup Finals lay days; 9, 11 and 13 September, 2013.
The high performance sailing superyachts manufacturer Alloy Yachts’ apprentices have become the overall winners of the 2013 Marine Trades Challenge. The event was held in New Zealand’s Westhaven, on Saturday, February 16.
All of the luxury superyachts participating in the recently concluded NZ Millennium Cup were powered by Southern Spars’ rigs. This year’s overall winner has become the 30-metre sailing yacht Zefiro.