Let me make good on an earlier promise: I'll take you on the boat tour! Let's start outside.
I've shown you the rear outside deck before, but I'll include them here again for completeness sake. There is a large dining table that seats 6 easily, and a further 'lounge-seat' that can also be used as a 2-person couch. LED lighting is build-in in the roof.
Up the steps is the helm, with a couch that seats two or three people. I don't have a good picture of it, only the overview from the front of the boat. So let me steal another picture from the brochure for your viewing pleasure. I don't know what these people are doing on my brother's boat but you can see the captain has ample room for himself and some bikini girls to either sit at the helm, lounge on the sun deck or just generally loiter around as the guy in the white shirt seems to be doing.
Moving forward, note the clean layout of the deck with only a single stay (Dutch: "stag") on starboard and port each. The front deck holds contain the anchor, fenders, spare lines and anchor chain, the gennacker sail and water maker, as well as various other pieces of sailing kit. Further up front is the trampoline. This mainly stops the waves slamming into the underside of the "tunnel" while maintaining access.
Here is another picture from the brochure that gives a quite good impression of the generous amounts of living space. Finally, just sitting on the swimming platform with your feet in the water is a very nice place when you've anchored.
Are you ready to come inside? I will forgive you if you mistakenly think this penthouse pictures is a boat. It is actually a boat that is a floating penthouse.
I used the panorama function to make these pictures, so that's why you see some wavy lines and non-straight angles. Trust me, in real life it looks quite the part! Starting on port side, there is the kitchen with double sink, hot/cold water tap, microwave and oven (actually 2 ovens, one on gas and one electrical) and a three-burner gas cooktop. Plenty of storage in the cabinets and it includes a 4-drawer freezer. See that black thing in the middle? That's the fully automatic bean-grinding milk-frothing coffee machine. Then there's the stairs to the guest quarters, and finally the navigation station.
Moving on to starboard, there's the comfy couch with coffee table (or is it a cat table?), stairs to the captain's quarters and the fridge. Of course, there's LED lighting all around, built-in speakers and panoramic views through the windows. The wide sliding door is complemented by the sliding window of the kitchen top, making it one big open living area. No need to worry about rain or sun, as the rear deck was fully covered, remember?
Down the stairs, we reach 'my' door on the left to the aft guest quarters.
Entering through the door, there is a ... (wait for it) ... free-standing double bed ?!?! on a boat? In the guest room? Seriously?? (sorry for the mess I made in the room...). Windows to the rear and the side, and an escape hatch on top; all opening windows are fitted with fly screens. There are of course several lighting options, indirect below the bed and normal overhead lighting. Reading lights are also available on both sides as well as a bedside 220 Volt outlet. (I assume this is for your phone charger- what did you think it was for??). I think it looks best with the reading lights and indirect lights on:
Of course, there is an en-suite bathroom with a toilet, sink, mirror and full-size shower. It was hard to capture it on photo but I think you can see I am not exagerating. At least I managed to not make such a mess here ... guess why :)
Further kit and systems include the water maker, kitchen machine, full 220V system, built-in audio system with iPod support, electric winches, radar, marifone, auto-pilot with wind-direction integration and -oh yeah- I think you can read out all the ships systems and navigation info from your iPad.
Off course all this takes a bit of power (and let's not forget lighting up the boat in the evenings just to show off to the other boats that are just lit by a single candle just to preserve power)... which is supplied by the specially-ordered oversized solar panels, which generate 1.21 Gigawatt!
If you want more, please see this page which has the manufacturer's official 360 degree tour of the ship.
I've shown you the rear outside deck before, but I'll include them here again for completeness sake. There is a large dining table that seats 6 easily, and a further 'lounge-seat' that can also be used as a 2-person couch. LED lighting is build-in in the roof.
Up the steps is the helm, with a couch that seats two or three people. I don't have a good picture of it, only the overview from the front of the boat. So let me steal another picture from the brochure for your viewing pleasure. I don't know what these people are doing on my brother's boat but you can see the captain has ample room for himself and some bikini girls to either sit at the helm, lounge on the sun deck or just generally loiter around as the guy in the white shirt seems to be doing.
Moving forward, note the clean layout of the deck with only a single stay (Dutch: "stag") on starboard and port each. The front deck holds contain the anchor, fenders, spare lines and anchor chain, the gennacker sail and water maker, as well as various other pieces of sailing kit. Further up front is the trampoline. This mainly stops the waves slamming into the underside of the "tunnel" while maintaining access.
Here is another picture from the brochure that gives a quite good impression of the generous amounts of living space. Finally, just sitting on the swimming platform with your feet in the water is a very nice place when you've anchored.
Are you ready to come inside? I will forgive you if you mistakenly think this penthouse pictures is a boat. It is actually a boat that is a floating penthouse.
I used the panorama function to make these pictures, so that's why you see some wavy lines and non-straight angles. Trust me, in real life it looks quite the part! Starting on port side, there is the kitchen with double sink, hot/cold water tap, microwave and oven (actually 2 ovens, one on gas and one electrical) and a three-burner gas cooktop. Plenty of storage in the cabinets and it includes a 4-drawer freezer. See that black thing in the middle? That's the fully automatic bean-grinding milk-frothing coffee machine. Then there's the stairs to the guest quarters, and finally the navigation station.
Moving on to starboard, there's the comfy couch with coffee table (or is it a cat table?), stairs to the captain's quarters and the fridge. Of course, there's LED lighting all around, built-in speakers and panoramic views through the windows. The wide sliding door is complemented by the sliding window of the kitchen top, making it one big open living area. No need to worry about rain or sun, as the rear deck was fully covered, remember?
Down the stairs, we reach 'my' door on the left to the aft guest quarters.
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| My suite in my favorite lighting option. Sorry for not making the bed. |
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| The indirect lights only. |
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| And the normal overhead lights |
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| The reading lights only |
Of course, there is an en-suite bathroom with a toilet, sink, mirror and full-size shower. It was hard to capture it on photo but I think you can see I am not exagerating. At least I managed to not make such a mess here ... guess why :)
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| The en-suite bathroom |
Further kit and systems include the water maker, kitchen machine, full 220V system, built-in audio system with iPod support, electric winches, radar, marifone, auto-pilot with wind-direction integration and -oh yeah- I think you can read out all the ships systems and navigation info from your iPad.
Off course all this takes a bit of power (and let's not forget lighting up the boat in the evenings just to show off to the other boats that are just lit by a single candle just to preserve power)... which is supplied by the specially-ordered oversized solar panels, which generate 1.21 Gigawatt!
If you want more, please see this page which has the manufacturer's official 360 degree tour of the ship.
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