WATCH: Superyacht Dwarfs Small Dutch Town

Check out this aerial drone video of a model new 83.5-meter (almost 274 toes!) superyacht within the canal’s of the small city of Alphen aan den Rijn, within the Netherlands.

The yacht, named Savannah, was transported Thursday from Feadship’s Royal De Vries Aalsmeer shipyard to Rotterdam. The superyacht is the primary to function a hybrid diesel-electric propulsion system, making it some of the environmentally-friendly superyachts on the earth.

According to a Feadship assertion asserting Savannah’s launch in January:

Savannah has a dynamic hull form with a really high quality entry, makes use of one environment friendly medium-speedWärtsilä essential engine as an alternative of two higher-rev diesel motors, a single central propeller shaft set up on the centreline and three gensets.
Redundancy is ensured by becoming a big contra-rotating and azimuthing sternthruster simply aft of the primary propeller. The design of the aft ship permits for a propeller that’s forty per cent bigger than the norm. Combined with the facility provided by the thruster, the load on the propeller is simply half that of a traditional twin screw yacht. This once more ends in a better effectivity and fewer vibrations. In addition, the massive sternthruster additionally ensures glorious maneuverability in marinas.

“It is not the individual technologies used on Savannah that are new in the yachting world – it is the way they have been combined,” stated the proprietor’s venture supervisor, Ted McCumber. “Feadship has leveraged on all of the choices out there within the marine trade right this moment to carry this massively revolutionary system to completion.

“The possibility to choose between diesel, diesel-electric or fully electric is truly exceptional. Moreover, Savannah is the first yacht in the world to be running with an azipull and a variable pitch propeller. Only Feadship engineering and the rich experience of this yard could have successfully concluded a project of such scope and vision,” McCumber added.

Here’s the yacht passing one in all many bridges on the journey:

“As the first ever hybrid superyacht, she offers incredible flexibility in operations and loading of the power plant,” says Feadship director Henk de Vries. “The result’s gasoline financial savings of some thirty % in comparison with one of the best boats that we’ve launched to this point.

“The way in which one gigantic propeller has been installed in front with another electrically powered prop in its slipstream has also never been applied on a yacht. A similar system has been used on board passenger ships in Japan, but that is an ‘industrial’ solution, without the attention to comfort required on a Feadship. To achieve this on a superyacht entailed an exceptional degree of cooperation with Wärtsilä and all the other equipment manufacturers.”

According to Feadship, greater than a 1,000 folks have been concerned with the creation of Savannah because the contract was signed on the finish of 2011.

The yacht will likely be out there for constitution in summer season 2015 via Feadship Charter. Just suppose, all this could possibly be yours… for a mere 1.4 million euros per week.

Some unimaginable photographs of Savannah’s transit will be discovered on Facebook.