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Diamond Yachts EF56 Power Catamaran56' Diamond Yachts EF56 Power Catamaran 2024

$ 1,200,000

YACHTING SELECT IS DIAMOND YACHTS EXCLUSIVE NORTH AMERICAN DEALER 

Not Often Will You Find Something As Special As This!

The Diamond Yachts EF56 was developed to usher in a new era of power catamarans that seamlessly blends luxury and comfort. Meticulously crafted by our designers to embody clean lines and open spaces, exuding timeless elegance and offering unparalleled comfort. 

A chic yet robust tomahawk silhouette and a steadfast vertical bow, the EF56 catamaran cruises majestically across the water, accentuated by its grand elongated portholes. It elevates luxury through its innovative spatial design. 

The flybridge is thoughtfully divided into distinct functional zones - An entertainment area, dining space, and activity zone. Completely customizable and can include a wet bar, foldable dining table as well as a concealed barbecue. With the afterdeck, foredeck seating area and large walkways, the EF56 has all the space that you and your guests need.

• An Exceptional Design With Incredible Space
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• Price USD: $ 1,200,000

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Ef56 power catamaran.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

Power Yacht

• LOA: 56 ft 2 in
• Display Length: 56 ft
• Beam: 27' 5"
• Water Capacity: 246 gals
• Fuel Capacity: 871 gals
• Engine Details: Cummins QSB6.7
• Engine 1: 480.00 HP
• Engine 2: 480.00 HP
• Engine Fuel: Diesel
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Extraordinary boats: The Yachting World Diamond from design to deck

• Nigel Sharp
• March 22, 2024

The Yachting World Diamond is a Jack Holt design which continues to attract devotees 60 years after its conception. Nigel Sharp takes a look back at the class

During the post-World War II boom years of small-boat sailing, Yachting World promoted some 30 designs, most of which allowed for home construction in plywood. The largest was the Yachting World Keelboat, later renamed the Yachting World Diamond.

‘For years the editor dreamt of a planing keelboat,’ the Yachting World magazine later reported about the resulting Jack Holt design.

R&W Clark in East Cowes built the prototype Zest . It ‘was thoroughly tested in the hard winds and seas of the autumn and early winter of 1960 (and) surpassed the highest hopes of her.’

R&W Clark tested two rigs – a masthead and a three-quarter fractional rig – before the testers reached a compromise with a 7/8ths fractional.

Zest was exhibited at the London Boat Show the following January, after which it was reported that ‘boats are being built by several yards as well as by a number of amateurs’.

Around the same time, Bristol Aeroplane Plastics Ltd began to mould GRP yachts. The first of these, Bristol I, helmed by Jack Knights, was the overall winner in the Round the Island Race that July.

The following month, Knights recorded five wins in six races in a YW Keelboat class of seven yachts in Cowes Week .

Racing The Yachting World Diamond. Photo: Nigel Sharp

In 1962, Bristol Aeroplane Plastics introduced a GRP cruising version of the boat. This version had a ‘cabin-top to accommodate two berths, and the usual other arrangements, and two more berths under the raised aft deck.’

People thought the latter would be ‘the ideal boat for the man who wants a family cruiser but without those deadly dull qualities which usually go with a boat so described.’

But despite these promising early signs, the class never really took off in home waters.

It was a different story in Australia, however. Within a month of Bristol I’s victory, people were buying plans in order to build the Yachting World Diamond for themselves, all in plywood.

Racing Yachting World Diamond’s through the ’60s and ’70s

‘The enthusiasm for the design is unanimous,’ reported the secretary of the YW Keelboat Association of New South Wales in March 1963.

‘The boat is the most exhilarating I have ever sailed. They are being built in greater numbers than any new class… truly the yacht is being hailed here as the greatest single advance in yacht design in years.’

By November that year there were Diamonds racing in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Tasmania.

In the mid-1970s fleet numbers were regularly in the 30s, and occasionally up to 40 boats from different clubs raced together in Port Phillip Bay.

Similar numbers took part in national championships when boats would be trailed across the country from as far away as Perth.

“It was great racing,” said Peter Clark, who regularly sailed Diamonds in those days. “They were the right boat at the right time”.

Trapeze for breeze

In the mid-1970s, the Port Phillip yachts began experimenting with twin trapezes to help them cope with the typically windy conditions. They planned to use them at a forthcoming national championship hosted by the Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron.

However, when crews from other states objected, the Port Phillip yachts had to revert to toe straps for that event, but it wasn’t long before trapezes were officially adopted nationwide.

Twin trapezes were added in the 1970s to contend with the breezy conditions of Victoria, Australia. Photo: Nigel Sharp

In the early 1980s, GRP foam sandwich boats came onto the scene, though they generally only replaced ageing wooden yachts .

The golden years in terms of racing fleet sizes lasted barely more than a decade before the Diamond’s popularity started to decline. Clark recalls just 14 boats taking part in the Australian championships in Brisbane in 1986.

“The people that had been sailing them got married, or moved away, or went to sail a bigger boat,” he said. “Life happened.”

The gem today

Port Phillip Bay still provides the best Yachting World Diamond racing today. Five yachts are currently in commission at the RYCV, and two more are at the Royal Geelong YC, 30 miles down the coast.

In addition to Irish Logic, which he races regularly, Royal Yacht Club of Victoria member Doug Prosser owns two other boats. These are Belle, which he recently ‘rescued’, and a donor yacht.

One of the Geelong yachts is Eclipse, a 1963 plywood boat which Neil Cusworth bought for AUS$1 in 2017.

Central cockpit console in Eclipse, with modern controls set up similar to an Etchells for racing. Photo: Nigel Sharp

She was restored by Jaime ‘Nudge’ Bennett who, among many other things, “tweaked the cockpit to be more like an Etchells”, fitted a spinnaker chute, and reduced the hull weight by 80kg.

Cusworth and Bennett occasionally sail her up to the RYCV at Williamstown to race in events there, including the 2019 and 2020 State Championships.

All of the racing yachts at both Williamstown and Geelong are dry sailed, and can easily be launched and recovered by member-operated cranes at each club.

The Yachting World Diamond is clearly a good yacht to race in a handicap fleet. When it’s windy, it can fly past bigger boats, which must give them time.

“And they’re very responsive boats in which you can feel what’s happening all the time, so they’re a good training boat,” said Cameron Mead, who crews on Irish Logic.

Among the Yachting World Diamonds known to have survived in the UK is Bristol I, the 1961 Round the Island Race winner. At some point she was converted into a cruising yacht with the addition of a cabin and diesel engine, and subsequently fell into a state of disrepair.

She was purchased in 2012 by Dartmouth sailors Peter Boote and Kit Noble, who restored her to her original configuration. They added two trapezes after Noble had visited Australia and sailed a Diamond there.

She, too, has since enjoyed successful handicap racing in windy weather.

There are still some other Yachting World Diamonds in the UK. Nineteen years ago, Greg Dunn found a yacht called Black Diamond on eBay, which Coombes of Bosham built in 1962 out of plywood.

Previous owners slightly modified her with the addition of a metre to the rig height and an outboard motor well, and had been epoxy sheathed, but otherwise had the original deck configuration with an open cockpit.

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Renovating, racing, and recovering

Dunn has raced Black Diamond in Mersea Week, the Round the Island Race, and various classic regattas, including the Brest Maritime Festival. Keen to get there again “on my own keel” he trailed Black Diamond from Essex to Plymouth and sailed her across the Channel from there.

“It was a fantastic voyage, although it was a little bit lively,” he said of the 23-hour crossing.

Coming back was a different matter. For most of the way they sailed in pouring rain with a double reefed mainsail and no headsail, and the log showed a burst of speed of 15.9 knots. “It was truly terrifying,” said Dunn.

“When we arrived in Plymouth at four in the morning, I was starting to hallucinate after 16 hours on the helm.”

Then, as they were mooring up, he slipped on the coaming and fell onto a winch, fracturing two ribs in the process. “It was the end of the voyage from hell!”

Dianna has a 20mm steel keel plate, with lead ballast on the bottom, lifted by electric winch. Photo: Nigel Sharp

Adapting the Yachting World Diamond

Back in the southern hemisphere, restorers adapted numerous Diamonds for a second life. They include Geelong boat Dianna, another Diamond bought by Neil Cusworth and restored by Nudge Bennett.

Dianna’s cosy four-berth cabin; the original design called for two berths forward, padded by roll-mats. Photo: Nigel Sharp

Dianna was built of plywood in Tasmania in 1961. People previously converted it for cruising with a four-berth cabin, an outboard well, a centreboard and a transom-hung rudder.

These modifications allowed her previous owner to cruise Victoria’s Gippsland Lakes. It also let them trail her to Queensland and cruise around the Whitsundays and the Great Barrier Reef.

Bennett’s work included extending the cabin, laying a teak deck, and painting the spars a gold anodised colour for a more traditional look. They also added an electric winch for the centreboard and fitted a new rudder (in a cassette for easy removal) further forward.

Cusworth now cruises her at Port Phillip, but also races in handicap fleets (and finds that she can get the better of Eclipse upwind).

Offshore racers

Other Australian Diamonds have been converted for offshore racing. Perhaps the best known of these – and certainly the most accomplished – is Saltash II, a 1966 plywood boat.

Halyards and control lines led back to the cockpit. Photo: Nigel Sharp

Saltash’s first owner, Harold Vaughan, sailed the yacht in its original configuration from Sydney to Melbourne and back. Then, from Sydney to Brisbane and back, to compete in the Australian Diamond Championships each time.

In 1981 Saltash II was purchased by Ian and Bill Wright, third generation boatbuilders from the Brisbane company Norman R Wright & Sons.

Their initial intention was to use her for ‘bay cruising’.

But, in 1985, they decided to convert her to ocean racing. The company gave her more robust frames in the bow sections, a cabin, a self-draining cockpit, and an inboard engine. They also added various safety features to comply with the appropriate regulations.

Since then, they have raced her no less than 20 times in the 300-mile Australia’s second most prestigious offshore race, Brisbane to Gladstone. They won the race on handicap eight times.

During this period, three different rating systems (IOR, IMS and IRC) have been used for the race and the Wrights have modified Saltash to optimise her for each of them.

Ian Wright described the first race in 1985 as “agonisingly slow”. However, eight years later, Saltash finished the race in slightly more than 30 hours, just behind a 60-footer. “It was a pretty hairy trip at times.”

Build it yourself: part of the original instructions for home builds. Photo: Yachting World

With the 1960s plywood starting to delaminate, the Wrights are currently restoring Saltash in a major way. They’re replacing all the hull skins with new plywood and incorporating epoxy coatings and a lightweight carbon weave.

All this work is being carried out at the family boatyard, often in the shadow of the 100ft super-maxi Andoo Comanche.

Yachting World Diamond specifications

LOA: 9.14m 30ft 0in LWL: 7.31m 24ft 0in Beam: 2.10m 6ft 10in Displacement: 1.016 tonnes Draught: 1.31m 4ft 4in Sail area: 24.24m2 261ft2

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Not Often Will You Find Something As Special As This!

The word "Daiermeng" is derived from an English word meaning “Sparkling Diamond.”

From that, DIAMOND YACHTS  was created to design and manufacture Lifestyle Oriented, Fashionable Yachts With The Focus Of Ultimate Fun On The Water. We endeavored to move the "BAR" to the sea providing a totally new social experience for sea lovers.

Our yachts are designed by Riccardo, a senior Italian ship designer, who seamlessly integrates aesthetics and applies both fashion and functionality to all parts of the yacht. With features that fit within the Instagram life scenes of a new era. High-standard equipment and superior interior decoration, these large/spacious Power Catamarans are stylish and textured in design.

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I followed the months-long journey of a Russian diamond, which starts out hidden in ore in Siberia and travels more than 6,000 miles before becoming a store-ready gem

Russia is the  world's largest producer of diamonds  by volume.

• It can take months or even years for a diamond to make it from a mine to becoming a piece of jewelry. After being mined in a remote region of Siberia, a diamond is taken to an ore treatment facility, where the gem is extracted from the ore.
• Then, it goes to a sorting facility 200 miles away in the diamond mining town of Mirny , where the stones are sorted by size, color, and quality – both manually and via sorting machines.
• Finally, the diamond goes to the polishing and cutting facility in Moscow, a journey that's a nearly six-hour flight or a drive of almost 6,000 miles.
• Alrosa mostly sells rough diamonds in bulk to jewelers, but its largest diamonds are polished and sold at international auctions.
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More than 43 million carats were mined in Russia in 2018, with most coming from the Yakutia region of Siberia.

So far this year, the country's largest diamond company, Alrosa, has sold more than $2.4 billion worth of diamonds.

On a recent trip to Russia, I got the chance to follow the journey a diamond takes, from an open-pit mine in Siberia, to the ore enrichment factory, to sorting facilities in a diamond mining town of Mirny, to polishing facilities in Moscow.

Here's the journey of a Russian diamond, from being dug out of the frozen ground in Siberia to selling for millions at the world's biggest jewel auctions.

Russia is the world's largest producer of diamonds.

In 2018, Russia mined  more than 43 million carats.

For comparison, the world's second-largest producer by volume, Botswana, produced 24.3 million carats.

Most of Russia's diamonds are mined in the Yakutia region of Siberia by a company called Alrosa.

Alrosa is the world's largest diamond miner by volume.

The Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia, is a region in Siberia that's  five times the size of France  but has only about a million inhabitants.

On a recent trip to Russia, I got the chance to follow the path of a diamond from the mines of Siberia, to ore enrichment and sorting facilities in the mining town of Mirny, to a cutting and polishing center in Moscow.

Alrosa operates 12 diamond mines, both underground and open-pit mines, 10 of which are in Yakutia.

To create the mines, Alrosa must first scan for pipes of kimberlite ore, which is the ore that can contain diamonds. 

Once a pipe is found, explosives are detonated to remove some of the empty soil on the surface, which is then discarded in piles nearby.

Then come the excavators and trucks to haul out the soil and the kimberlite ore, which is what contains the diamonds.

Each excavator bucket holds about 30 tonnes — more than 66,000 pounds — of soil or ore.

And one truck can be loaded up with three buckets full of soil, or more than 200,000 pounds. 

At the Botuobinskaya open-pit mine, which I visited in Yakutia, about 60,000 metric tonnes — or more than 66,000 US tons — of soil and ore are extracted in a 24-hour period.

Once an open-pit mine has been depleted, it's typically turned into an underground mine and operations continue below the surface.

It takes a truck 40 minutes to take a round trip to the bottom of the mine and back.

Some trucks carry empty soil to dump nearby, while others carry kimberlite ore to the factory for the ore enrichment process, to separate the rough diamonds from the other stones.

The miners excavate roughly five times more soil than ore, so most of the soil has to be discarded.

This is what kimberlite ore, the igneous rock that can contain diamonds, looks like.

Of course, you can't see diamonds because they're hidden away inside and must be extracted.

The ore just felt like a particularly crumbly handful of rocks and dirt.

The trucks take the kimberlite ore to a factory for the treatment process, during which the diamond are extracted. The facility is about a 10-minute drive from the mine I visited.

The ore treatment is a mostly automated process. At this factory, about 6,600 US tons of ore are processed every single day — and it's one of the smaller facilities.

The factory operates 24/7, although they shut it down for 12 hours every two weeks for maintenance.

In the first stage of ore treatment, huge chunks of ore are whittled down to pieces no bigger than about five centimeters, or two inches, first using jaw crushers and then through a "wet milling" process, which uses water to break down the lumps of ore even smaller. 

The second step is to extract the diamonds from the ore, which can be done in one of three ways: 

• X-ray separation: Diamonds glow when they're under X-rays, so the diamond-filled ore is X-rayed while moving along a trough, and a special tool cuts the illuminated gems away from the ore using a stream of compressed air.
• Foamy separation: Smaller pieces of ore are put into a froth flotation machine, where small diamonds attach to froth bubbles and are carried to the final concentration stage, while other particles that don't contain diamonds settle to the bottom.
• Heavy separation: Medium-sized chunks of ore are processed in jigging machines and dense media separation units that use pulsating jets of water to separate the diamonds from the ore.

Even though almost the entire process is automated, Alrosa employees keep a close eye on the process from the control room, which shakes and creaks from the machinery operating around it.

After the diamonds are finally extracted from the ore, they are cleaned, roughly sorted, and packed into containers to go to the sorting facility.

The sorting facility is in Mirny, the diamond mining town where many miners and other employees live. It's about 300 kilometers, or almost 200 miles, from the ore treatment facility.

Diamonds arrive at the sorting facility regularly, but not every day. 

For security reasons, Alrosa does not disclose how diamonds are transported from one place to another.

At this facility, diamonds are sorted by size, color, and quality.

The smaller stones go into machines that sift them through holes of varying diameters, sorting them into nine different size groups.

Larger stones are weighed for carat size in other machines.

Once they're sorted, the larger diamonds — stones that are 10.8 carats or bigger are considered "special size" diamonds — are cut, polished, and sold at international auctions like Christie's.

The smallest gems are sold rough — or unpolished — in bulk for industrial use , such as being embedded in grinding wheels, saw blades, and drill bits to be used for cutting and grinding hard materials.

After the preliminary sorting in Yakutia, the diamonds are transported almost 6,000 miles — a six-hour flight — to Alrosa's facilities in Moscow for evaluation, cutting, and polishing.

Security was tight at the facility in Moscow. We had to submit our passport to be checked, and I could only bring my camera and phone inside with me. Even my small bag had to be left outside. 

Here, the first stage is evaluating the diamond.

Evaluation entails trying to forecast the price of the stone and the number of diamonds you can get out of it. One rough stone can be as many as 10 or 12 polished diamonds.

One part of evaluation is a 3D scan of the diamond to see the potential size and shapes that will come out of it.

A special software called Sarine breaks down the potential diamond size, shapes, and prices.

"Everything is done to maximize the prospect revenue," an Alrosa employee told us.

The next step is cutting the rough diamonds, which is done using water lasers and can take months or even years.

"With diamonds, every time you make a decision, there's no way back," an Alrosa employee told us. "You know your decision can cost $1 million ... So that's why it's so hard and can take months."

Becoming a diamond cutter entails about six months of training and then a five-year apprenticeship, according to Alrosa. Some cutters specialize in particular shapes, such as only round diamonds or only heart-shaped diamonds.

After being cut, the diamonds are bruted, or formed into their preliminary shapes.

And finally, in the final stage, the diamond is polished using a spinning grading wheel coated with a special paste that's made of diamond dust.

Essentially, diamonds are polished by other diamonds.

Most of the gems Alrosa sells are rough diamonds, which means the stones have not yet been cut or polished. They sell most of these unpolished diamonds in bulk for industrial use to clients with whom they have long-term contracts.

Alrosa has about 65 clients under long-term contracts, which accounted for 77% of rough diamond sales in 2017, according to the company.

Jewelers generally bid on these rough diamonds by the box rather than buying individual stones.

In September 2019 alone, Alrosa sold $256.5 million worth of rough diamonds , according to the company.

But larger diamonds, those that are 10.8 carats or bigger and are considered "special size diamonds," are sold at international auctions.

In September 2019, Alrosa sold $2.2 million of polished diamonds.

In March 2019, Alrosa held a rough diamond auction in New York City that brought in $11.8 million.

The company is trying to boost its name recognition in the US , as the head of its North American division, Rebecca Foerster, told Business Insider's Richard Feloni earlier this year.

As of October, Alrosa had sold more than $2.4 billion worth of rough and polished diamonds in 2019.

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10 Fabergé eggs from the Moscow Kremlin Museums (PHOTOS)

In 1885, Emperor Alexander III was the first to commission a precious Easter egg from jeweler Carl Fabergé, and he presented it as a surprise gift to his wife, Empress Maria Feodorovna. 

His son, Nicholas II, continued the tradition - every year he gave them as presents not only to his mother but also his spouse, Alexandra Feodorovna. In total, the House of Fabergé made 52 eggs for the Imperial Family. After the 1917 Revolution, many were sold abroad by the Bolsheviks and today can be found in different museums around the world. However, some have been lost. As for these 10 masterpieces, they remained the property of the Russian state and are now part of the collection of the Moscow Kremlin Museums.

1. The Memory of Azov Egg, 1891

The egg, in neo-Rococo style, was made in the workshop of jeweler Mikhail Perkhin and was commissioned by Alexander III. This Easter gift commemorated a nine-month voyage to the East by the Tsar's sons (including the heir to the throne, the future Emperor Nicholas II). The surprise inside the egg is a miniature replica of the Pamiat Azova [Memory of Azov] armored cruiser on which the Tsareviches made their journey. The ship is made with gold and platinum, and set on a plate of aquamarine the color of sea water, in a gold frame with a loop for handling. The egg is made of dark green heliotrope, recalling the ocean depths.

2. The Bouquet of Lilies Clock Egg, 1899

This gold egg is one of 20 presented by Nicholas II to his wife, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, and is a true declaration of love. In addition to the lilies (a symbol of purity and innocence), the egg is also surmounted with a wreath of gold roses (a symbol of love). A white enamel dial with diamond numerals revolved horizontally, and a diamond-studded gold clock hand shaped like Cupid's arrow showed the time.

3. The Trans–Siberian Express Egg, 1900

One of the few eggs never to have left Russia, it commemorates a momentous event for the country - the completion of the main section of the Trans-Siberian Railway. The Easter gift is also a reminder that the future Emperor Nicholas II had visited the construction site during his journey to the East.

The egg shell has an interior lined with velvet, while its exterior is decorated with enamel and a wide silver belt on which a route map of the Trans-Siberian Railway is engraved (unfinished sections are marked by a dotted line). Inside the egg is a fold-away steam locomotive with a ruby lamp, diamond headlights and five carriages with windows made of rock crystal. A special mechanism set them in motion.

4. The Clover Egg, 1902

This egg is made in the Art Nouveau style fashionable at the time. Its surface is decorated with an exquisitely thin and delicate pattern imitating clover: Some leaves are covered in green enamel and the others in diamonds. A ruby ribbon curls through the openwork design, and the whole structure is supported on a pedestal of gold clover stems. If you open the egg, on the rim you can see a miniature crown of the Russian Empire and the year 1902. The surprise itself has been lost - it was a four-leaf clover adorned with diamonds, and miniature portraits of the Tsar's four daughters.

5. The Moscow Kremlin Egg, 1906

The largest of the Imperial eggs commemorates the visit of the Royal couple to Moscow for Easter in 1903. Nicholas and Aexandra didn't like to visit the old capital following the mass crush on Khodynka Field during the festivities after their coronation, so their two-week return to Moscow was a historic event. The egg itself resembles the main Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin and is crowned with a gold cupola. The jeweled masterpiece stands on a base that imitates the outlines of the Kremlin. The court jewelers paid attention to the smallest details and reproduced in gold and enamel the coat of arms on the Spasskaya Tower, as well as icons and items of the cathedral's interior. The egg also has a wind-up clock and musical mechanism that plays the "Cherubic Hymn", a favorite hymn of Nicholas II. 

6. The Alexander Palace Egg, 1908

In 1904, a long-awaited son and heir was born into the Imperial family - the Tsarevich Alexei. He was afflicted with hemophilia, however, and the Empress began to experience increasingly frequent anxiety attacks - so the royal couple decided to retreat from the prying eyes of fashionable society and went to live in the Alexander Palace outside the town in Tsarskoye Selo. The palace provides the theme of this egg by jeweler Henrik Wigström - a miniature replica of it is the surprise inside.

The dark green nephrite egg is encrusted with gold and studded with diamonds and rubies. It is adorned with five watercolor portraits of the children of Nicholas and Alexandra: Tatiana, Olga, Maria, Anastasia and Alexei.

7. The Standart Yacht Egg, 1909

In 1909, Nicholas II presented Alexandra with an Easter egg containing a miniature replica of the Imperial yacht Standart, his favorite ship on which he frequently put to sea with his family.

The egg is made of rock crystal and blue lapis lazuli. Inside, the gold miniature model of the yacht seems to be slicing through the crystal waves.

8. The Alexander III Monument Egg, 1909

Nicholas presented this Easter egg with a model of a monument commemorating his father, Alexander III, to his mother, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, in 1910. The miniature was inspired by a real monument to the "Peacemaker" Tsar which had been erected in St Petersburg in 1909. The gold monument stands on a lapis lazuli base. The surrounding egg is carved out of rock crystal, mounted entirely with platinum and decorated with double-headed eagles and diamond-encrusted trelliswork.

9. The Romanov Tercentenary Egg, 1913

Carl Fabergé made this valuable egg to coincide with an important date: The 300th anniversary of Romanov rule was being marked on a grand scale in Russia in 1913. The work is replete with state emblems - the egg's purpurine base with enamel decorations resembles one of the ancient items of Tsarist regalia, the Russian Imperial shield of state. A double-headed eagle of silver-gilt serves as the pedestal for the egg. In its talons the eagle holds other important regalia - the orb and scepter. The gold shell of the egg itself is decorated with enamel and 18 portraits of the Romanov dynasty's rulers - from the first tsar of the House of Romanov, Michael, to Nicholas II. The surprise contained inside the egg - reinforcing its function as a manifesto - is a globe portraying the territory of the Russian Empire.

10. The Steel Military Egg, 1916

During World War I, no-one was in a mood for experimental trelliswork or the sparkle of diamonds, so the Fabergé jewelers created an unusual Easter egg made of steel. The composition is topped by the Imperial crown, and on the polished body is the Imperial coat of arms - a double-headed eagle with arrows and a laurel wreath in its talons - symbols of war and glory. The egg stands on steel feet recalling artillery shells, placed on a base of jade.

The surprise inside is in the form of an easel with a watercolor showing Nicholas II visiting the army at the battlefront. The image is inspired by actual photographs of the time.

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32.31m  /  106'   sanlorenzo   2011 / 2023.

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Special Features:

• Recent refit in 2023
• 1,406nm range
• Two VIP cabins
• Cruising speed of 21 knots
• Sleeps 11 guests

Rare Diamond offers guests ample areas to unwind and kick back, as well as 4 generous suites, perfect for relaxing yacht charters

The 31.7m/104' 'Rare Diamond' motor yacht built by the Italian shipyard Sanlorenzo is available for charter for up to 11 guests in 5 cabins. This yacht features interior styling by Della Role Design.

Built in 2011, Rare Diamond is the ideal luxury yacht for kicking back and relaxing whilst on charter, showcasing clever use of space with an artful combination of integrated systems and luxurious features, she's a crowd-pleaser for sure.

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Rare Diamond offers guest accommodation for up to 11 guests in 5 suites comprising a master suite, two VIP cabins and two twin cabins. She is also capable of carrying up to 6 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht charter experience.

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Whatever your activities on your charter, you'll find some impressive features are seamlessly integrated to help you, notably Wi-Fi connectivity, allowing you to stay connected at all times, should you wish. You can stay comfortable on board whatever the weather, with air conditioning during your charter.

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Built with a GRP hull and GRP superstructure, she has impressive speed and great efficiency thanks to her planing hull. Powered by twin MTU engines, she comfortably cruises at 21 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 28 knots with a range of up to 1,406 nautical miles from her 12,400 litre fuel tanks at 11 knots.

Set against the backdrop of your chosen cruising ground, you and your guests can enjoy fun on the water with the collection of water toys and accessories aboard Rare Diamond. Take to the sea on a Jet Ski offering you power and control on the water. Also there is a towable toy offering fun and adventure. In addition there is a Slalom waterski that are hugely entertaining whether you are a beginner or a seasoned pro. If that isn't enough Rare Diamond also features a seabob, wakeboards, paddleboards and snorkelling equipment. When it's time to travel from land to see, it couldn't be easier with a Novurania Tender.

Based in the magical waters of the Mediterranean all year round Rare Diamond is ready for your next luxury yacht charter. Let Rare Diamond Discover the magical places, food and experiences of the the Mediterranean.

Rare Diamond is a unique motor yacht and the ideal platform for an adventure charter that will guarantee unforgettable memories.

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'Rare Diamond' Charter Rates & Destinations

Summer Season

May - September

€80,000 p/week + expenses Approx $86,000

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€90,000 p/week + expenses Approx $96,500

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October - April

€70,000 p/week + expenses Approx $75,000

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