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Billionaire superyacht showdown: who’s who in st. barths for new years 2022.

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Gustavia harbor, St Barts, Caribbean

Every time I arrive at St. Barths, I feel an instant buzz of energy. Typically on tropical Caribbean islands, I am lulled into a quiet calm, but this island's life is far from that, especially during the holidays. Beaches are full of sun worshippers, while streets are filled with traffic and shoppers, this paradise is pulsing with action.

This year many of the hotels are celebrating refreshed, renovated re-openings including my favorites; Cheval Blanc , Eden Rock , and Le Toiny . Also restaurants like Bagatelle , Le Tamarin , L’Isola and even a cool new bohemian beach club Gyp Sea (where you might rub elbows with Jeff Bezos). You will often see the yacht owners and their guests dining out at these boîtes, but during festival season, it is nearly impossible to get a table.

Anchored overlooking the action is a vast collection of some of the most spectacular superyachts in the world. Russian oligarchs and international CEOs rub shoulders with tanned and toned celebrities as they tease the paparazzi, and the nightlife seems to go on until the early hours.

This year, the legendary superyacht showdown started with numerous high-profile billionaires already anchored outside of Gustavia harbor and Anse de Colombier. Many stayed throughout Christmas on neighboring islands like Antigua, and Virgin Gorda, and then partied with the outrageous fireworks New Years' Eve celebration in St Barths.

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Despite the pandemic hitting all industries hard in the past two years, the yachting industry is thriving. In a recent Global Order report by Boat International , an impressive 1,024 yacht projects are being built or on order for 2022. Demand is strong across almost all superyacht categories and sizes 147 feet and above saw a rise of 10.5 percent. The Expedition yacht category grew by 33 percent, with 85 vessels recorded on build or on order.

Hot spots around St Barths hosted New Year's Eve parties, including Bonito (Kool & the Gang concert), and Nikki Beach , while Eden Rock had Dua Lipa performing at the Luisaviaroma x UNICEF gala.

Here is a selection of some of the largest yachts that were in and around St. Barths for the holidays. This list with owner details was sourced by my friends at Superyachtfan .

OVER 300 Feet

Superyacht Eclipse

ECLIPSE (533 feet)

Owned by billionaire Russian Steel magnate Roman Abramovich

Rising Sun yacht

RISING SUN (454 feet)

Owned by billionaire entertainment mogul David Geffen

'Flying Fox', one of the top 20 largest superyachts in the world

FLYING FOX (446 feet)

Previously rumored to be owned by Jeff Bezos but denied by Amazon

'Le Grand Bleu' yacht

LE GRAND BLEU (371 feet)

Owned by Russian oil billionaire Evgeny Shvidler

KAOS (361 feet)

Owned by Walmart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie

DREAM (348 feet)

Owned by Greek shipping magnate George Prokopiou

MOONRISE (327 feet)

Owned by billionaire WhatsApp founder Jan Koum

The Newly Restored Christina O, Former Private Yacht Of Aristotle Onassis

CHRISTINA O (325 feet)

Owned by Irish lawyer Ivor Fitzpatrick. Previously a Canadian anti-submarine frigate converted into a superyacht by Aristotle Onassis.

LAC LEMAN (315 feet)

Owned by biotech billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli .

KISMET (312 feet)

Owned by billionaire Jacksonville Jaguar owner Shahid Khan

QUEEN MIRI (300 feet)

Owned by casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.

TRANQUILITY (300 feet)

Owned by Malaysian Casino billionaire Lim Kok Thay

UNDER 300 feet

Addiction (172 feet).

Owned by Russian telecom oligarch Sergey Adoniev

AIR (266 feet)

Owned by Italian candy billionaire Augusto Perfetti

ARCHIMEDES (222 feet)

Owned by Renaissance Technology billionaire Jim Simons

AQUILA (281 feet)

Owned by Walmart heiress Ann Walton Kroenke

AXIOMA (240 feet)

Owned by Russian steel billionaire Dmitry Pumpyansky

AZTECA (236 feet)

Owned by Mexican media billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego

BATON ROUGE (205 feet)

Owned by construction magnate Martin Bouygues

BROADWATER (184 feet)

Owned by AnyBill founder Matthew Voorhees

ELYSIAN (253 feet)

Owned by Boston Red Sox billionaire owner John Henry

EXCELLENCE (263 feet)

Owned by billionaire car dealer Herb Chambers

FLAG (205 feet)

Owned by fashion icon Tommy Hilfiger

GENE MACHINE (180 feet)

Owned by Engineer/Scientist Jonathan Rothberg who has a lab aboard his yacht where is developing an at-home antigen test

HALO (189 feet)

Owned by Mexican beer billionaire Maria Asuncion Aramburuzabala

HOME (164 feet)

Owned by private investor and adventurer Harald McPike

HOSPITALITY (164 feet)

Owned by American Recovery Services founder Patrick Willis

ILLUSION V (189 feet)

Owned by property developer Brett Alexander Palos

JOY (230 feet)

Owned by real estate magnate Sahmeer Gehlaut

KAMALAYA (180 feet)

Owned by PokerStars billionaire Mark Scheinberg

KISSES (175 feet)

Owned by Florida car dealer Norman Braman

LADY JORGIA (243 feet)

Owned by waste managment magnate Patrick Dovigi

LADY KATHRYN V (203 feet)

Owned by Construction CEO Leo Vecellio

LARS (154 feet)

Owned by construction magnate Henry Holterman

LAUREL (240 feet)

Owned by Paychex founder billionaire Tom Golisano

LIONESS V (208 feet)

Formerly owned by British retail billionaire Sir Philip Green

LUNASEA (240 feet)

Owned by video game developer Yahn Bernier

MEAMINA (194 feet)

Owned by oil and gas magnate Beny Steinmetz

METIS (207 feet)

Owned by pharmaceutical billionaire Wilhelm Beier

MIA ELISE II (198 feet)

Owned by US car dealer Terry Taylor

MOSKITO (181 feet)

Owned by retail billionaire Tom Morris

MUCHO MAS (144 feet)

Owned by construction magnate Juan Carlos Mas

NENINKA (222 feet)

Owned by Grupo Financiero Interacciones billionaire Carlos Hank Rhon

NERO (296 feet)

Owned by Digicell billionaire founder Denis O’Brien

OLIVIA O (291 feet)

Owned by shipping billionaire Eyal Ofer

PARSIFAL III (177 feet)

Owned by coffee brewer magnate Kim Vobe Petersen

PLANET NINE (240 feet)

Owned by banker Nat Rothschild

POWER PLAY (181 feet)

Support vessel to yacht Moonrise, owned by WhatsApp founder Jan Koum.

ROCHADE (156 feet)

Owned by billionaire beer importers Rob and Richard Sands

ROSEHEARTY (183 feet)

Formerly owned by Rupert Murdoch and now developer/adventurer Joey Kaempfer

SAMURAI (197 feet)

Owned by German advertising billionaire Udo Mueller

SEANNA (213 feet)

Owned by real estate billionaire Stan Kroenke , and wife Walmart heiress Ann Walton

SEASENSE (207 feet)

Owned by real estate billionaire Charles Cohen

SILVER LINING (164 feet)

Owned by Life Cares billionaire founder Forrest Preston

SIREN (240 feet)

Owned by tech and real estate billionaire David Reuben

SOARING (224 feet)

Owned by Russian gas pipe magnate Ivan Shabalov

SYCARA V (233 feet)

Owned by Auto Group CEO Ray Catena

TITANIA (232 feet)

Owned by mobile phone billionaire John Caudwell

TRIUMPH (213 feet)

Owned by British retail magnate Chris Dawson

UNBRIDLED (191 feet)

Owned by chewing gum billionaire William Wrigley

W (190 feet)

Owned by WeatherTech founder David Macneil

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Dave is CEO of Kindred Partners, a tech startup executive search firm. He is founder of Fantex, which allows people to buy equity in athletes. Arian Foster, Vernon Davis and others have sold shares in their career through the site. He led Benchmark Capital through one of the most successful periods in venture investing ever. They invested in ebay at $20M and it was worth $20B less than 2 years later Dave founded Ramsey/Beirne Associates, the leader in senior management, high-impact search for information technology companies. In his more than 10 years at Ramsey/Beirne, Dave was CEO of the firm and developed a nationwide reputation for recruiting high-profile executives. His angel investments include 1-800-Flowers, Inc.(FLWS), Blazent, Galyan's Trading Company (GLYN), Kana (KANA), NorthStar, Securify, Vivecon, Vontu and Webvan. The home was formerly owned by his Benchmark colleague Bob Kagle. The home is 11,600 sq. ft.

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So You Want to Be a Venture Capitalist

By Gary Rivlin

• May 22, 2005

MENLO PARK, CALIF. - BY all rights Stewart Alsop should have been a terrific venture capitalist. So why did Mr. Alsop, long considered a cyber-prophet among technology leaders, wash out in a profession in which he seemed predestined to succeed?

In recent months, as venture capital firms have announced the formation of new investment funds, a hot topic among the Silicon Valley cognoscenti has been the exodus of "tourist V.C.'s," as people from nonfinancial backgrounds are known here. Some have left the field because they did not pick enough winners; others have gone on to pursue different projects. Whatever the reason, there are hundreds fewer venture capitalists around today than just two years ago.

The business of financing start-ups, it turns out, may not be as easy as it seems. "There are Darwinian characteristics to venture capital," said C. Richard Kramlich, a founding partner at New Enterprise Associates, a top Valley firm that hired Mr. Alsop in 1996. "Below the surface there's a huge amount of turnover."

At first Mr. Alsop seemed destined for venture capital greatness. But for him and others who made the leap into venture capital in the second half of the 1990's, the experience proved humbling.

A technology journalist dating back to 1983, Mr. Alsop was the founder of Agenda, an invitation-only computer industry conference that drew the likes of Microsoft's Bill Gates. Part of the appeal was that Mr. Alsop had a talent for spotting promising technologies and undiscovered start-ups before others.

But Mr. Alsop and New Enterprise Associates parted ways in December. Mr. Alsop said he left because he felt most comfortable working with nascent technology companies, and, increasingly, N.E.A. has been broadening its focus well beyond investing in very small start-ups. He described his own track record over eight years as good but not great.

But Mr. Kramlich, who has worked as a venture capitalist since 1969, put it more harshly. The firm, it seemed, had simply run out of patience with Mr. Alsop, as it did with others who were not seen as pulling their weight. N.E.A. has raised a pair of billion-dollar-plus funds over the last five years, sums high enough to have raised the stakes of the game.

"We can't really have people learning on the job anymore," Mr. Kramlich said. Two-thirds of the partners who were at N.E.A. in 1997 are no longer at the firm, he said, and then cited an internal study that went a long way in explaining why: the surviving third accounted for 85 percent of the firm's profit.

Turnover is the story at many well-known venture firms. Consider Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, widely viewed as one of the two premier venture outfits in Silicon Valley.

In February 2004, Kleiner began a $400 million fund, but it isn't managed by any of the half dozen or so of the partners who worked for the firm in the late 90's; they had either left the firm or been relegated to secondary roles. Kleiner has hired three new managing partners since the start of the year.

And when Benchmark Capital closed its own $400 million fund last June, the firm announced that David Beirne, who had helped found Benchmark in 1995, was no longer a full partner. "Sometimes it's true that a partner left a firm over strategic differences or whatever they say, but that's the exception rather than the rule," said Steve Dow, a venture capitalist with Sevin Rosen. More typically, he said, it's "because they didn't have a good enough sense of smell about a deal."

Mr. Alsop and Mr. Beirne follow many other illustrious names out of major venture firms. Mitchell D. Kapor, the founder of Lotus Development, whose 1-2-3 spreadsheet software made Lotus one of the early giants of software, should have been a natural as a venture capitalist.

Mr. Kapor had enormous success investing for himself in barely-formed start-ups like RealNetworks and UUNet Technologies, both of which provided him with staggering payouts.

Yet he did not prove to be a star the years he worked as a professional venture capitalist.

"The fact that it's someone else's money you're investing, and that you're investing as part of a partnership, that was more different than I thought it would be," said Mr. Kapor, who went to work in 1999 for Accel Partners, another top venture house in Silicon Valley. "I later found out that everybody who makes the transition like I did says that."

Mr. Kapor failed to choose a single company that made him, his partners and their investors any money. He confesses he was 0-for-5 in the investments he made during his three years at Accel. "Most of us learned the hard way that venture investing is best left to the professionals," said Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of Netscape Communications.

Shortly after America Online paid $4 billion to buy Netscape, Mr. Andreessen helped bankroll a venture firm called 12 Entrepreneuring, a short-lived partnership forged in early 2000 by Benchmark and a pair of successful Internet entrepreneurs, Halsey M. Minor and Eric Greenberg. But 12 Entrepreneuring ceased operations only 18 months after it started, and the partners, including Mr. Andreessen, lost nearly two-thirds of the money they had invested.

"I think what a lot of these guys learned, some the hard way, is that you're a natural athlete or you're not," said Sanford Robertson, the co-founder and former chairman of the investment bank Robertson, Stephens & Company, who has been investing in venture funds for more than 20 years. "Some can do it, and some can't, and like with athletes there's no way of telling until they take the field."

At the end of the 90's, it seemed everyone in Silicon Valley wanted to become a venture capitalist (except those who wanted to be entrepreneurs funded by venture capitalists). As the ranks of venture capitalists more than doubled, according to the National Venture Capital Association, from less than 5,000 in 1995 to nearly 10,000 by 2001, firms started hiring people from outside traditional fields like finance or operations.

Suddenly many lawyers, entrepreneurs, journalists and executive recruiters were trying their hand at playing venture capitalist -- just as today any number of investment bankers, financial analysts and others seem to be starting their own hedge funds.

IT'S easy to understand why so many joined the swelling ranks of venture capitalists. A general partner at a top-tier firm typically earns at least $1 million in salary. But the real payoff is what venture capitalists call "the carry" -- the 20 to 30 percent of the profits they share among themselves before disbursing the rest to investors.

An informal survey of venture capitalists suggested that a partner working at a top-tier firm in the 90's could pocket roughly $50 million over the life of a single fund -- with venture firms typically raising a new fund every few years.

Beyond the vast financial rewards, there are the thrills. A venture capitalist is not unlike a movie producer auditioning tomorrow's stars. "Being a venture capitalist was viewed as a very exciting, top of the feeding chain sort of thing," said Scott Dettmer, a founding partner at the Silicon Valley law firm Gunderson Dettmer, who has been providing legal advice to venture capitalists since the 1980's. "But what I think a lot of people learned is that it's not as much fun or as easy as it might have looked from the outside."

Certainly, the early years are often painful. One of the industry's more legendary investors, John Doerr at Kleiner Perkins (his hits include Google, Amazon, Netscape and Sun Microsystems), used to say that training a new venture capitalist was not unlike preparing a fighter pilot for battle: it takes "probably six to eight years and you should be prepared for losses of about $20 million.

"Of course, while we take risk, we work like hell to avoid crashes," Mr. Doerr said.

By that standard, Mr. Alsop was successful at N.E.A. He didn't lose money in his eight years, and, by his calculations, earned the partnership a 100 percent return on the investments he oversaw. Shortly after his arrival, he persuaded his partners to pay $1.7 million for an ownership stake in a software start-up called Connectify, which was purchased by Kana Communications. That earned the partnership 22 times its money.

He could also take some credit for the success of TiVo, the digital video recorder company that went public in September 1999. Mr. Alsop didn't bring that deal to N.E.A., but he worked closely with the company founders as a member of TiVo's board of directors. He said that the TiVo deal had earned N.E.A. and its investors 11 times their investment.

"I think I've done very well as a venture capitalist, but I'm not in the god category," Mr. Alsop said. He defines a venture god as someone who has made $100 million to $500 million on a single investment. His list of industry deities includes Mr. Doerr, Mr. Kramlich and Michael Moritz at Sequoia Capital, who was an early investor in Google and Yahoo.

Mr. Moritz seems to prove the point that there is no obvious résumé for the perfect venture capitalist. Prior to joining Sequoia in 1986, Mr. Moritz was a business journalist and a writer for Time magazine, though one with an M.B.A.

Mr. Kramlich, who has a background in finance, said: "Venture capital doesn't necessarily take a lot of technical talent. "I mean, it doesn't hurt, but it's more about people skills and the ability to assess whether there's a market for something."

Certainly Mr. Beirne, formerly of Benchmark, has people skills. Before joining Benchmark in 1995, he had a stellar reputation as an executive recruiter able to persuade the most reluctant candidate to switch jobs. Yet how he performed in his nine years as a general partner at Benchmark depends on whom one asks.

MR. BEIRNE acknowledged that many in the clubby V.C. world may think he left because of a mediocre track record, but he disputes that perception.

"I have been personally responsible for returning a billion dollars" to investors, he wrote in an e-mail message. He decided to leave the partnership for a "personal reason related to one of my children" and "no other reason." Yet apparently for some, once a venture capitalist, always a venture capitalist. Mr. Alsop is exploring the possibility of raising a fund for new start-ups.

"I feel at this point I'm very good at this," he said. It's only a matter of time, he said, before he scores what he describes as a "godlike hit."

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Continuing Bryant University’s long legacy of highly accomplished Board of Trustees members, Bryant has added four new members to the Board. As previously announced, on October 1, visionary entrepreneur David M. Beirne ’85 succeeded William J. Conaty ’67 as Chair. 

One of Bryant’s most philanthropic alumni, Dave Beirne joined the Board in 2001 and has had notable service on the Executive and Finance Committees, and as Chair of the Nominating Committee and Vice Chair of the Compensation Committee. A leading force in the information technology arena for more than 30 years, he is currently General Partner and Co-Founder of X10 Capital, LLC, a pioneering private equity fund. Prior to X10, he was one of the five original General Partners at Benchmark Capital, LLC, helping to establish the firm as one of the leading venture capital firms in information technology. Before joining Benchmark, Beirne co-founded Ramsey/Beirne Associates, nationally recognized as the leader in high impact executive search in information technology.

After nearly a decade of extraordinary service as Board Chair, and as Vice Chair, Secretary of the Executive Committee, and member of the University Board of Trustees since 2008, Bill Conaty will continue his service as a member of the Board. As Senior Vice President (retired), Corporate Human Resources at General Electric Company, he was the human resources leader for over 300,000 GE employees worldwide. Conaty was widely acclaimed for his track record of innovation and was the architect behind many of GE's HR practices in the areas of workforce differentiation and succession planning. He is among Bryant’s most accomplished alumni and he and his wife, Sue, are among the top five most generous donors in Bryant history.

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Bryant’s four new Trustees are Ann-Marie Harrington ’86; Beverly Ledbetter, J.D., ’18H; Angelique Perrone ’20, Recent Alumni Trustee; and Steven Richard ’00MBA.

Recognized as a national expert on technology, corporate growth, and marketing in a dynamic environment driven by today’s rapidly changing culture, Harrington has been a Partner/Advisor for Scribo, a cybersecurity messaging transmission in Watertown, MA, since 2019. In 1998 she founded Embolden, a leading digital communications and marketing firm specializing in high growth sectors. She is a former member of the National Alumni Council and current member of the Bryant Leadership Council, the College of Business Dean’s Advisory Council and Alumni Ambassador Program.

Highly regarded as a national expert in higher education law, Beverly Ledbetter served as Vice President and General Counsel at Brown University for 40 years, retiring in 2018 while continuing to collaborate on special initiatives. The first general counsel at Brown, she was also the first African American female general counsel for an Ivy League school. She lectures frequently on higher education topics including employment, civil rights, sexual and racial harassment, and federal regulatory compliance. Ledbetter is a member of the Bryant Leadership Council and previously served as a Bryant Trustee from 1998 through 2007.

Recent Alumni Trustee Angie Perrone is currently employed in the Marketing Leadership Development Program at Cigna Corporation, a global health services company. She earned her Bryant degree with a major in Business Administration and double concentrations in Marketing and Applied Analytics, with a minor in Communication. On campus she gained real-world experience through her roles as an Admission Student Ambassador, Director of Marketing for the Recreation Department within Athletics, and Head Resident Assistant within Student Affairs.

Steven Richard, J.D., is a partner at Nixon Peabody, a global law firm with major practice areas across the U.S., Europe and Asia. He is a trial and appellate attorney admitted in federal and state courts in Rhode Island as well as Connecticut and Massachusetts. His practice areas include higher education law, employment law, government law and business litigation, and he is recognized as an expert on electronic discovery and risk management issues. Consistently cited as one of The Best Lawyers in America, he serves as a member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys.

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During the Board of Trustees October 2 meeting, the Board passed a resolution to name Ronald K. Machtley President Emeritus. His formal president’s portrait, commissioned of acclaimed artist Burt Silverman, is installed in the Unistructure Administration Hall gallery of portraits, which now includes all of the eight presidents in Bryant history preceding President Ross Gittell, Ph.D. 

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Name and role: David Beirne, managing director UPMC Ireland, senior vice-president UPMC International

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Family: Married to Esther, with two boys and a girl

My Working Day: I like to wake up early and I am generally tuned in for 8am. This gives me a good start to the day and follow-through to communicate with my international colleagues well into the evening.

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President Vladimir Putin  has arrived for his first-ever presidential visit to Chukotka in Russia 's Far East - just 55 miles from the US state of Alaska . 

Putin arrived in Anadyr, the local capital of the Chukotka region this morning after flying from Moscow some nine time zones away. 

Chukotka is the easternmost region of Russia, with a maritime border on the Bering Strait with Alaska.

The Russian president was met in Anadyr by a motorcade and was whisked away in a limousine amid frigid temperatures of -28C. 

It's the closest he has come to US soil since he met with President  Barack Obama in New York City in 2015.

Chukotka is so close to Alaska that Roman Abramovich - the ex-Chelsea FC owner - was reported to fly to Anchorage in Alaska for lunch when he was the governor of the region from 2001 - 2008.

Putin's visit comes at a time when US-Russian relations are at their lowest ebb in decades amid the war in Ukraine and a growing East-West divide. 

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today landed in Lithuania as part of an unannounced trip to the Baltic states to drum up more support for the conflict. 

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'Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are our reliable friends and principled partners. Today, I arrived in Vilnius before going to Tallinn and Riga,' Zelensky said on social media platform X, formerly Twitter.

'Security, EU and NATO integration, cooperation on electronic warfare and drones, and further coordination of European support are all on the agenda,' he said.

The Baltic tour marks Zelensky's first official trip abroad this year.

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The visit comes as other Kyiv allies waver on fresh aid, nearly two years into Russia's invasion.

Ukraine has come under intense Russian shelling in recent weeks, retaliating with strikes on Russia's border city of Belgorod.

Zelensky has urged allies to keep military support flowing and held in-person talks with officials from the United States, Germany and Norway last month.

But an EU aid package worth 50 billion euros ($55 billion) has been stuck in Brussels following a veto by Hungary, while the US Congress remains divided on sending additional aid to Ukraine.

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'It is impossible to be in our homes… We are freezing! We are freezing! We are freezing!' they said. 

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ST DAVID YACHT CHARTER

60m  /  196'10   benetti   2008 / 2019.

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Cabin Configuration

• 5 Double/Twin

Special Features:

• Split-level Master Suite Offers Panoramic Views
• Baroque Style with Mosaic Floors
• Outdoor Cinema & Private Nightclub
• Spa & Massage Facilities
• Flexible Accommodation

Primed for discerning charter guests, luxury yacht St David offers the height of luxury living

The 60m/196'10" 'St David' (ex. Xanadu) motor yacht built by the Italian shipyard Benetti is available for charter for up to 12 guests in 6 cabins. This yacht features interior styling by British designer Winch Design.

Built in 2008, St David boasts a multitude of decks ideal for relaxation and entertainment indoors or outdoors, ensuring guests will live la dolce vita on the open waters. Her features include a dancefloor, spa and gym.

Guest Accommodation

St David offers guest accommodation for up to 12 guests in 6 suites comprising a master suite and five cabins that can operate as twins or doubles. The bed configuration includes 1 king, 1 queen and 4 doubles. She is also capable of carrying up to 14 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht charter experience.

Onboard Comfort & Entertainment

Keeping comfortable and entertained on St David is easy thanks to the available amenities, notably a dancefloor where you and your guests can celebrate in style. Kick back and relax in the well-appointed spa plus a gym with all the latest equipment is available for a good work out. Sit back with a glass of champagne in the deck jacuzzi.

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.

Performance & Range

Built with a steel hull and aluminium superstructure, she offers greater on-board space and is more stable when at anchor thanks to her full-displacement hull. Powered by twin Caterpillar engines, she comfortably cruises at 13 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 17 knots with a range of up to 5,500 nautical miles from her 116,000 litre fuel tanks at 12 knots. An advanced stabilisation system on board reduces the side-to-side roll of the yacht and promises guests exceptional comfort levels at anchor or when underway.

Set against the backdrop of your chosen cruising ground, you and your guests can enjoy endless days of fun on the water with the exceptional collection of water toys and accessories aboard St David. You'll be loving the huge adrenaline rush as you zip over the water on a Yamaha GP 1300 WaveRunner. Another excellent feature are waterskis that are hugely entertaining whether you are a beginner or a seasoned pro. Also there are two Cayago F7 SEABOBs providing agile cruising and diving. If that isn't enough St David also features wakeboards, kayaks, fishing equipment, scuba diving equipment and inflatable water toys. St David features two tenders, but leading the pack is a 7.5m/24'7" Tresco Limo Tender to transport you in style.

St David and her crew are available for charter this winter for cruising within Bermuda and the Caribbean. She is already accepting bookings this summer for cruising in the Mediterranean.

With its luxurious interiors, vast array of onboard facilities and a highly-trained and professional crew, a luxury yacht vacation onboard motor yacht St David promises to be nothing short of spectacular.

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Amenities & Entertainment

For your relaxation and entertainment St David has the following facilities, for more details please speak to your yacht charter broker.

St David is reported to be available to Charter with the following recreation facilities:

• 1 x 7.5m  /  24'7 Tresco Custom Limo Tender Volvo and Rolls Royce 300 HP engine
• 1 x 4.7m  /  15'5 Ribline Custom RIB

For a full list of all available amenities & entertainment facilities, or price to hire additional equipment please contact your broker.

St David Awards & Nominations

• The World Superyacht Awards 2009 Best Displacement Motor Yacht of 500GT to 1,299GT (approximately 50m – 59m) Finalist
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For a full list of all available amenities & entertainment facilities, or price to hire additional equipment please contact your broker.

APPROVED RYA WATER SPORTS CENTRE

Your family and friends could learn to use the water toys on your charter vacation onboard this luxury charter yacht. Motor Yacht St David is a certified RYA Training Centre yacht.

'St David' Charter Rates & Destinations

Summer Season

May - September

€325,000 p/week + expenses Approx $353,000

High Season

€345,000 p/week + expenses Approx $375,000

Cruising Regions

Mediterranean Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Monaco, Montenegro

HOT SPOTS:   Amalfi Coast, Corsica, French Riviera, Mykonos, Sardinia

Winter Season

October - April

$325,000 p/week + expenses

$345,000 p/week + expenses

Bermuda Caribbean Antigua, Bahamas, Cuba, Saint Martin, St Barts Central America Costa Rica

HOT SPOTS:   Virgin Islands

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