Yacht name: Talon
Formerly: L'Escapade of London • Valerie • J-Olives
Length: 134 ft • 41 m
Year: 1988
Builder: Siar & Moschini

Top photo: 8 August 2006 • Golfe Juan • monacoeye
Bottom photo: December 2006 • St Barths • Bob Paylor

length - year: 134 - 1988

Yacht name: Huntress
Length: 180 ft • 55 m
Year: 1997
Builder: Feadship • #655
Location: Antibes 4 September 2006
Update (bottom): St Barths December 2006 by Bob Paylor

length - year: 181 - 1997

Yacht name: Lethantia
Formerly: Borkumriff III
Length: 144 ft • 44 m
Year: 1994
Builder: Royal Huisman

Photo date: Monaco Yacht Show, 21 September 2005

Thanks to Steve Tomkins & a couple of his friends, Andreas and Werner for the id. This aluminium-hulled gaff-rigged schooner was photographed at the 2005 Monaco Yacht Show.

length - year: 144 - 1994

Yacht name: April Fool
Formerly: Lioness
Length: 200 ft • 61 m
Year: 2006
Builder: Feadship • Van Lent • #792

Photo: monacoeye • 2 August 2006 • Beaulieu
Photo: Bob Paylor • 29 December 2006 • St Barths

Great to see this new design from Feadship, combining traditional elements and modern styling…

length - year: 200 - 2006

Yacht name: Amazon Express
Length: 221 ft • 67 m
Year: 1966
Refit: 1984
Builder: Arsenale Veneziana
Owner: Johnny Pigozzi • Photographer
Photo date: 24 May 2006, Cannes Film Festival

29 December 2006, top photo: Nice new shots of Amazon Express in St Barths, by Bob Paylor

length - year: 221 - 1966

Yacht name: Battered Bull
Length: 172 ft • 52 m
Year: 1995
Builder: Feadship • Van Lent • #774
Interior: Bruce Gregga

Photo date: Bob Paylor • St Barths • December 2006

length - year: 172 - 1995

Yacht name: Arm's Reach • Westport 130 #4
Length: 130 ft • 40 m
Year: 2004
Builder: Westport • #1509

Photo: Robert Paylor • St Barths • December 2006

Sisterships: Kaleen • Björg III • Arm's Reach • Corrie Lynn • Miss Sydney

length - year: 130 - 2004

Yacht name: Katina
Length: 99 ft • 30.2 m
Year: 2005
Builder: Hargrave

Photo: December 2006 • St Barths • Robert Paylor

length - year: 99 - 2005

Tender to Rising Sun - from Vaudrey Miller.

Photo: Robert Paylor • December 2006 • St Barths

Name: Spirit of Zen
Model: Pershing 88
Length: 88 ft • 28 m
Builder: Pershing
Year: 2002
Cruising speed: 32 knots
Engines: 2 x MTU 2000 hp
Location: St Barths
Photo date: December 2006
Photographer: Robert Paylor

length - year: 88 - 2002

Yacht name: Continental Drifter II • Cheoy Lee 90 Explorer
Length: 90 ft • 27 m
Builder: Cheoy Lee

Photo: Robert Paylor • 2005 • St Barths

US celeb Jimmy Buffet's former (?) yacht. Replaced by the larger Delta Marine Continental Drifter III

length - year: 90

Yacht name: Nisor
Formerly: Clipper 40
Length: 145 ft • 44 m (LWL 40m)
Year: 1994
Builder: Universal Yacht Corp • Thailand

length - year: 145 - 1994

1st December 2006: Bob, our St Barths correspondent, says things are hotting up down in the port of Gustavia and has sent in another crop of shots. This overview of the port, from right to left, shows: Snow Goose • Jamie • Charisma • Summerwind • Ticonderoga of Greenwich • Andale • Happy Days • Aviva II • Linda Lou • Excellence III and Ultima III. Bob says "the last 2 base themselves here pretty much for 4 months a year, things are filling up and the season is only just starting.....enjoy". Anyone else got a nice port shot to share?

18 December 2006: update (top shot). On the Hotel de Ville side, out of view: Allegria • Azure Leisure • Lady Dahlia • Kaleen • Our Toy. In the photo, not in order: Snow Goose • QS Atlantic • Lady Georgina • Braveheart • Bravelove One • Contrarian • Summerwind • Princess K • Shergar • Ticonderoga of Greenwich • Andale • Happy Days • Jamaica Bay • Helios 2 • Excellence III and you can make out Ultima III at the back moving into position…

Yacht name: Ana Nefeli
Model: Swan 75
Length: 75 ft • 23 m
Year: 2005
Builder: Swan Nautor

Photo: Monacoeye • St Tropez • October 2006

length - year: 75 - 2005

Yacht name: J One
Formerly: Magic Carpet
Length: 79 ft • 24 m
Year: 1997
Builder: CNB for Wally
Design: German Frers

Photo: monacoeye • Voiles de St Tropez 2006

Yacht name: Pen Duick VI
Also later: Euromarché
Length: 73 ft • 22.25 m
Year: 1973
Builder: Arsenal de Brest
Design: André Mauric
Owner: Tabarly family etc

Location: Voiles de Saint Tropez
Photo date: October 2006

Eric Tabarly won the 1976 Transatlantic in the all-aluminium ketch Penduick VI. Now it's used mostly for training in St Malo. Pen Duick means Black Head, the Breton name for the Coal Tit.

length - year: 73 - 1973

Yacht name: Candyscape
Formerly: Ambrosia -> Ambrosiana -> Lady Lola -> Lady Christina of Merseyside
Length: 147 ft • 45 m
Year: 1995
Builder: Benetti • FB214
Location: Monaco

length - year: 147 - 1995

Yacht name: Allegria
Formerly: Flamingo Daze
Length: 152 ft • 46 m
Year: 2004
Builder: Hakvoort • # 235
Architect: Vripack
Stylist: Glade Johnson

Photo date: Bob Paylor • St Barths • December 2006

length - year: 152 - 2004

Yacht name: Contrarian
Formerly: Namoh
Length: 106 ft • 32 m
Year: 1993
Builder: Broward Marine • # 525

Photo: Bob Paylor • December 2006 • St Barths

length - year: 106 - 1993

Yacht name: Med USA
Model: AB 68
Length: 68 ft • 21 m
Builder: AB Yachts
Top speed: 50 knots

Photo: Monaco • October 2006

This eye-catching AB 68 is made in Italy. AB yachts currently have four models: 58, 68, 78 & 92 with plans for 98, 116 & 140 in the pipeline. They're part of the FIPA group which also make the larger Maiora yachts…

length - year: 68

Tender name: Iguana 36
Length: 36 ft • 11 m
Year: 2006
Builder: Supermarine
Engines: 2 x 320 hp
Top speed: 52 knots
Location: Monaco Yacht Show
Photo date: October 2006

This Viareggio-built Iguana was one of the new tenders at the Monaco Yacht Show this year…

Yacht name: Hot Chocolate
Model: Heesen 2300 DYC
Length: 75 ft • 23 m
Year: 2006
Builder: Heesen - Dutch Yacht Cooperation DYC

Photo: monacoeye • October 2006 • Monaco Yacht Show

length - year: 75 - 2006

Yacht name: Metsuyan IV
Length: 119 ft • 36 m
Year: 2006
Builder: CBI Navi
Architect: Jaron Ginton
Interior: Ken Freivokh

Location: Monaco Yacht Show
Photo date: October 2006

length - year: 119 - 2006

Yacht name: Fils de Grace
Formerly: Sir Arthur J
Length: 178 ft • 55 m
Year: 1968
Refit: 2003
Builder: Smit
Conversion: De Haas & Hoogendoorn

Location: Beaulieu
Photo date: Summer 2006

length - year: 178 - 1968

Yacht name: Moneikos • C112
Length: 203 ft • 62 m
Year: 2006
Builder: Codecasa • C112

Photo: Monaco • 4 September 2006

Moneikos, based in Monaco, was launched in June 2006 as a replacement for the previous Moneikos, now called Dakota.

The name Moneikos may refer to the Greek word Monoikos, often considered the origin of the current name of Monaco. Monoikos was the name of the 6th century BC colony of Phoceans from Massalia, today Marseilles, who settled Monaco. Phocea, near modern day Izmir in Turkey, was, in turn, at that time colonised by the Greeks, which explains the Greek name. Hercules was said to have passed through Monoikos on his travels, and in this area he was known as Hercules Monoikos. Port Hercule still bears his name. Julius Caesar also passed through Monaco, which the Romans called Monœcus…

length - year: 203 - 2006

Yacht name: Arcadia
Length: 118 ft • 36 m
Year: 2006
Builder: Royal Huisman

Photo: Monaco Yacht Show • October 2006

Arcadia, the instant classic from Royal Huisman, designed by Tony Castro, has been winning plaudits from the critics since her launch earlier this year. Eschewing the bigger-is-better philosophy, the new owner, an experienced American yachtsman from the East Coast, preferred a luxury yacht on a human scale that was capable of exploring smaller inlets and ports. Arcadia's first trip took the family on a cruise to Scandinavia for a spot of iceberg watching. An aluminium hull reduces friction, increases fuel economy, and is less brittle in Polar temperatures.

length - year: 118 - 2006

Yacht name: Clementine • Moonen 96
Length: 96 ft • 30 m
Year: 2005
Builder: Moonen

Location: Monaco
Photo date: September 2006

length - year: 96 - 2005

Yacht name: Bystander -> Santa Maria
Formerly: Santa Maria
Length: 108 ft • 33 m
Year: 1963
Builder: Feadship • #639

Photo: monacoeye • October 2006 • Les Voiles de Saint Tropez

Bystander has been the support ship for the J-class Velsheda for many years - which is why she has the J-K7 painted on her funnel. During summer 2006 a new 42m Vripack-designed, JFA-built classic Bystander was launched, to support Velsheda - but I didn't see her at St Tropez.

length - year: 108 - 1963

Yacht name: Velsheda • J K7
Length: 128 ft • 39 m
Year: 1933
Builder: Camper & Nicholson
Refit: Gerard Dijkstra

Photos: Monaco Classic Week October 2005 & Voiles de Saint Tropez October 2006

Named after first owner WL (Woolworth) Stephenson's three daughters Velma, Sheila and Daphne, Velsheda was the second of four legendary UK J-class yachts. She was restored in 1984 and then more recently completely reworked from the bare hull by Dijkstra and Mumford, with carbon-fibre mast and refaired hull, in Southampton, in 1998.

Yacht name: Libertas
Formerly: Jumbo VI
Model: Moonen 85
Length: 85 ft • 24 m
Year: 1990
Builder: Moonen

Location: St Tropez
Photo date: October 2006

As Jumbo VI, this was the royal yacht of Prince Bernhard of Holland, who died in 2004, father of current Queen Beatrix. The yacht was sold in 2005 and renamed Libertas. Here seen attending Les Voiles de Saint Tropez 2006.

length - year: 85 - 1990

Yacht name: Lady J
Formerly: Bacino
Length: 116 ft • 33 m
Year: 1988
Builder: Diaship - Heesen • # 7126
Hull Design: Frank Mulder

Photo: Monaco • 2006

length - year: 116 - 1988

Yacht name: Silvertip
Length: 111 ft • 34 m
Year: 2002
Builder: YDL - Yachting Developments
Location: Monaco & St Tropez
Photo date: October 2006

This Dubois-designed high performance sloop has won Best Sailing Yacht awards from both the Superyacht Society & Showboats International

length - year: 111 - 2002

Yacht name: Hirondelle II
Length: 269 ft • 82 m
Year: 1911
Builder: La Seyne, Toulon
Photo location: Monaco
Power: 2200 hp twin screw
Speed: 15 knots
Owner: Prince Albert I, Albert Grimaldi of Monaco (1848 - 1922)

Hirondelle II was Albert's fourth and final explorer ship which he had built in 1911. His fastest and largest ship, it was even equipped with wireless telegraph. Whenever the Prince spent time in Monaco during WWI he stayed on board the yacht in the harbour! After the war, the ship stayed in Monaco to the Prince's death in 1922.

Photo credit: By kind permission of NOAA Rice Library of the NOAA Centers for Coastal Ocean Science. Image ID: ship4641, NOAA Ship Collection. The HIRONDELLE II. Plate III, figure 13. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 84.

Yacht name: Princesse Alice II
Builder: Laird, Birkenhead
Year: 1897
Length: 207 ft • 63 m
Photo location: Monaco
Owner: Prince Albert I of Monaco

Princesse Alice II was Prince Albert's third ship, which he sailed to the Arctic on scientific expeditions.

Photo credit: By kind permission of NOAA Rice Library of the NOAA Centers for Coastal Ocean Science. Image ID: ship4639, NOAA Ship Collection. The Princess Alice II. Plate III, figure 10. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 84.

Yacht name: Princesse Alice
Length: 174 ft • 53 m
Builder: R & H Green, Blackwall
Year: 1891
Owner: Prince Albert I

Princesse Alice was the Prince's second ship which he had built in 1891, after the death of his father in 1889.

Photo credit: By kind permission of NOAA Rice Library of the NOAA Centers for Coastal Ocean Science. Image ID: ship4640, NOAA Ship Collection. The PRINCESS ALICE. Plate III, figure 11. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 84.

Yacht name: Hirondelle
Length: 32 m • 104 ft
Year: 1862
Builder: Camper & Nicholsons, Gosport
Owner: Prince Albert I, Albert Grimaldi of Monaco (1848 - 1922)

The Hirondelle was Prince Albert's first serious yacht (he had previously owned a small cutter Isabelle II). In 1875, he converted Hirondelle from pleasure yacht to explorer yacht with on-board lab to examine specimens and map the sea floor. Thus started his life-long passion for oceanography…

Photo credit: By kind permission of NOAA Rice Library of the NOAA Centers for Coastal Ocean Science. Image ID: ship4638, NOAA Ship Collection. The HIRONDELLE. Plate III, figure 6. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 84.

NOAA have kindly permitted monacoeye.com to show photos of the four great explorer ships sailed by Prince Albert at the turn of the century, reproduced from their archives. Many thanks!

The model photos were taken in the Oceanographic Museum.

I found this old hand-coloured postcard in a market at the weekend.
I was told that it must predate 1902 since that was when the "old" port jetties were originally built, with their lighthouses.

Photographer: Jean Giletta (1856 - 1933)

Yacht name: Summerwind
Model: 145 Global Series
Formerly: Sea Shaw
Length: 145 ft • 44 m
Year: 1995
Builder: Cheoy Lee
Architect: Frank Mulder
Location: St Barths
Photo date: 2006
Photographer: Robert Paylor

length - year: 145 - 1995

Yacht name: Our Toy
Length: 120 ft • 36 m
Year: 1991
Builder: Feadship • Van Lent • #767
Architect: De Voogt

Photographer: Robert Paylor • 2006 • St Barths

length - year: 120 - 1991

Yacht name: Luna Sea
Model: Akhir 110
Length: 110 ft • 33 m
Builder: Cantieri di Pisa • Akhir
Location: St Barths
Photo date: 2006
Photographer: Robert Paylor

Sistership: Paragon

length - year: 110

Yacht name: Bella Navetta • Navetta 30
Length: 99 ft • 30 m
Builder: CRN • Custom Line • #11

Photo: Robert Paylor • St Barths • 2006

length - year: 99