Yacht name: Samar
Project name: Lana
Length: 252 ft 8 • 77 m
Year: 2006
Builder: Devonport Yachts

Photo: Monaco • November 2007 • monacoeye
Photo: Stockholm • July 2006 • Anders Linden

Still waiting for a sign of Devonport Project 54, due for delivery in 2007, a burgundy-hulled, 82 m Andrew Winch design which looks like it could be a replacement for Sarafsa. Boat International have a feature on Samar in their November 2007 issue.

length - year: 253 - 2006

Yacht name: Reverie
Length: 230 ft • 70 m
Year: 2000
Builder: Benetti • # FB222

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco November 2007 • Antibes July 2007 • Monaco August 2005

November isn't the busiest month of the year for Port Hercule but there have been a few large yachts…

length - year: 230 - 2000

This Aquivo waterproof TV is the perfect TV for those who like their TVs really clean. It'll be introduced at the London Boat Show which runs from the 1-9 December 2007.

If you have a cool yacht-related product, please mail images, video links and press releases to monacoyachts@gmail.com. We do need visuals to be able to include the product in the Monaco Yachts feed.

New name: Ocean Breeze
Yacht name: Al Yamamah
Formerly: Qadissayat Saddam
Length: 269 ft • 82 m
Year: 1981
Builder: Helsingor

Photo: monacoeye • Monaco • 19 September 2007

Not many will have seen a photo of this yacht recently. It's Al Yamamah, originally built for Saddam Hussein but now owned by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Hence the similarities to Prince Abdulaziz. Thanks to yachtspotter for the ID.

length - year: 269 - 1981

Yacht name: Tamsen
Length: 170 ft 7 • 52 m
Year: 2007
Builder: Perini Navi • # 2094

Photo: monacoeye • November 2007 • Monaco

length - year: 171 - 2007

Yacht name: America (replica)
Year: 1967
Builder: Goody & Stevens
Architect: Olin Stephens • Sparkman & Stephens

Yacht name: America (original)
Length LOA: 21 m
Year: 1851 - 1945
Architect: George Steers
Builder: William H Brown, New York

The original America won the 1851 One Hundred Guinea Cup around the Isle of Wight, defeating 14 British yachts, for a syndicate from the New York Yacht Club. Her reverse bow, and sails laced to the mast, served as an inspiration to British designers for 25 years. She took part in the first America's Cup in 1870, coming 4th. Her last race was in 1901, after which she slowly fell into disrepair. She ended her days burned for firewood in 1945.

In 1967, the replica America was built by Sparkman & Stephens. It featured in a commercial for Schaffer brewery before being sold as a private yacht.

length - year: 1967

Yacht name: Partridge
LOA: 21.88 m - 71 ft 8 • LOD: 14.9 m - 49 ft 2 • LWL: 12.7 m - 41 ft 7
Formerly: Tanagra
Year: 1885
Builder: Camper & Nicholson
Design: J Beavor-Webb

Alex Laird & Peter Saxby found Partridge lying on her side in Tollesbury in 1979. After some detective work, which revealed her history and pedigree, restoration was started and finally completed in 1997.

length - year: 1885

Yacht name: Ivanhoe • Esp 3131
Formerly: Hasvørnen
Length: 21.2 m
Year: 1938
Builder: Gamleby
Design: Tore Holm, Sweden

Ivanhoe was first sailed in the Med by King Constantine of Greece. She then moved to Spain, winning the Trofeo Almirante Conde de Barcelona regularly over the years. In 2002 she was restored to her original glory by her current owner.

length - year: 1938

Yacht name: Emilia • I 2 • 12 metre rule
LOA: 21 m
LWL: 16.4 m
Year: 1930
Design: Herreshoff
Builder: Cantieri Attilio Costaguta, Genova Voltri

Emilia was the second Herreshoff "Twelve", to be built in Italy. The first was La Spina, built by Baglietto of Varazze. The 12mR class was created in 1906, and adapted right until 1987 - it includes the America's Cup boats from 1958 to 87.

The boats are not 12 metres in length - 12 is the maximum product of the equation (L+2d-F+√S)/2.37 where L is waterline, d is difference of skin girth and chain girth, F is Freeboard area and S is Sail area …

length - year: 1930

Yacht name: Hallowe'en
Formerly: Cotton Blossom IV • Magda XII
Year: 1926
Deck length: 22 m
Builder: William Fife • Fairlie

length - year: 1926

Yacht name: Montrevel
Length: 121 ft • 36.9 m
Year: 1958
Refit: 2000 Studio Cervi
Builder: Forges de l'Ouest

Photo: monacoeye • Nice • 2006

Originally an oceanographic research ship, Montrevel has recently been refitted as a yacht.

length - year: 121 - 1958

Yacht name: La Vagabonda

Seen just after the Monaco Classic Week in nearby Beaulieu.

Yacht name: Bona Fide • # 54
Length (LOA): 13.6 m • LOD: 8.8 m - 29 ft
Designer: Charles Sibbick
Year: 1899
Builder: Albert Yard, Cowes

The fast Bona Fide won the 5 to 10 ton class in the 1900 Paris Olympics. She was recently restored in Italy at the Cantieri Navale dell'Argentario, where most of her structural woodwork was replaced.

length - year: 1899

Yacht name: Baboon
Year: 1991
Length (LOA): 196 ft 10 • 60 m
Builder: Mastrand, Sweden

length - year: 197 - 1991

Yacht name: Alejandra
Length: 134 ft 6 • 41 m
Year: 1993
Builder: Mefasa • Avilès Spain
Design: Bruce King Yacht Design

length - year: 135 - 1993

Yacht name: Tuiga
Waterline Length: 15.68 m • 51 ft 5 - Deck length: 23.18 m • 76 ft - Rigging length: 27.36 m • 89 ft 8
Year: 1909
Builder: William Fife
Refit: 1993 Duncan Walker • Fairlie Restorations

Tuiga's first owner was the Duke of Medinacelli, a close friend of Alphonse XIII, King of Spain. William Fife designed Tuiga as a copy of the Spanish royal yacht Hispania, to race against her. Bought in 1995 by Prince Albert for the Yacht Club de Monaco, Tuiga is now the YCM's proud flagship.

length - year: 1909

Yacht name: Tioga • #123

Yacht name: Talisman (Latona & Caprichio earlier)
LOA: 76 ft 8 • 23.4 m (new bowsprit) - LWL: 49 ft 2 • 15 m
Year: 1919 - 1920
Builder: Abeking & Rasmussen
Design: Henry Rasmussen

Recent restorations for this early steel-hulled Bermuda ketch were carried out at Conrad Shipyard, Gdansk, in 2006, and Stockholm, 2004. Talisman's official site has a full history of the yacht here.

length - year: 1919

Yacht name: Solway Maid • #44C
Length overall: 52 ft 6 • 16 m - Waterline: 35 ft • 10.7 m
Year: 1940
Design & Build: William Fife • #825

The Bermudan cutter Solway Maid was the last of William Fife's designs.

length - year: 1940

Yacht name: Rowdy • # NY 49
LOA: 59 ft • 18 m - Waterline: 40 ft
Year: 1916
Designer: Nathanel G Herreshoff

Herreshoff "Fighting Forty" Bermudan cutter, sistership to Marilee.

length - year: 1916

Yacht name: Red
Length: 24 m
Year: 1947

length - year: 79 - 1947

Yacht name: Nan of Fife
Year: 1896
Build & Design: William Fife Jnr (1857-1944)
Length: 24.95 m • LOD: 19.25 m • LWL: 13.47

Nan, originally commissioned by Irishman Thomas Burrowes, is the oldest William Fife designed yacht still sailing. In 1998, Philippe Menhinck began the restoration, from original archives, of the boat his grandfather had owned from 1948 to 1952. Two years later the restoration was complete.

length - year: 1896

Yacht name: Mercury C • # 38
Length: 52 ft • 15.8 m
Year: 1938
Designer: Sam Crocker
Builder: Simms Brothers, Dorchester

length - year: 1938

Yacht name: Marilee • NY50
Deck Length: 59 ft • Waterline: 40 ft
Year: 1926
Design & Build: Nathanael Herreshoff
Restoration: William Cannell Boatbuilding (2001)

Marilee is one of four remaining New York Yacht Club 40's, known as the Fighting Forties. She was faithfully restored in Maine in 2001. Her sisterships are Rowdy, Typhoon ex Maisie and Rugosa.

length - year: 1926

Yacht name: Cambria • K4
LOD: 113 ft 9
Year: 1928
Builder: William Fife • Fairlie

Built in 1928, by William and RB Fife, in Fairlie on the Clyde, as the first of a new generation of 23m class, "Big Class" cutters. Cambria only joined the J class in 2003, unlike Astra and Candida, two other 23m yachts from the same era which joined in 1933.

length - year: 1928

Yacht name: Lulworth
Formerly: Terpsichore
Length overall: 151 ft 10 • 46.3 m - Deck Length: 37.2 m • 122 ft - Waterline: 26.6 m • 87 ft 2
Year: 1920 • Refit: 2006
Builder: White Brothers, Southampton
Architect: Herbert White

Photo: October 2007 • Monaco Classic Week 2007
Photo: October 2006 • St Tropez Regatta & Monaco Yacht Show

Lulworth, originally one of the most successful big class gaff cutters, was relaunched in May 2006. She has been beautifully restored, in Viareggio, Italy. The mast is 52 m high.

Lulworth belonged to the 23m International Rule of 1907 . As with the other Metre Rule classes, for example the 6m and 12m classes, the number did not refer to the length of the boat but was the product of a formula which included the waterline length, girth, and sail area. Some of the other 23m "Big Class" yachts - White Heather II, Britannia, Cambria, Candida and Astra - were later converted to the J class. This evenly matched racing class from the American Universal Rule encompassed boats between 76 and 87 ft in waterline length, 120 ft length over all, and less than 160 tons displacement.

length - year: 151 - 1920