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Yacht name: Necker Belle (above)
Formerly: Lady Barbaretta
Length: 105 ft • 32 m
Year: 2003
Builder: CMN

Richard Branson’s catamaran Necker Belle, attending the 2010 Monaco Grand Prix with the Virgin F1 team. Read More...

length - year: 105 - 2003

Yacht name: Marflow
Formerly: Ora • Act IV
Length: 125 ft • 38 m
Year: 1982 • Refit: 2007
Builder: Shore Boatbuilders
Architect: William Garden

Photos: NT • Monaco Grand Prix • 2009

length - year: 125 - 1982

Yacht name: Paula Rosa • Shipman 80
Length: 78 ft • 24 m
Year:
Builder: Seaway (Slovenia)
Architect: J & J Designs
Interior: Rhoades Young

Photo: NT • 2008 Monaco Yacht Show

length - year: 78 - 2008

Yacht name: Y Not
Length: 79 ft • 24 m
Year: 1994
Builder: CIM - Constructions Industrielles et Maritimes
Design: Bruce Farr

Photo: Robert Paylor • St Barths • 2007 & NT Monaco Yacht Show 2008

length - year: 79 - 1994

Yacht name: Atlantic
Length: 227 ft • 69 m
Year: 2008
Builder: Van der Graaf
Architect: William Gardner • Mastership • Doug Peterson

Original yacht name: Atlantic
Year: 1905
Builder: Townsend & Downey
Architect: William Gardner

This classic racing schooner replica has recently been launched - expect to see at her the Voiles de Saint Tropez later this year.

Photos needed ! If you have one please send to monacoyachts@gmail.com …

length - year: 227 - 2008

Yacht name: Windcrest
Length: 98 ft • 30 m
Year:
Builder: Hodgdon Yachts
Architect: Fontaine

Photo: Robert Paylor • 25 - 30 March 2008 • St Barths Bucket

length - year: 98

Yacht name: Zanzibar
Length: 105 ft • 32 m
Year: 1997
Builder: Tréhard Marine

Photo: Robert Paylor • 25 - 30 March 2008 • St Barths Bucket
Photo: Robert Paylor • St Barths Bucket • 1 April 2007

length - year: 105 - 1997

Yacht name: Wild Horses
Length: 76 ft • 23 m
Year: 1998
Builder: W-Class Yacht Company • Brooklin Boatyard - Maine
Architect: Joel White
Sistership: White Wings

Photo: Robert Paylor • St Barths Bucket 2008

length - year: 76 - 1998

Yacht name: Avalon
Length: 108 ft • 33 m
Year: 1986 (refit 2000)
Builder: Southern Pacific
Design: Ron Holland

Photo: Robert Paylor • 25 - 30 March 2008 • St Barths Bucket
Photo: Robert Paylor • St Barths Bucket • March - April 2007

length - year: 108 - 1986

Yacht name: Fleurtje
Length: 187 ft • 57 m
Year: 1960 (refit 2003)
Builder: Amsterdamsche
Architect: R Clark • Gerald Dijkstra refit

length - year: 187 - 1960

Yacht name: Wisker

Photo: O • New York • August 2007

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Yacht name: Bojaros
Length: 73 ft 10 • 22.54 m
Year: 2000
Builder: Gdansk • Jaroslaw Filipiak

Photo: monacoeye • Monaco • May 2006

Yacht name: Parlay
Length: 126 ft • 38 m
Year: 1991
Builder: Otona Navi

Photo: Robert Paylor • St Barths Bucket • 1 April 2007

length - year: 126 - 1991

Yacht name: Patient Falcon
Length: 93 ft • 28.3 m
Year: 1993
Builder: Able Marine

Photo: Robert Paylor • St Barths Bucket • 1 April 2007

length - year: 93 - 1993

Yacht name: Toto
Length: 110 ft • 33 m
Year: 1983
Builder: Palmer Johnson • # 181

Photo: Robert Paylor • St Barths Bucket • 1 April 2007

length - year: 110 - 1983

Yacht name: Signe
Length: 112 ft • 34 m
Year: 1990
Builder: Renaissance Yachts
Architect: Bruce King

Photo: Robert Paylor • St Barths Bucket • 1 April 2007

length - year: 112 - 1990

Yacht name: Seljm
Length: 112 ft • 34 m
Year: 1980
Builder: Sangermani

Photo: Robert Paylor • St Barths • April 2007

length - year: 112 - 1980

Yacht name: Safran
Formerly: Kingfisher • Skandia
Length: 60 ft • 18 m
Year: 1999
Builder: Marten Yachts

Photo: Robert Paylor • St Barths • 2007

Safran was originally built for Ellen MacArthur as Kingfisher. Sailing single handedly she came second in the Vendee Globe 2000-1, then with Nick Maloney first in the EDS Atlantic Challenge 2001. Latest Route du Rhum skipper Marc Guillemot has now handed Safran back to the MacArthur team as he awaits delivery of a new, lighter Safran.

length - year: 60 - 1999

Yacht name: Rara Avis
Length : 125 ft • 38 m
Year:1957
Builder: Klerk & Terneuzen
Design: Philip Rhodes

Photo: Robert Paylor • St Barths • 2007

Based on a Thames river boat design. I also found an original length of 99 ft.

length - year: 125 - 1957

Yacht name: Mi Reina
Length: 76 ft ? • 23.1 m ?

Photo: Robert Paylor • St Barths • 2007

Yacht name: Kim
Length: 70 ft • 21m
Year: 1991
Builder: Engelaer
Architect: Hoek Design

Photo: Robert Paylor • St Barths • 2007

Yacht name: Extraordinary

Photo: Robert Paylor • St Barths • March - April 2007

Yacht name: Beaugeste
Formerly: Beaupré
Length: 121 ft • 37 m
Year: 1989
Builder: Brooke Yachts
Architect: Ron Holland

Photo: Robert Paylor • St Barths • 2007

length - year: 121 - 1989

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: 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: Mari-Cha IV -> Senso One
Formerly: Mari-Cha IV
Length: 138 ft • 42 m
Year: 2003
Builder: JMV

Photos: monacoeye

Oct 2006: In October 2003, Mari-Cha IV created sailing history on its maiden voyage, sailing from New York to the UK in just over 6 days. It smashed the transatlantic record by 2 days and established itself as the world's fastest yacht. Here she is at the Voiles de Saint Tropez 2006, which started today and runs all week.

length - year: 138 - 2003

Yacht name: Zurbagan
Model: Fast Cruiser 90
Length: 88 ft 4 • 26.94 m
Year: 2006
Builder: Garcia
Design: Vaton Design
Interior: Hervé Couëdel

Location: Antibes
Photo date: September 2006

Yacht name: Stavros S Niarchos
Length: 194 ft 9 • 59.4 m
Year: 2000
Builder: Appledore Shipyard

Location: Monaco
Photo date: 21 August 2006

Sisterships: Stavros S Niarchos • Prince William

The Stavros S Niarchos is one of two brigs owned by the Tall Ships Youth Trust - a UK charity providing sailing crew experience for children.

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Yacht name: Persistence • Scorpio 100 Veritas
Length: 29.7 m • 97 ft 6
Year: 1993
Builder: CIM Scorpio Mar
Design: Sparkman & Stephens

Yacht name: Dag

Yacht name: Eleonora -> Eleonora E
Length: 161 ft • 49 m
Year: 2000
Builder: Van de Graaf
Design: Nathanael Herreshoff

Eleonora was modeled on the 1909 Nathaniel Greene Herreshoff schooner Westward