Formerly ?: Blue Scorpion
Length: 138 ft • 42 m
Year: 2003
Builder: Baglietto • # 10180
Design: Francesco Paszkowski

Photo: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Tags: 138, 2003

Yacht name: Anna
Length: 220 ft • 67 m
Year: 2007
Builder: Feadship • #673
Build no: 673
Architect • Stylist: De Voogt • Michael Leach

Photo: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Anna, one of the largest yachts ever built by Feadship, completed in May 2007, has now reached Monaco. The last photo shows her with Secret and Kismet in St Jean.

Tags: 220, 2007

Yacht name: Ilona • Heesen 3700 #8
Length: 121 ft • 37 m
Year: 2007
Builder: Heesen • # 13437
Photo: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007
Design: Omega Architects

The latest in the 3700 series.

Tags: 121, 2007

Yacht name: The Snapper
Model: Sunseeker 37m
Length: 121 ft • 36.7 m
Year: 2006
Design: Don Shead

Photo: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007
Photo: monacoeye.com • Monaco Grand Prix • May 2007

Sunseeker call this the "jewel in the crown". The Snapper, their new 37m trideck, is their biggest yet and has a top speed of about 25 knots.

Yacht name: Princess Mariana
Length: 252 ft • 77 m
Year: 2003
Builder: Royal Denship
Architect: Espen Øino

Photo: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007
Photo: monacoeye • 23 May 2007 • Monaco Grand Prix

Carlos Peralta Quintero's yacht returns to Monaco one year later..

Tags: 252, 2003

Samar Helicopter Tender

Photo: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Went down to "Le Jumping" for the first time this year and loved it. Of all Monaco's myriad events this seems the most relaxed and entertaining. Largely because these one-horsepower engines are mostly silent and look at you with those wonderful eyes as they walk past. Bring back the horse !!

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Yacht name: Kismet
Length: 223 ft • 68 m
Year: 2007
Builder: Lürssen • # 13641
Stylist: Espen Øino

Photo: monacoeye • Monaco • May - July 2007 - August 2008

Kismet is the second major new launch to come to Monaco for the 2007 Grand Prix. She was launched late 2006 and left the Lürssen yard in Germany in January.

Tags: 223, 2007

Yacht name: Audacia
Formerly: Confidante • Ulysses • Kwikumat • Limelight
Length: 152 ft • 46 m
Year: 1987
Builder: Feadship • Van Lent • #758

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Confidante -> Audacia

Tags: 152, 1987

Yacht name: Cyan
Formerly: Renalo
Length: 159 ft • 48.7 m
Year: 1997
Builder: Codecasa • C105

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Renalo -> Cyan

Tags: 159, 1997

Yacht name: Wellenreiter
Length: 151 ft 3 • 46.1 m
Year: 2003
Builder: Jongert

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Yacht name: S87 Warren Yachts
Length: 87 ft • 26.5 m
Builder: Warren Yachts

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • June 2007

Yacht name: Vals II
Length: 88 ft • 27 m
Builder: Proteksan Turquoise

Sisterships: Saga • Dervis • Vals II ?

Photo: monacoeye • St Tropez • June 2007

Yacht name: Top Feet • Leopard 32 Concept
Length: 104 ft •  32 m
Year: 2005
Builder: Arno • Ita-lYachts
Naval Architect: Andrea Bacigalupo

Photo: monacoeye • Monaco • June 2007

Instead of the usual Cantieri di Arno signature on the back, this one reads ITA-LYachts..

Yacht name: Ti Voglio Tanto Bene • ISA 136
Length: 136 ft • 41 m
Year: 2007
Builder: ISA
Design: Cristiano Gatto
Top speed: 32 knots

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco - Beaulieu • May 2007

This is the new ISA 136, which arrived in Monaco for the Grand Prix last month and can be seen zipping around nearby ports. It doesn't have the snub nose of the ISA 133

Tags: 136, 2007

Yacht name: Talisman C
Length: 177 ft 8 • 54.2 m
Year: 2006
Builder: Proteksan Turquoise

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Yacht name: Strangelove
Formerly: Paminusch • Paris
Length:151 ft • 46 m
Year: 1982 (refit 2004)
Builder: Feadship • #624

Photo: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007
Photo: Gerhard Merz • Puerto Portals - Mallorca • May 2007

Tags: 151, 1982

Yacht name: Sophie Blue
Length: 134 ft
Launched: 1999
Builder: CBI Navi

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Yacht name: Sirahmy
Formerly: Lady in Blue • Charlie's Angels III • Idyll • Giamin II
Length: 142 ft • 43 m
Year: 1981
Builder: Benetti • # FB 136

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • June 2007

Tags: 142, 1981

Yacht name: Sai Ram
Length: 170 ft • 52 m
Year: 2003
Builder: Benetti • # FB 229
Design: Stefano Natucci
Interior: Lazzarini & Pickering

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Tags: 170, 2003

Yacht name: Paramour
Formerly: Heloval
Length: 139 ft 8 • 42.6 m
Year: 2002
Builder • Architect • Stylist: CMN • J-P Lebaron • Brétécher

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Heloval -> Paramour

Yacht name: Mirabella
Length: 131 ft 3 • 40 m
Year: 1991
Builder: Concorde Yachts
Architect: Bruce Farr

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007
Photo: Robert Paylor • St Barths • April 2007

Yacht name: Mirabella III
Length: 134 ft 5 • 41 m
Year: 1995
Builder: Concorde Yachts
Architect: Bruce Farr

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007
Photo: Robert Paylor • St Barths • April 2007

Yacht name: Linda Lou
Length: 197 ft • 60 m
Year: 2006
Builder: Lürssen • # 13630
Stylist: Espen Øino
Interior: François Zuretti

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • June 2007
Photo lowest: Robert Paylor • 23 November 2006 • Gustavia • St Barths

Tags: 192, 2006

Yacht name: Libra Star -> Star -> New Star • Benetti Tradition 02
Length: 99 ft • 30 m
Year: 2003
Builder: Benetti • BT02

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Tags: 99, 2003

Yacht name: Lady Goodgirl
Formerly: Lady Alicia -> Pilgrim -> Les Amis -> Imperator -> Avante Dos -> Lady Angela
Length: 141 ft • 43 m
Year: 1964
Builder: Hall Russell

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Tags: 1964, 141

Yacht name: Lady Anne (PB)
Length: 225 ft • 68 m
Year: 2005
Builder: Amels • # 446
Design: Walter Franchini

Photo: monacoeye • Monaco • 9 June 2007
Photo: Anders Linden • Stockholm • 5 June 2006 (bottom)

Tags: 225, 2005

Yacht name: Ladies First • Navetta 30
Length: 101 ft 6 • 31 m
Year: 2002
Builder: Custom Line • CRN

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Yacht name: Impulsive
Formerly: Victoria Won 2
Length: 115 ft 8 • 35.2 m
Year: 1993
Builder: Norship
Design: Frank Mulder
Engines: 2 x 2250 hp
Top speed: 32 knots

Sisterships: Moonraker • Impulsive • Sun Ark • ex Teeth

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007
Photo: monacoeye • October 2005 • Monaco Yacht Show

Yacht name: Ice Lady Patagonia
Length: 142 ft 5 • 43.4 m
Year: 1959 (refit 2004)
Builder: Helsingfors

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

This A1 class icebraker was converted in 2001. She has a museum on board and usually cruises the Antarctic regions.

Yacht name: Fighting Irish
Formerly: Boardwalk
Length: 145 ft • 44.2 m
Year: 2004
Builder: Westship

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Yacht name: Faribana -> Allegra
Length: 137 ft • 42 m
Year: 1989
Builder: Feadship • De Vries • #639

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Tags: 137, 1989

Yacht name: Cuor di Leone
Formerly: Lionheart
Length: 163 ft • 50 m
Year: 1999
Builder: Benetti • # FB223

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Tags: 163, 1999

Yacht name: Challenger
Model: Azimut 100

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Yacht name: CD Two
Formerly: Independent of London
Length: 140 ft 9 • 42.9 m
Year: 1994
Builder: Nicolini

Photos: NT • Monaco • August 2008
Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Model: Canados Open 90
Length: 90 ft • 28 m
Model launch: 2006
Builder: Canados
Engines: 2 x 2450 hp
Top speed: 45 knots

Photo: monacoeye • Monaco • June 2007

The Italian made Canados Open 90 was launched at the 2006 Cannes Yacht Show, and seen here at the 2007 Monaco Showboats International Awards. Canados has recently been bought up by UK private equity firm Balmoral Capital.

Yacht name: Atlas

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • June 2007

Yacht name: Atlantica Seconda
Formerly: Galu -> Duni -> Paminusch -> Tanit ->
Length: 130 ft • 40 m
Year: 1971
Builder: Fratelli Benetti • # FB 83

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Tags: 130, 1971

Yacht name: Antago sparkling?

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Yacht name: Aladina • Benetti Classic • BC05
Formerly: My Way
Length: 115 ft • 35 m
Year: 2000
Builder: Benetti

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Tags: 115, 2000

Yacht name: Lady Lola
Length: 205 ft • 63 m
Year: 2002
Builder: Oceanco
Naval architect: The A Group

Photo: Bob Paylor • 2007 • St Barths
Photo: monacoeye • 22 May 2006 • Monaco

Tags: 205, 2002

Ropes

Photos: monacoeye • Monaco • July 2007

Yacht name: Rio Rita
Length: 171 ft • 52 m
Year: 1984
Builder: Feadship • De Vries • #628
Design: Diana Yacht Design
Interior: Terence Disdale

Photo: monacoeye • Monaco • 2005

Tags: 171, 1984

Helicopter tender to Tatoosh

Photos: monacoeye • Antibes • May 2007

Tender to Rising Sun. 12 m classic style speedboat from Vaudrey Miller.

Photo: Bob Paylor • St Barths • 2007

Helicopter tender to Meduse

Yacht name: Magnum Force
Length: 92 ft • 28 m
Year: 2006
Builder: Altinel Shipyards
Speed: 34 knots

Photo: monacoeye • 2006

This yacht Magnum Force looks extremely similar to the Palmer Johnson 120 series - but I can find no mention of her on the internet. Can anyone tell me who built and designed this yacht ?

Oct 2008: Malcolm provides more information in comments - thanks !
Feb 2009: From the latest comments this yacht is not a PJ but Turkish built …
April 2009: Mystery solved, thanks to Hakan from Altinel Yachts (see comments below). Custom made for Prince Abdulaziz - nice looking boat !

Tags: 92, 2006

Yacht name: Lynx • Leopard 34
Length: 112 ft • 34 m
Year: 2007
Builder: Arno

Photo: monacoeye • Monaco • June 2007

Lioncub tender to Lionheart

Model: Otam Heritage 45 ?

Yacht name: Allura
Formerly: XS of London
Length: 112 ft • 34 m
Year: 2002
Builder: Custom Line • # 112 - 02
Architect: CRN
Design: Zuccon International Project

Photo needed … !

Yacht name: Two Kay
Formerly: Bo Veerle -> Rasha
Length: 112 ft • 34 m
Year: 2001
Builder: Custom Line • # 112 - 01
Architect: CRN
Design: Zuccon International Project

Photo needed … !

Yacht name: Blue Diamond
Length: 112 ft • 34 m
Year: 2003
Builder: Custom Line • # 112 - 03
Architect: CRN
Design: Zuccon International Project

Photo needed … !

Yacht name: Celebration
Length: 112 ft • 34 m
Year: 2003
Builder: Custom Line • # 112 - 04
Architect: CRN
Design: Zuccon International Project

Yacht name: Rubeccan
Length: 112 ft • 34 m
Year: 2003
Builder: Custom Line • # 112 - 05
Architect: CRN
Design: Zuccon International Project

Photo needed … !

Yacht name: Camarik
Length: 112 ft • 34 m
Year: 2005
Builder: Custom Line • # 112 - 06
Architect: CRN
Design: Zuccon International Project

Photo needed … !

Yacht name: HelenaLength: 112 ft • 34 mYear: 2004Builder: Custom Line • # 112 - 08Architect: CRNDesign: Zuccon International ProjectPhoto needed … !

Yacht name: Pandora
Length: 112 ft • 34 m
Year: 2004
Builder: Custom Line • # 112 - 09
Architect: CRN
Design: Zuccon International Project

Photo needed … !

Yacht name: Triton
Length: 163 ft • 49.7 m
Year: 2004
Builder: Delta Marine • #158-001

Photo: monacoeye • Monaco • June 2007

Yacht name: Magic
Formerly: Victory Lane -> Princess Marla -> Noble House
Length: 150 ft • 46 m
Year: 1998
Builder: Trinity Yachts • # 04

Photo: monacoeye • 2006 & 2007 • Monaco

Yacht name: Happy Days
Length: 164 ft • 50 m
Year: 2006
Builder: Delta Marine • #164-001

Photo: monacoeye • 2006 • Monaco

Floridian Helicopter Tender

The helmet painted on the helicopter refers to the Miami Dolphins, which is owner Wayne Huizenga's American football team.

Aviator Submarine

Yacht name: Leonardo II • Azimut 98

Antibes - Bastion Saint Jaume

Wallytender • Copper • Red • Silver

Length: 45 ft • 13.6 m
Builder: Wally
Petrol: 40 knots • 2 x 320 hp
Diesel: 50 knots • 2 x 420 hp

Photo: monacoeye • 2005 - 2007 • Monaco Yacht Show

Yacht name: Shereen
Model: Sunseeker 105
Length: 105 ft • 32 m
Year: 2001
Builder: Sunseeker

Photo: monacoeye • Monaco • April 2007

Nice looking small boat

Marumbi • Brazil

Yacht name: My Little Violet
Formerly: Alexandra
Length: 147 ft 4 • 44.9 m
Year: 2005
Builder: Abeking & Rasmussen • # 6466

Photo: monacoeye • June 2006/7 • Monaco

Yacht name: Meduse
Length: 198 ft • 61 m
Year: 1996
Builder: Feadship • De Vries • #652
Owner: Paul Allen or his sister or sold ?

Photo: Bob Paylor • St Barths • 2007

Tags: 198, 1996

Yacht name: Lady K II
Formerly: Princess Tanya
Length: 189 ft • 57.6 m
Year: 1961
Refit: 1992, 2000, 2005
Buider: Austin & Pickersgill, UK

Photo: 5 May 2006

Curitiba •  Brazil

Yacht name: Charlie Coppers • Mangusta 130
Length: 130 ft • 40 m
Year: 2004
Builder: Overmarine

Photo: 2006/7 • Monaco

Yacht name: Ability -> Alouette II
Length: 177 ft 10 • 54.2 m
Year: 2005/6
Builder: CRN • # 119
Stylist: Gianni Zuccon

Photo: Bob Paylor • St Barths • 2007
Photo: Monaco • July September 2006

Tender to Nafisa
Builder: Tullio Abbate

Yacht name: Nafisa
Formerly: Edenforth • Brave Goose • Princess Kelly
Length: 161 ft 2 • 49.25 m
Built: 1986
Builder: Schweers
Diana Yacht Design

Photo: May & September 2006 • Monaco

Yacht name: Perseverance II
Formerly: Mercedes II
Length: 123 ft • 37 m
Year: 1996
Builder: Oceanfast

Photo: monacoeye • Monaco • May 2007

Yacht name: Lone Ranger
Length: 255 ft • 77.7 m
Year: 1973
Conversion: 1994
Builder: Schichau Unterweser

Photo: Monacoeye • Villefranche • June 2007
Photo: Bob Paylor • St Barths • January 2007

Peter Lewis' converted tug Lone Ranger. In the last couple of years she has traveled to Antarctica, Tahiti and Australia…

Yacht name: Capri
Length: 192 ft • 59 m
Year: 2003
Builder: Lürssen • # 13624
Interior: Glade Johnson

Photo: Monaco • July 2006 - May 2007

Photos of Capri in Monaco, flying the Jolly Roger. Aargh, me hearties…!!

Tags: 192, 2003

Yacht name: Ecstasea
Length: 282 ft • 86 m
Year: 2004
Builder: Feadship • #790

Photo: May 2006/7 • Monaco/Nice

Roman Abramovich's Ecstasea leaves Monaco after the Grand Prix.

Tags: 282, 2004

Yacht name: Christina O
Length: 325 ft 3 • 99 m
Builder: Canadian Vickers
Formerly Stormont, Canadian frigate, 1943
Rebuild as Christina O: 1954
Owner: John Paul Papanicolaou, 1998 refit

Photo: 29 May 2006 - September 2006 • Monaco - Nice

New photos of Christina O, Aristotle Onassis' famous yacht…

Yacht name: Aurore
Formerly: Aurora • Felicita West
Length: 163 ft 5 • 49.8 m
Year: 2000
Builder: Perini Navi • # 2027

Photo: monacoeye • Monaco • 21 May 2007

Yacht name: Aries

Name: Amevi Surprise
Length: 186 ft • 56.7 m
Year: 1981
Builder: Halter Marine

A companion ship for Amevi.

Photo: monacoeye • Monaco Grand Prix • May 2007

Yacht name: Altitude
Formerly: Amnesia
Length: 180 ft • 55 m
Year: 2003
Builder: Benetti • FB 228
Design: Stefano Natucci

Sisterships: Allegro • Galaxy • Altitude

Tags: 180, 2003

Yacht name: Alinghi (2007) • SUI 91 • SUI 100
Yacht Club: Société Nautique de Genève • Switzerland
Head & Skipper: Ernesto Bertarelli • Brad Butterworth
Designers: Rolf Vrolijk • Alinghi

Photo: Christophe Oliva • May 2007 • Valencia

As holders of the Cup, Alinghi chose the venue this year. Since Switzerland is landlocked and the rules specify that the event must be held on the sea, they chose Valencia in Spain. The first time the event has been raced in Europe for 156 years…

Alinghi wins 5-2 !

Photo: Kurt Hasselbalch - MIT Creative Commons

Monacoeye mostly focuses on what goes on above the water - hardly surprising, as that's the visible part. But all sailors know that the business end of every boat is the bit below the water-line. Hull designs vary enormously with both fashion and function and the traditional way of rendering this design was by sculpting a half-hull model.

There is a fascinating one-week course held at the world-renowned MIT engineering school, which takes students through the process of creating one such half-model design.

Tutors quickly run through the history of boat design, explaining why 16th century boats looked so circular, alongside general principles such as how displacement and semi-displacement hulls work and why surfboards and container ships are at opposite ends of the design spectrum.

Happily, this is mostly achieved by a tutor flailing his arms in the air in the workshop, pushing imaginary volumes of water out of the way, with a refreshing absence of equations and over-head projectors.

This is followed by a trip to the vaults of the MIT Museum to compare hull designs in the large collection culled from the last 200 years. The dozen or so students come from a wide range of courses - aeronautical engineering post-grads alongside geology first years. The next stage is in the workshop where the hulls are made.

If you're interested but think you're too old, would never get the grades and can't afford the time or money, you can sit in with their Opencourseware. MIT have been putting most of their courses online, entirely free and open access.

Typically they video seminars and publish assignments and booklists. Quality varies and you get no personal contact or accreditation. But you do get an insight into some of the best teaching in the world.

This particular course is mostly practical, so you'll have to be content with being a spectator in the workshop. But the five one-hour videos give a fairly painless introduction to some of the basics of boat design.

In the final video the museum guy reveals that MIT are not just content with giving the world free access to their teaching materials, they're also busy digitising the contents of their museum, which includes 36,000 designs, including a huge Herreshoff collection. Yet again the US is teaching the rest of the world a lesson about free access to information.

MIT Opencourseware: The Art and Science of Boat Design

Videos: Introduction • MIT Museum • Model Building • Finishing • Conclusion