As is its recent custom, Feadship unveiled its latest concept at the Monaco Yacht Show in late September. This year, in honor of the 75th (Diamond) Anniversary of the brand, Feadship’s Studio De Voogt presented what it calls “C”. The name derives from the symbol for carbon on the periodic table, carbon being the basis of diamonds, and a play on words see and sea.
Inspired by how a cut diamond’s patterns reflect and magnify light, C sparkles with innovations and dazzles with mesmerizing angles, the Dutch builder says. The facets that characterize the design, amid broad expanses of glass, draw light deep into the yacht’s interior, turning the center of circulation for owner and guests into a light-filled gallery and fluid living space.
This design also blurs the separation of decks with the fore and aft section of each offset by a half-level, smoothly transitioning to the next lifestyle area, be it up or down. Opening the center of the yacht to an atrium with floating stars and a lift without walls are also highlights.
Other design innovations found on C are the partially enclosed lower deck sea lounge that can be used at anchor or underway, a beach club with sea-level dining, a duplex owner’s suite and an articulating crow’s nest rising from a private observation deck. A pair of infinity-edge hexagonal pools match the shapes of various seating areas and the atrium.
C’s hull shape and fully electric propulsion system with inline counter-rotating propellers—an evolution from the Breathe concept and Feadship Savannah—are predicted in computer simulations to be 30 percent more efficient than a typical 75-meter yacht with dual shafts, propellers and rudders. The advances made to her underwater profile mean less wake.
As with all Feadship concept yachts, C is completely researched and buildable. Following on the hydrogen fuel cell power generation developed for Feadship’s 118.8-meter Project 821, concept design C will draw 100 percent of her power needs from fuel cells directly running on methanol, complimented by lithium-metal batteries.
Feadship says it sees green methanol as the best near-term step in the decarbonization of yachting due to its relatively high density and ease of use. Normal cruising speed on the fuel cells is 14 knots and a top speed of 17 knots can be achieved by adding the battery power to the DC electrical grid. Additional power will be generated passively by two pair of wave-actuated fins that fold out from the hull abaft the anchors. Estimates are that in a one-meter sea, energy generated by their movement will meet one-third of C’s hotel load.
Polishing the remote bridge plan introduced on the 2021 concept design Pure, C showcases the next evolution of Feadship’s adaptive technology with a command center positioned on the lower deck between the crew area and beach club. This fully digital operation and navigation hub includes the latest in intelligent situational awareness technology with cameras and data fusion. The enabling technology has already found its way into the Feadship fleet onboard Ulysses. Its location is seen as a way to centralize crew tasks and improve communication lines between engineering and navigation crew. This layout and the smaller single-level engine room supported by the fuel cells maximizes prime owner and guest space, creating more value to an owner within the same gross tonnage.
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