Delta – Yachting https://www.yachtingmagazine.com Yachting Magazine’s experts discuss yacht reviews, yachts for sale, chartering destinations, photos, videos, and everything else you would want to know about yachts. Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:38:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/favicon-ytg-1.png Delta – Yachting https://www.yachtingmagazine.com 32 32 For Sale: Delta 185 https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/brokerage/delta-185-starship-for-sale/ Thu, 10 Apr 2025 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/?p=69298 With its six staterooms, 12-knot cruising speed and fuel capacity of 19,000 gallons, Starship has long-range cruising abilities.

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The Delta 185 known as Starship features a helipad, 10-person hot tub and six guest staterooms. The 19,000-gallon fuel capacity gives the vessel long-range cruising abilities. Courtesy Worth Avenue Yachts

Starship was built in 2001 as the 161-foot Gallant Lady. In 2014, it was extended to 185 feet at Rybovich in Palm Beach, Florida, and the name was changed from Newvida to My Seanna. The refit in 2020-2021 included the main engines top end rebuilt, complete through-hull valve replacement, over $450,000 in paint and polishing and more. Accommodations include six staterooms sleeping 12 guests as well as six crew cabins sleeping 11 including a captain’s cabin. Starship has ample outdoor space available for lounging and socializing throughout its three decks. It features a wide swim platform for accessing water sports and tenders. Starship is powered by twin Caterpillar 3508 diesel engines and has Caterpillar 165 kW generators.

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The salon and formal dining room with seating for 12 display the builder’s unique woodworking and interior design. Courtesy Worth Avenue Yachts

Starship has enjoyed a rich history of cruising the waters of the Mediterranean, Caribbean and Bahamas with private families as well as charters. The vessel has been continually updated and upgraded and completed its 20-year class surveys in November 2022. 

Key features of Starship include:

  • Only three owners since new
  • Six staterooms including a VIP on the top deck with 180-degree views
  • Shallow draft for Bahamas cruising
  • Proven charter history with schedule and name that convey to buyer
  • Ten-person hot tub with marble counters and outside seating
  • Large sauna forward of the hot tub on the sun deck
  • 20-year class surveys completed in November 2022
  • Aluminum hull with fiberglass superstructure
  • New 1,200 gallon holding tank (Oct 2023)
  • Helideck capable of holding an EC135 Airbus with a Gross Takeoff Weight (GTOW) of 6415 pounds
Delta 185 Starship
Located to port all the way forward on the main deck, the owner’s stateroom has intricate details on the floors incorporating Kashmir gold granite with outlines of Verde granite and Perlato Suevo marble. Courtesy Worth Avenue Yachts

Where is Starship located? The yacht is currently lying in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  

Take the next step: contact the listing agent, Robert Stotler, with Worth Avenue Yacht Sales via email, Robert@WorthAvenueYachts.com or call (561) 876-7887.

Quick Specifications

  • Length Overall: 185’
  • Beam: 30’
  • Fuel Capacity: 19,000 gal.
  • Draft: 8’5”

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For Sale: 2001 Delta 124 Motor Yacht https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/brokerage/delta-124-ruffian-for-sale/ Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/?p=68855 The Delta 124 Ruffian is on the market at $7.25 million with Allied Marine.

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Ruffian, a 2001 Delta 124 with an array of recent upgrades and enhancements, is on the market with Allied Marine at $7.2 million. Courtesy Allied Marine

Ruffian, a 2001 Delta 124, is listed for sale with Allied Marine at $7.2 million. This motoryacht is designed for owners ready to step into the crewed-yachting experience. Ruffian accommodates eight guests in four staterooms, with quarters for six crew.

Ruffian is powered by twin MTU 16V 2000M90 diesel engines, paired to BW 255 2.482:1 gearboxes and 4-inch stainless-steel shafts turning five-blade, 38.5″ x 42″ propellers. The yacht has a reported top speed of 18 knots at 2,100 rpm and cruises at 14 knots at 1,700 rpm. An aft docking station and bow thrusters assist with close-quarters maneuverability.

Some of the yacht’s upgrades include:

  • Main engine rebuild completed in June 2017
  • Complete Awlgrip HDT paint job in 2021
  • Magnus Marine power conversion system installed in 2023 at Delta Shipyard
  • New Crestron AV system
  • Two new SeaChests with stainless-steel plumbing installed in 2023
  • Interior refit and service work completed in 2022/2023 at Delta Marine Shipyard
  • Two new Northern Lights 80 kW generators installed in 2022
  • New chilled water air conditioning system
  • New Watermakers, Inc. 4000 GPD watermaker
  • Electronics/navigation system refit in 2020
  • Dual antenna Marine Starlink system added in 2023
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The salon includes an L-shaped sofa, a hidden HD surround-sound system, armchairs and a separate formal dining table for eight forward. Note the wide stairway to provide skylounge access. Courtesy Allied Marine

Boarding is via a Marquipt 15-foot extended passerelle, which has a watertight compartment and a one-button retrieval system. The cockpit, shaded by the aft-deck overhang, has a wood dining table surrounded by armchairs, a wet bar with a gas grill and additional stowage. A curved teak staircase leads to the skylounge.

The skylounge, located abaft the pilothouse, has large windows with remote-controlled Hunter Douglas blinds, a custom sofa that converts to a queen berth, and a full head with a shower. A wet bar, refrigerator, wine cooler and ice maker enhance the entertainment accouterments. The aft deck has a dinette table for eight with a Bimini top for shade.

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The cockpit has a wood dining table for eight guests, armchairs, a wet bar with a gas grill as well as access to the skylounge via a curved staircase. Courtesy Allied Marine

The flybridge has  multiple seating areas, including two curved settees under the hardtop and an aft area with wicker chairs. Flip-up wing stations are integrated into the port and starboard sides. A wet bar with refrigeration and an ice maker is positioned at the back of the port-side seating area.

Ruffian has the following tech and nav gear:

  • Two ICOM ICM604 VHF radios
  • Two Garmin GPSMAP 8624 MFDs
  • Four Garmin GPSMAP 8617 MFDs
  • Garmin Airmar B265LH 1 kW through-hull transducer
  • Garmin GMS 10 network port expander
  • Garmin AIS 800 blackbox transceiver
  • Two Furuno radars with 4′ and 6′ open-array antennas
  • Navigate X MK 2 digital gyrocompass
  • Furuno Class A Model FA170 AIS
  • Furuno GP32 GPS/WASS navigator
  • Sperry Navipilot 4000 autopilot
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The skylounge offers a quiet getaway as well as a place for guest overflow. Outside is seating for eight under a Bimini top. The enclosed helm is forward of the lounge. Courtesy Allied Marine

The salon is accessed via a sliding glass door from the cockpit A foyer has a marble sole with two fossilized-wood eagle inlays. Inside, an L-shaped sofa and chairs provide a comfortable lounge area in front of a hidden HD surround-sound entertainment system with a 46” HD 1080p Smart TV. An array of windows offer natural light and panoramic views. A built-in buffet with a glass display separates the salon from the hexagonal dining space, which has its own sound system.

Forward of the salon, the galley includes large countertops, a central island with stools and high-end appliances such as:

  • Two Sub-Zero 600 Series stainless-steel refrigerators
  • Sub-Zero 600 Series stainless-steel freezer with ice maker
  • Wolf five-burner glass ceramic electric cooktop
  • Wolf stainless-steel double convection ovens and microwave
  • KitchenAid trash compactor and garbage disposal
  • Stainless-steel two-drawer Fisher & Paykel dishwasher
  • U-line ice maker
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Four staterooms provide accommodations for eight guests during extended cruising itineraries. Courtesy Allied Marine

Ruffian’s owners’ stateroom is a full-beam suite on the lower deck, with a king-size berth, lounge area, desk and vanity. Two bathrooms—one with a shower, the other with a Roman tub—have heated soles.

The VIP stateroom, located on the main deck, includes a king-size berth with built-in stowage, large windows and an en suite bath with jade marble, a skylit cylindrical shower, twin vanities and a separate toilet compartment.

Two additional guest staterooms on the lower deck provide accommodations. Both have corner settees, ensuite bathrooms with heated soles, hanging closets and drawer storage.

According to Allied Marine, Ruffian is a great opportunity to own a high-pedigree yacht from the world-renowned Delta shipyard. She has received constant updates from her knowledgeable owner and crew, and benefits from a visit to the Delta Shipyard in 2022/2023, where further work and extensive upgrades were completed. Ruffian’s exterior was originally designed by Delta’s in-house design team, while her interior, created by Jonathan Quinn Barnett, has also received many recent updates.”

Ruffian is currently lying in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

For more information, contact listing agent Don Strong at (239) 272-9446, Allied Marine.

Quick Specifications

  • Length Overall: 124′
  • Maximum Beam: 25.83′
  • Max Draft: 6.17′
  • Cruising Speed: 14 knots
  • Max Speed: 18 knots
  • Hull Material: Composite
  • Engines: Twin MTU 16V 2000M90
  • Combined Horsepower: 3,600 hp
  • Fuel Capacity: 9,200 gallons
  • Freshwater Capacity: 1,500 gallons

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Charter Options Abound in New England https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/cruising-and-chartering/rjc-new-england-charter/ Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/?p=60030 RJC Yachts has seven motoryachts accepting inquiries for New England charters this summer.

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Weekly base rate to charter these yachts ranges from $60,000 to $225,000. Courtesy RJC Yachts

RJC Yachts says seven of the yachts in its charter fleet are accepting inquiries for New England bookings this summer.

The yachts are: the 163-foot Christensen Lady Elaine, the 157-foot Trinity Miss Christine, the 145-foot Christensen Relentless, the 124-foot Broward Camille, the 112-foot Delta Gale Winds, the 118-foot Intermarine XOXO and the 118-foot Broward True North.

Weekly base rates range from $60,000 to $225,000, depending on the yacht and the number of guests. Accommodations on the seven yachts range from eight to 12 guests each.

When does the New England charter season start? Some yachts are accepting bookings as early as June 1.

Take the next step: contact a charter broker at rjcyachts.com

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Setting Course for NFT Deals https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/yachts/nft-technology-setting-a-course/ Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:00:00 +0000 https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/?p=59240 Several big names in yachting are already investing in NFT technology, admittedly while still trying to figure out where it's going.

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The big-picture question is how best to pair real-world yacht design, sales and more with NFT technology. Tom Jamieson

In recent years, there have been times when sales broker Alex G. Clarke has been fine with people thinking he’s a bit nuts. It started when Denison Yachting became one of the industry’s first companies to accept bitcoin as payment for boats. Clarke did the firm’s first $10 million-plus bitcoin deal.

“Everybody thought we were crazy,” he says. “Nobody really knew how mainstream it was going to be or the applications for it.”

If he had taken even part of his commission back then in bitcoin, he’d likely have the cryptocurrency equivalent of millions of dollars today. So, when his tech-savvy clients started talking more recently about an emerging technology called non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, he paid attention.

“I’ve been following this tech probably a little closer than most brokers,” he says. “We see this technology with the NFT as having so much potential to kind of merge the old-school guy who wants a really nice yacht with the next generation, the new money, the tech-savvy people who understand the NFT applications.”

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Alex G. Clarke, a Denison Yachting broker, sees “smart contracts” as one possible use for NFT technology. Cloud Yachts

More and more these days, people are starting to think like him. Some of the best-known names in yachting, including the builders Oceanco and Delta, and award-winning designers Greg Marshall and Dickie Bannenberg, are either dipping their toes in the NFT world or trying to build the future that the technology appears poised to make possible—both in the digital space and with yachts in real life.

“The reality is that we’re all feeling our way around this,” Marshall says. “We know we’re onto something powerful; we just don’t fully see the whole story yet.”

The Basics of NFTs

Think about the internet that existed 20 years ago. Anyone could build a website, develop an audience and generate advertising revenue. If the website’s owner wanted to move that audience to a different platform, he could do so easily.

That version of the online world is what tech gurus call Web 1.0. Today, we’re living in what they describe as Web 2.0, where huge companies such as Meta (formerly Facebook) and Google have positioned themselves between website developers and audiences. Anyone trying to promote a website today encounters things such as algorithm changes that can shrink an audience’s size overnight.

Rebalancing that equation is the thinking behind Web3, which the tech gurus are creating now. Its foundation is technology called the blockchain, which is decentralized. It’s not owned by any one company but is instead managed by a peer-to-peer network. Blockchain technology creates blocks of data that cannot be modified—which is another way of saying they’re non-fungible. Whereas anyone can swap a dollar bill for another dollar bill, each NFT that gets minted is a one-of-a-kind item.

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Award-winning designers like Greg Marshall, are dipping their toes in the NFT world. Greg Marshall Design

“It cannot be duplicated or replicated,” says Zach Mandelstein, founder of the digital yacht dealer Cloud Yachts. “It’s one-of-one because it’s built on the blockchain, which verifies that it is a unique item. It’s like a Gucci-purse authenticator.”

And an NFT can hold a heck of a lot more stuff than a purse. It can digitally store, say, not only the design plans for a superyacht, but also all the emails and contractual records that went into building that yacht, in a way that can be offered to the yacht’s next owner as part of a sales package.

“You used to be able to buy a used car, and the story behind it was whatever you were told,” Mandelstein says. “When Carfax came along, you got to see everything—the mileage, everything. This is a similar paradigm shift. With these NFTs, we can upload thousands of data points into this new-build process, right down to billable hours with the technicians.”

What should be inside those thousands of data points? That’s what early adopters of NFT technology are trying to figure out. Some are building things such as the digital playground known as the metaverse, where people will live whole other lives that they experience through digital goggles. Others are thinking about the technology as a next-step progression from existing tools such as digital yacht modeling, with real-world applications.

“This extension into the NFT world—it feels like a logical one,” Bannenberg says. “On the technical side, it doesn’t feel like a particularly big step, but it does require getting your head around the concept of what somebody is able to acquire, what they get from it, over and on top of a 3D image. What other underlying value can we give? What does it offer the buyer that is interesting?”

Piecing It Together

Marshall and his team started thinking about NFTs because, for the past four years, they’ve been doing a deep dive into holographic design. They’re working toward a future where people can put on a pair of goggles and experience an augmented-reality version of yacht construction and maintenance.

“Everybody working on an engine, for example, can be on a different continent,” Marshall says. “We’re probably a year or year and a half away from fully commercializing it. It’s pretty wild, what it’s going to do to our industry.”

Making that kind of technology work involves building a massive library of 3D components. Consider every hose, seacock and other component aboard a yacht. Each one needs a digital equivalent that the technology can recognize. “We’re coming up on a million of these pieces, every component we use, from filters to engines to galley sinks,” Marshall says.

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This Greg Marshall design is believed to be the first verified NFT yacht sale on the Ethereum blockchain. Greg Marshall Design

So, he started looking for ways to back up all that data. The search led him to NFTs, which could handle the data volume in a way that he sees as being “a safety-deposit box” because the blockchain creates the one-of-one, non-fungible record.

At the same time that Marshall was trying to solve that problem, he also was talking with Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut about donating his library of plans in the future. Again, the potential of NFT technology came to mind.

“The amount of data that we have produced is just insane,” he says. “Going back and being able to catalog it all and archive it is a massive job. So, we wondered: Could we NFT each project? That would capture all the digital data.”

Marshall started researching NFTs in more detail, and he found Mandelstein at Cloud Yachts. Mandelstein’s background is in intellectual-property management, including protecting things such as trademarks, and he got a yacht-broker license almost a decade ago as a side hustle. His combination of skills helped him see the potential value of all the data Marshall was trying to store and transfer—and that other designers would likely want to store and transfer too.

“I knew there were a bunch of designs from guys like Greg Marshall and Dickie Bannenberg that [were] just burning a hole in their computers,” Mandelstein says. “It was like cash burning a hole in a pocket. It is valuable intellectual property that could be monetized.”

For Marshall, even thinking about his yacht designs that way was new.

“I could see instantly that Zach’s perspective about the value of an NFT was totally different from mine,” Marshall says. “We pieced together each other’s versions as we were talking.”

Yet More Pieces

Clarke, meanwhile, was thinking about NFT technology from the perspective of a sales broker. He had heard about real estate deals that incorporated NFTs into the sale price, and he started to think about how something similar might work for yachts. He landed on an idea that he thinks of as “smart contracts.”

“If you build a yacht today, you’re going to have your manuals, your software, everything about the build, your blueprints, your build specs—you can take all that and organize it on an NFT and put all that metadata together,” Clarke says. “Inside your NFT is a very well-organized thing that’s only accessible by you or by a select few people. If you want to sell the boat, you can hand over this NFT collection along with the yacht. My vision is that the NFT will stay with the boat. The appealing part on the brokerage market is that all the data is nicely organized and easy to transfer.”

To his thinking, as any yacht progresses from owner to owner, new NFTs could be minted to add even more value.

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These NFTs are from the Freedom Collection by designer Marco Casali. They went up for sale in April. Cloud Yachts/Marco Casali

“Owning an NFT is like owning a little vault,” he says. “It’s [an] all-in-one clean package. Instead of going back and forth between attorneys with a bunch of binders, even if you’re going through class or flag regulations in the future, you could keep that whole history organized in there. Things like that, it could be very useful for the owner, the second owner and the third owner. Nothing will get lost in translation over the life of the yacht.”

As the metaverse continues to be built, at some point, all of that data could be used to create digital versions of real-life yachts. Owners buying an NFT today could be investing not only in plans to build a vessel that they can take to the Bahamas right now, but also in a digital version of that same vessel that could have additional value once everyone is strapping on goggles and looking for virtual hotspots and marinas.

For instance, Clarke says, maybe “we’re going to give you a slip in the metaverse as part of the transaction. Who’s to say that it doesn’t become like buying a slip in Monaco, and it’s worth $200,000 or $400,000 or $1 million in the metaverse in the future?”

As Marshall sees it, there’s also potential value in today’s NFTs being used as the foundation to build tomorrow’s real-life yachts. A lot of the same data that can be used in the metaverse can also be used at brick-and-mortar shipyards.

“There’s also a lot of things like little sketches that, say, a craftsman will make on the floor and sends in an email to an office. Right now, all those little sketches are languishing. Nobody is collecting them,” Marshall says. “The ability to collect all those kinds of things with an NFT is extraordinary. Now you’ve created a digital asset. That asset can then be licensed out to build a second one, a third one or a fourth one.”

Creating those kinds of initial assets is happening already. In March, a businessman from Texas bought an NFT of a 110-foot Marshall design. It will be used to build a real yacht, at a cost of about $12 million. Then NFT No. 2 will become available.

“We will use the NFT from No. 1 to develop No. 2,” Marshall says. “Now, again, we are feeling our way around this. As I said to the owner of the project, I can guarantee we’re going to make mistakes. We made one step, our very first step, we screwed up, and I said, ‘OK, good. We’re one for one.’ We don’t know where or how it’s going to go, and we are trusting that, as gentlemen, we’ll figure it out as we get there.”

Real-Life Access

Bannenberg, meanwhile, worked with Cloud Yachts to offer one of Bannenberg & Rowell’s 131-foot designs as an NFT earlier this year at the Palm Beach International Boat Show in Florida. There were five versions—each a unique piece of digital art with backgrounds of different colors—and whoever bought them also got access to the design team in real life.

“It’s a standing invitation to come and spend a few hours in the studio and have an exploratory design meeting,” Bannenberg says. “They can come to London, or we can do Microsoft Teams or Zoom. And then we’ll take it from there.”

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Simon Rowell (left) and Dickie Bannenberg are among the designers testing the NFT-technology waters. Tom Jamieson

He’s also thinking about some of the possibilities that Marshall is considering. Bannenberg’s father is Jon Bannenberg—often called the “father of modern yacht design”—and the Bannenberg & Rowell firm owns all of the elder’s drawings. A couple hundred of those designs could be converted from 2D ink on film into NFTs, and then used to create some of the metaverse’s first, well, classic digital designs.

“Everyone says there’s an element of the Wild West to this exploratory stuff, but this is how other things started too,” he says. “Right now, it seems to be at a very simple level. Things that are only 18 months old suddenly feel ancient compared to the possibilities.”

Nobody is quite sure what consumers will find valuable. When Marshall’s NFTs became available, he was driving along the California coast. “Every once in a while, my phone would ping, and another one had been sold,” he says, adding that he was as surprised as anyone. “Another $300 or so would show up in my account. A couple of them resold.”

From a designer standpoint, that kind of automatic payment is appealing—because the same kind of payment happens with a full-on yacht design.

“Before, I would have had to send an invoice and hoped that the guy would pay it, and he might not pay it for 30 days,” Marshall says. “Moving forward, if you build No. 20 of this boat, I don’t have to think about it. I don’t have to get hold of a shipyard and see if they sold another boat, and you have this awkward conversation about how they owe you money. It’s a tough thing collecting on the royalty sometimes. In this case, it happens automatically.”

Who’s buying these first NFT offerings? Clarke, for one. He’s trying to collect all the No. 1 NFTs that major yacht designers offer—just in case being first ends up being significant.

“I was told it doesn’t matter if you have No. 1 or No. 5, but I’m thinking there is a difference,” he says, adding that it all helps him understand the ways future clients may want to do business. “At Denison, our escrow account is at JPMorgan. They just opened their first office in the metaverse to service clients there. So, if you want to go into the metaverse, we are working with them. We could go and say: ‘Mr. Buyer, when you’re doing your payments, we work with JPMorgan. We can buy your slip for your yacht in the metaverse. Our banker is already there.’”

Where Is the Value?

That’s the real nut of the question. For younger buyers, the technology sells itself, Mandelstein says.

“I’m meeting the owners of shipyards now, and the dads get it, but their sons are tripping out about how cool this is,” he says. “The sons are all over it. They think it’s the most exciting thing they’ve seen. We don’t know what’s going to come out of this, but it’s something really special that wasn’t there before.”

Clarke sees those sons as the yacht buyers of the future—who will expect NFT-based technology to be part of the experience.

“My thought was taking part of an interior on a 63-meter and putting in a media room with two zero-gravity chairs,” Clarke says. “You get one of your buddies on board, you put on your goggles and sit on those chairs, and you go in the metaverse and say, ‘Here’s the boat.’ You get on the boat in the virtual world as you’re actually doing it on a yacht in the real world. For me, that’s the cool stuff you can do to make it a lot of fun.”

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The uniqueness of a yacht NFT can refer to its background colors and textures. Bannenberg & Rowell Design

Marshall, meanwhile, is using his mother-in-law, Rose, as a guinea pig to figure out how to get traditional yacht buyers interested; many of them have no desire to strap on goggles and enter a digital playground.

“She’s in her 80s,” Marshall says. “We put HoloLenses on her head and walk her through the process. When she puts the headset on, our person, Sara, pops up digitally from a different location and walks Rose through how to use this. Digital Sara will touch Digital Rose’s wrist and say: ‘See this button right here? Push this button.’ We intentionally hired people who know their way around engine rooms and things, but who don’t know the tech. If it didn’t work easily, we wanted to build the tech and start over. We’re doing that today. That part of it is incredible. It’s crazy how powerful that is.”

Mandelstein is betting that harnessing even a small piece of that power is something yacht owners will want to do.

“You can’t stand in the way of progress,” he says. “Most big corporations have figured out that this thing is coming. Mark my words: In a few years, there will be NFT managers like there are social media managers in every corporation. We’re still figuring out the best use for this technology, but the revolution has already begun.”

On Capitol Hill

Congress hasn’t yet moved to regulate NFTs, but in January, Dapper Labs became the first firm to register to federally lobby on issues related to NFTs. The company’s head of government affairs is a former member of the Federal Communications Commission.

In the EU

The European Union was considering rules this past spring that would require issuers of NFTs to centralize and register. The rules would be part of what’s known as Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation if passed into law. The European Parliament says it is worried about the use of NFTs in money laundering and other scams, so it’s talking about requiring that issuers be “a legal person” rather than a decentralized entity.

Luxury Autos

McLaren, maker of luxury supercars in Britain, dropped NFTs called the Genesis Collection. The collection has five tiers, with a limited number of each (as few as 100 or 1,000) available for purchase. Some tiers aren’t open to buyers at all, and instead will be gifted to select members of the McLaren community.

The Silver Screen

If lawsuits are an indication of value, then Hollywood sees NFTs as having plenty. Miramax Studios is suing Quentin Tarantino over the director’s attempts to sell NFTs of his screenplay for Pulp Fiction. Tarantino’s contract gives him the rights to sell copies of the screenplay, but Miramax is arguing that the 1993 deal could not have reserved rights to sell NFTs because the technology didn’t even exist back then.  How much money is at stake? The first Tarantino NFT sold for $1.1 million in January.

Louis: The Game

Players working their way through Louis Vuitton’s smartphone app called Louis: The Game can find 30 embedded NFTs along the way. Each one is considered a collectible that can only be found within the game. This spring, the company announced that players who reach the end can expand their experience into additional levels, with new NFTs to win.

The Foodverse

Celebrity chefs Spike Mendelsohn and Tom Colicchio launched an NFT project called CHFTY Pizzas in March. They plan to sell 2,777 of the NFTs, which will give buyers access to exclusive channels where they can access experiences such as master classes and pizza parties with various celebrity chefs nationwide. Each CHFTY NFT avatar is one of a kind and intended to appeal to collectors. The team also plans to help other chefs launch into the world of NFTs in the future.

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Fraser Offers Delta Yacht Spirit for Sale https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/fraser-offers-delta-yacht-spirit-for-sale/ Fri, 28 Apr 2017 23:58:32 +0000 https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/?p=56378 The 124-foot Delta Spirit is on the brokerage market with Fraser.

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The 124-foot Delta Spirit is on the brokerage market. Courtesy Fraser

Fraser is promoting the 124-foot Delta Spirit as “the highest detailed” build that the shipyard ever turned out in her class.

Built in 2001, Spirit underwent a refit in 2009 and another in 2014. She has zero-speed stabilizers, a new audiovisual system, V-sat supported internet, new hull paint, helm electronics upgrades and more.

Jonathan Quinn Barnett did Spirit‘s interior décor. The yacht accommodates eight guests in four staterooms, including a main-deck master and a full-beam VIP belowdecks.

Asking price: $12.5 million

Where to contact: broker Josh Gulbranson at the Fraser website.

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5 Christmas Yacht Charter Options https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/5-christmas-yacht-charter-options/ Mon, 05 Oct 2015 20:49:34 +0000 https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/?p=53226 Want to celebrate with Santa in the Caribbean? These yachts still have availability.

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Forget about the snow and ice that typically come with the winter holidays from New York City to London. These five charter yachts still have availability for Christmas all across the Caribbean, where warm waters and bright sunshine await:

Amels yacht Aquarius
The 220-foot Amels Aquarius is available for Christmas and New Year’s charters in the Caribbean through Edmiston. Courtesy Edmiston
Westport yacht Harmony
The 164-foot Westport Harmony is available for Christmas yacht charter in the Caribbean, with Ocean Independence. Courtesy Ocean Independence
Delta yacht Usher
The 154-foot Delta Usher is open for Christmas and New Year’s charters with a 10-day minimum booking, through Northrop and Johnson. Courtesy Northrop and Johnson
Princess yacht Cristobal
The 95-foot Princess Cristobal is available for a holiday charter in Florida or the Bahamas, through Ocean Independence. Courtesy Ocean Independence
Sanya catamaran Zimaya
The 57-foot Sanya Zimaya is open for a Christmas yacht charter in the British Virgin Islands, through Select Yachts. Courtesy Select Yachts

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10 Biggest Yachts Coming to Miami https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/10-biggest-yachts-coming-miami/ Tue, 03 Feb 2015 00:20:38 +0000 https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/?p=52601 The 187-foot Trinity Lady Linda will lead the 2015 Miami Yacht & Brokerage Show.

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Organizers of the 2015 Miami Yacht & Brokerage Show have announced their lineup of the 10 largest yachts expected to be on display. Here’s a look at what you can expect if you plan to attend the show this month:

187-foot Trinity yacht Lady Linda

The 187-foot Trinity Lady Linda was the subject of the book “Grand Ambition.” She was built for Doug and Linda Von Allman, who have owned several other superyachts by the same name over the years. Courtesy International Yacht Collection
Mangusta 165 Moonraker

Mangusta 165 Moonraker

Moonraker is the fastest Mangusta 165 Evolution ever built by Italy’s Overmarine shipyard, topping out at 40 knots (look for a feature about her in our March issue). She’s also available for charter through Burgess Yachts, if you want to cruise aboard this winter in the Bahamas.
Couach yacht La Pellegrina

Couach yacht La Pellegrina

Built by Guy Couach, the 164-foot La Pellegrina launched in 2012 and will be part of the brokerage display with Denison Yacht Sales. Her guest accommodations are noteworthy, with a large VIP stateroom forward on the main deck and a master suite up another level, where a sky lounge might otherwise be.
Christensen yacht Match Point

Christensen yacht Match Point

Christensen Yachts built the 160-foot Match Point, which was delivered in 2009 and will be part of the International Yacht Collection brokerage display. Her interior is by Carol Williamson & Associates and includes a full-beam master suite with a private study on the main deck.
Christensen yacht Odessa

Christensen yacht Odessa

Another Christensen build, the 160-foot Odessa has been popular on the charter market thanks to her spacious interior décor and her flexible staterooms, which can be arranged for individuals or as suites, depending on the makeup of the guest party.
Trinity yacht Imagine

Trinity yacht Imagine

Also from Trinity, the superyacht Imagine is expected to be part of the International Yacht Collection brokerage display.
Trinity yacht Themis

Trinity yacht Themis

Themis is a 156-foot Trinity that launched in 1998. She has a cruise speed of 20 knots and a top speed of 24 knots, and will be on display with Robert J. Cury & Associates.
Delta yacht Katya

Delta yacht Katya

Delta built this 151-foot motoryacht, whose owner focused on high-quality décor, solid construction materials and fuel-efficient cruising options. Katya also has earned a strong following during the past few years on the charter market.
Palmer Johnson yacht Blue Ice

Palmer Johnson yacht Blue Ice

The 150-foot Blue Ice is a Palmer Johnson launch whose hull paint matches her name. Her interior décor is surprisingly subdued, with elegant, neutral tones and fabrics that could just as easily be at home aboard a traditional trideck design.
Trinity yacht Claire

Trinity yacht Claire

Trinity built the 150-foot Claire, which will be part of the Merle Wood & Associates brokerage display. She’s a 2003 build that accommodates 10 guests and has modern features including at-anchor stabilizers.

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A Charter Yacht for Music Lovers https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/charter-yacht-music-lovers/ Thu, 03 Jul 2014 20:51:50 +0000 https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/?p=54054 The 154-foot Delta Usher now has Savant Sound plus an 80-inch flat-screen TV.

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Delta megayacht Usher

Usher is available for charter through Northrop and Johnson.

A charter yacht that shares a name with a superstar singer had better offer some serious entertainment options, and the 154-foot Delta Usher now does.

Fresh from a refit, this yacht has been outfitted with Savant Sound, which is built on an Apple platform and lets charter guests control music, movies and more through iPhones and iPads. The yacht’s owner also just added an 80-inch flat-screen TV to the audiovisual setup, giving charter guests an eye-popping space to watch movies and music videos.

The refit of Usher also included new exterior paint, an upgraded air-conditioning system and a memory-foam mattress in the master stateroom.

Usher has a weekly base rate of $175,000 for 12 guests. The rate includes use of the owner’s 56-foot Hampton powerboat as a tender. Charter dates are available this summer in New England and this winter in Florida and the Bahamas.

Learn more through Northrop and Johnson at www.northropandjohnson.com.

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For $45.9 Million, Arianna is Yours https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/459-million-arianna-yours/ Tue, 28 Jan 2014 00:50:09 +0000 https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/?p=55808 This 164-foot Delta enters brokerage market as joint listing with Merle Wood and SG, LLC.

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164-foot Delta motoryacht Arianna

The 164-foot Delta Arianna is for sale on the brokerage market.

Merle Wood & Associates along with SG, LLC have been appointed joint central agents for the sale of the 164-foot Delta _Arianna_, a 2012 launch with an asking price of $45.9 million.

Arianna is marketed as the world’s largest 50-meter yacht thanks to her interior volume, which includes 7,500 square feet of living space and an 822 gross-ton rating. She is a composite build that can accommodate 12 guests, plus 12 crew. Her maximum speed is 16 knots thanks to a pair of Caterpillar 3512B engines, and her range is more than 5,000 nautical miles.

If you want to give Arianna a try before buying, she’s remaining in charter through SG, LLC at a lowest weekly base rate of $195,000. Her availability during the upcoming months is expected to be in the Caribbean, Bahamas and Central America.

The official Arianna website is www.my-arianna.com. It includes lots of photos, a video and full specs that go far beyond anything you’ll find in an online brokerage listing.

Click here to see more photos of Arianna.

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‘Entourage’ Movie Films on Yacht https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/entourage-movie-films-yacht/ Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:58:16 +0000 https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/?p=50008 The Miami shoot was aboard the 154-foot Delta Usher, which is available for charter.

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154-foot Delta motoryacht Usher for charter

The cast of the ‘Entourage’ movie filmed scenes in Miami aboard the 154-foot Delta Usher.

Vince, E, Turtle and Johnny Drama partied for the cameras in Miami this month during a shoot aboard a megayacht in Miami for the Entourage movie, which will pick up where the popular HBO television series left off.

Stars from the show gathered aboard the yacht to stage a party with bikini-clad and topless babes, much as they did on the series in their Hollywood homes. The yacht used in the shoot was the 154-foot Delta Usher, according to the Daily Mail.

Usher, formerly known as_ Mr. Terrible_, is a 2007 build that is part of the Northrop and Johnson charter fleet. Her weekly base rate is $175,000 for 12 guests. She is a standout on the charter market thanks to her eclectic interior décor, which is marketed as Polynesian chic. Other features include a sundeck hot tub and onboard elevator.

There’s no word about whether the boys or their longtime cohort, Ari Gold (played by Jeremy Piven), shot any scenes indoors, but the party scenes on deck looked like a heck of a lot of fun. We’re hoping they don’t cross over into the bacchanal that took place onboard a yacht during The Wolf of Wall Street, but, of course, aboard a boat that used to be called_ Mr. Terrible_ with the Entourage crew, anything is possible.

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