Tankoa Yachts is pleased to announce the existence of their latest design, a 50-meter superyacht with lines by Francesco Paszkowski and Naval Architecture by Massimo Visibelli. She is angular, yet sleek, yet refined and rises over three internal decks above the waterline. Tankoa is offering this vessel in two versions, a full displacement and a semi-displacement version. The two variants will have different top speeds granted to the different power packages and the hull forms.
Expect the semi-displacement version to be significantly faster with an anticipated top speed of 27-knots. The full displacement hulled version will make somewhere around 16 to 18-knots. Eitherway, they will be constructed in aluminium, light alloy 5083. The 50-meter project is being called Project S501...basically first hull of 50-meter series. The exterior decks provide extensive space for sunbeds and lounging, the perfect summer pad to be on. If you don't need to go fast, she has a decent range of 4,500 nautical miles at 11-knots (with 75,000 LT tanks) but that decreases drastically the closer to 16-knots you throttle. Project S501 will be Lloyds + MCA classified and feature the latest amenities and luxury appointments a sophisticated owner would require.
For more information:
Tankoa Yachts S.p.A
Via Cibrario s.n.c.
16154
Genova Sestri Ponente
Italy
www.tankoa.it
To experience the extraordinary beauty and cultures of the Pacific under sail, you need a few specialist cruising techniques under your belt. We have been sailing in Fiji with Dan and Em Bower on their yacht, Skyelark, to demonstrate some of these and film them for our new sailing techniques series.
This took us to the island of Mana, which has a wonderful lagoon behind coral reefs. Here we entered a narrow coral pass and anchored in an area containing coral heads.
Mana is particularly interesting because it illustrates some of the knottier problems of navigation and pilotage in these areas. Charting in the Pacific is notorious inaccurate. Large areas have been poorly surveyed and never properly updated - I have heard of some atolls in French Polynesia where the charts have been four or more miles out.
Here in Fiji, charts are said to be up to two miles out in some places. At Mana, electronic and paper charts alike don't show any lagoon at all, as the screen grab below from MaxSea illustrates. But a lagoon does exist, as does a very narrow tide-swept pass through the coral reefs.
A much more exact representation of the island, the pass and the coral reefs was obtained by Dan and Em in the form of Google Earth overlays that have been precisely geo-referenced, as shown below. (More about exactly how this works and how to get this information in one of the next issues of Yachting World.) We used these to establish the pass entrance and its winding course, while using the good old Mk 1 eyeball to con our way in carefully.
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