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TYRG
Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 266 |
   Topic: Superyacht Definition: A questionPosted: 29 Mar 2007 at 10:34am |
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One of the questions raised by the audience at Seatrade was: What exactly is a superyacht? The speakers on the podium appeared to have little idea, with one speaker suggesting that a superyacht was around 154 feet (48 m) long. When I first got into the marine business in the early1970s the largest yachts were maxiyachts, mostly used for racing under the IOR rule. They were around 80 to 84 feet (24.4 to 25.6 m) long. When owners started building larger yachts, these larger vessels became known as megayachts. At the time it was generally understood that megayachts were around 80 to 120 feet overall (24.4 to 36.6 m). As the large yacht business grew, the vessels became longer than 120 feet (36.6 M) and were known as superyachts. The upper limit to the superyacht size range was accepted as 200 feet (61 m).
However, over the years, marketing specialists who have never heard of these definitions often call everything over 100 feet (30 m) a superyacht, thus blurring the original definitions. Today, there is some talk of gigayachts appearing in magazines. Are these yachts over 200 feet (61 m), or are they longer than 300 or 400 feet?
And what are the super, super megayachts to be called? Are we going to see terayachts over 500 feet (about 150 m) long? What do you think? Should we categorize everything over 100 feet (30 m) a superyacht? Should the upper limit be 200 feet (61 m), after which we call the vessel a gigyacht up to 400 feet (122 m), with vessels over 400 feet called terayachts? Or should we just call them yachts? Let us know.
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egoldring
Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 33 |
Posted: 05 Jul 2007 at 12:13pm |
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The confusion as to what the terms mean (if anything) are, more or less, simply marketing. While in our little world the concept of "mega" being smaller than "super" and "giga" meaning anything, the general public doesn't have a clue...and most, if asked, would opine that a mega is bigger than a super while being dumbfounded by giga (a phrase related to numbers, not size)! When this is mixed in with owners no longer wanting a "yacht" but something greater than that, there is pressure to make up new names so that someone who used to have something special is not pushed out of that rarefied class. (Can you imagine a megayacht owner becoming a mere yacht owner?)
In a world of marketing, having too many or nondescript models/categories, undercuts it's supposed purpose.
How about simplifying it to yachts are under 150 ft. and superyachts are over. A change from giga would make sense, if that category is even necessary, to something which is more related to size rather than a number like "Ultra" for those over 250 ft.
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jtomlinson9
Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 6 |
Posted: 21 Aug 2007 at 7:05am |
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as a carpet cleaning company which has been dealing with yacht interior detailing for the past thirty years , we have a very simple definition of yacht names and sizes to simplifly it all
a leisure boat is anything under 18 meters.
from 20 TO 35 meters we call it a yacht.
beyond thirty five meters long we call megayacht OR superyacht.
FROM 50 METERS WE NAME IT A MAXIYACHT!
in our own terms that simplifies meaning and everyone is happy.we also when with clients name their yachts a " vessel" which in us navy terms relates to considerable sized ships so without even using any category of yacht/superyacht/maxiyacht classification skipper or owner understands we consider his "vessel" as being bigger than usual as a "considerably sized ship".
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esther
Joined: 22 Oct 2006 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 28 |
Posted: 21 Aug 2007 at 8:37am |
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Megayacht and superyacht usage seems to be determined by which side of the pond you live on, in my experience. When talking to Americans I always say megayacht but in Europe I say superyacht. Actual size doesn't come into it in this differentiation for me! Does anyone else agree?
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tork
Joined: 30 Sep 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 244 |
Posted: 21 Aug 2007 at 8:42am |
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My defintion 30m to 100m Superyachts.
100m to 200m Gigayachts 0ver 200 - (and god forfend we should ever see such monsters built) would be TeraYahcts |
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