ALBLASSERDAM, Netherlands,
May 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Oceanco
is proud to announce S/Y Black Pearl and M/Y DAR have
won the highest possible honors at the World Superyacht Awards,
2019— Black Pearl came away with the award for 'Best Sailing
Yacht Overall' and DAR won for 'Best Displacement Motor
Yacht 2,000 GT and Above' as well as the coveted 'Best Motor Yacht
of the Year' award!
The World Superyacht Awards Gala, organized by Boat
International Media, took place in the heart of London, in Old Billingsgate. Nearly 600 guests
including superyacht Owners, designers, and builders were on hand
for the dinner/ awards event.
Black Pearl, measuring 106.7-meters in length, is not
only the world's largest private sailing yacht, she also has many
unique and innovative features such as a state- of –the- art
Dynarig sailing system, single- level engine room, and a hybrid
propulsion installation with a high capacity battery bank allowing
for a regeneration mode when under sail. With Exterior Design
by Ken Freivokh and Nuvolari Lenard,
Interior Design by Gerard Villate
and Nuvolari Lenard and naval architecture by Dykstra Naval
Architects/ Oceanco, Black Pearl is both stunningly
beautiful and a technological tour de force.
The 90-meter motoryacht DAR, with edgy exterior styling
by DeBasto Design has an unprecedented —nearly 24 tons and 400m2 of
exterior glass. Her detailed interior by Nuvolari Lenard works well
with the exterior by taking advantage of the extraordinary
floor-to-ceiling views from nearly everywhere on board. In addition
to head-turning aesthetics and advanced technology, DAR is
the first yacht to ever achieve the Lloyd's Integrated Bridge
System (IBS) notation.
"We are thankful to all of the team members and myriad
individuals responsible for the execution of both of these yachts,"
says Marcel Onkenhout, CEO of
Oceanco. "Moreover, we are thankful for the trust given to us
by the Owners of Black Pearl and DAR to build the
extraordinary yachts that they envisioned."
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