This is an awesome gigayacht, & Lurssen is a remarkable shipyard! So much respect, & hats off to you, fine ladies & gentlemen of Lurssen! & The same to the Saudi gentlemen who financed such wonders like "A+" & "Azzam"!
What I find strange about this one is that it just seems to be big, but doesn't show any of the usual amenities and features you normally would expect of a mega yacht, like a swimming pool, a whirl pool, a big sun deck, a bathing platform, a hub for smaller boats and water scooters and stuff like that. This looks like a yacht build for somebody who thought he just needed a giant yacht but had no actual interest in doing and enjoying any of the things people usually do with giant yachts. This looks like a swimming office building.
30+ kts flank speed 03:00 Cruise speed 19 kts Range - Est. in excess of 25K nm 18 guest cabins Crew capacity of 20 min upto 60 max in 30 cabins Steel hull Shallow draft of 4.5 m
@@christophegroulx8187 I know this is a year old but since you replied to a 3 year old comment I’ll indulge myself, Man foreigners are such fucking hypocrites
Well, the yacht is simply, completely and utterly divine, full stop. But what is even more interesting, is Peter Lurssen's eyes - absolutely mesmerising!
Azzam yes is longest but Dilbar is the largest private yacht registered at 16,000 gross tonage and a 77 foot beam and 3 more decks. Azzam is only 13,000 and 68 foot beam. Length is not everything just saying.
@@RA-yy2fw Well, as it seem both were built for men intrested in horseracing, one can say it is horses for courses ... One can argue that the Dilbar is better in terms of sheer volume and gross tonnage ... but, aesthetically, imho, since the Azzam sits lower in the water, plus having a shallower draft, means it is not as 'bulky' looking as the Dilbar ... If I had, say, $400- $500M to blow (now, now ...) on a Superyacht, it would be 200-250m in length, the volume and beam of the Dilbar, but the draft (both sea and air) of the Azzam, with idea of making it as sleek looking as the latter. But it won't be like the (in)famous, and possibly apocryphal, A380-800 that was outfitted as a 'private jet' for an unknown Middle-Eastern Prince (possible from the Emirates ...). Instead, in that 'dream yacht', a minimum of 1/3rd of the volume would be taken up as a research vessel to explore depths of a minimum of 1,000m, and as deep as a resonable size submersable, of sufficient dive duration, can handle. Only a (relatively ...) small fraction of it would be given over as accommodation for myself, and a small number of guests, with slightly space, given over to the ship's crew, and equal to the Captain's quarters (and not eighteenths ...) ... The reason is simple. Only about ~5% of the ocean's depths of 500m+ has ever been fully explored. It is not apocryphal to say we know more about the entire surface of Mars, than we do about our own ocean floor, because the surface of Mars is vastly more easier to map. Even Venus, with the enormous atmospheric pressure at its surface, with temperatures easily the melting point of lead, if not its boiling point, has been able to be mapped, thanks to advanced, high energy, radar technology, that is able to pierce through its dense atmosphere. Hence the purpose of wanting to have a 200m yacht... not to be an extension of my ego, but rather with the central aim of it being a, abet private, deep sea oceanic research vessel to extend human knowledge of what lies so deep beneath the sea ... As for her name, only two spring to mind: Attenborough, or Poseidon.
No, Sir. We cannot congratulate him! With those 600 million or more , that was spent on this yatch , he could provide work for a life time, not only 4 years, for 10000 persons, if we invest in other thing. But, it´s a nice yatch!
"Carrying a submarine and her own missile defense system, it will still travel in excess of 32 knots powered by a combination of two gas turbines and two diesel engines with a total power output of 70 MW (94,000 hp)" (source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azzam_(2013_yacht) ) wow. Just...wow.
Well done on rich people spending money to create employment , I know a lot of people here think all rich people are evil and should share their wealth with poor people , but why should people who take all the risks in business have to share their wealth with people who sit on their ass looking for a free handouts . Okay I've got it ... if a rich man goes broke will the poor people help him pay off his debts . I didn't think so , it's a one way street for bitter lazy people , yeah rich people should pay more to the poor people unless they goes broke , then they are on their own .
Spoken like someone that has made some bad decisions in their lives. If you have a job it is a given you are supposed to work hard. Working hard is only a small component of making it big. And making it big doesn't necessarily mean being happy.
@cool boy There's many videos that show videos of this yacht. But only a few talks about the mission of building this yacht. I have yet to see many interiors of anything over 150m. Just youtubers showing the outside, but I get your point. I actually enjoyed the commentary.
Perfect for our veteran supportive housing program. OMG no we could never accept such gift ohohoh jejeje. Although, we always are looking for properties... Any help.
"we should be grateful, that yacht owners spend their private money to create jobs". And he isnt even laughing. Amazing. As if they had earned the money with their own hands work. And if anybody else gets to spend other peoples money to buy his toys. I am amazed by the engineering skills, the design, the ability to put together something so beautiful, now find worthy use for it.
What a great way to say that. 6m hours is employment and employment for FOUR THOUSAND families. We definitely should thank super yacht owners for not saving but spending!!! They probably give millions, if not billions to charities too.
Sometimes less is more and that is a fuel guzzeling maintenance nightmare. Nothing beats the simple freedom of a much smaller boat with the unlimited range of clean travel and reliability that a sail offers. Park it at a city pier and maybe market it as a multi-unit floating condo.
+Robin T I think people buy yachts mainly for the prestige when a yacht is purchased you usually pay %20 of the price it cost to make the total yacht on maintenance and paying the crew and engineers of the yacht. Such a purchase is just riddled with a sign reading "I'm gonna fucking bankrupt your arse if you buy me..." on these yachts. Which is why you don't see every multi-billionaire or millionaire with a yacht.
I live on a coast in Halifax, Canada, and i do see every type and size of watercraft. I also see the dead zones of ocean, toxins and plastics becoming excessive also. Have it here by the weekend and we can talk about retrofitting a kite or some sails to assist :)
Well, no one sees all that. Nor is it yours nor my responsibility to care for people who create starving kids. Although, this is the president of a country's ship, with anti missile defense system. Im sure that this president, and all who supported the building are likewise caring of the plights of people and give large... Im Positive
Oh Alla wont you buy me a Superyachty, my friends all drive Bugatties and I must make amends. Never worked all my life time, with help from daddy. Im counting on you Alla, please dont let me down. I wait for delivery each day until three, so Alla wont you buy me, a SUPERYACHTY !
wait... yea I know him. I assumed you didn't have his number so I took the liberty of calling and asking for you... he said "No" and "they know why..." whatever that means... ;)
El Diablo Yea he was there lol... When I told em who asked they were like "pfft.. HELL no! Tell that MF to just stfu!" lmao... It was weird. Idk wuts up between y'all... Sounds like some bad history or something :P
plus he has to hire the crew and buy the food and other stuff. even though the owner is the president of the UAE and his money did not come from taxes cause the UAE is tax free on most stuff
Apart from looking at a bunch of boring faces instead of the yacht, I maintain "Eclipse" is the one to beat. She has refined taste whereas I bet "Azzam" is pure bling AND no booze!! Ahaaaaaa.....!!
+Adrian Larkins I always thought the Serene or Solandge has been the best looking yacht out there. I just think this is big and white, plain in my opinion. But of course, I have no room to talk. lol
Azzam is a beautiful yacht and that is because of the simplicity of its design. A yacht that big has to have a design than doesn't knock you back, like for instance the 170' Palmer Johnson KHALILAH, which to me is an over-the-top, ugly design.
Best comment around 2:00 indicates that this yacht employed 6 million man hours covering the livelihood of 4,000 families. So some rich fat cat can keep his money to himself or purchase such a great employment item as this yacht.
The only can afford right now is a suite in a Cruise but I got high confidence than one day I will have my own Yacht and I will name him POSEIDON WITH STEROIDS 😎
He summed it up better than I have ever heard anyone else say, in regards to the economic boost of building boats like this. Is it better for billionaires to keep the money?
Listed as a charter but not being chartered..... that's how you avoid paying taxes on the ship. Yeah, we should be grateful, sure. Normally I'd go along with the idea that wealth creates jobs and constructs works such as Azzam, but don't sugarcoat it if the thing is set up under a tax shelter that others don't have the option of using.
Interesting comment by the CEO at around the 7 minute mark, where he is discussing the length (LOA) of the vessel and commenting that the foreship is some 60 metres in length. The comments come across in a somewhat defensive tone, as if he is trying to play down the "size isn't everything" interpretation. Except, in this one case, he might be wrong... The "maximum hull speed" - i.e. the maximum speed in knots that a vessel can travel (without planing) is a function of the submerged length. See here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_speed In simple terms, the maximum speed in knots is equal to 1.34 x the Square Root of "Length at the Waterline" (measured in feet) and computed in knots. According to her Wikipedia page, Azzam's length is quoted at 590 feet. On that basis, then, her maximum speed in knots would be 1.34 x 24.289915603 (square root of 590) which is 32.5485 knots... The same Wikipedia page suggests that her actual top speed is 30 knots. That is a *remarkable* feat of engineering for *any* sea-going vessel, doubly so for a private yacht. Wouldn't want to be paying her fuel bill though...
A lot of material came from italy. Italians, when they want to do something they do it better than anyone alse. Basically an italian product. German cant do it like italians.
Is there a person who really need this super yacht, what this represents, power,status,$$$$$,why big fish needs big boat,and there always be a bigger fish.I wonder if the owner of this yacht really enjoys his toy fully and for haw long. TH
This boat is severely limited in its Ocean going capacity due to its surface drive but that should not be a surprise as the middle eastern customers have no stomach for anything other than anchoring off Cairns or Monte Carlo and pretending to be a ship!
It's not an entitlement its there right of freedom.. But it's all relevant to ones income to me, if someone spends $35,000 on Bass boat and they can ok, If someone spends $500,000, 000 then ok. I just thing some believe it's all blood money because it probably is..
John Smith most Arab owned yachts have very little outside amenities compared to western yachts, due to the much more private culture compared to the huge parties most western yacht owners throw, though a few Arab yacht owners do throw massive on board parties. hope this helps!
John Smith It's because of their religion, they prefer tons of cocaine, alcohol and Eastern-European hookers to stay inside the ship rather than letting them just walk all around :D
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