The 101’s garage is impressively cavernous, and in Sandy it is put to good use accommodating a substantial 14ft 9in Williams 445 jet-RIB, as well as a couple of Seabob sleds, while with a little bit of organisation there looked to be room for at least another small personal watercraft. The tender garage can swallow up a 14ft 9in jet-RIB, two Seabob sleds and a personal watercraft. The reason is not hard to track down: other priorities have prevailed. Sandy’s engineroom, with its twin V16 MTUs competing for breathing space with generators, hydraulic pumps, air-conditioning units, electrical control panels and a simply enormous engine exhaust system is, to put it mildly, a little cramped. The maximum speed Legrand has recorded on trials is an impressive 32.4 knots – comfortably in excess of the figure Sunseeker claims for the twin-engined 101 Sport Yacht. “It was very smooth.” Legrand generally adopts between 25 and 26 knots as a fast cruise, which in his experience gives the yacht a safe range of about 600 nautical miles. “We didn’t even have to throttle back,” he said approvingly. The three-week voyage gave the Frenchman ample opportunity to familiarise himself with his new charge, including a challenging passage across a choppy Golfe de Lion in Force 6 to 7 conditions. “It was easy to get used to,” he told MBY. The 101’s captain, Olivier Legrand, knew what he was getting into when he was asked to deliver the yacht from the Poole shipyard to St Raphael in the South of France, having previously captained a Sunseeker 84. With its 64-mile Simrad radar, this is a yacht which looks capable of running safely, at speed, both day and night. Less obvious options include a military-spec searchlight by Francis and a joystick-controlled FLIR thermal imaging camera, which is reportedly able to detect a two-metre dinghy at a range of five miles. Sleipner zero-speed fin stabilisers were the most expensive single item, followed by a state-of the art £73,000 SES audio system, tropical air-conditioning – the yacht’s home base is Ibiza – a dumb waiter, and high-capacity commercial fridge and freezer capacity.īuilding the vessel to MCA regulations for charter added £69,000. Not content with his bespoke interior and non-standard office area, he also plundered the options list, adding more than three-quarters of a million pounds to the bottom line. Sunseeker’s willingness to customise didn’t stop there, and neither did the owner’s imagination. The VIP in the bows is complete with walk-in wardrobe, dressing table and a roomy heads Photo: Andy Cahill If you don’t have the requisite youngsters to hand, just scan the club bar for some new short friends. The office doesn’t need it, and a fourth head on a yacht this size is hardly a necessity. It’s actually not a bad use of the leftover space. The result is an excellent open-plan office on the port side, with plenty of light and space and a good-sized desk, while just aft, where the fourth cabin’s ensuite would have been, there is a small twin-bunk cabin suitable either for children or a pair of diminutive adults, as the thwartships berths are only 5ft 6in (1.65m) long. Its hanging locker and other stowage areas are probably only adequate for short trips, but if there are any issues the 101 is generously endowed down below with under-sole stowage areas, their hatches marked by old-school stainless steel frames to protect the carpet edging.Īs well as his considered choice of interior decor and finish, this second 101 Sport Yacht’s owner also opted for an office in place of a fourth cabin – and a fourth cabin in place of the fourth cabin’s head compartment. The third cabin on Sandy is a twin-berth on the starboard side with ensuite access to the spacious head at the foot of the companionway. The VIP cannot compete with the master for space, but in all other respects it’s a luxurious and comfortable cabin, which can also offer a walk-in wardrobe, a dressing table and a roomy head compartment.
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