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Chris Ostlind
02-27-2010, 07:22 PM
Some of you may already be aware of this design. I thought it interesting, even if it's not for me, or resembling anything which I am designing... at present.
http://www.why-yachts.com/#/What-is-WHY
A thread about this design is here:
http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/boat-design/solar-maximum-31633.html?highlight=wally
Perhaps you can figure out where the solar panels go when the roof is opened. Thrown overboard I guess.
TeddyDiver
02-28-2010, 03:51 AM
A thread about this design is here:
http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/boat-design/solar-maximum-31633.html?highlight=wally
Correction.. the thread http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/boat-design/why-willy-wants-work-wally-29380.html
thou the link to wally's seems not to work anymore..
Luckless
02-28-2010, 11:36 AM
Perhaps you can figure out where the solar panels go when the roof is opened. Thrown overboard I guess.
Wait, what? The roof is suppose to open? I assumed it was a solid hardtop.
Good to see vulgarity is back in vogue so quickly after the financial crisis.
hoytedow
02-28-2010, 04:05 PM
http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/boat-design/why-willy-wants-work-wally-29380.html still works.:)
SheetWise
02-28-2010, 08:18 PM
Good to see vulgarity is back in vogue so quickly after the financial crisis.
I don't think it's vulgar -- it's just a unique boat. Sort of like a movable island. A houseboat, of sorts.
Boston
02-28-2010, 08:21 PM
1st big storm and its curtains for the big ugly box thing
Wait, what? The roof is suppose to open? I assumed it was a solid hardtop.
Some pictures show large parts of the roof open. There are no portholes or windows, so with the roof closed it is pitch dark inside.
What we are looking at is the renderings of a CAD program, nothing else.
Timothy
03-01-2010, 06:39 PM
I think the idea is that the panels are of the Sanyo variety , two sided translucent panels that also process the reflected light. They have built a model home that has an awning like flat roof constructed of frame and panels(plenty of light inside). Ugly or beautiful the design exercise suggests that panels might be better integrated into more conventional boats (sky- lites Biminis ?).
Chris Ostlind
03-01-2010, 06:46 PM
Some pictures show large parts of the roof open. There are no portholes or windows, so with the roof closed it is pitch dark inside.
What we are looking at is the renderings of a CAD program, nothing else.
There are plenty of windows. All those dark bands on the exterior are window locations. If you look at the interior views, provided and on the site, you can see that there are windows in virtually every interior view. I'm sure that some of the rectangles are actually structural in nature, much like some buildings.
But windows... this angular mama's got plenty of them.
Yes, I've seen it now. It takes some patience to load all pictures.
There still remains the mystery of 900 sq.m. of solar panels that miraculously disappear to be replaced by light gray shades in some of the pictures.
And of course the specifications given are totally meaningless. Lots of zeros for power generation, storage and savings, but nothing about engines.
12-14 knots for a 180' hull seems very slow to me.
SheetWise
03-02-2010, 07:23 AM
12-14 knots for a 180' hull seems very slow to me.
A boat like this only needs to move as fast as the seasons. I sort of like it.
whipper
03-04-2010, 02:32 AM
I sorta love the interior! From above she looks not as good. The bow has potential. Wave piercing isn't it semi displacement looking hull. Off course its slow.:D
Willallison
03-04-2010, 06:06 PM
Well, it should be obvious from the link above to the thread I started about the WHY that I'm a fan. If yuo spend a little time looking at the info about both Wally and WHY you will quickly come to realise that these guy's don't do things by halves and that this is vastly more than just a pretty rendered picture. They have already built a full size mock up of the boat, which is based on a well-proven commercial work boat platform that has proven itself in offshore conditions far worse than anything the WHY is likely to encounter.
Yes, it's different... it's meant to be....
Chris Ostlind
03-04-2010, 06:38 PM
Yeah, Will. I sorta-kinda looked about to see if there were any other threads on this and like a kid who says he searched his room for the missing jacket, I came up empty... ;-)
To tell the truth, I kinda like this bad boy. Having it spring from a seaworthy hull type, just pushes the cred up a dozen notches... if it ends up being "out of" a work boat type with a serious makeover of the James Bond variety.
This thing has uber-rich Guido with a half dozen languorous babes written all over it. The petulant wife jet copters in from a shopping spree. The staccato burst of clicking stilettos shatters the numbing drone of polished cabins. The lingering scent of exotic oils. The wenches scurry off to the aft accessed toy garage, where they wait until dark, sipping Ouzo cocktails with water crackers and Foie Gras. A pair of muscled deck hands whisk them away discreetly, where they are comfortably ensconced in a shoreside, Five Star... awaiting Guido's next fervent call.
Hermès exits joint venture with Wally
French high-fashion house Hermès is exiting its joint venture partnership with Monaco-based boatbuilder Wally Yachts, saying it is not experienced enough to complete the project, according to a Reuters newswire report.
The two companies recently unveiled a full-size model of its first creation, the 58m x 38m (190ft x 125ft) WHY superyacht, at the Monte Carlo Yacht Show in September. The yacht was also displayed at last week's Abu Dhabi show.
"We are currently in the phase of carrying out the project, which is technically complex and which requires on-the-spot decisions," Hermès CEO Patrick Thomas told Reuters.
"It seemed a good idea to us to have only one decision-maker and we naturally decided to hand the reins over to Wally."
Hermès will sell its stake to Wally and will be paid back via commissions on boat sales through to 2020, said Thomas.
Founded by Luca Bassani in 1994, Wally offers a range of high-end sail and motoryachts that are built at its WallyEurope facility in Fano, Italy.
Hermès is a French high-fashion house specialising in leather, lifestyle accessories, perfume and other luxury goods. Although the company also works on helicopter design in partnership with the European Aeronautic, Defence and Space Company (EADS), it does not have comparable ship design experience, said Thomas.
Superyacht Business, 10 March 2010
Willallison
03-10-2010, 03:15 PM
hmmm.....
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