Luxury yacht : trawler motor-yacht (steel)
NB38 Proteksan-Turquoise

- 27.6m

90' 7"ft

With its ample beam of 6.93m., is actually a much larger vessel than its overall length might indicate. Her steel hull features a round bilge with underwater lines flowing sweetly aft from its bluff-bows to an open stern, incorporating a fashionably-integrated bathing platform. The designer selected a pair of relatively small and economical Caterpillar 3406 diesels that develop a mere 300hp each. These give a top speed of 12 knots and, at ten knot squeeze, around 6,400 nautical miles from her 34,000 litre fuel tanks- excellent for her world cruising role, giving her the flexibility to bunker with the utmost economy.

Above the water, her sheerline steps down amidship from her high, seamanlike bow to the lower freeboard of the stern but the break is cleverly camouflaged with a pleasently curving linet hat runs aft from the bow at deck level to join the cap rail amidship, where it continues aft on top of the metre-high bulwark to the stern. The chunky aluminum deckhouse, positioned well forward on the hull, mirrors the split level deck with an upward step from the salon to the pilothouse, one that is repeated on the lower deck at the forward end of the owner's suite as it rises to the guest cabins.