Oceanco Yacht

As one of the world’s finest yacht builders, Oceanco's yachts are technically accomplished and aesthetically distinctive; built to standards that no other shipyard exceeds. Unsurpassed Dutch engineering by the most talented craftsmen, allied to the highest specifications and the most sophisticated equipment: Oceanco continues to push the boundaries of the superyacht concept with the 85.60m / 280.84ft, Igor Lebanov designed Y708.  

Oceanco has recently been acquired by Mohammed Al Barwani, a private investor, who is based in the Sultanate of Oman. Barwani has interests in oil, gas, manufacturing, and minerals in Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific through MB Holding Company LLC as well as investments in various other diversified assets. Barwani has a deep love of the sea and has owned a variety of motoryachts. Extremely enthusiastic about his new aquasition, he says, “I see Oceanco as a great brand. The company offers an outstanding growth opportunity as the world economy recovers."

"Oceanco’s order book is healthy and the business shows a strong balance sheet” states Barwani, who has a Bachelor of Science degree from Miami University of Ohio and a Masters degree in Petroleum engineering from Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, with a firm grasp of projects and systems. Barwani goes on to say, “Oceanco will not only continue to construct outstanding yachts, but it is my intention to take the Oceanco brand to the next level.“ 

Marcel Onkenhout, former Deputy Managing Director of Oceanco, who has been with the company for 16 years, was recently appointed as the new CEO, replacing Eel Kant. The management and engineering teams remain unchanged. Project Director Arie van Andel, who has been with Oceanco from inception, is continuing to push the limits of invention with every build. And Dirk de Jong, who previously worked with Oceanco, has returned as the R&D design project manager. This team, along with marketing managers Michele Flandin and Paris Baloumis will ensure a seamless transition as the business moves forward under new ownership.  

Oceanco has been building award-winning megayachts since 1990. In 2000, the yard launched the 95-meter Indian Empress (ex Al Mirqab), its largest build to date. In 2002, under the leadership of its former owner, Oceanco escalated its market plan and started building stylish, futuristic yachts over 80 meters in length. Oceanco has the distinction of having built the largest yachts in Holland, but they are mostly known for their quality and technology.    

Oceanco’s design offices are in Monaco and the shipyard is in Alblasserdam, Holland. The company works with a wide range of top international designers and naval architects. The latest yachts from the shipyard are the 85.5-meter "Vibrant Curiosity", launched in 2009 and the 85.5-meter "Sunrays", launched in 2010. There are several more "Y-series" boats in build, on the drawing board or berthed in glass sheds as near life-size models. There are currently three extraordinary yachts over 80-meters under construction at Oceanco with a fourth in the planning phases. Plans are also underway for the construction of a new shed that can accommodate yachts up to 110-meters in length

Oceanco’s design offices are in Monaco and the shipyard is in Alblasserdam, Holland. The company works with a wide range of top international designers and naval architects. The latest yachts from the shipyard are the 85.5-meter "Vibrant Curiosity", launched in 2009 and the 85.5-meter "Sunrays", launched in 2010. There are several more "Y-series" boats in build, on the drawing board or berthed in glass sheds as near life-size models. There are currently three extraordinary yachts over 80-meters under construction at Oceanco with a fourth in the planning phases. Plans are also underway for the construction of a new shed that can accommodate yachts up to 110-meters in length.  

On Y708, each deck will have its own balcony allowing guests to enjoy themselves in complete privacy. The owner of Y708 will have two private decks offering breathtaking panoramic views both aft and forward. In addition to a private sun deck with a whirlpool and a sunbathing area, the owner’s deck comprises a suite, salon, study and an aft open deck.  

Y708's beveled, angular aluminum superstructure offers up to 12 guests unprecedented comfort and luxury. The welded steel hull accommodates a spacious, two-level engine room which houses two MTU 20V 4000 M73L main engines generating 3,600kW each – sufficient to power Y708 along at up to 20 knots.  

  

Y708 will feature a separate beach club with a guest sea terrace and entrance platform. The 6.4-meter x 3.6-meter swimming pool converts into a helicopter platform, much like the system found on the previously launched "Alfa Nero".  

Specifications:

Builder: Oceanco
Naval Architect: Oceanco / Azure
Exterior Designer: Igor Lobanov
Interior Designer: Alberto Pino
Length Overall: 85.60m / 280.84ft
Beam Overall: 14.20m / 46.59ft
Draft Full Load: 4.00m / 13.12ft
Hull Construction: Steel
Superstructure Construction: Aluminum
Gross Tonnage: Approximately 2,600
Classification: Lloyds Register, Notation 100A1 SSC Yacht Mono
G6+ LMC UMS SCM EP / Administration MCA (LY2)
Maximum Speed: Approximately 20 knots at half load conditions
and MCR Range Approximately 6,900 nautical miles at 14 knots
Fuel Capacity: Approximately 280,000 liters / 73,968 US gallons
Engine Type: 2 x MTU 20V 4000 M73L, 20 cylinder turbo charged diesel, 3,600kW / 4,828 bhp at 2,050 rpm
Generator: 2 x MTU 8V2000 M50A diesel generators (332kW) and 1 x MTU 12V2000 M50A diesel generator (498kW)
Stabilizers: Rolls-Royce retractable zero-speed stabilization
Bow thruster: Frequency controlled electrical driven transverse thruster (400kW)
Stern thruster: Frequency controlled electrical driven retractable and rotatable stern thruster (286kW)

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Zuiderstek 40
2952 AZ Alblasserdam
P.O. Box 20 - 2950 AA Alblasserdam
The Netherlands
T: +31 78 699 5399
F: +31 78 699 5398
info@oceanco.nl

Monaco

Gildo Pastor Center
7, rue du Gabian
MC 98000 Monaco
T +377 93 10 0281
F +377 92 05 6599
info@oceanco.mc

 

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31 RUE CAMBON
THE STORY BEHIND THE FACADE

Dating back to the 18th century, rue Cambon was named after a famous French revolutionary elected to the National Convention, whose father was a fabric manufacturer.
The streets in this part of Paris were built after the French Revolution. In order to make way for them, the buildings of the Couvent de la Conception convent were demolished, leaving only the Notre Dame de l’Assomption church, which still stands to this day. The edifices erected subsequently were influenced by classicism, an architectural style characterized by purity of line, rigorous proportions, symmetry and horizontal divisions. They present smooth façades and a unified sense of volume.
In 1910, Gabrielle Chanel opened her hat shop, “Chanel Modes”, at Number 21 rue Cambon, in the center of Paris, only a stone’s throw from Place Vendôme and rue Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in the heart of a very fashionable part of town.
19th century writers such as Stendhal and Chateaubriand occasionally dwelled on rue Cambon, where Chanel would brush shoulders with renowned caricaturist George Goursat, also known as “SEM”. He created the first artistic rendering of perfume N°5.
As she quickly gained recognition for her talents as a hat-maker, Gabrielle decided that she needed larger premises. In 1918, she acquired the entire building at Number 31. It was here that she invented the concept of the modern boutique: in 1921, she began displaying fashion accessories and her first perfume (N°5) to wear with her garments and hats. Later, she added jewelry and beauty products.
Gabrielle Chanel claimed rue Cambon as her territory and arranged her 18th century building to suit her needs. The boutique occupied the ground floor, while the large reception room on the first floor was used to present her collections and hold fittings for Haute Couture dresses and suits. A stairway lined with mirrors led to her second-floor apartment, which was an intimately private realm filled with treasures. The third floor housed the studio, where Karl Lagerfeld works today, together with light-flooded workshops nestled below the rooftops. All of her activities, which included workshops for making jewelry, hats and sportswear, were united in this building, whose configuration has remained unchanged.
During the 1920s, Chanel expanded up the street and by 1927 she occupied five buildings on rue Cambon (Numbers 23 to 31).

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Women’s wardrobes would be oh-so-cumbersome, not to mention boring, without the contributions of the great Parisian designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel.
Chanel gave us the little black dress, gaudy layers of pearls, and the fitted tweed suit. Most important, she popularized predecessor Paul Poiret’s early-1900s frocks that featured straighter silhouettes and shorter hemlines. These boyish pieces ultimately helped women do away with the corset.


That’s common fashionista knowledge.

But there’s much more that hasn’t been common knowledge about the bobbed, early-20th-century businesswoman, and it should make for a book chock-full of scandals and affairs. Hence, British author Lisa Chaney’s 400-plus-page tome, Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life.
In the book, Chaney pieces together lost letters and records, which the designer spent most of her life trying to hide, that retell her maudlin story and give substance to a lot of rumors about Chanel. But, while the story is juicy chick lit, the book is not. What this fact-heavy prose lacks is spice.
It takes a while, but we get Chaney’s point: Chanel was a style innovator, but it wasn’t a love of clothing that made this woman tick. It was fear. Fear that she’d lose control or, worse, the independence she so fiercely fought for.
Chanel was born in 1883, the illegitimate child of an unemployed French playboy and a severely depressed mother, and lost her parents when she was 12. She grew up in an orphanage run by nuns. You can imagine how restricted her fashion choices were.
Chanel’s life wasn’t easy, and at times, it was downright degrading. She spent her young adult life as a courtesan, an upscale prostitute. She entered high society as one of two mistresses of her first financial backer, socialite and horseman Etienne Balsan, whom she eventually left for an even richer Englishman, Arthur “Boy” Capel, after cheating on Balsan with Capel.
These stories are more scandalous than those on Real Housewives.
The forbidden liaisons helped Chanel establish herself early on as a high-society rule-breaker. Her transition from milliner – her first business was a hat shop – to designer helped her express revolutionary thoughts when it came to women.
Chanel was among the first upper-class women to ride horses for recreation and to play sports like polo, so her menswear-inspired clothing – featuring pockets and baggy fits – was as much a necessity as a fashion statement.
Chaney opens the book with Chanel walking through the Tuileries with Capel. She informs Capel, who is bankrolling her business, that she doesn’t need his help anymore. His response: “I thought I was giving you a plaything. What I gave you was your freedom.”
Soon after, Capel would leave her.
That was just one of Chanel’s numerous affairs followed by a debilitating broken heart. Men would cheat on their wives with her, then leave both her and the wife to marry somebody else. Subsequent dalliances included affairs with composer Igor Stravinsky, artist Pablo Picasso, and a German soldier during the Nazi occupation of France. Chaney raises the possibility of lesbian affairs, too.
Even with her astuteness, Chanel made some bad business decisions and was swindled out of the bulk of her profit from her iconic scent, Chanel No. 5. Despite her grand staircases and travels around the world with the most revered artists, she never managed to find happiness.
By the book’s end, Chanel has become a lonely and bitter woman who spends much of her time bashing fashion, especially the miniskirt. She said she found the mini vulgar and inappropriate, seemingly forgetting how she herself had popularized a shorter hemline in the early 20th century that freed women from Victorian prudery.
Through two World Wars, Chanel survived it all. That’s because, as Chaney puts it so well, Chanel owned the zeitgeist.
“The reason she is so often credited with initiating something, such as chopping off her hair or introducing short skirts, is because she had become the quintessence of high fashion,” Chaney writes. “She knew just when to make the change, and what she did was noticed and emulated.”
It’s unfortunate that Chanel’s fashion genius came at such a daunting price. The designer, who died in 1971, at 88, remains even now a dominating force in women’s fashion. But her personal life was far from triumphant.

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