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Abeking & Rasmussen SILVER CLOUD For Sale

Silver Cloud is a 134’6″ SWATH Yacht built by Abeking & Rasmussen in Germany. SWATH stands for Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull. The outstanding feature is smooth sailing in rough seas. A&R has perfected this design by building numerous SWATH ships for pilot service in the North Sea, an area known for very rough conditions. The 80′ SWATH pilot boats can safely put pilots on and off ships in seas to 20 feet.

The first SWATH yacht was designed and built for a trailblazing, experienced yachtsman so he could take his family and friends around the world in complete comfort and without the effect of seasickness. Silver Cloud has been around the world twice with owners and guests aboard for all open water crossings including transpacific and transatlantic. Silver Cloud was awarded the Technology Award at the prestigious World Superyacht Awards in 2009

The stability of this vessel is truly exceptional and you can view a video of a SWATH ship along side a much larger vessel in rough seas by visiting the web site www.yachtsilvercloud.com. Also, this web site will give you details and photographs of Silver Cloud from conception to completing her world cruises.

Silver Cloud has recently completed her DNV/GL inspection including the rebuild of her main engines and is ready for many more years of outstanding adventures to interesting places most yachts do not venture. 

Silver Cloud is currently in a Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ).

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Swathbuckling in the Pacific

• By Dennis Caprio
• Updated: August 2, 2011

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Alex Dreyfoos was in the early days of double digits when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and forced the United States into World War II.

He remembers following news of the war, and like scores of boys, his natural curiosity and fascination with airplanes and boats nudged him into building model war birds and ships. No wonder that diving on the World War II wrecks among the islands of Papua New Guinea stirred his soul during these later days of his life. How many of the planes he saw up close participated in the tide-turning Battle of the Coral Sea or the fighting on Guadalcanal?

Dreyfoos and his wife, Renate, had planned to be in Sydney, Australia, by December of 2009 to celebrate a special birthday and the winter holidays before they headed east to New Zealand for a six-week cruise. From New Zealand, they’d planned to steam west to the Seychelles, Cape Town and back to the Canary Islands to complete a circumnavigation. News of pirates in the waters of the Seychelles, however, would eventually send them east to French Polynesia. Meanwhile, the many islands northeast of Papua New Guinea beckoned.

The journey to this place of extraordinary natural beauty and a remarkably friendly population began a long time ago. Dreyfoos had signed on as navigator aboard Volcano, an IOR race boat designed by German Frers, aboard which he discovered that long stints at the nav station made him seasick. His first motoryacht was a 1963 Rybovich 51 sport-fisherman, and the number of his friends who admitted to getting seasick when he invited them aboard surprised him. Many years later, he married Renate, who confessed to suffering from motion sickness since early in her childhood. Riding the trolley was all the motion she needed to make her ill, but that didn’t stop her from joining Alex on long cruises aboard their 115-foot Burger — the next yacht in the series. Unlike experienced seamen, who get seasick but recover quickly, Renate needed two or three days to recuperate.

Common wisdom says that bigger is better when one wants to reduce the effects of motion, but the theory didn’t work for Renate. She continued to suffer aboard the 143-foot Feadship, which had replaced the Burger. In a search to solve the problem, Alex looked into catamarans, trimarans, hydrofoils and jet-drive fast ferries, and then someone suggested that he and Renate examine the SWATH (small waterplane area twin hull). They eventually found Abeking & Rasmussen, builder of fine yachts and, what’s more important, a succession of SWATH work boats.

“On a day in June 2005 in the North Sea aboard an A&R 82-foot pilot boat …” Dreyfoos said in a talk to the Superyacht Society, “in sea conditions that would have had Renate seasick … she was knitting and reading.” That episode sealed the deal.

In October of 2008, about a year before their voyage to Papua New Guinea, Dreyfoos and Renate cast off from the A&R yard near Bremen, Germany: destination, Palm Beach, Florida. This was the shakedown cruise of their new 134-foot SWATH, Silver Cloud (see “Driving Force,” July 2011 Yachting), and it took them through the North Sea, English Channel, Bay of Biscay, the Straits of Gibraltar for fuel, and then west to the Canary Islands, St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Florida. They couldn’t have picked a better yacht than Silver Cloud to make their 19-month voyage of discovery.

A SWATH is a pair of submarines carrying a beamy yacht on their back, perched atop streamlined struts, well above the water’s surface. Silver Cloud has five-sixths of her displacement in these submarine-like hulls, which ride about 13 feet below the surface — in the sea’s quiet zone. The result is extraordinary stability and a wonderfully easy motion — improved further by the use of active stabilizers on the hulls — making her the perfect platform for folks who easily become seasick. During the shakedown cruise, Silver Cloud encountered quartering short-period seas of 6 to 10 feet in the North Sea. In the Bay of Biscay, the wave periods lengthened and included moderate swells. In the Atlantic, the yacht encountered seas of 10 to 16 feet on the beam, quartering and on the nose, plus occasional waves of more than 20 feet. The SWATH design lived up to its billing.

Silver Cloud has a beam of 58 feet, making the dimension of the main salon greater athwartships than fore-and-aft. The master suite spans the full beam of the upper deck and gives the Dreyfooses a 180-degree view forward. In plan view, the suite has the same shape as a half-slice of watermelon. “As Silver Cloud spends a relatively large percentage of its time at sea, with continuously changing scenery,” Dreyfoos said in his presentation, “the view is much more interesting than the day-to-day view one gets in a marina.” The master berth is on a platform so its occupants can see the horizon while they’re lying in bed — better than TV.

Living on the upper deck is like being in a separate Zip Code, the privacy is so complete. Renate has a private bath on the port side, Alex has his on the starboard side just inboard of his study. The sky lounge occupies a chunk of real estate abaft the study. “We do invite guests to our spacious sky lounge,” Alex said. It has a 65-inch LED monitor for movies and TV, and four large powered reclining chairs, which often entice his guests to doze off before the movie ends.

The private deck forward of the master suite contains a fully equipped navigation station from which Alex can control Silver Cloud and call up any of the displays that appear on the captain’s bridge above. “I have an arrangement with the captain,” Alex said. “When the weather is nice, it’s my boat; when it’s inclement, it’s his boat.”

Although Silver Cloud’s draft of 11.5 to 13.5 feet limits the number of harbors available to her, the yacht’s extraordinary stability and easy motion allow her to anchor comfortably outside most harbors. This makes her the perfect yacht for adventures — drop the hooks, launch the tender and go. She’s the quintessential floating hotel — booked solid for many of the legs of her voyage — and she’s never been out of the water since her launch in July 2008.

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Abeking motor yacht Silver Cloud sold

The 41 metre Abeking & Rasmussen motor yacht Silver Cloud , listed for sale with Moran Yacht & Ship , has been sold with the buyer introduced by Peter Hurzeler at Ocean Independence .

Built by German yard Abeking & Rasmussen to an in-house design, Silver Cloud was delivered in 2008 as a SWATH (small waterplane area twin hull) model and went on to win two prestigious World Superyacht Awards in 2009. Accommodation is for 12 guests in five cabins including a master suite, two doubles with king sized beds, two doubles with queen sized beds and a twin with Pullman berths. All cabins aboard this yacht for sale have entertainment centres, LED television screens and en suite bathroom facilities.

The main deck saloon, designed by Michael Kirschstein , has panoramic views via large windows, two lounge areas and two dining areas, fostering an air of intimacy between guests. Powered sliding glass doors lead out to the aft deck offering every facility for al fresco entertainment and dining.

The sky lounge doubles as a media room, with four powered lounge chairs and a 65 inch LED television screen that lowers from the ceiling, affording guests a comfortable space for relaxed viewing. Additional features include an elevator, spa pool and a large helicopter deck.

Twin 1,100hp Caterpillar engines give her a range of 4,000 nautical miles at 10 knots and she is fitted with zero speed stabilisers.

Silver Cloud was asking $15,900,000 and will be renamed Nurja .

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By SuperyachtNews 24 Dec 2012

Alex Dreyfoos: Silver Cloud update

Alex dreyfoos, owner of the world’s only small waterplane area twin-hulled (swath) superyacht, silver cloud, gives us a quick update from antigua after the yacht’s recent refit….

Recently, TheSuperyachtOwner.com caught up with Alex Dreyfoos, owner of what is currently the world’s only small waterplane area twin-hulled (SWATH) superyacht, Silver Cloud , for a chat after the yacht’s recent refit at her build yard, Abeking & Rassmussen.

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Silver Cloud for Sale

Silver Cloud the 41 metre SWATH Explorer Yacht built by Abeking and Rasmussen [A&R] in Germany 10 years ago is for sale at US$28.5 million a price which her broker suggests is half what she would cost to build today.

We extensively toured the yacht and spent several enjoyable occasions on board with her owners and reported his exploits in magazine features

SWATH stands for Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull.

Silver Cloud , is the first luxury SWATH yacht ever built for a private owner.

She was originally designed and built to take on all sea conditions while ensuring the highest levels of comfort. Silver Cloud has proven to be the ultimate success story in reaching its goal of achieving impressive levels of stability and comfort while cruising.

This outstanding achievement was recognised by the yachting world when Silver Cloud received the Technology Award at the World Superyacht Awards in 2009.

Her current owners have circumnavigated the globe twice since that time exploring some remote and otherwise unreachable destinations in ultimate comfort.

The outstanding feature is smooth sailing in rough seas. A&R has perfected this design by building numerous SWATH ships for pilot service in the North Sea, an area known for very rough conditions.

The 80′ SWATH pilot boats can safely put pilots on and off ships in seas to 20 feet.

An added benefit to Silver Cloud ’s twin hulls is the extensive space on board, equivalent to that of a much larger yacht evidenced by her Gross Registered Tonnage of 926. Silver Cloud has a bright, soothing interior which was designed by Kirschstein Designs LTD and Susan Schuyler Smith of Spectrum Designs.

The cheerful, panoramic main salon, located on the main deck, is an incredibly large and impressive space with several distinct zones including two dining areas and two lounge areas. An outside deck, with al fresco dining, connects with the salon via powered sliding glass doors providing easy indoor-outdoor flow.

Accommodations are for 12 guests in five cabins including the master, two king staterooms and two staterooms with full, twin and Pullman beds.

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April 12, 2008

Silver cloud - 133' swath.

7 comments:

Nice to read history here. The Silver Cloud was in Juneau late June 2009. I have photos.

Thanks for your message, If you want to send your pictures I will post them with a link to your blog. Just sent them at sebastien.barthez(at)gmail(dot)com thanks

The Silver Cloud is in Sydney now. It would likely have been in Sydney Harbour for the New Years Eve fireworks and party.

I spotter the Silver Cloud in Sydney Harbour New Years Eve 2009

SC in Auckland, New Zealand. Looking very nice.

Greetings, I have a inquiry for the webmaster/admin here at luxurycatamaran.blogspot.com. Can I use some of the information from your blog post above if I give a link back to your website? Thanks, William

Dear William, Just let me know you website url and I'll let you know if you can use the information. Anyway thanks for asking. Sébastien

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HVAC onboard Silver Cloud

The SWATH (Small-Waterplane-Area Twin Hull) yacht is the first employing this technology. With a length of 41 metre, Drews Marine GmbH was responsible for the HVAC onboard Silver Cloud.

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