Drawn in 60 minutes: The SDS Design Challenge 2017

Project Larry III

Team captain: Frank Laupman

Team members: Perry van Oossanen, Chris Downham and Ricardo Pilguj

Type of vessel: Nuclear power boosted, steel-hulled tri-deck motor yacht with a reverse prow and a 3D printed titanium superstructure.

Dimensions: 90m x 16m

Max speed: 30.5 knots with a rang of 6,500nm

Look and feel: Sleek, but still very robust. A lizard-like exterior with whale furnishings, inspired by the aggression and elegance of nature.

Unique details: Tai Chi dojo, multi-deck helicopter garage, club room for snooker and darts, graphene-lined swimming pool, crew of 10 humans and 12 robots.

Mantaleon Ray I

Team captain: Martin Francis

Team members: Jiri Tokar, Iliyana Popova, Richard Hein, Guillermo Hummel, Timothy Baldacci

Type of vessel: Electromagnetic propulsion — it has no propeller and no moving parts. It sucks water in and squirts it out of the back. Speed foiler stabilised, photovoltaic over surface with opening wind power mills.

Dimensions: 80m x 40m

Max speed: 28.888 knots with a range of 10,000nm

Look and feel: Sexy, fun. The photovoltaic surface can change colour. It has the characteristics of the chameleon plus the shape of a manta ray.

Unique details: Enormous space for entertaining. Underwater glass and Rolls-Royce Phantom submarine.

Project Pine

The winning design

Team captain: Peder Eidsgaard

Team members: Marnix J Hoekstra, Kenneth Nyfelt, Claudio Zimarino, Richard Gibeaud, Jud Velde, Jens Weishaupt

Type of vessel: Monohull LDL

Dimensions: 100m x 17m

Max speed: 18 knots

Look and feel: The yacht is a hull with a floating pod on top — a gimballing master bedroom was placed two thirds aft on the semi-raised lower deck, with a large circular porthole in the centre. From this suite a private lift would take the owner to his panorama suite two decks up, with walk-around decks and 360 degree views.

Unique details: Aft deck garden, swimming pool that converts into a tender garage, 100 per cent CO2 and NO2 free. Exhausts would not be necessary owing to the conversion of solid carbon, so in place of a traditional exhaust stack would be a mast up front with navigation equipment.

Seven Seas Worldcruiser

Team captain: Frank Neubelt

Team members: Ronno Schouten, Filippo Rossi

Type of vessel: Long-range cruiser with a heavy displacement bow and a combination of magnetic and Azipod propulsion.

Dimensions: 95m

Max speed: Undisclosed

Look and feel: Modern contemporary. The inspiration was self-contained modern technology and a sustainable design with a focus on the environment.

Unique details: Glass-sided infinity pool on the foredeck, removable helicopter platform, four semi-submersed staterooms on lower deck, 2.16m headroom throughout, owner’s suite on upper deck with private terrace and swimming pool.

Taiji

Team captain: Gregory C Marshall

Team members: Charles Barber, Andreas Iseli, Krystyna Ledochowska and Sergio Cutolo

Type of vessel: Autonomous trimaran, powered by a hybrid fuel cell, fitted with an ice-breaking bow.

Dimensions: 70m x 16.8m

Max speed: 30 knots

Look and feel: Blue-green titanium finish.

Unique details: Lizard terrarium staircase in the central hull, Tai Chi room with 3.66 metre headroom.

Project Iggy

Team captain: Burns Fallow

Team members: Hans-Maarten Bais, Paolo Foglizzo, Rebecca Sawyer

Type of vessel: Foil-assisted sloop with electric propulsion and an ice-breaking hull.

Dimensions: 70m

Max speed: 40 knots

Look and feel: Strong curved lines in the exterior styling allow for lighting features to follow the lines of the boat.

Unique details: Retractable mast to allow for Panama canal crossings, solar panels incorporated into the sails, aft-deck helipad, virtual reality room, central glass atrium with mini jungle for pet lizards.

Fire

Team captain: Christian Oliver

Team members: Olivia Bridges, Guillaume Rolland, Guido de Cesare, Thomas Springenberg

Type of vessel: Romantic explorer motorsailer

Dimensions: 100m

Max speed: 25 knots power, 15 knots sail

Look and feel: A wide-beam, two-masted, low centre-of-gravity motorsailer — sort of a mobile island paradise retreat as much as a yacht. The short, shallow fin allows guests to walk off the boat on to land.

Unique details: Flat communication domes on fore mast. Huge flat deck. Master cabin hangs out over the water at the back with sunken helicopter landing pit on top. Transom fully opens at the back to allow access to beach.

Chameleon

Team captains: Fiona Diamond and Steve Gresham

Team members: James Drysdale, Bart de Haan, Harun Kemali

Type of vessel: Diesel-electric multipurpose explorer with the option of a detachable hull.

Dimensions: 70m x 30m

Max speed: 25 knots, 10 knots cruising

Look and feel: Sleek, with a hull that changes like a chameleon to its environment.

Unique details: The engine is in the side hull, so that it isolates all the noise. The entertainment deck also doubles up with the two-tier helicopter deck, which would have an awning for privacy when the owner wants to have a party and not be seen.

Sospiro

Team captain: Lorenzo Argento

Team members: Casper Marelis, Michael Breman, Marijana Radovic, Franco Romani

Type of vessel: Semi-submersible trimaran

Dimensions: 75m x 17m

Max speed: 27 knots in whisper mode

Look and feel: A modern day Thunderbird.

Unique details: The forward part above the water is all glass. Two helicoidal lifts, one fore and one aft, access the night quarters, which are underwater so they are completely quiet and so the client doesn’t get seasick. Powered by Cupium, a new energy source discovered on the moon. A two-person torpedo-like submarine can be shot out of the lower hulls.

Morpheus

Team captains: Adriana Monk and Laura Pomponi

Team members: Elvire Blasset, Glyn Hutchinson, Rob Armstrong

Type of vessel: A new category for a new age! Mutating trimaran

Dimensions: 70m x 12m

Max speed: 30 knots

Look and feel: Photo-chromatic skin (like a lizard) to adapt in blue and green tones. Reptilian, sleek and aggressive.

Unique details: Trimaran for high-speed efficient cruising, with collapsing side hulls for docking. Central light well “iguarium” and staircase for Larry and Other Larry.

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