{"id":3128,"date":"2011-05-30T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercator.nfdtesting.uk\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/2011\/05\/30\/megayachts-prove-worth-for-german-yards\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:24:41","slug":"megayachts-prove-worth-for-german-yards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/news\/general-news\/megayachts-prove-worth-for-german-yards\/","title":{"rendered":"Megayachts prove worth for German yards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Tom Todd writes:<\/em> The 84m long and 14m wide <em>Valerie<\/em> went on trials in the Baltic this week after leaving the L\u00fcrssen Group\u2019s Kr\u00f6ger Werft in Schacht-Audorf. Floated out in March, the four-deck newbuild, which has a steel hull and aluminium superstructures and a heli-pad in the bow, was expected to be handed over to her unidentified owners this summer.<\/p>\n<p>She was earlier known under the project name <em>Firebird<\/em>. Reports said she was powered by twin Caterpillar Diesels, but technical details of the ship have not been released.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow yacht building and conversion specialist Nobiskrug in Rendsburg on the Kiel Canal has also delivered a big yacht. Revealing more than L\u00fcrssen about its newbuild the shipyard said the 74m <em>Sapphire<\/em> was built to exterior and interior designs by Newcruise Yacht Projects &amp; Design.<\/p>\n<p>She was completely custom-made with innovative features including multi-functional spaces, extensive exterior LED lighting, an enormous sun deck, large raised sunbathing platforms and an outside cinema. Her circular aft main deck can be used either as a helicopter platform, a dance-floor or a balcony, the yard said.<\/p>\n<p>It added that \u201cparticular attention\u201d had been paid to Sapphire\u2019s engineering and that the new yacht was driven by two MTU main engines of 1,760kW apiece providing 17.3 knots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German shipyards have turned out two big motor yachts, demonstrating that the lucrative private sector, along with passenger and specialist offshore vessels, is helping keep troubled German shipbuilding alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}