Last October we reported that Turkey-based Dream Ship Victory had signed a contract on a new 141-metre sailing superyacht, destined to become the world’s largest, with the same team that designed the Maltese Falcon. Now a construction schedule is slated to begin this summer with a five-year build plan, making for a launch date of 2016. Naval architects Dykstra & Partners and Ken Freivokh Design collaborated with DSV’s Valeriy Stepanenko on the Art Deco-inspired all-wood behemoth. No word yet on who shelled out the hundreds of millions for the commission.
With four masts to the Maltese’s three, DSV’s dreadnought will be a site to behold. The all-wood design will use up a fair number of trees, but DSV promises excellent green credentials through the use of carefully selected tropical woods, a “totally renewable resource”. If DSV can pull it off it will propel the yard into a new realm; their other yachts – the 65 metre Mikhail Vorontsov, Princess Maria (55 m) and Imagination (42 m) – are all considerably smaller in scale. But then again so is everything compared to this beast.
