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A Summary of Motor Yacht LIONCHASE

The motor yacht LIONCHASE is a 33 m 109 (ft) good sized composite superyacht which was completely constructed by Overmarine (Rodriguez Group) and designed by Overmarine. The good sized open style LIONCHASE is a particularly high quality Italian built superyacht which was launched to praise in 2008. The firm of naval architecture whom authored the design work in respect of this ship is Overmarine. The interior styling was sucessful creation of Overmarine. She could be described as a recent open style.

The 108ft Mangusta LIONCHASE serves as a large new tender to her 63m mothership, the Benetti LIONHEART.

The Construction & Design of Luxury Yacht LIONCHASE

Overmarine Yacht Design Team was the naval architect firm involved in the professional nautical design work for LIONCHASE. Her interior design was completed by Overmarine. Overmarine is also associated with the yacht general design work for this yacht. Built at Overmarine (Rodriguez Group) this yacht was constructed within Italy. She was successfully launched in Viareggio in 2008 before being transferred to the owner. Her core hull was crafted from composite. The motor yacht superstructure is made mostly with composite. With a beam of 7.12 m / 23.36 ft LIONCHASE has moderate size. A reasonably shallow draught of 1.3m (4.27ft) limits the amount of worldwide harbours she can enter, taking into account their individual depth.

The Performance And Engine Room For M/Y LIONCHASE:

Powered by twin MTU diesel main engines, LIONCHASE can reach a top speed of 37 knots. LIONCHASE is propelled by twin water jets. She also has an economical range of 400 nautical miles whilst motoring at her cruise speed of 32 knots. Her total HP is 5550 HP and her total Kilowatts are 4139.

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"From designing to construction of the mould and relative laminating in composite materials, to cutting of the metal sheets, to the final outfitting, including on-board electronics and on-board plant design, all processes are carried out by the Group. 100% made in Italy and absolute quality. The Group is based in Tuscany, Italy, with various production facilities in the areas of Viareggio, Massa and Pisa.: - Mangusta Yachts from Overmarine

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The luxury motor yacht LIONCHASE is a private yacht and is not available to charter.

LIONCHASE was built by Mangusta and delivered to her owner in 2008.

LIONCHASE can accommodate 8 guests in 5 cabins consisting of a primary suite with a king size bed , a cabin with a queen size bed , a cabin with a queen size bed , a cabin with a twin bed and a cabin with a pullman bed .

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LIONCHASE has a weekly charter price starting at €78,000 and an estimated daily charter price of €13,000.

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LIONCHASE can accommodate 8 sleeping guests on board in 5 cabins.

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CANVAS Yacht (ex: Lionchase)

Motor Yacht CANVAS

Canvas (formerly lionchase) is a 33.48m motor yacht built in 2008 by overmarine . the yacht's interior has been designed by green & mingarelli design and has exterior styling by stefano righini design..

CANVAS yacht has a grp hull with a grp superstructure with a beam of 7.12m  (23'4"ft) and a 1.30m  (4'3"ft) draft .

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CANVAS has a cruising speed of 28.00 knots, max speed of 30.00 knots and a range of 400.00 nm. from her 13,000.00l. fuel tanks.

CANVAS Accommodation

CANVAS offers accommodation for up to 9 guests in 4 suites comprising 1 owner cabin, 1 VIP cabin, 1 double cabin, 1 twin cabin. She is also capable of carrying up to 6 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience.

Model Mangusta 108

Other yachts based on this Mangusta 108 semi-custom model include Ares , Samoa Bay , Free Spirit , Eol , Yalla , CANVAS , Ares , Crazy Too , Bellissimo , Celcascor , Foursome , Gagagris , Four Friends , Mangusta 108/26 , Mangusta 108/28 , Medici , Nobody , Grazia , Master Blaster , Be Cool , Lady Harmony , Les , BLOOMS , Lady B , Zahir , Lady Sheila , Forever My Agata , JFF , Fatamorgana , O , Amazing .

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This Motor Yacht CANVAS is listed for sale on Superyachts.com, contact the broker for more details.

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CANVAS is a 33.5 m Motor Yacht, built in Italy by Overmarine Group and delivered in 2008. She is one of 28 Mangusta 108 models.

Her top speed is 38.0 kn and she boasts a maximum range of 400.0 nm when navigating at cruising speed, with power coming from two MTU diesel engines. She can accommodate up to 8 guests in 4 staterooms, with 4 crew members waiting on their every need. She has a gross tonnage of 181.0 GT and a 7.12 m beam.

She was designed by Stefano Righini , who has designed 899 other superyachts in the BOAT Pro database.

The naval architecture was developed by Andrea Bacigalupo , who has architected 196 other superyachts in the BOAT Pro database, and the interior of the yacht was designed by Overmarine Group , who has 216 other superyacht interiors designed in the BOAT Pro database - she is built with a GRP and Teak deck, a GRP hull, and GRP superstructure.

CANVAS is in the top 10% by speed in the world. She is one of 2082 motor yachts in the 30-35m size range, and, compared to similarly sized motor yachts, her cruising speed is 11.92 kn above the average, and her top speed 14.2 kn above the average.

CANVAS is currently sailing under the Malta flag, the 3rd most popular flag state for superyachts with a total of 1074 yachts registered. She is currently located at the superyacht marina Port de Cannes, in France, where she has been located for 1 day. For more information regarding CANVAS's movements, find out more about BOAT Pro AIS .

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• Name: CANVAS
• Previous Names: LIONCHASE
• Yacht Type: Motor Yacht
• Yacht Subtype: Sports/Open Motor Yacht
• Model: Mangusta 108
• Builder: Overmarine Group
• Naval Architect: Andrea Bacigalupo
• Exterior Designer: Stefano Righini
• Interior Designer: Overmarine Group

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Targeting super yachts owned by Russian oligarchs could hit a nerve in Moscow

Poor transparency around ownership of assets can cause challenges, experts say.

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With sanctions levied and financial assets seized, Russian oligarchs have been scrambling to get their super yachts out of Western ports in search of safer harbours. 

One yacht, said to belong to Russian President Vladimir Putin himself, abruptly left port in Hamburg, Germany, just weeks before the Russian invasion of Ukraine prompted wide-reaching sanctions. Others were not so quick to leave European ports. 

Authorities in La Ciotat, on France's Mediterranean coast, seized a yacht they say is linked to sanctioned Russian oligarch Igor Sechin, the CEO of state oil company Rosneft. He was Russia's deputy prime minister from 2008 to 2012.

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Industry watchers say oligarchs everywhere are trying to keep their yachts from being taken.

​​"There's a few yachts that we are watching at the moment in the Atlantic," said Sam Tucker, head of super yachts at the firm VesselsValue, which tracks and estimates the value of these giant luxury yachts. 

"I'm expecting some of them to start doing U-turns in the middle of the ocean," he told CBC Radio's Day 6 .

Western countries have imposed a punishing package of sanctions and export control restrictions on Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine. Russia's biggest banks were hit, as was the country's central bank. Major state-owned companies and some of the country's wealthiest individuals have seen overseas assets frozen.

The investment bank JP Morgan Chase believes Russia's economy will shrink 35 per cent in the second quarter of 2022 and seven per cent for the entire year.

White House spokesperson Jen Psaki says the suite of sanctions is meant to make every aspect of life difficult on Putin and the oligarchs who protect him.

"What we're talking about here is seizing their assets, seizing their yachts and making it harder for them to send their children to go to colleges and universities in the West," Psaki said in a briefing this week. "These are significant steps that will impact the people who are closely around President Putin."

<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Putin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Putin</a>´s Yacht "The Gracefull" inbound Kaliningrad from Hamburg in anticipation of future sanctions due to the conflict in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ukraine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Ukraine</a>. <a href="https://t.co/qdhAUhCH1m">pic.twitter.com/qdhAUhCH1m</a> &mdash; @GDarkconrad

Symbolic target

The yachts themselves are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but experts in Russian sanctions say this isn't just about the dollar value.

"They don't have much value compared to the total net worth of an oligarch," said Bill Browder, a long-time advocate for stiff sanctions against Russian oligarchs, in an email to CBC Radio. 

But they are "a highly symbolic attack on something coveted by the oligarchs."

These ultra-luxurious ships became a status symbol for the oligarchs as they amassed fortunes in the 1990s and early 2000s.

"There is a bit of oneupmanship," Tucker told Day 6 . He says the biggest and most expensive ships are cloaked in secrecy. They have extreme privacy and security features, including bulletproof glass, and some require crew to sign non-disclosure agreements.

But Tucker says the biggest security and privacy feature of all is the opaque ownership structure of the yachts. He says precious little information about who actually owns these ships is available.

"[Only] basic information is disclosed — for example, the registered owner — which is often a shell company or a 'special interest vehicle' registered in Monaco, Malta, [or the] Cayman Islands," he said.

Untying those knots is a notorious problem, but one usually confined to taxation issues.

"One thing that I think may come out of this whole situation is the increased call for transparency and transparent ownership," said Tucker.

Yachts on the move

So far, only four super yachts have been seized, including a 213-foot yacht owned by Alexei Mordashov in Imperia, Italy.

While authorities sift through the byzantine paper trail of ownership, other oligarchs have scrambled their crews to get the yachts to somewhere safe.

"One of the things I've been trying to figure out is, where do they go [next]?" asked Alex Finley, a former CIA officer living in Barcelona, in an interview with  As It Happens host Gillian Findlay .

This week, Finley tweeted photos tracking a ship said to be owned by Roman Abramovich, the Russian billionaire who owns the Chelsea Football Club.

• Anxious Russians flee by the hundreds each day into neighbouring Finland

"A lot of these yachts that we've been looking at are heading towards the Maldives or the Seychelles. A few are in Montenegro, but they look like they're probably going to be on the move," Finley said in the interview .

Here you can see the sterns of both Aurora and Valerie, and in the other pic, the empty slip where Solaris used to be (which is the size of the empty hole in my heart). 7/ <a href="https://t.co/Luvj5vyWXp">pic.twitter.com/Luvj5vyWXp</a> &mdash; @alexzfinley

Neither the Maldives nor the Seychelles signed onto the sanctions, so the ships are probably safe from seizure there. Another major hub is Dubai.

"I think we're going to see Dubai as a big hotspot for these yachts," said Tucker. "It has hot weather all year round and … Russians can fly to Dubai without going through the EU airspace."

Tucker agrees that targeting the yachts is a symbolic move.

"It's really sending the message that they aren't untouchable. We've closed the skies on both sides of the Atlantic so their private jets can't operate, and now we're going after their super yachts," he said.

"I'd be feeling quite vulnerable if I was an oligarch right now."

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Sir Philip Green’s super-yacht quarantined in Monaco over coronavirus outbreak

The $150 million and 90-meter-long super-yacht Lionheart has been docked at Monaco’s Port Hercule for over a week. Two crew members tested positive for coronavirus.

At the time, the purchase of this yacht raised public concern in the United Kingdom. The supe-yacht was bought by Green one year after the British tycoon sold BHS clothing stores to a little-known investor for £1.

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According to Monaco Matin , 14 boats have now been asked to quarantine by Monaco’s government since the start of the pandemic . Their status is indicated by a yellow flag hoisted on the mast. The Lionheart question should be solved quickly enough. According to local media, all of the new tests conducted on the yacht’s crew at the beginning of the week came back negative.

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CANVAS Specifications

• Name CANVAS
• Model Custom
• Hull NB 108/27
• Hull Colour -
• Naval Architect Overmarine
• Exterior Designer Stefano Righini Design
• Interior Designer Green & Mingarelli Design
• Length Overall 33.5m
• Length at Waterline -
• Draft (min) -
• Draft (max) 1.3m
• Gross Tonnage 184
• Cabins Total 4
• Cabins 1 Master / 1 VIP / 1 Double / 1 Twin
• Hull Configuration -
• Hull Material GRP
• Superstructure -
• Deck Material -
• Fuel Type Diesel
• Manufacturer MTU
• Model 12V 4000 M90
• Power 5550 hp
• Total Power 5550 hp
• Propulsion Twin Waterjets
• Max Speed 30 Kn
• Cruising Speed 28 Kn
• Fuel Capacity 13000
• Water Capacity 2000
• Generator -
• Stabilizers -
• Thrusters -
• Amenities -
• Yacht Builder Overmarine No profile available
• Naval Architect Overmarine No profile available
• Exterior Designer Stefano Righini Design No profile available
• Interior Designer Green & Mingarelli Design No profile available

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Investigators around the world have been searching for sanctions-hit Russian oligarchs’ yachts. One has been hiding in plain sight.

Italian authorities in March impounded Russian coal and fertilisers magnate Andrey Melnichenko’s $600mn Sailing Yacht A after Russia invaded Ukraine. Another yacht, the $300mn Philippe Starck-designed Motor Yacht A, has been anchored for weeks in the port of Ras al-Khaimah, in the United Arab Emirates.

By placing his yacht in the UAE, Melnichenko has put it beyond the reach of western governments enforcing sanctions on those deemed supportive of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine.

Its presence is a symbolic reminder of the Gulf monarchy’s ambivalence towards western sanctions on Russia, allies of Putin and the wealthy businessmen who have often benefited from ties to the state.

While the UAE government is trying to enhance measures against money laundering to exit a global dirty-money watchdog’s watchlist, the economic foundation of cities such as Dubai has long been based on welcoming flows of assets and people.

“Given its non-enforcement of western sanctions, the dilemma for the UAE is how to sustain its place as an open destination for capital while also appearing to be a good global citizen,” said one compliance professional. “It’s a tricky balancing act.”

The government of the Isle of Man said it had in March deregistered Melnichenko’s yachts, including Motor Yacht A, because of western sanctions, saying, “we will continue to act with appropriate robustness should the situation warrant it”.

Marine locator services placed Motor Yacht A off the Maldives in March. The Financial Times then saw the yacht on April 18. On Saturday it remained moored opposite Ras al-Khaimah’s city-centre fish market.

Businessmen in the UAE say Melnichenko, who denies affiliations to the Kremlin, held meetings there in April, but the tycoon has since returned to Moscow. A representative of Melnichenko, who has been placed under sanctions by the EU and UK as well as Switzerland and Australia, referred questions on the yacht to a lawyer who declined to comment.

UAE authorities in Dubai, Ras al-Khaimah and Abu Dhabi declined to comment.

European officials say they have raised concerns with Emirati counterparts that the UAE could become a financial haven for Russians placed under western sanctions. “We don’t want our allies to become facilitators for the Putin regime,” said one.

The UAE government has said it is maintaining a neutral course through the war, calling for an end to hostilities and providing humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Abu Dhabi, which has developed closer ties with Moscow in recent years, has also assured its allies that sanctions-hit entities will not be able to operate in the UAE. The Gulf monarchy, which has long argued that it is not compelled to enforce other nations’ sanctions, is keen to maintain its historical role as an apolitical territory focused on business.

Thousands of wealthy, non-sanctions-hit Russians have relocated to the UAE to escape economic uncertainty and political instability at home, even though they sometimes struggle to access the financial system. “Big banks are more cautious but smaller banks are offering help to those wishing to relocate. It’s just taking a lot of time,” said a Russian businessman.

Very wealthy Russians generally find financial institutions accommodating. Most of the wealthy elite have second passports from countries that sell nationality, such as Malta or Portugal, which facilitates the opening of new accounts with lenders that are warier of Russian passport holders.

Others have turned to alternative routes, such as cryptocurrencies and hawala, or informal money exchange services. The cost of this service has risen from 1 per cent of the transaction value to 5 per cent since the war broke out as demand surges, said one person aware of the trades.

Many in the UAE see a hypocrisy in western concern over the presence of the yacht and the Russians building new lives there. “So it was OK for London to take all the oligarch money but not for Dubai?” asked one lawyer.

Additional reporting by Nastassia Astrasheuskaya in Riga

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