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46.3m  /  151'11 | baglietto | 2016.

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The award winning 46.3m/151'11" motor yacht 'Lucky Me' was built by Baglietto in Italy at their La Spezia shipyard. Her interior is styled by Italian designer design house Francesco Paszkowski Design and she was completed in 2016. This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Francesco Paszkowski Design.

Guest Accommodation

Lucky Me has been designed to comfortably accommodate up to 10 guests in 5 suites comprising two VIP cabins. She is also capable of carrying up to 9 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience.

Onboard Comfort & Entertainment

Her features include deck jacuzzi, WiFi and air conditioning.

Range & Performance

Lucky Me is built with a aluminium hull and aluminium superstructure, with teak decks. Powered by twin diesel MTU (16V 4000 M93L) 4,615hp engines, she comfortably cruises at 20 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 26 knots with a range of up to 1,900 nautical miles from her 50,000 litre fuel tanks. Her low draft of 2.1m/6'11" makes her primed for accessing shallow areas and cruising close to the shorelines. Her water tanks store around 12,000 Litres of fresh water. She was built to Lloyds Register ✠ 100A1 SSC, Yacht, Mono, G6 [+] LMC, UMS classification society rules.

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Lucky Me Awards & Nominations

• The ShowBoats Design Awards 2017 Best Exterior Design & Styling – Motor Yacht Below 48m Finalist
• The ShowBoats Design Awards 2017 Best Interior Layout & Design – Motor Yacht Below 500GT Finalist
• International Superyacht Society Awards 2017 Best Power 40m - 65m Nomination
• Asia Boating Award 2017 Best Semi Custom Built Yacht (above 120ft) Finalist
• Robb Report 2017 Best of the Best Winner

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Lucky Me is Baglietto’s first custom fast line series

The superyacht has a beam of 9.2 m, a draught of 2.1 m and a volume of 496 GT. She has an aluminium hull and an aluminium superstructure. She boosts powerful MTU 4,615hp giving her a maximum speed of 26 knots and a cruising speed of 20 knots. Her magnificent & timeless interior was designed by Margherita Casprini featuring warm shades of rosewood and white lacquered ceilings. Outdoor areas have been maximized to give the feeling of being close to the sea while cruising or at anchor. Accommodation is for 12 guests in five luxurious cabins consisting of a main deck master suite with two double and two twin cabins below.

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Sleek and modern, with a receding bow and strong stern.

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Beautiful interior with warm shades of rosewood and white lacquered ceilings.

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Summer location, winter location, 5-cabin layout including a master cabin and 4 guest cabins.

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The LUCKY ME yacht is a 136.8ft / 41.7m luxury yacht built and launched by yacht builder Baglietto . Delivered to a proud yacht owner in 2010, this luxury yacht sleeps up to 12 guests in 5 staterooms and has accommodations for 7 crew. She has a beam of 26.3ft / 8m, a draft of 10.5ft / 3.2m, and she measures in at 385 gross tons. Her hull is aluminum. Her max speed is 27 knots and cruising speed is 21 knots. She is propelled by 2 engines at 3,700 hp each.

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Designed for speed and space, superyacht builder Baglietto took a chance with Lucky Me

Building on speculation is risky. The easiest way to cut the risk is to build what everyone else is selling and compete on features, prices, and service. Italian superyacht builder Baglietto  didn’t hedge any bets when it built the house-named Baglietto 46m Fast  on speculation. What some may see as a gamble paid off when a European buyer bought the yacht in February and didn’t ask for any layout changes. The owner re-named the yacht  Lucky Me , which is a story itself.

Lucky Me is a fast displacement 46.3-meter yacht (just under 152 feet). She has a 26-knot maximum speed and 20-knot cruising speed with two MTU 4,615 horsepower diesel engines. Maximum cruising range is 1,000 nautical miles with a full 20,605-gallon fuel load. That works out to almost 21 gallons per nautical mile.

Fast displacement vessels have hulls that split the water as they move forward, whereas regular displacement hulls push the water. The 27 Wallyace , for example, is a displacement yacht. Another factor in Lucky Me’s relatively high speed is the hull has a draft under 7 feet, which means there’s less boat to drag through the water — the shallow draft also gives her access to shallow waters where other large yachts can’t go.

Each hull type has its advantages — it depends on what you want. Fast hulls are, you guessed it, faster than full displacement hulls. A full displacement yacht gives a more stable ride and provides more living and play space because the hull doesn’t come to a point at the bow. Lucky Me has stabilizer systems that work while underway and at anchor.

But her hull design isn’t why the Lucky Me was a risky build. First, ask what color a typical yacht should be, and most people would probably say “white.” Baglietto chose a lead gray shade for the hull. The hull is highly streamlined and quite narrow for such a large yacht. Atypical trapeze-shaped hull windows alternate with rectangular ones to emphasize the yacht’s narrow shape.

Most superyachts are built high, with multiple decks and elaborate superstructures. The Lucky Me’s superstructure, however, was designed to enhance performance with its compact shape. So not only does the boat’s hull have less water resistance than displacement hull designs, but the upper decks don’t have as much air resistance as typical superyachts. The Lucky Me has an aluminum hull and superstructure.

Lucky Me has four decks with room for 12 guests and 10 crew members. The top sundeck is for lounging and catching the sun. That’s also where the ship’s tender is stored. The upper deck has the wheelhouse and captain’s cabin, a pantry, passenger lounging areas, and outdoor dining.

Lucky Me’s main deck has a beam-to-beam owner’s suite forward with a huge master bathroom, sleeping and lounging areas, and a private owner’s office. The ship’s galley is on on the same level, along with indoor guest dining and lounge areas

The lower deck has the crew’s quarters forward with four twin cabins, a single for the ship’s engineer, and a dinette. Four guest staterooms include two doubles and two rooms with twin beds and pullmans for a third person. All guest staterooms are en suite. The same level also houses the yacht’s engines, generators, and other mechanicals.

While the Lucky Me’s selling price is withheld, the new owner is a three-time Baglietto customer. His previous superyacht, a 136-foot Baglietto also named Lucky Me, is currently for sale for $10,823,670.

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The 46-metre motor yacht Lucky Me was launched by the Italian shipbuilder Baglietto in 2016. This is the first unit of the Baglietto Fast superyacht series. Superyacht Lucky Me was designed inside and out by Francesco Paszkowski Design and features jet black elements in her dynamic and sporty profile with a receding bow and strong stern. Baglietto 46m Fast Lucky Me is all about speed, sophisticated Italian style and so much more.

Large interior spaces and simple layout make this beautiful vessel suitable for an occasion, whether it's a prolonged cruise, a relaxing weekend or a special occasion for entertaining large groups of guests. Francesco Paszkowski, in collaboration with Margherita Casprini, designed the interior styling, which incorporates luxurious materials creating a relaxed and inviting ambience.

The main deck salon is ideal for social gatherings, as it features a large lounge and a formal dining area, while a more intimate guest salon is located on the upper deck. It offers a homelike environment for the guests to enjoy the state-of-art entertainment system.

Generous outdoor areas provide "close-to-the-sea" experience while cruising or at anchor. Large swimming pool and lounge area are located on the stern and are covered by a bimini. Main deck aft offers a large alfresco dining and sunbathing areas.

Lucky Me Specifications

Luxury accommodation layout comprises of 5 cabins; owner's master suite, 2 VIP stateroom and 2 guest cabins each with Pullman beds. Full beam owner's stateroom includes a private study and en-suite facilities.

Lucky Me reaches a top speed of 27 kn, thanks to her twin MTU 16V 4000 engines.

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Accommodation is offered for a total of 12 guests in 5 cabins.

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We do have available further amenity, owner and price information for the 46.30m (151'9") yacht Lucky Me, so please enquire for more information.

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The luxury yacht Lucky Me displayed on this page is merely informational and she is not necessarily available for yacht charter or for sale, nor is she represented or marketed in anyway by CharterWorld. This web page and the superyacht information contained herein is not contractual. All yacht specifications and informations are displayed in good faith but CharterWorld does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for the current accuracy, completeness, validity, or usefulness of any superyacht information and/or images displayed. All boat information is subject to change without prior notice and may not be current.

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Lucky Me is a custom motor yacht launched in 2010 by Baglietto in Varazze, Italy.

The Baglietto brand is symbolic of bespoke Italian leadership, style, and over 160 years of heritage.

Lucky Me measures 42.00 metres in length, with a max draft of 3.12 metres and a beam of 8 metres.

Lucky Me has an aluminium hull with an aluminium superstructure.

Lucky Me also features naval architecture by Baglietto .

Performance and Capabilities

Lucky Me has a top speed of 29.00 knots and a cruising speed of 25.00 knots. She is powered by a twin screw propulsion system.

Lucky Me has a fuel capacity of 45,000 litres, and a water capacity of 5,300 litres.

She also has a range of 700 nautical miles.

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Lucky Me is MCA compliant, her hull NB is 10209.

Lucky Me is an ABS class yacht.

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46m Baglietto motor yacht Lucky Me sold

The 46.3 metre Baglietto motor yacht Lucky Me has been sold with the buyer introduced by Juan Andrade of SuperYachtsMonaco .

Designed inside and out by Francesco Paszkowski , Lucky Me was built in aluminium by Italian yard Baglietto to ABS class and MCA coded with delivery in 2017. Accommodation is for up to 11 guests in five cabins featuring a full beam master suite on the main deck with a private study and double sea balconies. Below are two VIP suites and two doubles and all cabins have entertainment centres, LCD television screens and en suite bathroom facilities. In addition, there is accommodation for seven crew in four cabins.

The main deck saloon is voluminous with allowance for ample comfortable seating and a small bar, and is separated from the dining room with formal dining for 12 guests by a retractable widescreen television set which can be concealed to create a stunning open plan area encouraging guest circulation and conversation. This would also be an ideal space for cocktail gatherings or dancing.

The wide aft deck is arranged as a generous family seating area for al fresco entertainment and meals, while an integrated staircase to starboard leads up to the upper deck where guests are greeted by a small bar with a retractable television screen and a dining table with seating for 10 to12. Twin 3,700hp MTU diesel engines give her a cruising speed of 21 knots and a maximum speed of 27 knots.

Lucky Me  was asking €17,500,000.

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As the Ukraine war grinds on, the Kremlin has created increasingly complex fabrications online to discredit Ukraine’s leader and undercut aid. Some have a Hollywood-style plot twist.

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A young man calling himself Mohamed al-Alawi appeared in a YouTube video in August. He described himself as an investigative journalist in Egypt with a big scoop: The mother-in-law of Ukraine’s president had purchased a villa near Angelina Jolie’s in El Gouna, a resort town on the Red Sea.

The story, it turned out, was not true. Ukraine denied it, and the owner of the villa refuted it. Also disconnected from reality: Alawi’s claim to being a journalist.

Still, his story caromed through social media and news outlets from Egypt to Nigeria and ultimately to Russia — which, according to researchers, is where the story all began.

The story seemed to fade, but not for long. Four months later, two new videos appeared on YouTube. They said Mohamed al-Alawi had been beaten to death in Hurghada, a town about 20 miles south of El Gouna. The suspected killers, according to the videos: Ukraine’s secret service agents.

These claims were no more factual than the first, but they gave new life to the old lie. Another round of posts and news reports ultimately reached millions of internet users around the world, elevating the narrative so much that it was even echoed by members of the U.S. Congress while debating continued military assistance to Ukraine.

Ever since its forces invaded two years ago , Russia has unleashed a torrent of disinformation to try to discredit Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, and undermine the country’s support in the West.

This saga, though, introduced a new gambit: a protracted and elaborately constructed narrative built online around a fictitious character and embellished with seemingly realistic detail and a plot twist worthy of Netflix.

“They never brought back a character before,” said Darren Linvill, a professor and director of the Media Forensics Hub at Clemson University, who has extensively studied Russian disinformation.

The campaign shows how deftly Russia’s information warriors have shifted to new tactics and targets as the war in Ukraine has dragged on, just as Russian forces on the ground in Ukraine have adjusted tactics after devastating battlefield losses.

Groups with ties to the Kremlin continue to float new narratives when old ones fail to stick or grow stale, using fake or altered videos or recordings and finding or creating new outlets to spread disinformation, including ones purporting to be American news sites .

A video appeared on TikTok last month claiming to show a Ukrainian doctor working for Pfizer accusing the company of conducting unlawful tests on children. On the social network X, a man claiming to be an associate producer for Paramount Pictures spun a tale about a Hollywood biopic on Mr. Zelensky’s life.

The tale attributed to Mohamed al-Alawi is not even the only baseless allegation that Mr. Zelensky had secretly purchased properties abroad using Western financial assistance. Other versions — each seemingly tailored for a specific geographic audience — have detailed a mansion in Vero Beach, Fla., and a retreat in Germany once used by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda.

The Russians have “demonstrated adaptability through the war on Ukraine,” Microsoft wrote in a recent report that disclosed Russia’s fraudulent use of recorded messages by famous actors and celebrities on the Cameo app to try to smear Mr. Zelensky as a drug addict.

Even when debunked, fabrications like these have proved exceedingly difficult to extinguish entirely.

YouTube took down the initial video of the character Mohamed al-Alawi, linking it to two other accounts that had previously violated the company’s policies. The accusation still circulates, however, especially on platforms, like X and Telegram, that experts say do little to block accounts generating inauthentic or automated activity. Some of the posts about the video appear to have used text or audio created with artificial intelligence tools; many are amplified by networks of bots intended to create the impression that the content is popular.

What links the narratives to Russia is not only the content disparaging Ukraine but also the networks that circulate them. They include news outlets and social media accounts that private and government researchers have linked to previous Kremlin campaigns.

“They’re trolling for a susceptible (and seemingly abundant) slice of citizens who amplify their garbage enough to muddy the waters of our discourse, and from there our policies,” said Rita Katz, the director of the SITE Intelligence Group, an American company that tracks extremist activity online and investigated the false claims about the villa.

The Making of a Fake Journalist

The video first appeared on Aug. 20 on a newly created YouTube account that had no previous activity and almost no followers, according to the Institute of Strategic Dialogue, a global nonprofit research organization in London, which traced the video’s spread.

The man appeared in a poorly lit room reading from his computer screen, which was reflected in his thick glasses. He appeared to be a real person, but it has not been possible to verify his actual identity. No one by the name of Mohamed al-Alawi appears to have produced any previous articles or videos, as would be expected of a journalist. According to ActiveFence, an internet security company, the character has no educational or work history, and no network of friends or social connections online.

The video, though, showed what purported to be photographs of a purchase contract and of the villa itself, creating a veneer of authenticity for credulous viewers. The property is, in fact, part of a resort owned by Orascom Development, whose website highlights El Gouna’s “year-round sunshine, shimmering lagoons, sandy beaches and azure waters.”

An article about the video’s claim appeared two days later as a paid advertisement, or branded content, on Punch, a news outlet in Nigeria, as well as three other Nigerian websites that aggregate news and entertainment content.

The article had the byline of Arthur Nkono, who according to internet searches does not appear to have written any other articles. The article quoted a political scientist, Abdrulrahman Alabassy, who likewise appears not to exist except in accounts linking the villa to the corrupt use of Western financial aid to Ukraine. (Punch, which later removed the post, did not respond to requests for comment.)

A day later, the claim made its first appearance on X in a post by Sonja van den Ende, an activist in the Netherlands, whose articles have previously appeared on propaganda outlets linked to the Russian government, according to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. (She also served as an election observer in an occupied territory of Ukraine during Russian parliamentary elections in September.)

Within days, reports about the villa appeared on X in French and Romanian, and in English on three different Reddit forums.

According to Roberta Duffield, director of intelligence for Blackbird.AI, an internet security company, nearly 29 percent of the accounts amplifying the reports appeared to be inauthentic bots, an unusually high number that would normally indicate a coordinated campaign.

Eight days after the video appeared, Russia state television networks like Channel One, Rossiya 24 and RT (in Arabic and German) reported it as a major revelation uncovered by a renowned Egyptian investigative journalist.

The story seemed to stall there. Naguib Sawiris, the scion of the Egyptian family that owned the development, curtly denied the sale in a reply on X.

And no more was heard from or about the character called Mohamed al-Alawi — until late December.

That was when two new videos emerged on a YouTube channel called “Egypt News,” claiming that he was dead.

The channel had been created the day before. One video showed a man identified as Alawi’s brother, Ahmed, answering questions from another man.

The police, he said, told him that they suspected his brother had been beaten to death by “Ukrainian special forces who acted on behalf of President Zelensky or another high-ranking official.”

He spoke with his hand cupped over his face to obscure his identity. The other video showed what was said to be the site of an attack, though the images were indistinct. “I can’t tell you anything else,” he said in the video, which YouTube later removed. “I’m afraid for my family.”

The video also tried to explain away some of the obvious holes in the initial story, including why there was no evidence online of Alawi’s previous work. “It was his first big assignment,” the man said.

The new episode spread as the first video had. A day later, an article about the death appeared on an obscure website created last year called El Mostaqbal, a name similar to but unrelated to the actual news organization in Lebanon.

“A reporter who announced that Zelensky’s mother-in-law brought a luxury villa has died under mysterious circumstances,” the headline read. Other reports that followed dropped any uncertainty and began referring to his “murder.”

In fact, Egypt’s Ministry of the Interior said there were no reports or evidence that anyone resembling the man in the video had been “subjected to harm.” The statement went on to note that the property itself had not been sold.

Still, according to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, posts about the supposed killing were viewed a million times on X on Dec. 25.

It also appeared on the website of the Middle East Monitor, or MEMO, operated by a well-known nonprofit organization in London and financed by the government of Qatar. A journalist who once reported from Moscow for The Telegraph of London, Ben Aris, cited it at length on the platform, though, when challenged, he said he had just made note of the rumor. “I don’t have time to check all this stuff myself,” he wrote.

It appeared in English on a site, Clear Story News, that Mr. Linvill of Clemson’s Media Forensics Hub had previously linked to Russia’s disinformation efforts. (The site lists no contact information)

Mr. Linvill described the process as a form of “narrative laundering” — moving false claims from unknown or not credible sources to ones that, to the unwitting at least, seem more legitimate.

More Elaborate Narratives

The Institute for Strategic Dialogue studied three other complex narratives about Ukraine, as well.

One featured a French journalist who claimed that the son of George Soros — a regular target of Russian and far-right political attacks — had secretly acquired land for a toxic waste dump in Ukraine. An unnamed doctor in Africa said in another that an American medical charity, the Global Surgical and Medical Support Group, was harvesting the organs of wounded Ukrainian soldiers for transplants for NATO officers.

Then there was the case of a man calling himself Shahzad Nasir, whose profile on X identifies him as a journalist with Emirates 24/7, an English-language news outlet in Dubai, though he has no apparent bylines on the site.

In November, he claimed that cronies of Mr. Zelensky bought two yachts — Lucky Me and My Legacy — for $75 million. His evidence, like Mohamed al-Alawi’s, includes photographs of the vessels and purported purchase agreements.

In fact, as the BBC documented in December, the yachts had not been purchased and remained for sale. Despite numerous efforts by fact checkers to dispel it as rumor, the claim circulated extensively.

Last month, the character Nasir reappeared in another video. This time he had a new version of the tale, claiming that the purchases had been scuttled after he exposed the secret deal.

The ramifications of these campaigns are difficult to measure precisely. There are signs, though, that they resonate even when proved false.

Senator J.D. Vance, a Republican of Ohio and an outspoken critic of Ukraine aid, seemed to embrace the claim in December during an interview on “War Room,” the podcast hosted by Stephen K. Bannon, the onetime adviser to former President Donald J. Trump.

“There are people who would cut Social Security — throw our grandparents into poverty — why?” Mr. Vance said. “So that one of Zelensky’s ministers can buy a bigger yacht?”

That prompted a public rebuke this month from a Republican colleague, Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who ridiculed those who repeat unproven allegations.

“They’ve heard somebody say that if we pass this bill, that we’re all going to go ride to Kyiv with buckets full of money and let oligarchs buy yachts!” he said of critics of the assistance to Ukraine, in what he later called a reference to Mr. Vance’s comments. “I wonder how the spouses of the estimated 25,000 soldiers in Ukraine who have died feel about that? I mean, really, guys?”

Karoun Demirjian contributed reporting.

An earlier version of this article misstated, in one reference, the name of a group at Clemson University that studies disinformation. It is the Media Forensics Hub, not the Digital Media Hub.

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Steven Lee Myers covers misinformation for The Times. He has worked in Washington, Moscow, Baghdad and Beijing, where he contributed to the articles that won the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2021. He is also the author of “The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin.” More about Steven Lee Myers

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