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Wendy Schmidt Is No Longer a Rookie at the Maxi Cup

In 2021, the first year helming her boat, Deep Blue, she came in fifth. She’s back for another shot.

By John Clarke

Last year, the American sailor Wendy Schmidt helmed Deep Blue, the new Botin 85 sailboat she owns, on its inaugural run at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup. One of very few women skippers in maxi racing, Schmidt stood out from the fleet, winning the start and placing fifth in her class.

She started sailing in 2007 when she was 52 years old. “My husband didn’t think I would spend much time on the boat because I was a tennis player,” she said. “But I ended up going out every single day. It’s been a gradual seduction ever since.”

Schmidt first sailed in the Maxi cup in 2011, aboard the boat Selene. She finished third at the Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez last year and also placed third this year in her class of Les Voiles de St Barth Richard Mille.

This year, Schmidt, 67, a philanthropist who is married to the former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, returns to Porto Cervo, Sardinia, with her mind on racing and spreading the word on ocean restoration. The following conversation has been edited and condensed.

Tell me about your debut last year at the Maxi cup.

We launched in 2020, but weren’t able to race her until 2021 because of the pandemic. We managed to practice in partial groups of our crew. We arrived as the new kid on the block.

This was our first race. We felt pretty darned good about staying up with those boats that have been around regattas for years. But the thrill for me was the start. You’re going 12 knots and crisscrossing with these big maxis. You need to time it just exactly right.

What do you hope for your return to Porto Cervo?

I don’t think we’ll do anything differently. We’ve made some improvements on the boat. That’s a constant course for any boat. But it’s always about playing. When do you get a chance to get 25 people together on a boat from different countries speaking different languages doing amazing things together? That’s the attraction.

What’s your approach to being a skipper?

There’s a great sense of family in my crew. I’m in awe of the skills around me. They know things I don’t know. Everybody on the crew knows something, and nobody knows everything. You are a collective brain and rely on each other, and deeply trust every single person on that boat. You have to do everything well together in concert like a ballet. When I’m driving, I’m looking at my instruments. I’m listening to my trimmer, tactician and navigator. It’s an enormous task of concentration and focus.

Even when you feel a boat breathing down your neck and coming fast, you don’t turn your head and look because you might turn the wheel a little bit. You need to practice focus. When you do, it becomes a Zen-type place.

What’s it like being one of very few women skippers in maxi racing?

I grew up in a household of four brothers. It never occurred to me there was anything I couldn’t do. I don’t really think about skippers as a gender role. There are some extraordinary women in sailing rising to the highest echelon of the sport. There are a lot of challenges for women in their lives and getting into this kind of work, but it isn’t impossible. The only challenge for me is the limit of physical strength. I’m not a big person, and I’ll never be strong like a big guy.

Finally, how can we restore the ocean?

It begins with connection, understanding and caring. The biggest threat to the ocean is ignorance. Understanding what we don’t know about the ocean is absolutely fascinating. Most of life on earth is hidden from us. Sailors are the most natural advocates for ocean health. They go places nobody goes and see things nobody sees. When you start to ask them what’s changing in the ocean, they’ll tell you.

Our group — 11th Hour Racing — wants to transform the sailing industry and change the way regattas operate. We do that through demonstrations that get people thinking about the ocean. There are concrete changes that can be made — races with zero waste, refillable bottles and water stations. I think it’s setting a new standard on how the race world should work.

Because of an editing error, an earlier version of an online summary and a picture caption accompanying this article misstated the number of times Wendy Schmidt has competed in the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup. She has sailed in the race three times, not two; this is the second time she has sailed it on her boat, Deep Blue.

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BP318 BOTIN 85′ DEEP BLUE LAUNCHED!

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D eep Blue, a Botin Partners designed, King Marine built 85′ yacht, has been recently launched, exploring a new chapter in the Maxi racing arena. Deep Blue is destined to fill the gap between custom-built record-breakers such as Comanche 100′, and the 72-footers that are on the smaller scale of the Maxi class such as Bella Mente and Cannonball.

The carefully selected team assembled by Terry Halpin to design and launch Deep Blue included more than 110 people from 11 different nationalities.  Project Manager Micky Costa, with his extensive network, was also an essential part of the project, creating unique parts for this project. Pure Engineering played a big role in delivering the platform’s strength and stiffness while keeping the weight in check.

See more technical information in the full project page: http://www.botin.website/portfolio/bp318-deepblue/

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It’s the largest project to date for yacht builder King Marine, if only by a small margin. One more milestone in the impressive history of this yard that has built all Azzurra / Matador MedCup / Super Series winners, many state of the art performance yachts and high-profile Grand Prix racing boats including Volvo 70 and AC 72 catamarans and an AC monohull.

For project manager Micky Costa, this new Botin Partnersdesigned IRC 85 is a welcome challenge in a size that he is well accustomed to. He has also worked with Germán Frers and was involved with several Wally Yachts projects, among many others.

This brand new IRC 85 has turned out be a rocket, as expected. Built with top-of-the-range composite technology as a pure maxi racer (as opposed to most other yachts in this category which are in fact performance cruisers), its most striking feature – which has been the most challenging to construct – is a seven-metre lifting keel.

The main ingredients of its very sophisticated construction were high and intermediate modulus pre-preg carbon fibres and Kevlar honeycomb cores moulded in CNC female moulds, 3D scanned for best fit, in order to see the geometry and the perfect position to start laminating. Several key parts of the boat, like the rudder, were autoclaved. This is absolute cutting-edge build technology. Or as King Marine boatyard manager Pablo Santarsiero puts it, ‘pretty much top-of-the-range composite construction.’

The birth of King Marine was in 2005 with the construction of the 83ft IAAC boat for Desafio Español, the Spanish challenge for the 32nd America’s Cup. The DNA however goes back to a family from South America but with their roots in Northern Italy.

King Marine CEO Gabriel Mariani explains: ‘We are part of a family of Italian immigrant entrepreneurs who left behind the comfort and beauty of northern Italy after the First World War. After many family ventures in South America and following the passion of boatbuilding, in 2005 we went the opposite way to our grandparents and travelled back to Europe with a very young Pablo Santarsiero.

‘It was 2005 and we came to set up the King Marine shipyard in Alginet, 30km from central Valencia, taking advantage of the immense opportunity that Agustin Zulueta and his Desafio Español America’s Cup team had offered us. The boatyard was designed to build only high-performance yachts using the latest composite technologies.’

Increasing international demand for racing yachts built with cutting-edge technology helped King Marine on its way. As Gabriel modestly puts it: ‘At that time, our greatest virtue was our determination to face challenges and create efficient organisations.’ If cleanliness is a benchmark for efficiency and professionalism, King Marine certainly is right up there. This is a boatyard that looks more like a modern hospital. Clean white spaces, orderly workshops and precise work make the first impression.

The 3,000m² boatyard offers a range of advanced facilities: two huge ovens, one 32 x 9 x 6 metres and one 26.6 x 8 x 5 metres for large structures like hulls and decks; one 9 x 8 x 5 metre oven and three carbon vacuum tables for internal structures. All of these have exact temperature control to guarantee the best environment for pre-preg lamination. There is also a CNC milling machine and two clean rooms with controlled temperature for pre-preg lamination. Pre-pregs are the preferred material for laminating here, as only they can ensure the optimum resin-fibre ratio for maximum strength at lowest weight. Other facilities on site include an eight metre long autoclave, specialist warehousing areas for core materials, dry fibres and dangerous goods, and a pre-preg store that is kept at -17°C.

However, the company has now moved on even further. It has made a spectacular new HQ for itself in the former AC base of Team New Zealand in Valencia’s harbour that offers even more facilities, in addition to the site in nearby Alginet.

Services on offer here include travel lift, offices, dining room, dry dock, boat storage, paint booth with filtered air, sail loft, a composite materials shop, boat maintenance, composite work, moorings, offices for representatives, an office for crew meetings and après-race performance analysis, a printing service, changing rooms, fantastic chill-out spaces, and more.

For quality control during and after the build, King Marine equipment for non-destructive testing including a thermal imaging camera and an ultrasound machine. The heat sensor registers different temperature levels and converts them into a video display where they show up in distinctive colours. This technology is a valuable tool for detecting voids, de-lamination and water in composites, and King Marine uses it for quick checks prior to the final test with ultrasound.

Here, an ultrasonic transducer connected to a diagnostic machine is passed over the object being inspected. The transducer is typically separated from the test object by a couplant liquid, such as water, to increase the efficiency of the process by reducing the losses of ultrasonic wave energy that are due to separation between the surfaces.

Top-of-the-range composite construction is of course a highly specialised business. But as Pablo says, ‘composite boat building has achieved a degree of maturity, so nowadays the developments are technical evolutions rather than revolutions. This maturity has built a great reliability that wasn’t there before. The latest generation of TP52 for example is much lighter than the ones from a few years ago but despite that they are sailing with twice as much forestay tension and we are not seeing boats folding in half anymore, this is one of the advantages of center console boats .

The biggest challenges at the moment seem to be the design and construction of foils.

‘These are extremely complex pieces and as they are still quite new in this industry, the construction techniques are still under development’, says Pablo.

And then there’s the environmental footprint of boatbuilding.

‘This will also be one of the driving forces for new developments. I think that the introduction of composite materials in new fields, like the automotive industry, will require new and more efficient techniques for mass production of composite parts and also ways of recycling composite materials. So far, the scale of composite materials industry hasn’t been big enough to properly deal with this issue. I hope in the near future we can benefit from the development power that the bigger scale brings!’

Apart from building high-performance yachts to designs from the world’s foremost naval architects such as Farr, Botin, Frers, Judel- Vrolijk, Juan K, Soto Acebal, Reichel- Pugh and Nivelt among others, King Marine uses its professional expertise to offer a range of custommade composite parts: rudders for racing boats, daggerboard boxes and many other high-load fittings and appendages.

And not only for boats: King Marine has developed a carbon fibre gantry for 3D manufacturing machines (such as laser cutters, plotters and printers). The aim was to make a much lighter gantry and reduce the energy needed to move it, whilst at the same time increasing the speed at which the gantry moves, thus making the whole machine more efficient.

In the meantime, the impressive IRC 85 Deep Blue is afloat and sailing to the huge delight of not just her owner and crew, but everyone involved with this benchmark project at King Marine.

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Caribbean Maxi Challenge – First Race Win for Deep Blue

• For the first time at this event Wendy Schmidt’s Deep Blue took the Maxi class win.

Schmidt’s Botin Partners 85 Deep Blue followed yesterday’s layday festivities with a win what proved the closest race results to date.

This ended the perfect scoreline of Jim Swartz’s Vesper, which finished second, just 12 seconds astern under IRC corrected time. The newest boat in the fleet, this was only Deep Blue’s second ever race win.

“There was a little bit less breeze and we were going better against Rambler 88 – plus we changed a few set-up things which helped: We were able to sheet the main on harder,” explained Rob MacMillan, Deep Blue’s tactician and project manager. “We have been working on our downwind modes and that seemed to pay dividends.”

Deep Blue got away more cleanly in the squall at St Jean compared to those astern and the crew was able to carry their kite for longer to the bottom of the course. “We put the majority of our distance on them there.

“Sometimes the wind gods smile on you,” continued Macmillan. “Wendy [Schmidt] is super happy. She did a spectacular job driving upwind and downwind. Like all of us, she loves coming to this island and racing maxis here.”

Among the rest of the maxis in CSA 3 there was upset too.

While Jim Madden’s Stark Raving Mad VII continued her perfect scoreline by winning the first race to St Jean, this stopped in today’s second, won by the Swan 58 OMII.

In this the competition between Stark Raving Mad VII and Italian Luigi Sala’s Vismara 62 Yoru remained intense, especially coming into the second finish where the latter came home just three seconds ahead under IRC.

While Sala acknowledges, it is too late to make any impression on the results, their goal for the final day of racing is to go home with one CSA 3 race win in their pocket.

Racing concludes on Saturday.

Caribbean Maxi Challenge 2022 – Maxi Race 4 1st Deep Blue CAY 85 Botin 85 – Wendy Schmidt (USA) 2nd Vesper CAY 007 JV 72 – Jim Swartz (USA) 3rd Rambler 88 USA 25555 Juan K / 88 George David (USA) 4th Bella Mente USA 45 JV 74 – Hap Fauth (USA) DNS Prospector USA 60669 Mills 68 Larry Landry/Paul McDowell/Martin Roesch (USA)

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CSA 3 – 1st OM II, GBR 786N, Shahid Hamid (GBR)

CSA 4 – 1st Blitz USA 52915 – Peter Corr (ISV)

CSA 5 – 1st Pata Negra, GBR 4669R – Bernard Girod (USA)

CSA 6 – 1st Team Island Water World, SXM 605 – Frits Bus (SXM)

Offshore Maultihull – 1st Mach Schnell USA 12 – Kent Haeger (USA)

Racing Multihull – 1st Addictive Sailing, GBR 828M – Brieuc Maisonneuve (FRA)

Diam 24 – 1st Crybaby FRA 971 – Pierre Altier (SXM)

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Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup stronger than ever

Published on August 26th, 2021 by Editor -->

After a year’s absence, maxi racing’s premier event will return to Sardinia’s Costa Smeralda stronger than ever. Organized by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (YCCS) in conjunction with the International Maxi Association (IMA), the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup will take place over September 5-11. The event is the third of five in the IMA’s 2021 Mediterranean Maxi Inshore Challenge.

The Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup has been the highlight of the international maxi racing calendar for more than four decades now. The first ICAYA World Championship took place in 1980, the year after the International Class A Association (ICAYA – maxi yachts were designated ‘Class A’ under the IOR rule) had been founded by keen maxi owners – Baron Edmond de Rothschild, John Kilroy, Enrico Recchi and William Whitehouse-Vaux.

The event then evolved into the Maxi Yacht World Championship and with the welcome arrival of Rolex as its main sponsor, in 1994 gained its present title, the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup. Following the demise of IOR, the ICAYA was rechristened the International Maxi Association in 2001.

While the ICAYA maxis of the 1980s were heavyweight 70-80 footers, today the maxi fleet is far more diverse from stripped out thoroughbred speed machines to cruiser racers; from the state of the art to classics or neo-classics; ranging in length from 60ft up – the 218ft (66.7m) Hetairos is the longest ever to have entered.

To increase competition, the International Maxi Association divide the fleet into Mini Maxi (60-80ft), Maxi (80-100ft), and SuperMaxi (100+ft).

“After the enforced pause last year in our long series of pinnacle Maxi Championships in Porto Cervo, our intention is to have larger starts with the sub-classes starting together even if later scored separately,” explains IMA Secretary General Andrew McIrvine.

“We have gone away from rather vague and potentially contentious descriptive terms such as ‘racer/cruiser’ and now the splits are according to a formula which includes both size and performance with the aim of creating better racing.

“Now we pray for good weather conditions and of course control of the coronavirus.”

This year’s Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup has 45 yachts entered from across the globe with a particularly good spread across the three fleets.

Stealing the show in the Super Maxi class will once again be the magnificent J Class yachts Velsheda and Topaz. Topaz was originally a design by Frank Paine from 1935, but was only launched in 2015. However, Velsheda is a true classic, built in 1933 for the then MD of Woolworths. Since being ‘saved’ she has been keenly campaigned for more than decades by Ronald de Waal.

While it might be imagined these massive heavy, highly loaded ancient leviathans are raced with some reverence, this is entirely not the case – their highly experienced crews throw them around with all the intensity of America’s Cup racing, for which most were designed.

An equal ‘looker’ among the Super Maxis will be the modern classic Geist, a 111-footer from Spirit Yachts. She will be joined by the Swan 115 Shamanna and MYRC long term competitor Vittorio Moretti’s Maxi Dolphin 118 Viriella.

Most exciting is the hot competition this year in the Maxi class. Partly thanks to the inclusion of the Wallys this year, the Maxi line-up includes six 100 footers. No doubt competition between the two Wallycentos, Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones’ Magic Carpet Cubed and David M. Leuschen’s Galateia, will be as intense as ever. Former IMA President Claus Peter Offen on his Wally 100 Y3K will have good racing with the new race optimized Swan 98 Be Cool.

Leading the fleet on the water will be the now Russian-owned Verdier-VPLP 100 Comanche, the highest rated entry with an IRC TCC of 2.018. In speed terms, she is followed by American George David’s all-conquering Rambler 88 and Arca SGR, once the 2003 Rolex Sydney Hobart winner Skandia, now campaigned by Trieste legend Furio Benussi.

This year Arca SGR has already claimed line honors in the Rolex Giraglia and Palermo-Montecarlo.

An unknown quantity is American Wendy Schmidt’s new Botin 85 Deep Blue, a grand prix racer enjoying her first Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup. Also in the Maxi class mix will be Lord Irvine Laidlaw’s Reichel Pugh 82 Highland Fling XI, the Swan 82 Kallima of new IMA member Paul Berger, and the Swan 80 Umiko of Philip Rann.

Among the Mini Maxi classes, the hottest competition as ever will be between the former Maxi 72s. While Dario Ferrari’s Cannonball won in 2019, the newest in this fleet and another Botin design, is American three-time Maxi 72 World Champion Hap Fauth’s Bella Mente, the highest rated of the Maxi 72s.

The Judel-Vrolijk designs, George Sakellaris’ Proteus (ex-Rán V) and Jim Swartz’s Vesper (formerly the 2017 and 2018 World Champion Momo), will also be fighting it out, as will Peter Dubens’ newly acquired North-Star, previously Rán 2/Sorcha.

Bella Mente arrives race fit having won both Block Island Race Week and the New York Yacht Club Annual Regatta in the USA, but Hap Fauth says that they didn’t have much direct competition there. “We hadn’t been on the boat in a while. It is still a new boat, so we are still shaking her out. It is very subject to fine tuning and sail shape, etc – a little tweak here or there makes a fair difference in boat speed.”

One reason they come to Porto Cervo annually is because competition here is the highest available.

“It is the regatta that the whole rest of the season points to,” Fauth continues. “We love sailing out of Porto Cervo and the races are always exciting whether they are coastal or around the buoys. We have been doing it for 10 years and we have won the Worlds in 2012, and 2015 and 2016. It is a favourite of ours.”

In among the 72s will be the Austrian VO65 Sisi, while nipping at their heels will be the Hungarian Marton Jozsa’s DSS-equipped canting keeler and regular Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup entrant Wild Joe. The Davidson 69 Pendragon VI is being heavily campaigned this season by new owner Carlo Alberini. Following Rolex Giraglia, Alberini will enjoy going into battle again with his old friend Alessandro Del Bono racing his immaculate older but longer ILC maxi, the Reichel-Pugh 78 Capricorno.

A strong contender is certain to be Dutch duo Andreas Verder and Arco Van Nieuwland’s Marten 72 Aragon, unofficially the top maxi finisher in the recent Palermo-Montecarlo and featuring among her crew top French sailors Olivier Douillard and America’s Cup winner Thierry Fouchier.

Boat manufacturers are well represented among the Mini Maxis. The line-up from Mylius Yachts as usual has owner of the Italian builder Luciano Gandini’s 80ft flagship Twin Soul B as top contender. Also to watch is Guido Paolo Gamucci’s canting keel 60 Cippalippa X, plus former Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup class winner Fra Diavolo of Yacht Club Gaeta President Vincenzo Addessi, Aldo Parisotto’s 65FD Oscar 3 and 60FD Manticore of Franz Baruffaldi Preis.

Swan 601s are usually successful at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and this year it will be a French match race between Gerard Logel’s @robas and Jean-Pierre Barjon’s Lorina 1895. However, both will also face stiff competition from another French crew on board IMA President Benoît de Froidmont’s Wally 60 Wallyño. In 2019 Lorina 1895 and Wallyño were both jockeying for the lead of the IMA’s Mediterranean Maxi Inshore Challenge. This Wallyño only won on the last leg of the last race.

“It is a great pleasure finally to return to Porto Cervo both as a sailor and President of the IMA,” said De Froidmont. “As a sailor, the Costa Smeralda offers some of the most tactically challenging sailing in the most picturesque of surroundings. In our hosts the YCCS, we could not hope for a better co-organiser of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, maxi yachting’s premier event.

“This year’s entry, including a wealth of new yachts across the fleet, shows that the desire of owners to race their maxi yachts has never been greater. I wish everyone good competition.”

Lowest rated Mini Maxi is Matthias Maus and Edith Lange’s Swan 65 Alpha Centauri of London, behind Matteo Fossati’s Starkel-designed 64 footer Stella Maris and the Dehler 60 Blu Oyster of Luca Scoppa.

Racing takes place from September 6 to 11 with a lay day on September 9.

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The American Deep Blue blue, launched in Valencia in February 2020, is an 85-foot racer built by Botìn Partners and equipped by American entrepreneur and philanthropist Wendy Schmidt.

Schmidt is a great sailing enthusiast and founder of the “ 11th Hour Project ”, which works to raise awareness on the issues of global warming and climate change. 

Deep Blue participated in the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in Sardinia before arriving in Trieste on 30 September. The racer took part in the Barcolana Maxi Trofeo Portopiccolo (Barcolana Maxi Portopiccolo Cup) coming in third overall. 

It is docked at Marina San Giusto, together with another one of the team’s boats, a magnificent 170-footer that serves as a support boat.

This will be Deep Blue’s first-ever Barcolana after making her racing debut in the Mediterranean last season, but her owner and crew are St Maarten Heineken Regatta regulars. “As a team, we have probably done five or six, but most of us have done almost 10 in total . We are really excited to be in Trieste,” says Deep Blue’s tactician and project manager Rob MacMillan.

Deep Blue is one of the strangest contenders this upcoming Sunday, together with ARCA sir and the Spirit of Portopiccolo. 

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Oceanco specialises in building large custom yachts up to 160m in length.

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• Elevator for easy access between floors
• Premium beauty and wellness amenities, including spa, beach club and beauty salon
• State-of-the-art cinema
• DNV (Det Norske Veritas) classification
• Due to launch in 2025

The 134.2m/440'3" motor yacht 'Deep Blue' is due to be launched by Lurssen in Germany at their Bremen shipyard.

Onboard Comfort & Entertainment

Her features include a beauty salon, movie theatre, spa, elevator, underwater lights, beach club, gym, deck jacuzzi, WiFi and air conditioning.

Range & Performance

Deep Blue is built with a steel hull and aluminium superstructure, with teak decks. She was built to DNV (Det Norske Veritas) classification society rules.

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Oceanco motor yacht Deep Blue II emerges from six-month refit

The 43.68 metre Oceanco motor yacht Deep Blue II has emerged from a six-month refit period at the Lusben shipyard in Varazze, Italy.

Deep Blue II checked into Lusben in November 2021 and was redelivered to her owner in May 2022. Her winter refit programme was supervised by captain Meo Palmieri, M/Y Deep Blue II 's manager, and included a full hull and superstructure repaint, an interior refresh and a reconfiguration of the sun deck.

The sun deck was a key area of focus during the refit in order to continue the yacht's charter success and maximise her market appeal. The space was remodelled to include a bar and barbecue area, a new Jacuzzi and movable sun loungers, while a large crane was removed to create more space for guests to move about. The modification of the sundeck was complete with the assistance of Engineering Studio Nattero Genova.

The interior benefitted from a repaint, new carpet, new upholstery and new curtains throughout to brighten the look and feel of the vessel. The saloon is now a lighter space for guests to relax and a new marble dining table is a welcome addition. The reupholstery of the yacht's soft furnishings, across the interior and exterior, was completed by P.f. Cabib di Dario e Liana Cabib, along with the repanelling of the bed bases and walls.

Deep Blue II can sleep up to 10 guests in a flexible four or five-cabin layout: a convertible VIP suite on the lower deck can be used as a full-beam cabin with an adjoining lounge area or converted into two separate guest cabins. All the leather bench tops in the guest cabins were replaced with marble.

The owners of Deep Blue II also took the opportunity to take delivery of a new 12-metre Axopar 37 chase boat and a second Jet ski. On the technical side, a full service of the engineering and electronic components was completed.

Deep Blue II is currently available for charter with Edmiston from €135,000 per week. She will be cruising the West Mediterranean this summer. 

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