Morton Marine Umbrellas for 2012

                                                                                                                                                           
Morton Marine Umbrellas offer high end parasols and shade umbrellas for the complete spectrum of motor yachts and Super Yachts. From one single parasol to multiple canopies, no project is too large or small.

When your yacht is moored just off the coastline of Cannes or Monte Carlo and the sun beats down and all you want is to relax on your sun deck, kick off your sandals, recline on your sun bed and reach for the sun oil, only a Morton Umbrella will complete the perfect setting for an afternoon of pure relaxation (and maybe a cocktail or two), after all, luxury is a lifestyle and Morton Marine Parasols deliver this, gift wrapped.

We now have sales presence working out of Cannes, backed up with engineering and an installation facility. Our Managing Director, Richard Morton, is looking forward to the 2012 season “We are very excited about the upcoming season and believe we are better equipped more than ever to assist our clients with choosing the right shade for their motor yacht and with added engineering and installation resource, we are truly able to provide a complete service”.
Our concept is simple…high end in everything we do, the product and the service is in a league of its own. Our portfolio is a unique and select collection of parasols and umbrellas from all over the world. “Over the last 7 years, we have carefully and deliberately built our portfolio around the cream of cutting edge artisan designs. We examine every detail of a parasol before offering it for sale” said Richard Morton.
We are also able to liaise with Management companies to discuss the finer detail of installations and are very comfortable with talking with engineers about specific issues such as bases for the parasols.

If you would like to arrange a meeting with our representative, please call Manuela Herdman on 0033 (0)6 60 06 81 74. Alternatively for general enquiries, brochure and colour charts etc. please call our UK office on +44 (0)1452 371669. We look forward to being of service to you.

Veritais Launch Reliable Yacht Automation System

                                                                                 

The new Yacht Automation System from Veritais helps everything on your yacht work better by making it work together. The Veritais system solutions are flexible and scalable, allowing you to determine the control features and options that best suit your lifestyle. The Veritais marine solutions are about enhancing your routines and lifestyle.

Visual Appeal
To enhance the beauty and safety of your vessel, the system can automate your exterior running lights, allowing guests and crew to move around your yacht comfortably. Automation options range from triggering lights based on detected light levels to specific times of day. The system can also control your interior lights, dimming lights in certain rooms while brightening others so each room is just right.
The system can open and close blinds automatically and direct the thermostat when to go up or down to ensure comfort in the interior cabins. As the sun sets or skies become cloudy, the blinds can open, allowing for more natural light.

Entertaining On Board
Whether you’re entertaining a large group or want to set the mood for two, the system helps make your yacht the ideal setting. With The system you can dim the lights, easily create custom playlists so you can play the perfect mood music, choose movies easily from their cover art, and control your televisions and game systems. Space is at a premium on a yacht. By having the system centralize your audio and video collections, you’ll maximize your entertainment options in the least amount of space and allow for vessel-wide media access. Plus the system lets you create multiple audio zones so you can have different music playing on deck than you do in the master suite. The Veritais system delivers customized entertainment when and where you want it.
Relaxation and Ease

AN ADDITIONAL ROYAL APPOINTMENT FOR HEIRLOOMS LTD

Heirlooms Ltd, one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of bespoke fine linens, received a much coveted gift from the Royal Family just days before Christmas. It joins the ranks of less than 200 companies honoured with holding the grant of The Prince of Wales’ Royal Warrant.

The Warrant took effect from 1st January 2012 and has been approved for the next five years. Heirlooms Ltd is already “By Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen” and feels doubly honoured to receive this second Royal Warrant. It is a very public endorsement, not only of the quality of the company’s fine linens and high level of service, but also their ethical and environmental credentials, all of which are strenuously scrutinised before HRH decides that a company is fit to hold his Warrant and be styled “By Appointment to HRH The Prince of Wales”.

Heirlooms Ltd supply bed, table and bathroom linens to several members of the British royal family and have been doing so since 2001.
General Manager Ruth Douglas said: “We were delighted to be notified by the Lord Chamberlain's Office that Heirlooms Ltd has been granted the Royal Warrant of Appointment to the Prince of Wales. It is the most prestigious of endorsements and is the ultimate confirmation of the quality and service we provide.  As a company we are very proud to supply linens to many of the Royal Households and are delighted that our linens are part of royal housekeeping. There could be no greater honour or privilege.”

Founded in 1984 bybespoke linen manufacturers in the world. Synonymous with the highest standards of quality, the company’s linens are to be found in many of the world’s finest homes and superyachts.
Heirlooms Ltd holds a premier position within the industry and has a world renowned reputation for excellence, uncompromising attention to detail and exceptional expertise in interpreting and supplying the needs of its clients. Each item is crafted and manufactured at their production facility in West Sussex where accomplished embroiderers, designers and skilled machinists create linens of timeless elegance to complement even the most demanding of briefs on style and budget.

2012 is already proving to be an exciting year for Heirlooms with a busy order book and we look forward to continuing to provide our valued clients with our select products and services.

For additional information please contact Ruth, Davina or Eva
and we would be happy to assist with your enquiry.
Tel: +44 1243 820252
sales@heirlooms-linens.co.uk; www.heirlooms-linens.co.uk Elizabeth Murray MBE, Heirlooms Ltd has evolved into one of the best quality
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New Office Showroom in Barcelona & Caribbean Agent Appointment

Following on from our announcement yesterday of Dutch Agent representation, Deckers Uniforms appoint Nick & Sian Line as their Caribbean Agent Representative based in Antigua.  Additionally, a new office and Showroom will open shortly in Barcelona.

Nicholas Stael von Holstein of Deckers, remarks, ‘’Nick Line has extensive experience as a Yacht Captain and Manager and is well known and respected in the industry and in Antigua, where through his local network will provide a very personalised and hands on service.  Additionally, we will shortly be opening a new office base in Barcelona to fully support yachts based in Port Forum, MB92 and surrounding Marinas’’

Nick Line in Antigua, comments, ‘’Having been running large motor yachts for the last 15 years, I know only too well the frustrations of trying to top up uniform supplies, especially when you are away from the major yachting centres. With Deckers philosophy of introducing uniform which can be replenished, with a worldwide network, I believe yachts will be able to cut down on waste and be able to obtain their uniforms and tops ups regardless of where they are, with a more personal service. We are looking forward to representing Deckers in Antigua’’.

Deckers Ocean Attire S.L. Calle Annibal 25 Local, Palma, Spain 07013
Tel:+34 971 28 20 56 Web: www.uniforms4yachts.com

After the party

So the media were right and the Red Hot Chili Peppers (avec Toots of the legendary Maytals) played the Gouverneur Bay Estate on Saturday night as predicted. We didn’t make it to the gig and realistically, we were never going to get near Eclipse, but it was easy to share the late evening buzz from the Rue de la République as the fireworks went off over Gustavia and the A-listers were ferried to and from Eclipse and the other yachts ranged around the tiny harbour. Was that George Lucas we saw, albeit at a distance?

By all accounts, Mahi-mahi was also on the menu for the 400-odd guests (who said 300?) who drove themselves or were limoed through the super-tight party security. Xavier Pinet, one of St Bart’s culinary elite did the catering for the Abramovich party – but our New Year’s Eve supper tasted just as good in town. Hey! It’s St Bart’s and fish heaven – what do you expect? 

Our extended and long-anticipated weekend certainly didn’t cost the £5 mil that Mr A reportedly put into his bash either. But it was still enormous fun getting a sniff of the island’s celebrity lifestyle before heading back to what will certainly be a cold and windswept UK next week.

In the meantime, back to superyacht business… Catching up on the media commentary online, we were surprised to read the suggestion in the Telegraph that some people might have considered the 536-foot long Eclipse an eyesore as it dominated Gustavia harbour.

As professional superyacht people with a valid and experienced view of superyacht style, we couldn’t disagree more. Having now seen Eclipse in the flesh – and I’ve seen most of the top yachts in my time – I can’t help wondering how anyone with any feeling for stunning lines could consider the Abramovich flagship anything but a gem, and a fitting crown jewel in the Terence Disdale portfolio – until his next masterpiece? Hey ho!

Just for the record, we love Eclipse. So, thank you Mr Abramovich for commissioning such delectable eye candy – even if the Super Yachts Directory didn’t get an invite to Gouverneur Bay. Maybe next year! 

Big night on St Bart’s

There’s only one topic of conversation on St Barts and St Maarten this weekend. In case you’ve been asleep since Christmas Day, it’s the Abramovitch bash at his little place above Gouverneur Beach – 70-acres of prime beachfront real-estate that was once owned by David Rockefeller.

All week, to the incessant, but surprisingly engaging soundtrack of Radio St Barth FM, we’ve been star-spotting around the island and speculating – along with the world’s media – about the guest line-up and the Chelsea boss’s choice of live entertainment. Based on the widely circulated pics of Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and his family, the smart money is on the Chilis for the exclusive 10 till 4 party and its 300+ guests.

And then there’s the appearance of Eclipse, the jewel in the crown of the St Bart’s New Year yacht sail-in. Even if we don’t make it into Mr A’s gig, we’re hoping for a closer look at the Terence Disdale designed Blohm + Voss-built Eclipse over the weekend – all 164 beautiful metres of her, complete with those three launches, two helipads and the much talked about mini-sub. Something tells me that with one of the tightest-controlled guest lists and the usual ultra-strict Abramovitch security machine in place there’s no way we’ll get aboard this time. We can but dream…

Realistically, if we want anything more than a long-distance view, it’ll mean sweet talking our way onto one of the usual superyacht entourage that have joined Eclipse off the island. Doable? It all depends on who’s here and what happens tomorrow. Who knows – if we can’t swing this we’ll have a ball putting on our own ‘island chic’ tomorrow night,  piling into the hired SMART and heading over to our Gustavia to celebrate over Mahi-Mahi en-papillote. Whatever happens, we’ve got New Year’s Eve covered and we’ll be seeing in 2012 in style.

In the meantime, we’ll keep our ears to the ground over the next 48. Look out for another posting when the hangover’s have worn off next week. And in the meantime, whether you’re celebrating on Eclipse, rubbing shoulders with the A-listers at the party of the year, or just chilling out at a comfy 26 degrees, have a great New Year’s Eve. More in 2012…

Good end of year news from the Perini Navi Group

Perini Navi Group: Sales contract for hull number one of the 69m sailing yacht series signed.

Three contracts signed by the Group in 2011

The Perini Navi Group has closed the year 2011 on a positive note with the signing of a sales contract on a new 69m sailing yacht. Two more contracts for 60m sailing yachts were signed last summer.

The new 69m yacht, the second longest of the Perini Navi fleet after the clipper The Maltese Falcon, will be delivered in 2015.

The yacht, designed and created by the Perini Navi Group with additional consulting from Philippe Briand, is the latest expression of the high standards of design, technology and quality that have always characterized Perini Navi yachts. Innovation, elegance and comfort at the highest levels possible are just some of the elements that have allowed the Perini Navi Group to distinguish itself in the years and successfully confirm the value of its brand, its team and of its products.  

The interior layout has been designed by the Perini Navi Design Office and will be completed in conjunction with the American interior design studio PH Design.

At the end of the year 2011 the Group’s orders amount to about 170 million Euro, with six yachts sold and currently under construction. The Group has also invested in the construction of two sailing yacht hulls, of 38 and 60m, that can be sold and consigned within the next two years.

The past year has seen the launching of the sailing yacht Fidelis, the tenth yacht in the 56m series; of the 55m motor yacht Galileo G, the second launching to date of the Picchiotti brand’s Vitruvius® series; and of Clan VIII, the fourth yacht in the 45m series.