Review: Lurssen's "Queen M"

Queen M flourishes with six large guest cabins on the main deck fit for a Liege. Her enormous beam (44’) allows numerous design forays into broad living spaces, which escape her more diminutive sisters. Each of the roomy guest cabins, designed with large windows, are quite copious in size, for so many on a private yacht. Most offer doubles or twin berths, plus bed tables, couches, and private baths/heads/showers.

Fashioned with real wood floors, plus carpeting; each one sports entertainment centers featuring plasma TV as well as multi-media systems. Varying color combinations mark each guest stateroom individually. Two of the guest cabins are located on the lower deck aft of the crew area, along with the ship’s sauna. Those two cabins have single berths.

Just one of the guest bathroom's onboard Queen M. Lavish and luxurious, they are larger than most master baths onboard 100' yachts.

The long voyages that officers and crews must endure are only compounded by tight quarters on most yachts. Queen M is an exception to this rule with an Officers mess that is salon-size on most yachts.

Crew quarters are located on the lower deck: 12 cabins total for 20 crew members, the Royal Attendants. Mostly on the lower deck, the crew has particular separate passageways throughout the yacht. Here also is a laundry room with industrial size equipment; washers and dryers and a powerful ironing press. This deck has been especially designed for storage of large quantities of food and supplies for weeks-long voyages without pausing to replenish

A hatchway on the lower deck opens into the machinery room. Inside are Twin 2.320 kW MTU engines for ship’s propulsion and high-powered generators of 332 kW each, plus one additional 228kW back-up. Only one of these is necessary for the ship’s electrical operations; the others are safety standbys.

Exhaust Resonation Chambers. (mufflers to the laymen ) Seriously, a set of catalytic converters clean soot collectors and convert black water.

Engine Room Walkway. Not shown is the control room, where the chief engineer monitors some 360 sensors connected to software. These continually analyze function of the engines and other equipment.

Lurssen, with its 125 years of experience building yachts, fishing boats, and naval craft, can be justly proud of this latest, magnificent yacht-building accomplishment – truly an outstanding yacht, quite well fitted out for patrician use..

Queen M is definitely royalty, in every sense of the word.

Editorial by Carl Camper and Chuck Gnaegy.

GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS:

Builder: LÜRSSEN
Type: Motor Yacht
Year: 2004
Classification: GLX100A5, MOTOR YACHTXMC AUT.
Construction material: Steel (hull) and aluminium (superstructure)
Length overall: 72.60 m / 238’2’’
Beam: 13.50 m / 44’3’’
Full Load Draft: 3.85 m / 12’6’’
Fuel Capacity: 250,000 litres
Water Capacity: 30,000 litres
Maximum Speed: 18.0 knots
Cruising Speed: 16.0 knots
Range: 5,000 nautical miles @ 12 knots

ACCOMMODATIONS:

Owner:
Full width stateroom with lobby, aft on owner deck. Bath room and dressing room en suite.
Guest:
2 x double cabins with bathrooms en suite located on main deck
4 x twin cabins with bathrooms en suite located on main deck
2 x single cabins with bathrooms en suite located on lower deck
Captain:
1 x double cabin with bath room en suite
Crew:
4 x single cabins with bath rooms en suite
8 x double cabins with bath rooms en suite

MECHANICAL INSTALLATIONS:

Main Engines: 2 x MTU 16 V 4000 M 70 about 2320 kW each
Auxiliary Engines / Generators :
2 x MTU 8 V 2000 M 50 A about 332 kW each
1 x MTU 6 R 183 TE about 228 kW
Emergency Engine / Generator: 1 x MAN D2866 TE about 170 kW
Propeller: Schottel, 2 x Controllable Pitch Propeller Type SCP 0654 G
Zero Speed Stabilizers: VT Naiad Marine (Koop Nautic) SR 6012
Bow Thruster: Brunvoll FU-37-LTC-1000
Watermaker: Idromar Compact, Professional Duplex 2 x 16 m³/day
Air conditioning: Heinen & Hopmann Single duct reheat System

ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS:

General System: 400/230 V AC, 3ph, 50 HZ
Particular System (dedicated spaces only): 208/120 V AC, 3ph, 60 Hz 40 kVA Shore connection: 3 x EXENDIS 125 kVA each

COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT:

Satcom: 2 x Trane & Trane SAT-C ( GMDSS ) 2 x NERA F77
VHF: 2 x Raytheon VHF 1000 DSC
SSB: 1 x Skanti TRP 1250
GSM: 3 x European GSM ( Voice / Data / Fax )
3 x US Cell Phone ( Voice / Data / Fax )
SART: 2 x TRON SART

NAVIGATION EQUIPMENT:

Autpilot: Raytheon / Anschütz Noutopilot 2010
Echo Sounder: Raytheon Skipper ( 50 + 200 kHz )
Radar: Raytheon Pathfinder MK II
Weather Fax: BICOM / Bonito
Log: Consilium SAL R 1
Gyrocompass: 2 x Raytheon / Anschütz Standard 20 Plus
GPS: 2 x Leica MK 420
AIS: 2 x Leica MK 420 AIS

AUDIO/VISUAL EQUIPMENT:

TV: 2 x Seatel 4894 ( SAT – TV + Internet download )
Video: DVD player / Plasma screens, Linn classic video

WATERSPORTS EQUIPMENT:

Tender:
1 x Nimbus Max II about 7.5 m
1 x custom boat Serenella venetian taxi type 8.5 m
1 x Prestige RIB 600
1 x Rescue boat Novurania GS 420 SOLAS
PWC's: 2 x Kawasaki 1100 STX
Other: diving and fishing gear, game chair

For more information, contact:

Lurssen Yachts
Zum Alten Speicher 11,28759
Bremen-Vegesack, Germany
http://www.lurssen.de

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