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Does anyone have any information about this sub 3000gt project? Is this one of those things were the info is released at the 2012 MYS?

Why is that so surprising?!

Amels 464

Amels 464 arrived earlier this week.

By the end of 2012 beginning 2013; 462, 463 and 464 will be launched.

Amels Ilona

I'll post it here; I hope this is the right thread.

Amels Ilona (currently back in the Med.) has had a radical refit.

In stead of the helipad-bay; which was originally on the main deck; Amels has installed a 10m x 3m swimming pool. Bridge deck (2m); owner's deck (4m) and sun deck (helipad) were extended in the process.

She is still a classic beauty and, in my opinion, in a class of her own.

Ilona and 4You

Yeah thank you! I think the extended sundeck looks a bit strange and does not fit to the overall design ... there is no smooth transition.

Ilona aft

Picture of the Aft deck

If I remember correctly, weren't the owners contemplating either a refit with their previous yacht or building one significantly smaller and having the helipad placed on the top deck like in the refit? It looks like they finally completed those plans. I don't think the owners wanted a pool as much as they wanted a bigger helicopter and had an unusable void to fill. All the modifications really killed the design. I remember when Ilona was originally build and Amels wanted to lengthen the stern by a meter for the ease of the helicopter storage but that would make the proportions and Amels would not lengthen the bow by two meters to compensate. It just makes me think, what happened here as I think the design looks a lot worse after the modifications.

Hi,
Regardless of aesthetics the heli hanger was a killer so maybe thus was a way for the owner to get over the death of his Chief Engineer on board in the tragic circumstances where it took place.