Lurssen News

Well this is interesting. Ester III is for sale at €79.5M. This is pretty comparable to what Vanish sold for as another custom Norther European build

I was rather expecting this; her rumoured owner has been having some legal difficulties.

Esther III is one of my favourite yachts in her her size range and being only two years old I suspect she will be sold relatively quickly, despite the large number of bigger boats currently on the market.

some informations after hollydays
- on boatinternational industry data a 146 meters will be launched in 2018
-in a french yacht magazin Andrew Winch have a project for the biggest yacht ever built by the yard .

Well he was the interior designer for Dilbar, which could be what they are discussing there.

Is there any news on the latest projects from Lürssen? Project Jupiter (120m) and project Thunder (135m)

Nope I haven't heard new news on those projects.

They also updated the interior. Looks better IMO.

http://www.fm-arch.it/project/my-polar-start/

Thanks for those. She looks like a completely different yacht.

Solandge has received a €14M price drop, now asking €155M.

Just in time for the MYS there are interesting news coming out of Bremen. As Lürssen is about to take over Blohm &Voss! The focus is on refit and repair of all kinds of ships but possibly also newbuilds.

I guess BVB80 is early enough in the build style that they can scrap it without much loss.

It crossed my mind that this probably the end of the BV80. The interviews given by Peter Lurssen yesterday stated that they might build yachts at the B&V facilities but that it wasn't clear there was market demand for that. My guess is they will concentrate construction in the current Lurssen facilities and refit and modernisation work at B&V.

Presumably the 100m sighted today in Rendsburg is Project Sasha. Looks incredible!

http://www.***************.com/yacht-news/on-scene-new-luerssen-100m-project-revealed/

Hi, this is not Sasha 85m, a long time ago the plain hull with superstructure was towed like this one... this one might be ***** project Rio but they say 91m... not sure about length of this one, but looks nice

The released drawings of Project Rio look very different from the hull seen in Rendsburg today though. Unless these drawings are not correct of course. Take a look: http://www.charterworld.com/?sub=yacht-charter&charter=motor-yacht-project-rio-6540

'Rio' in the drawing has completely different window layout, and crucially doesn't feature the curved glass panes at the top under the mast...

I do agree it's not Sasha having looked at the earlier press now! Bit of a mystery!

I agree with you this one is mystery but Rio project is mystery as well.. signed 2011 and only one simple rendering photo released so far....