Derecktor Cakewalk Yacht Launched!

Thanks Dave! Here's the Press Release...

http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/y...4130-new-launch-derecktor-85-6m-cakewalk.html

Thanks Dave.

I think she looks great, except. There is just something that doesn't quite look right to me. Not sure what that is yet.

I will certainly be looking forward to seeing more pics though.

Magnificent!

M/Y Cakewalk continues her fitting out at the Derecktor Yard in Bridgeport, CT. Workers buzz around her like bees, complete with protective coverings on their shoes. Her superstructure dwarfs the workers as well as any other vessels in the vicinity. Official unveiling will be at FLIBS I'm told.

Great pictures guys. These are the first pictures I have seen so far that really gives a feel of what this vessel looks like in real circumstances.

Thanks Tom, your photos bring her to life, the details are going on and unveiled, she will look pretty good. One question? What is behind that drop down door on the uppermost deck?

There's plastic sheeting hanging there so can't see what's in it. I wonder if that is where the name board will go. Or maybe a top deck balcony. Those sat domes are huge.

Well Tom, the fly through video at Derecktor's site shows that her name plates will be directly aft of the bridge wing pods, So I do not go with the plates going on the 'mystery door'. Maybe liferaft canisters will be behind those doors?

http://www.derecktor.com/news/videos/cakewalk.html

I see what you mean regarding the sign. But not sure if it's for life raft canisters as they need to float free from a yacht if submerged, correct? May not work behind a door. But then again I am expecting some very cool things once Cakewalk makes it to the public eye.

Well quite a few yachts carry their raft canisters behind doors now so I do not know...

Hi,

If you look under the lower edge of the plastic you will see what look like rails.

These could well be for the rafts to slide down when released.

What surprises me is the seeming lack of a float free lid to the storage.

SOLAS Chapter 3 Reg 13 No 4.3 says

Each liferaft or group of liferafts shall be stowed with a float free arrangement complying with paragraph 4.1.6 of the Code so that each floats free and if inflatable, inflates automatically.

Yep, exactly, that is why I did not think it was for the life rafts but then why I thought rafts was because of the same slide rails that you can make out through the plastic.

If the door is unlatched by the same hydrostatic release as the raft(s) it counts as a "float free" door. The only issue with that type of storage is that since the rafts will not float free, or the painter(s) may foul on the superstructure if the vessel is listed heavily, there must be enough rafts on the other side or another more exposed location to compensate for the loss of those that don't "escape."