| Lurssen | 58.49M | "RONIN" ex. "IZANAMI" | 1993/22 |

Did you know why she was renamed ??

Read it backwards and you will know.

Izanami = Im a nazi

That is surely not a name for a nice outstanding Yacht.

Alex

It's true.

Maybe true, but he named her Katana first, before Eco became Katana...and now, is there any Katana left in this guys posession?

Or will that be the real name on his BIG boat?

Izanami was never named Katana before she became Ronin..

This seems like a bit of a stretch to me.

Do you think the guy intentionally named his boat with a secret double meaning when read backwards?

IZANAMI

Another Urban Myth?

Izanami - "She who invites you to enter."
Ancient Asian mythology actually:
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/i/izanami.html
http://www.deliriumsrealm.com/delirium/mythology/izanami.asp
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/izanamimyth/

Maybe you were not born then...

does anyone know of any interior pictures of Ronin or Izenami?

She was featured in The Superyachts, volume eleven 1998. Also in some magazines around the time before she sold and became Katana.

did Boat cover her too?
In that case ive got to do some digging, got shelves full of that magazine.

Yes, May 1997, nine pages including some from her construction..

Nerd alert! lol! I'm am,azed you can pinpoint it so quick Lars, and with content description of the article too!

Izanami Mythology

The name came from Japanese mythology, and Izanami is the name of one of the gods whose tears fell on the sea and formed the many islands of Japan. There is absolutely not a bit of truth that the name is consciously "I'm a Nazi" backward, but just a pure accident of mirror-mage spelling.

I wrote the Boat International feature in 1997, and it was reprinted in Super Yachts 1998, as well as BI's French and German magazines. Check it out! It's got some interesting insights into the owner's thinking and to the design by Sir Norman Foster, well-known British architect who also designed the owner's house, art museum, and major office building in Tokyo.

Cheers,

Jack

Plans, Blueprints, Pictures of Ronin (Ex-Izanami)

Hi all,

i have to analyze the Yacht "Ronin" (ex Izanami) built in the 90s by the Luerssen Werft in Bremen. I want to rebuilt the yacht 3dimensional for my presenation in University. Because of confidentiality, the Shipyard and the architecture office didn't gave me any plans.

Do you got any floorplans or pictures of the front (back, groundplans, side etc.) of the yacht? I collected many pictures of Ronin and Izanami, but i need some stuff like this for bulding the yacht 3d:

http://forum.3dmaxforum.de/showthread.php?t=9459

thanx a lot 4 ur support, the final result, will i post here!

Do you know where i can get such plans in the web?

the attached file shows a view from the side, i need stuff like this one, from the top, side, back, front etc.