Morpheus?

Firstly, I think Fincantieri is by now or building a spec yacht or they are going to loose the credibility. Having a large office and budgets to support so called "teaser" projects is fine, but at one point you have to do something, otherwise it happens the same thing that did happened to Blomm&Voss with the model of that Marocco designed teaser, or to that Martin Francis glass house attempt. Simply, a lot of smoke for nothing.

As far as Tim Heywood making another "Pelorus" or better "Morpheolorus" it doesn't surprise me, he's really having one and only "mother of all the designs" pattern, the "Pelorus model". The design pattern, that has so obviously been concived by the late Banneberg and that Tim has brought to the end in case of Carinthia and Pelorus (although he's claiming them as author job)and then or meanwhile multiply it for "his aliby" through various different project of his own, like Perfect Prescription for instance. There is even a small 95 meter Pelorus copy in construction right now, i won't say more. As far as my two cents, if this was Banneberg alive and kicking, all this would be just an era of two or three yachts sharing some details (as Banneberg always did) , but we would see different things by now, but unfortunatelly, we will have Peloruses all over the world in different scales and different colours. The same reverse sheer and the bubbly funnel with vertical grills...Woooah!

In fact, when Tim goes original, the designs are loosing proportions and ideas, like Air for instance. From my small side the verdict here is that all this is the inflation of design and an overblown name of a designer that has been a good team worker behind a great author, but is on his own going to stumble soon.

But for Fincantieri is ok, you know, if you do a Pelorus copy you get a bitt of that Luerssen's glitter, which never harms at the beggining of the story in this business.

By the way, I saw the latest issue of the russina boat international...the Marcopolo teaser is now "operating" there. We will all wait for the first yacht from the Fincantieri now crossing fingers that it will be less dissapointing than expected. Something like the "chinese" Evergreen will be already an achivement!