Industry’s Original Awards Program, One Based Purely on Peer Review and Selection
ISS (International Superyacht Society) has released its lists of finalists for the 2011 International Design Awards. For more than 20 years, ISS’s Design Awards—based entirely on peer review—has celebrated the very finest naval architecture, design, interiors, engineering and builds the large yacht industry presents annually.
Each year, nominees are submitted to ISS by the large yacht industry’s leading builders, designers and stewards. The categories are as follows:
Power: (3) awards for size categories 24m-40m, 40m-65m, 65m+
Sail: (2) awards for size categories 24m-40m, 40m+
Interior Design: (1) award for power or sail
Best Refit: (1) award for power or sail
The individual selection of five finalists in each award grouping results from the privilege to vote that ISS membership affords. A distinguished and impartial group of judges then weighs the qualifications of each yacht with the winning yachts announced at ISS’s annual International Design Awards Gala, this year on Thursday, 27 October from 7:00 P.M. at the Marriott Harbor Beach Resort, Fort Lauderdale. The theme celebrates Launchings!
ISS also recognizes achievement in the business and service of superyachts. During the Gala, ISS Awards of Distinction—Business or Business Person of the Year, Innovation, the ISS Fabien Cousteau Blue Award as well as the Leadership Award and Distinguished Crew Award—are presented.
The ISS Business (Person) of the Year is awarded to those demonstrating excellence in their area of superyacht expertise within the previous year; nominations come from both the industry and the ISS board with the board making the finalist selections. Previous honourees have included Frans Heesen, Heesen Yachts, John Dane, Trinity Yachts and Corporation of Trinity House.
Open to every aspect of the industry—from crew training to technological advances—the Excellence in Innovation award is given to an individual or business that has demonstrated innovation in their endeavours. Nominations come from the industry and ISS board members vote to determine finalists. In 2008, 2009 and 2010 respectively, Agrimond, Carlisle and Finch and Sailing Yacht Soliloquy, Callender Designs were awarded the Excellence in Innovation honour.
The new ISS Fabien Cousteau Blue Award, introduced at the 2010 Awards Gala, celebrates stewardship of marine ecosystems. Environmental leadership, global oceanic conservation and resource preservation are prerequisites for nomination. The integration of environmental technologies and resource management with the goal of setting achievable standards and models for wide adaptation in the design, engineering and building of large yachts—and the use of the Earth’s waterways—are essential criteria. Nominations are made by owners and the yachting industry; selection is by panel of judges, including Mr. Cousteau.
ISS’s Leadership Award recognizes an individual or business whose distinctive work and commitment to the industry has contributed—over a substantial period of time—to the sustainable growth of the superyacht community worldwide. Nominations and selection for The Leadership Award are made by those who have received the award in previous years with the previous year’s winner presiding.
The Distinguished Crew Award is presented in years when the DCA award judges are presented with a nomination that represents the essence of the award (nominations are sought industry-wide). Specifically, these honours are designed to recognize yacht crew whose distinguished acts of service best exemplify the standards to which professional yacht crew aspire.
ISS would like to acknowledge the invaluable, and continuing, support of its Annual Gala event sponsors—Robb Report, Show Management, The Yacht Report Group, Yachts International, Burger Boat Company, Westrec Marinas and Wright Maritime Group.
—2011 Yacht Finalists of the ISS 2011 Design Awards–
Derecktor 85 m Motor Yacht Cakewalk The Largest in USA History
2011 INTERNATIONAL SUPERYACHT DESIGN AWARDS FINALISTS – “BEST POWER” 65m+
NAME / LENGTH / BUILDER
DESIGNER INT.
DESIGNER NAVAL ARCH.
STYLIST
Superyacht Cakewalk 86m/280’10” Derecktor’s Shipyard
Tim Heywood Designs
Dalton Designs Azure NA
Tim Heywood Designs
Motor yacht Lady Christine 68m/223’ Feadship/Royal Van Lent
DeVoogt NA
Rodney Black Design
DeVoogt NA
DeVoogt NA
M/Y Palladium 95,1m/312’ Blohm & Voss
Michael Leach Design
Michael Leach Design
Blohm & Voss Michael Leach Design
Megayacht Seven Seas 86m/282’ Oceanco
Nuvolari & Lenard
Nuvolari & Lenard
Oceanco/Azure NA
Molly Isaksen
Yacht Sycara V 68,1m/223’6” Nobiskrug
Nobiskrug/Pure Detail
Craig Beale/Pure Detail
Nobiskrug
Nobiskrug
The Yacht BIG FISH
FINALISTS – “BEST POWER” 40m to 65m
NAME LENGTH BUILDER
DESIGNER INT.
DESIGNER NAVAL ARCH.
STYLIST
Expedition Yacht Big Fish 45m/147’8” Aquos Yachts/McMullen & Wing
Gregory C Marshall
Gregory C Marshall
Gregory C Marshall
Gregory C Marshall
M/Y Calliope 42m/137’10” Holland Jachtbouw
Langan Design Partners
Rhoades Young Design
Langan Design Partners
Candace Langan
Superyacht Exuma 50m/164’1” Picchiotti/Perini Navi Group
Vitruvius
Perini Navi
Philippe Briand
Perini Navi/Vitruvius
Motor yacht Sea Owl 43,4m/142’5” Burger Boat Company
Andrew Winch Design
Andrew Winch Design
Vripack
Andrew Winch Design
M/Y Solemates 60m/196’10” Lürssen Yachts
Espen Øino Design
Glade Johnson Design
Lürssen Yachts
Espen Øino Design
The Motor yacht BLACK PEARL
FINALISTS – “BEST POWER” 24m to 40m
NAME LENGTH BUILDER
DESIGNER INT.
DESIGNER NAVAL ARCH.
STYLIST
Yacht Black Pearl 31,6m/103’8” Diverse Projects
LOMOcean Design
Chris Connell/ LOMOcean Design
LOMOCEAN
LOMOcean Design Design
Livia 30m/98’5” Moonen Shipyard
René van der Velden
Art-Line Interiors
Diana Yacht Design
René van der Velden
Yacht Lucia M 39m/127’ Jongert
Guido de Groot Design
Guido de Groot Design
Azure NA
Guido de Groot Design
NISI 24,1m/79’ NISI Yachts
NISI Yachts/Setzer Design Group
NISI Yachts/Setzer Design Group
Ward Setzer
NISI Yachts/Krina Cozias
Motor yacht SnowbirD 39m/127’ Hakvoort
Sheepswerf
Cor de Rover
Michela Reverberri
Azure NA
D. Ostrander
Pendennis Superyacht CHRISTOPHER by Ron Holland Design
FINALISTS – “BEST SAIL” 40m +
NAME LENGTH BUILDER
DESIGNER INT.
DESIGNER NAVAL ARCH.
STYLIST
Sail Yacht Christopher 46m/150’11” Pendennis
Ron Holland
Ron Holland /Pendennis/Courtney & Co.
Ron Holland
Pendennis/Courtney
Yacht Imagine 44,2m/145’ Alloy Yachts
Dubois NA
Alloy Yachts
Dubois NA
Dubois NA
Sailing Yacht Marie 54,6m/180’ Vitters Shipyard
Hoek Design NA
Hoek Design/David Easton
Hoek Design NA
Hoek Design NA
Panthalassa 56m/183’9” Perini Navi
Perini Navi Design
Foster + Partners
Perini Navi/Ron Holland
Perini Navi
S/Y Twizzle 57,5m/188’7” Royal Huisman
Redman Whiteley Dixon
Redman Whiteley Dixon
Dubois NA
Todhunter Earle Interiors
32m Sailing Yacht AKALAM by Barracuda Yacht Design and Pendennis - Credit Lloyd Images
FINALISTS – “BEST SAIL” 24m to 40m
NAME LENGTH BUILDER
DESIGNER INT.
DESIGNER NAVAL ARCH.
STYLIST
Yacht Aegir 25,1m/82’4” Carbon Ocean Yachts
Rogers Yacht Design
Rogers Yacht Design
Rogers Yacht Design
Rogers Yacht Design
S/Y Akalam 32m/104’ Pendennis
Barracuda Yacht Design
Javier Munoz
Barracuda Yacht Design
Javier Munoz
Yacht Firefly 35,2m/115’6” Claasen Shipyards
Hoek Design NA
Hoek Design NA
Hoek Design NA
Hoek Design NA
Kiboko 28,6m/94’ Southern Wind Shipyard
Nauta Yacht Design
Nauta Yacht Design
Reichel/Pugh Yacht
Nauta Yacht Design
Sailing yacht Nilaya 34,1m/111’ Baltic Yachts
Nauta Yacht Design
Nauta Yacht Design
Reichel/Pugh Yacht
Nauta Yacht Design
Superyacht Illusion post refit at Pendennis Shipyard
FINALISTS – “BEST REFIT”
NAME LENGTH BUILDER/ REFIT
DESIGNER INT.
DESIGNER NAVAL ARCH.
STYLIST
Angel’s Share 39,9m/130’11” Wally/Lürssen
Amanda Levete Architects
Eidsgaard Design
Owen Clarke Design/ Javier Soto Acebal Levete Architects
Amanda Levete Architects
Illusion 55,7m/182’9” Feadship/Pendennis
Bannenberg & Rowell Design
Bannenberg & Rowell Design
DeVoogt NA
DeVoogt NA
Mari Cha III 44,2m/145’ Derecktor/Derecktor
Philippe Briand
Clear Yacht Interiors
Philippe Briand
Philippe Briand
MiniSkirt 32m/105’ Windship/Ares Custom Yachts
Ron Holland
Andrew Winch
Ron Holland
Ron Holland
Odyssey 41,1m/134’10” Feadship DeVries/Feadship DeVries
DeVoogt NA
Redman Whiteley Dixon
DeVoogt NA
Francis Gumbs
