The 50 metre sailing yacht Zefira is being built by New Zealand’s Fitzroy Yachts is close to being launched in New Plymouth. Superyacht Zefira is a Dubois Yachts designed sloop rigged yacht with a project or model name x50. The construction of the Dubois designed 49.7m fast cruising sloop Zefira yacht began back in April 2008. This Dubois designed 49.7m fast cruising sloop is all aluminium with a bulb keel and she has a maximum beam of 9.95 metres. The yacht has a flybridge although the profile is still sleek and low profile. The beautiful word Zefira comes from a Hebrew origin, and its meaning is “morning”. The yacht is expected to have a very good sailing performance.
Yacht Zefira
Luxury yacht Zefira’s interior design details and interior designer are not known at this stage, although it could well have been created by Adam Lay Studio Limited which worked on the yacht SALPERTON IV. The yacht has a lower saloon with a studio and there is also a main deck pilot house. Zefira is a able to accommodate the yacht owner in and owner’s cabin and at least a further 6 guests in 3 guest cabins. The crew also have 3 cabins along with a captain’s cabin.
With her single Caterpillar C32 1400 BHP diesel engine the luxury yacht will be able to manage a cruise speed of around 12 knots and a top speed of just over that figure. Federico Biatturi is the captain of this exciting new yacht.
This is the list of Fitzroy built superyachts currently available for yacht charters. Here are the Dubois designed yachts that are for charter. It is not as yet known whether the superyacht will be available for luxury sailing yacht charters. Please contact the CharterWorld team us for further details.
Zefira’s sails are to be made by North Sails New Zealand. Her launch follows the build of the highly exhilarating Salperton IV, also by Fitzroy and with sails from North Sails, launched late last year and complete with a performance 3DL sail package that included a reacher and blade headsails, and a fully battened mainsail.
At this stage little else is known of Fitzroy’s sailing yacht Zefira. There are no photos or images of the actual yacht as yet published. What is known is that Fitzroy has already built some Dubois designed superyachts with much success such as sailing yachts SALPERTON IV, ZULU, HELIOS and MIDNIGHT.
The Fitzroy Zefira Superyacht Rendering
Specifications of Sailing Yacht Zefira:
Length Overall: 49.69 m
Beam Max: 9.95 m
Draught: 4.9m
Launch date 2010
Displacement: 312 tonnes
Construction: Aluminium
Classification: Lloyds
Engine: Caterpillar C32 1400 BHP
Rig: TBC
Accommodation: Owners Cabin,
3 Guest Cabins,
3 Crew Cabins, Captain’s Cabin, Lower Saloon with Studio, Pilot House
Lutron Lighting system, Lutron Blinds and Entertainment control for Deck & Lower Saloon’s, Owner’s cabin, Aft Deck, Cockpit, Mid Deck, 3 x Guest cabin’s, 3 x Crew Cabin’s, Captain’s cabin, Crew Mess and Galley. The system allows user’s easy access of multiple AV Sources such as Kaleidescape movie/music server, Satellite TV decoder’s, iPod, Auxiliary input, Radio, 5 x CCTV cameras, Navigation.
