Starfire (2007)

Starfire and TT Starfire underway.

The exemplary 73m Starfire came to us after a stormy passage from down south. Her prudent and experienced crew had a lengthy list of minor imperfections that they hoped to improve upon to make her even more of a superlative luxury yacht.

The imperfections were all relatively minor improvements but a 1% improvement over 100 things is still 100% and that should be this yachts motto.

Amongst many things, more notable items included;

• Improved sea secure method for various furniture on bridge, guest cabins, gym and machine spaces.

• CNC’ed name plate for the passerelle.

• Custom Rotisserie spike designed to head chefs design.

• Shelf made to match interior facia’s to house projector.

• Extensive paint touch ups

• Generator Alignment

• Custom milled fittings for tender whips, and custom “lollipop” for easier boarding and disembarking from the primary tender.

• Strengthening bathing platform (on tender) and new teak deck.

• Lightening and simplification of the ski arch on the ski boat to enable quicker attachment when the vessel.

Zenji (2004)

Zenji, anchored at dusk.

Zenji is a beautiful example of the now popular Perini Navi 56m range. Originally commissioned for Larry Elisson of Oracle- she attended the 2013 America’s cup as mother ship when another of Larry Elison’s yachts “Oracle Team USA 17” won the cup following the famous comeback from 8-1 to 8-9 after Sir Ben Ainslie took over as tactician.

Since then she has cruised world wide privately and successfully as a charter yacht.

Prudently the owners of the vessel chose to redeck the vessel in sections so that the boat is never out of commission for too long. To ensure this process went smoothly, and to meet the vessels tight deadline, significant preplanning and logistics were conducted so that the materials arrival would coincide with the Zenji’s. As soon as the lines were tied to the dock, we got on board to start our work and didn’t leave until she had left.

In addition to replacing various portions and planks around the deck, we treated the aluminum sub deck for corrosion and also installed a new FaMu system (Fresh air make up), whilst switching the powering for these units to from three-phase to single-phase.