MY Skat visits Mount’s Bay
Today, the MY Skat has been anchored in Mount’s Bay south-west of St Michael’s Mount. Skat is a 70 metre luxury motor yacht owned by Charles Simonyi, co-founder of Intentional Software Corporation and former software engineer at Microsoft. Skat was built by Lürssen of Bremen, Germany and launched in 2001.
MY Skat in Mount's Bay
The following information about Skat is courtesy of Wikipedia:
General specifications
- Construction: Lürssen Werft, Bremen, Germany, 2002
- Home Port: Georgetown, Cayman Islands
- Length: 70.70m / 233′
- Width: 13.5m / 44.3′
- Draft: 3.7m / 12.1′
- Displacement: 1636 metric tonne
- Hull: Steel hull, aluminum superstructure
- Engines: 2 × 2000 kW / 2682 hp MTU gas turbine
- Cruising Speed: 15 knots
- Max speed: 17 knots
- One engine operation: 13 knots
- Fuel: 210.000 liter (55,000 gallons)
- Water: 56.000 liter (14,793 gallons)
- Guests: 10
- Crew: 16
- Designer: Espen Oeino
- Interior designer: Marco Zanini
- Stylist: Espen Oeino
Features
- Elevator serving all four decks
- Leisure platform with Jacuzzi
- A gymnasium located centrally under the mast
- Helipad on the upper aft deck servicing a helicopter painted in colours matching the yacht.
- Observation platform with helm control halfway up the central mast.
- Two tenders
- Two Jet Skis
- Motorcycles and accompanying lift
The yacht can achieve a speed of 13 knots on just one engine. A cooling pump integrated into the gearboxes assures safe operation on one engine by pumping oil through the idle gearbox. The shaft of the idle engine can be disengaged, leaving the idle propeller and shaft to freewheel.
