Barracuda Yacht Designs 50m Concept

Barracuda's 50m (164ft) concept was first unveiled at the Monaco Yacht Show in September of last year, flat surfaces and gentle curves combine to create a sleek, bold and efficient megayacht. She has a narrow beam and a long waterline length, that offers fast and efficient performance contained within the 500 GRT rule.

She was designed to enter the market in the ever growing an popular 50m size range. You step on board via the starboard side doors to a lobby which leads to the main saloon and dining area. By turning right a corridor leads to four luxurious, equal size guest rooms located unusually on the main deck. Guests will avoid the usual climbing up and down stairs to the lower deck to reach there rooms.

The guest rooms will have plenty of incoming natural light from the large windows in the hull, as seen in the image above. Each guest room will have two of these windows, one of which can be lowered down fully to provide a balcony area.

 

The upper/bridge deck is entirely the owner’s space, with bedroom and office positioned amidships for best possible comfort and with a large private terrace aft. A private stairway leads up to a sheltered sun deck with Jacuzzi above.

An almost full beam width stern door acts as a large swimming platform with boarding steps behind where a beach club/gymnasium benefits from almost 180 degree views out the back and plenty of natural light from the windows on either side of the hull. She is a great concept that is sure to catch the eyes of potential owners looking at the 50m range megayacht.

 

The New Barracuda 170ft

On the 22nd of December the Spanish design studio Barracuda Yacht Design released their drawings of their new 52m (170ft) Superyacht. The client had a long list of requirements for the designers to take into account when designing the yacht, two of the owners main requests were that that the yacht ran silently and vibration free.

First impressions of this yacht show that it is a comfortable spacious cursing yacht, but it is still very much performance orientated yacht with predicted up wind speeds of 14kts in 20kts of wind. She also has a super low resistance hull, transferable water balance and a retractable dagger-board to help reach these top up wind speeds.

The main rooms benefit from large windows that let in plenty of natural light that spreads throughout the yacht. She will be able to accommodate up to 12 guests in 1 full beam owners cabin forward on the main deck, 1 full beam VIP cabin aft on the lower deck, 4 twin cabins on the lower deck as well. She will have a crew of 12, more that the usual crew of 8 for a yacht of the size, and their spacious accommodation will be forward on the lower deck. There is a beach club/GYM with water level access on both sides amidships that keeps the guests and crew accommodation separate, see the image below