• About MTB
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Contact Us
Delegate Login
MTB Events
  • Home
  • MTB Marine
    • All Upcoming Marine Events
    • MTB Superyachts 2023
    • MTB Workboats 2023
    • MTB Marine Europe 2023
    • MTB Marine Americas 2024
    • MTB Marine Asia 2024
  • MTB Energy
    • All Upcoming Energy Events
    • MTB Oil & Gas 2024
  • MTB Aviation
    • All Upcoming Aviation Events
    • MTB Aviation 2023
    • MTB Aviation Asia 2024
  • Sector NewsUpdated
    • All
    • Aviation
    • Energy
    • Marine
    Partnership created between ESB and Ørsted in landmark Irish offshore wind agreement, MTB Events, image shows offshore wind farm, calm seas and sunrise

    Partnership created between ESB and Ørsted in landmark Irish offshore wind agreement

    Camper & Nicholsons establishing a new office in Athens, MTB Events, Image shows Port Piraeus in Athens, lots of yachts at sunset

    Camper & Nicholsons are establishing a new office in Athens

    Corsica Ferries to seek optimal sustainability with Wärtsilä’s Decarbonisation Modelling service, MTB Events, image shows yellow and white Corsica ferry on the water

    Corsica Ferries to seek optimal sustainability with Wärtsilä’s Decarbonisation Modelling service

    Two new orders for fully custom Van der Valks. MTB Events. image shows Project 111.11, superyacht, shown during dusk

    Two new orders for fully custom Van der Valks

    Etihad Airways announces new route to Osaka, Japan, image shows Osaka castle, Himeji castle in Japan surrounded by cherry blossom. Photo is taken from across a river.

    Etihad Airways announces new route to Osaka, Japan

    Arksen launch 85ft Explorer Vessel

    Arksen launch 85ft Explorer Vessel

    Trending Tags

    • Airports
    • Aviation
    • Marine
    • Oil & Gas
    • Renewables
    • Superyachts
    • Workboats
  • Testimonials
    • Testimonials
    • Video Highlights
  • Event Galleries
  • About MTB
    • About Meet The Buyer Events
    • How It Works
  • Contact
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • MTB Marine
    • All Upcoming Marine Events
    • MTB Superyachts 2023
    • MTB Workboats 2023
    • MTB Marine Europe 2023
    • MTB Marine Americas 2024
    • MTB Marine Asia 2024
  • MTB Energy
    • All Upcoming Energy Events
    • MTB Oil & Gas 2024
  • MTB Aviation
    • All Upcoming Aviation Events
    • MTB Aviation 2023
    • MTB Aviation Asia 2024
  • Sector NewsUpdated
    • All
    • Aviation
    • Energy
    • Marine
    Partnership created between ESB and Ørsted in landmark Irish offshore wind agreement, MTB Events, image shows offshore wind farm, calm seas and sunrise

    Partnership created between ESB and Ørsted in landmark Irish offshore wind agreement

    Camper & Nicholsons establishing a new office in Athens, MTB Events, Image shows Port Piraeus in Athens, lots of yachts at sunset

    Camper & Nicholsons are establishing a new office in Athens

    Corsica Ferries to seek optimal sustainability with Wärtsilä’s Decarbonisation Modelling service, MTB Events, image shows yellow and white Corsica ferry on the water

    Corsica Ferries to seek optimal sustainability with Wärtsilä’s Decarbonisation Modelling service

    Two new orders for fully custom Van der Valks. MTB Events. image shows Project 111.11, superyacht, shown during dusk

    Two new orders for fully custom Van der Valks

    Etihad Airways announces new route to Osaka, Japan, image shows Osaka castle, Himeji castle in Japan surrounded by cherry blossom. Photo is taken from across a river.

    Etihad Airways announces new route to Osaka, Japan

    Arksen launch 85ft Explorer Vessel

    Arksen launch 85ft Explorer Vessel

    Trending Tags

    • Airports
    • Aviation
    • Marine
    • Oil & Gas
    • Renewables
    • Superyachts
    • Workboats
  • Testimonials
    • Testimonials
    • Video Highlights
  • Event Galleries
  • About MTB
    • About Meet The Buyer Events
    • How It Works
  • Contact
No Result
View All Result
MTB Events
No Result
View All Result

Home > News > Royal Huisman announces launch of sailing yacht Nilaya

Royal Huisman announces launch of sailing yacht Nilaya

MTB Editor by MTB Editor
1st February 2023
in Marine, News
0
Royal Huisman
0
SHARES
63
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

This highly anticipated superyacht is the first to utilize Royal Huisman’s new Featherlight™ design and production method.

Continuous weight monitoring throughout the build of Project 405 aka Reichel / Pugh – Nauta 154, confirms the Dutch builder has achieved its goal of slicing 11% of the weight of its typical advanced aluminum cruising yachts. Most importantly, it has reduced weight without sacrificing stiffness or cutting corners on quality for this high-performance cruiser.

The shipyard’s revolutionary Featherlight™ method for this 46.8m / 154-foot sailing machine is not a single process or construction technique, but a holistic light weight approach combining various weight-saving solutions.

The Featherlight™ process makes use of Finite Element Analysis (FEA), a design methodology rooted in spacecraft technology. FEA modeling enabled selecting various construction materials and varied Alustar aluminum plate thicknesses and frame spacing to maximize hull stiffness while minimizing total displacement. With engineering and weight management brought in-house, the approach was comprehensive, extending to lighting, insulation, and all mechanical systems. The interior, too, benefited from careful weight analysis. All interior structural members utilize lightweight foam coring. This innovative approach narrows the displacement gap between aluminum and carbon composite yachts. Comfortable, robust characteristics of an aluminum yacht are now a viable option for owners seeking true sailing performance.

Capturing the carbon fiber expertise of its sister company Rondal, Royal Huisman’s engineering team used this synergy to analyze and predict which structural components would be best made of composites or aluminum. For example, the entire 17.5m / 57-foot curvaceous coachroof and guest cockpit structure are carbon composite. Likewise, the recessed tender well on the foredeck (that transforms to a seating area for cruising or a flush deck for racing) is also carbon composite as are a watertight bulkhead, crew entrance, twin rudders, the keel trunk and a cockpit bimini hardtop.

Royal-HuismanFor any high-performance cruiser, a carbon fiber mast, boom, and standing rigging are critical to keeping weight as low and as centered as possible for optimal balance. While Rondal has considerable carbon spar expertise, bringing the design of this component — and the sailmaker – into the process during the larger hull design phase is a page out of a maxi-racer’s playbook.

Project 405 is also the first yacht of this size range designed to take advantage of structured luff sail design pioneered by Doyle Sails, a choice that allowed the entire Rondal mast, rig, and components to be lighter — a key point considering her Panamax air draft. To take advantage of the very narrow headsail sheeting angles possible, Rondal created a radical new curved carbon fiber spreader design that is both shorter and more aerodynamic than anything previously available. Rondal also supplied new generation hybrid (carbon and aluminum) captive winches, hatches and various sail handling gear. Most deck hardware is titanium.

Royal-Huisman

Nilaya’s racy, low profile with its straight bow, wide transom, and twin rudders, echoes the look of her owners’ previous highly successful maxi-racer of the same name. Not surprisingly, she is from the boards of the same naval architecture and design firms, Reichel / Pugh and Nauta, both firms with impressive reputations for high-performance sailing yachts. Exploring all the options for a luxurious performance cruiser also capable of podium finishes at superyacht regattas, the team made full design studies for the yacht in both carbon and aluminum using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to optimize hull shape and balance. Royal Huisman’s Featherlight™ method, an evolution of nearly 60 years of aluminum yacht-building experience melded with the latest carbon technology, provides her owners the best of both materials for a no-compromise yacht.

Royal-Huisman

Nigel Ingram of MCM Newport serves as the owners’ project manager on the build. “While the new Nilaya is meant to take the owners world cruising, he also asked for a boat with all the ‘good habits’ of their previous racer, meaning responsiveness and excellent handling. Alustar aluminum is the right material for an advanced, quality superyacht for global cruising. It deals with noise better and is a better choice for cruising in comfort to remote locations. However, we also thought it was possible to build a lighter aluminum high-performance superyacht. Royal Huisman was not afraid to invest in research to explore and develop all manner of innovative weight-saving possibilities. They really chased the details.”

Nauta Design’s Mario Pedol noted that the choice of primary hull material did not fundamentally change the yacht’s layout or total weight. “With Reichel / Pugh, we set the target weight. Royal Huisman really embraced the concept. It was a very good process, good collaboration.”

Royal-Huisman

Royal Huisman CEO Jan Timmerman used the occasion to highlight both the innovative construction methodology and the latest milestone for Project 405: “The success of the innovations with Project 405 paves the way to use this bold new approach for future builds. I am proud of the investment we have made in advanced engineering and of the way teams from Royal Huisman and Rondal advanced new solutions to meet the brief from very knowledgeable clients and designers. The owners as well deserve congratulations for pushing everyone to achieve just a little bit more and for encouraging innovation at every step. Nilaya will be the world’s lightest aluminum sailing superyacht for her length: she rewrites the script for high-performance superyachts.”

Credit: Royal Huisman

Tags: NilayaRoyal HuismanSailing yachtSuperyachts
Previous Post

The IWS Fleet grows to 6 vessels on order

Next Post

MOL and Mitsui acquire AiP for large Ammonia-powered bulk carrier

MTB Editor

MTB Editor

Next Post
MOL and Mitsui acquire AiP for large Ammonia-powered bulk carrier

MOL and Mitsui acquire AiP for large Ammonia-powered bulk carrier

Upcoming MTB Events

MTB Aviation 2023
06 - 09 September 2023

MTB Aviation 2023

Radisson Blu Resort & Spa, Malta Golden Sands, Radisson Blu Resort & Spa, Malta Golden Sands

View Detail
MTB Workboats 2023
20 - 23 September 2023

MTB Workboats 2023

Hyatt Regency, Dubai, Deira, P.O. Box 5588, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

View Detail
Munich
11 - 14 October 2023

MTB Marine Europe 2023

Munich, Munich

View Detail
MTB Workboats 2023
06 - 09 February 2024

MTB Oil & Gas 2024

Dubai, Dubai

View Detail
MTB Marine Americas 2024
06 - 09 March 2024

MTB Marine Americas 2024

Panama, Panama

View Detail
Kuala Lumpur
17 - 20 April 2024

MTB Marine Asia 2024

Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur

View Detail
Kuala Lumpur
08 - 11 May 2024

MTB Aviation Asia 2024

Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur

View Detail
MTB Superyachts 2024 - Palma
05 - 08 June 2024

MTB Superyachts 2024

Palma

View Detail
No event found!
  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest
E-Boarding Gates

Launch of e-Boarding Gates at Hong Kong International Airport

26th January 2021
MTB Events Launches Industry News Platform

MTB Events Launches Industry News Platform

29th December 2020
MTB Superyachts 2021

MTB Events is proud to announce the relaunch of live events

9th September 2021
Adrian Dunne

Adrian Dunne appointed Executive Vice President Operations at Norwegian

26th March 2021
Stansted Airport

£70m baggage system ready for take-off at Stansted Airport

25th May 2021
Partnership created between ESB and Ørsted in landmark Irish offshore wind agreement, MTB Events, image shows offshore wind farm, calm seas and sunrise

Partnership created between ESB and Ørsted in landmark Irish offshore wind agreement

0
110M Kaos Redelivered at Lürssen in Hamburg

110M Kaos Redelivered at Lürssen in Hamburg

0
Newest Design of Moonen Yachts Revealed

Newest Design of Moonen Yachts Revealed

0
$75M Mariner Contract – Wood has it secured with Equinor

$75M Mariner Contract – Wood has it secured with Equinor

0
Seven Vega – Newbuild reel-lay vessel Joined Subsea 7 Fleet

Seven Vega – Newbuild reel-lay vessel Joined Subsea 7 Fleet

0
Partnership created between ESB and Ørsted in landmark Irish offshore wind agreement, MTB Events, image shows offshore wind farm, calm seas and sunrise

Partnership created between ESB and Ørsted in landmark Irish offshore wind agreement

8th June 2023
Camper & Nicholsons establishing a new office in Athens, MTB Events, Image shows Port Piraeus in Athens, lots of yachts at sunset

Camper & Nicholsons are establishing a new office in Athens

6th June 2023
Corsica Ferries to seek optimal sustainability with Wärtsilä’s Decarbonisation Modelling service, MTB Events, image shows yellow and white Corsica ferry on the water

Corsica Ferries to seek optimal sustainability with Wärtsilä’s Decarbonisation Modelling service

5th June 2023
Two new orders for fully custom Van der Valks. MTB Events. image shows Project 111.11, superyacht, shown during dusk

Two new orders for fully custom Van der Valks

2nd June 2023
Etihad Airways announces new route to Osaka, Japan, image shows Osaka castle, Himeji castle in Japan surrounded by cherry blossom. Photo is taken from across a river.

Etihad Airways announces new route to Osaka, Japan

2nd June 2023

MTB Events

Theta House
Doman Road
Camberley
Surrey
GU15 3DN

info@mtbevents.com
Tel: +44 1276 682898

Follow Us

Global Events Schedule

  • MTB Marine Events
    • MTB Superyachts 2023
    • MTB Workboats 2023
    • MTB Marine Europe 2023
    • MTB Marine Americas 2024
    • MTB Marine Asia 2024
  • MTB Energy Events
    • MTB Oil & Gas 2024
  • MTB Aviation Events
    • MTB Aviation 2023
    • MTB Aviation Asia 2024

Newsletter Registration

Recent News

Partnership created between ESB and Ørsted in landmark Irish offshore wind agreement, MTB Events, image shows offshore wind farm, calm seas and sunrise

Partnership created between ESB and Ørsted in landmark Irish offshore wind agreement

8th June 2023
Camper & Nicholsons establishing a new office in Athens, MTB Events, Image shows Port Piraeus in Athens, lots of yachts at sunset

Camper & Nicholsons are establishing a new office in Athens

6th June 2023
Corsica Ferries to seek optimal sustainability with Wärtsilä’s Decarbonisation Modelling service, MTB Events, image shows yellow and white Corsica ferry on the water

Corsica Ferries to seek optimal sustainability with Wärtsilä’s Decarbonisation Modelling service

5th June 2023
  • About MTB
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Contact Us

© 2022 Premium WordPress development from Strategies.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • MTB Marine Events
    • MTB Superyachts 2023
    • MTB Workboats 2023
    • MTB Marine Europe 2023
    • MTB Marine Americas 2024
    • MTB Marine Asia 2024
  • MTB Energy Events
    • MTB Oil & Gas 2024
  • MTB Aviation Events
    • MTB Aviation 2023
    • MTB Aviation Asia 2024
  • Testimonials
  • Event Galleries
  • About MTB Events
    • How It Works
  • Contact Us
  • Delegate Login

© 2022 Premium WordPress development from Strategies.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add New Playlist