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Skat (yacht)

German yacht built in 2002

Field	Value
infobox_caption	Skat
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	Y Skat berthed at the North Mole, Port of Gibraltar.jpg
image_caption	Skat docked at North Mole, Gibraltar Harbour in 2013.
section2	{{Infobox ship/career
registry	Cayman Islands
builder	Lürssen Werft
launched	10 March 2002
identification	*
section3	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
displacement	1636 tonnes
length	71 m
beam	13.5 m
draft	3.7 m
power	2 × 2000 kW MTU
speed	*15 kn cruise
capacity	10 guests
crew	16

Callsign: ZCGS3
17 kn max
13 kn one engine

Skat is a luxury yacht built by Lürssen of Bremen, Germany as project 9906, a number prominently displayed on the hull in a typeface matching that of military vessels. The project started in November 1999 and the yacht launched in 2002. The owner was Charles Simonyi, a former Software Engineer from Microsoft and the fifth space tourist. The yacht is 71 m long.

Simonyi once had a Danish girlfriend who called him skat, literally "treasure", a common term of endearment similar to "honey" in English.

General specifications

Hull: Steel hull, aluminum superstructure
Fuel: 240000 L
Water: 62000 L
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 McDonnell Douglas 500N Helicopter
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 kn 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.

References

"N486CS (1997 MCDONNELL DOUGLAS HELICOPTER 500N owned by J R C AVIATION LLC) Aircraft Registration".

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