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Kleven and Lurssen yards team up to build a 100m explorer yacht

One rugged explorer yacht, coming up!

Two of the biggest shipyards in Europe will join forces to build a new 100m explorer superyacht.

Norwegian commercial yard Kleven and Lurssen from Germany have signed a contract to deliver a vessel to a non-disclosed customer.

Kleven is the shipyard behind the 107m M/Y Ulysses , sold recently by her owner, businessman Graeme Hart. Kleven has also built his new vessel: a 116m explorer yacht, also named Ulysses.

The new 100m explorer will be built in a similar way, with Kleven building the hull in Norway, while Lurssen will be outfitting the interiors at the Blohm+Voss facility in Hamburg, Germany.

No other details about the new explorer yacht are public at this moment.

The Lurssen Group has announced two months ago that is part of a consortium of investors who have bought a 40% share in Kleven for 300 million NOK (€30 million).

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The 116 Kleven explorer yacht has now been renamed ULYSSES.

With launch in 2016, the 116m Kleven motor yacht U116 is an impressive and robust expedition yacht support vessel, built at Kleven Verft in Ulsteinvik, Norway. The 116m Kleven explorer yacht U116 has been designed by Norwegian ship design company Marin Teknikk, in cooperation with Naval Architect Kyle Dick of New Zealand-based Oscar Mike Naval Architects.

Kleven Explorer U116 Specifications

The 116m Kleven expedition yacht support vessel U116 is of type MT 5006 MKII ESV and has been specially designed for long expeditions in rough waters. It blends a robust, hard-working character with luxurious added extras.

The 116m Kleven luxury yacht support vessel U116 can accommodate 66 people and it includes deliveries from a number of Norwegian suppliers like Rolls-Royce, Hareid Group, Jets and Sperre.

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ULYSSES // Kleven // 116m

Kleven ulysses aka u116: norwegian shipbuilder kleven verft launched their second superyacht to the same owner after ulysses in 2014..

Kleven U116 (370) was designed by Marin Teknikk in cooperation with New Zealand based Oscar Mike Naval Architects for Graeme Hart. The yacht has a length of 116m.

Update 5th December 2016: She arrived Stahlbau Nord in Bremerhaven, Germany for final outfitting like her smaller sister ( Ulysses 107m (now ANDROMEDA ). The vessel accommodates 66 people.

“It has been a great pleasure working with Mr. Hart and his team on this magnificent project. We highly appreciate the trust they have shown us by placing not just one but two orders with Kleven, in what was a new segment for us,” said Ståle Rasmussen, CEO of Kleven.

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Furthermore, Kleven’ CEO states:

“Drawing on our extensive experience in building complex offshore vessels, this new vessel type designed and built for Mr. Hart serves as a great example of how close cooperation within the Norwegian maritime cluster brings the industry forward and into new markets.”

ULYSSES uncovered

“I am very pleased with the quality of the work that has been done by Kleven, and how our organizations have worked together to bring this exciting project to life. I am very much looking forward to seeing both vessels being finalized.”

commented the owner Graeme Hart.

Some of the new tenders for ULYSSES

The big flybridge motor yacht is a Princess 68. The smaller open yacht is a VanDutch 40 or 55. I think it is the 40 feet version. The covered boat with the four outboard engines seems to be a HydraSports Custom Sueños . Comparing with the former yacht of Mr. Heart, this is just an excerpt of the complete tender fleet.

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The former 107m ULYSSES (now AND0RMEDA)

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116.15m  /  381'1 | kleven | 2018.

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Special Features:

• Impressive 8,000nm range
• Fifteen cabins
• DNV (Det Norske Veritas) ✠ 1A1 Passenger ship Clean COMF(C-3, V-1) E0 Ice(C) classification
• Interior design from RWD
• Up to 36 crew

The 116.15m/381'1" expedition yacht 'Multiverse' (ex. Ulysses) was built by Kleven in Norway. Her interior is styled by British designer design house RWD and she was delivered to her owner in June 2018. This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Marinteknik Verkstads.

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Multiverse has been designed to comfortably accommodate up to 30 guests in 15 suites. She is also capable of carrying up to 36 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience.

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Multiverse is built with a steel hull and aluminium superstructure, with teak decks. Multiverse comfortably cruises at 8 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 12 knots with a range of up to 8,000 nautical miles from her 470,000 litre fuel tanks. Her water tanks store around 315,000 Litres of fresh water. She was built to DNV (Det Norske Veritas) ✠ 1A1 Passenger ship Clean COMF(C-3, V-1) E0 Ice(C) classification society rules.

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Wreck of the last ship of famed Anglo-Irish explorer Shackleton found off the coast of Canada

Canada shipwreck.

ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland (AP) — The wreck of the last ship belonging to Sir Ernest Shackleton, a famous Irish-born British explorer of Antarctica, has been found off the coast of Labrador in Canada, 62 years after it went missing. The wreck was found by an international team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

The Quest was found using sonar scans on Sunday evening, sitting on its keel under 390 meters (1,280 feet) of churning, frigid water, the society said. Its towering mast is lying broken beside it, likely cracked off as the vessel was sucked into the depths after it struck ice on May 5, 1962.

“I heard that some Americans were interested in finding Quest, and I just had this picture in my mind of a few billionaires on yachts, up in the Labrador Sea,” John Geiger, leader of the Shackleton Quest Expedition and the chief executive of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, told an audience at the Memorial University’s Marine Institute in St. John’s, Newfoundland, on Wednesday.

“We’ve done it the right way. It’s not about anyone’s ego, it’s about telling great stories and celebrating some of the finest human attributes,” Geiger said.

He called the Quest a historically very important ship.

Shackleton’s death aboard the ship in 1922 marked the end of what historians consider the “heroic age” of Antarctic exploration. The explorer led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, and he was in the early stages of a fourth when he died of a heart attack. He was 47.

The Norwegian-built Quest was a schooner-rigged steamship, and Shackleton bought it specifically to travel to Canada’s High Arctic, Geiger said. But the Canadian government at the time axed those plans, and Shackleton decided to set sail once again for the Antarctic.

He died when it was just off South Georgia, east of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

After the explorer’s death, the Quest was used for Arctic research and then returned to its original intended use as a sealing vessel. It sank in 1962, after it was damaged by ice in the Labrador Sea while on a whaling trip.

The vessel appears to be in “incredible condition,” though it was damaged when it slammed into the seabed, Geiger said.

It won’t be brought to the surface — that would be far too expensive, he added — but it will be thoroughly documented and studied. A crew will likely head out some time before the end of summer to begin taking footage of the vessel with a remotely operated vehicle.

In 2022, researchers discovered another one of Shackleton’s ships, the Endurance in 10,000 feet — about 3,000 meters — of icy water, a century after it was swallowed up by Antarctic ice.

A team of marine archaeologists, engineers and other scientists used an icebreaker ship and underwater drones to locate the wreck at the bottom of the Weddell Sea, near the Antarctica Peninsula.

The expedition Endurance22 embarked from Cape Town, South Africa, in early February in a ship capable of breaking through 3-foot (1-meter)-thick ice.

The team, which included more than 100 researchers and crew members, deployed underwater drones that combed the seafloor for two weeks in the area where the ship was recorded to have sunk in 1915.

Shackleton never achieved his ambition to become the first person to cross Antarctica via the South Pole. In fact, he never set foot on the continent during the failed Endurance expedition, though he did visit Antarctica during earlier voyages.

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Wreck of the last ship of famed Anglo-Irish explorer Shackleton found off the coast of Canada

The wreck of the last ship belonging to a famous Irish-born British explorer of Antarctica has been found off the coast of Canada by an international team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

FILE - Sir Ernest Shackleton, a noted explorer and writer, is shown as he arrived in New York on the Aquitania, on a hurried business trip to Canada, Jan. 30, 1921. The wreck of the last ship belonging to the famed explorer of Antarctica has been found off the coast of Canada by an international team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. The Quest was found using sonar scans on Sunday evening, June 9, 2024, sitting on its keel under 390 meters of churning, frigid water. (AP Photo, File)

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This photo provided by Canadian Geographic shows the Quest Expedition Team in Labrador, Canada, Sunday, June 9, 2024. The wreck of the last ship belonging to Sir Ernest Shackleton, an Irish-born British explorer of Antarctica has been found off the coast of Canada by the international team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. The Quest was found using sonar scans on Sunday evening, sitting on its keel under 390 meters — about 1,280 feet — of churning, frigid water. (Jill Heinerth/Canadian Geographic via AP)

This photo provided by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society shows the Quest ship sinking off the coast of Labrador, Canada, May 5, 1962. The wreck of the last ship belonging to Sir Ernest Shackleton, an Irish-born British explorer of Antarctica has been found off the coast of Canada by an international team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. The Quest was found using sonar scans on Sunday evening, June 9, 2024. (Tore Topp/Royal Canadian Geographical Society via AP)

This photo provided by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society shows the Quest ship sinking off of Labrador, Canada, on May 5, 1962. The wreck of the last ship belonging to Sir Ernest Shackleton, an Irish-born British explorer of Antarctica has been found off the coast of Canada by an international team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. The Quest was found using sonar scans on Sunday evening, June 9, 2024. (Tore Topp/Royal Canadian Geographical Society via AP)

In this sonar image provided by the Canadian Geographic shows the missing Quest ship sitting on its keel under water off the coast of Labrador, Canada, on Sunday, June 9, 2024. The wreck of the last ship belonging to Sir Ernest Shackleton, a famous Irish-born British explorer of Antarctica, has been found 62 years after it went missing. The wreck was found by an international team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. (Canadian Geographic via AP)

In this photo provided by Canadian Geographic shows Antoine Normandin, from left, Deputy Search Director, John Geiger, Expedition Leader and CEO, Royal Canadian Geographical Society and David Mearns, Search Director, Blue Water Recoveries Ltd. part of the team that located the missing Quest ship, in Labrador, Canada, Sunday, June 9, 2024. The wreck of the last ship belonging to Sir Ernest Shackleton, a famous Irish-born British explorer of Antarctica, has been found off the coast of Labrador in Canada, 62 years after it went missing. The wreck was found by an international team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. (Jill Heinerth/Canadian Geographic via AP)

In this photo provided by Canadian Geographic Craig Bulger, left, Project Engineer, Fisheries and Marine Institute Memorial University of Newfoundland and David Mearns, Search Director, Blue Water Recoveries Ltd. prepare to launch the side-scan sonar tow fish to search for the missing Quest ship off the coast of Labrador, Canada, Sunday, June 9, 2024. The wreck of the last ship belonging to Sir Ernest Shackleton, a famous Irish-born British explorer of Antarctica, has been found 62 years after it went missing. The wreck was found by an international team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. (Jill Heinerth/Canadian Geographic via AP)

ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland (AP) — The wreck of the last ship belonging to Sir Ernest Shackleton, a famous Irish-born British explorer of Antarctica, has been found off the coast of Labrador in Canada, 62 years after it went missing. The wreck was found by an international team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

The Quest was found using sonar scans on Sunday evening, sitting on its keel under 390 meters (1,280 feet) of churning, frigid water, the society said. Its towering mast is lying broken beside it, likely cracked off as the vessel was sucked into the depths after it struck ice on May 5, 1962.

“I heard that some Americans were interested in finding Quest, and I just had this picture in my mind of a few billionaires on yachts, up in the Labrador Sea,” John Geiger, leader of the Shackleton Quest Expedition and the chief executive of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, told an audience at the Memorial University’s Marine Institute in St. John’s, Newfoundland, on Wednesday.

“We’ve done it the right way. It’s not about anyone’s ego, it’s about telling great stories and celebrating some of the finest human attributes,” Geiger said.

He called the Quest a historically very important ship.

Shackleton’s death aboard the ship in 1922 marked the end of what historians consider the “heroic age” of Antarctic exploration. The explorer led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, and he was in the early stages of a fourth when he died of a heart attack. He was 47.

The Norwegian-built Quest was a schooner-rigged steamship, and Shackleton bought it specifically to travel to Canada’s High Arctic, Geiger said. But the Canadian government at the time axed those plans, and Shackleton decided to set sail once again for the Antarctic.

He died when it was just off South Georgia, east of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

After the explorer’s death, the Quest was used for Arctic research and then returned to its original intended use as a sealing vessel. It sank in 1962, after it was damaged by ice in the Labrador Sea while on a whaling trip.

The vessel appears to be in “incredible condition,” though it was damaged when it slammed into the seabed, Geiger said.

It won’t be brought to the surface — that would be far too expensive, he added — but it will be thoroughly documented and studied. A crew will likely head out some time before the end of summer to begin taking footage of the vessel with a remotely operated vehicle.

In 2022, researchers discovered another one of Shackleton’s ships, the Endurance in 10,000 feet — about 3,000 meters — of icy water, a century after it was swallowed up by Antarctic ice.

A team of marine archaeologists, engineers and other scientists used an icebreaker ship and underwater drones to locate the wreck at the bottom of the Weddell Sea, near the Antarctica Peninsula.

The expedition Endurance22 embarked from Cape Town, South Africa, in early February in a ship capable of breaking through 3-foot (1-meter)-thick ice.

The team, which included more than 100 researchers and crew members, deployed underwater drones that combed the seafloor for two weeks in the area where the ship was recorded to have sunk in 1915.

Shackleton never achieved his ambition to become the first person to cross Antarctica via the South Pole. In fact, he never set foot on the continent during the failed Endurance expedition, though he did visit Antarctica during earlier voyages.

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Construction begins on Ava Yachts new Kando85 explorer model

Construction has begun on AvA Yachts ' new 25.7-metre Kando85 explorer model. A keel-laying ceremony was held at the Turkish shipyard's facilities in Antalya earlier this month with Kando85 investors SRW Yachting. The Kando85 is for sale with a scheduled delivery date of summer 2025 ahead of her debut appearance at the Cannes Yachting Festival.

Constructed with a steel hull and aluminium superstructure, the Kando85 is a full-displacement motor yacht capable of long-distance cruising. Boasting an interior volume of 200 GT, the yacht's standard internal configuration is a four-cabin arrangement with a main deck forward master suite.

Atilla Küçükdiker, chairman and founder of AvA Yachts said: "Our ‘soft’ launch last year of the Kando80 demonstrated very strong interest in a proper global explorer in this size range. It’s at the right size point to be able to be either a fully crewed yacht or for an experienced couple or family to run it themselves or with minimal crew operation."

He continued: "The Kando85 has been developed from the 80 and is super strong with an underwater steel thickness of eight to 10mm and multiple watertight bulkheads for ultimate safety. With Turkey able to offer a really significant quality yacht construction price advantage, potential buyers will be pleasantly surprised to see how much quality explorer superyacht bang they can get for their buck.”

Svein Willadssen from SRW Yachting commented: “To call the Kando85 a pocket explorer would not do her justice. She’s a superbly well-equipped ultra-safe oceangoing explorer superyacht. We know very well AvA Yachts’ ultra-high quality of construction and excellent finished product and we see the potential of the Kando85 as phenomenal."

He added: "It is hoped this will be the first of many Kando85s whereby we can establish a series production operation offering the very best of all worlds; the ultimate oceangoing comfort yacht, the proven engineered platform and efficiencies of scale, and whilst still being able to offer layout and customisation options unparallelled in this size range."

Powered by twin Volvo Penta D13MG 408 hp engines the Kando85 will reach a maximum speed of 11 knots. At a cruising speed of 10 knots a range of over 4000 nautical miles is achieved.

According to BOATPro , AvA Yachts currently has a Kando110 currently in build, also part of the explorer series. 

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