A yacht for voyaging
Yersin is a unique vessel, made for all weather and seas. She is eco-friendly and combines an advanced technical platform with a high level of reliability, safety and comfort.
Key figures
- Length: 76.6m (251’04”)
- Width: 13m (42’08”)
- GRT: 2198 tons
- Maximum speed : 15 knots
- Cruising speed : 11 knots
- Autonomy without refuelling : 12 000 nautical miles / 50 days
- Autonomy without rejects: 10 days with 40 persons onboard
- Withstands temperatures from -20 C° to +50 C°
- Ice classed up to 40 cm ice thickness
- Polar Code compliant
- Food storage autonomy for up to 50 days for total 40 persons
Yersin was built by the French shipyard Piriou who successfully combined a very high level of technicality with the elegance of an exceptional ship.
Optimum safety
- S.O.L.A.S Polar Passenger ship construction
- Fiber optic gyro compasses
- Reinforced ice classed hull
- 8 watertight compartments
- 4 Compartimented stabilisation units
- Six diesel alternators
- Three independants propulsion systems
- Two 22 passengers life boats
- Four 25 passengers life-rafts
Built as “S.O.L.A.S, Cleanship, ICE 1C Passenger Ship”, she provides the top maritime safety standards to date. Yersin can access the world’s most remote destinations and ice covered areas with her reinforced hull over her entire length. She is designed for long-range transoceanic sailing in extreme conditions (-20 C°, + 50 C°) on oceans, rivers and lakes, with a high degree of reliability in all weather and seas conditions. The vessel integrates clean technologies to ensure a minimal impact on the ocean, taking environmental friendliness to new heights.
Her ethos is “leave a track not a trace”.
Environmentally friendly
- Vessel built to be 95% recyclable
- Extremely low fuel consumption and low exhaust gaz emissions
- Bureau Veritas Clean Ship Classified
- Non-Teak recyclable resin decks
- Underwater hull coated with silicon non-biocide antifouling
- Bilge water separator treatment plant rated at 5ppm, 60% cleaner than the 15ppm international rule
- Dynamic positioning, no anchoring impact
- Exhaust gas filters on all engines, reducing NOx and SOx emissions and retaining 99.8% of soot particles
- Advanced wastewater treatment and recycling plants
- Black & grey water storage, up to 10 days
Yersin has a remarkable fuel efficiency. At a cruising speed of 11 knots, her electric propulsion gives the ship a consumption rate of 360-litres of fuel per hour, at nine knots, the consumption drops to 180-litres per hour. Her biological treatment plant recycles all waste-water. Some UV lights eradicate the remaining bacteria, this water can be used to ballast or wash the deck. A waste-water ballast are preferred instead of seawater in order to prevent the spread of invasive species across the ocean. Yersin engines exhaust circulates through Particle filters to prevent 99.8% of the soot from entering the atmosphere.
Yersin uses artificial teak, a greener and hardier alternative to traditional teak wood on deck, an endangered species, traditionally used on yachts decks. A GPS positioning system keeps the yacht in position avoiding to drop an anchor on a fragile marine ecosystems.
Yersin waste water treatment and management system allows us to visits and stay up to 10 days in a pristine area.
Comfort Features
- Owner’s stateroom with private deck forward and recessed balconies
- 7 luxurious guest staterooms
- Professional galley
- 2 Large dining rooms
- Long Bar and sushi bar
- Comfortable salon
- Large sun deck with Teppanyaki set up, settees, sun pads and pool
- Spa with gym, hot tub, massage room, hairdressing room and Hammam
- Guest elevator to all 6 decks
- Fully immersive surround sound & 4K enhanced cinema
- Large all around walkways
- Exceptional stability with double pair of zero-speed stabilizers
- Full size infirmary
- Exceptional low noise and vibrations
YERSIN interior is inspired by the 1930’s passenger ships with the highest possible comfort. The noise and vibration levels underway and at anchor are significantly low. Yersin interior Design is elegant combining modern lines with classic elements like Perzel light fixture, famous designer of the cruise liner Normandie. Most of the furniture and art pieces relates to the cruise liners spirit.
The owner suite is large with an office on starboard side and a settee on port. A super king size bed is leaning against the dressing located at entrance next to a kitchenette. A large bathroom with a wide shower and a tub complete this extremely comfortable suite. The guests suites are located in the vessel “calm zone” to experience the highest possible comfort and low noise level at sea; their beds are modulable and can be organised from a single to a double queen size. A large ensuite bathroom with ample shower complements this cabin.
The lower deck is dedicated to wellbeing and is composed of a large sport section with a treadmill and a runner. For the one preferring a different sport activity, dance bar with an espalier gymnastic are available. A bench with a set of weights, resistance bands and Yoga mats completes this fitness room. Next to it, a relaxing zone with a lounge-bed, a massage room, a Jacuzzi, an Hammam and a large shower complete the SPA. A guest elevator will take you from the Spa to the sun 6 decks above where you will enjoy an all-around panoramic view. There you will share the friendly atmosphere over teppanyaki treats and a good drink whilst looking at the midnight sun comfortably installed in sofas.
Adventure & Toys Features
- 1 x OSPREY 37′ Tender
- 2 x Zodiac Milpro RIBs Hurricane Tenders
- 2 x AKA F53 RIBs
- 1 x MUNSON Landing barge
- 2 x Kayaks with pedal paddle 2 persons
- 2 x Kayaks 2 persons + 1 child
- 1 x Tiwal sailing dinghy
- 2 x Water ski
- 1 x Wake board
- 1 x Donut buoy 1person
- 1 x Sofa buoy 2 persons
- 4 x Paddles 2 persons
- Full Guests Snorkelling sets
- Full Guests Trekking Sticks and grips set
- Full Guests Polar suits sets
- 1 x Dive centre with Air & Nitrox capabilities
- 1 x Conference room
- 1 x floating pool with net
- 1 x beach game set
Dr. Yersin, the evidence
The name of the boat had to resonate with the project, a name that “sticks” to the words Adventure, Science, Education. The name of Yersin was imposed by himself. Dr. Alexandre Yersin (1863 – 1943) is little known from the public. Yet we owe much to him. He worked with the famous doctors Pasteur, Roux and Calmette. He was doctor of the Méssageries Maritime and discovered Indochina where he will live fifty years. He founded the Pasteur Institute of Nha Trang and the Medical School of Hanoi (1902). His fame is due to his research on diphtheria toxin and his discovery of the plague bacillus (1894). He acclimates the rubber tree (one of the current greatest resources of Vietnam) and the Quinine tree. From 1902 to his death he devoted himself to the local populations of Vietnam. He also discovered the Dalat which became a climatic station.
To summarize, Dr. Alexandre Yersin was a great Adventurer, Scientist, Educator.
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