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LADY M for sale

LADY M is a remarkable 39M/127' sailing yacht that seamlessly combines comfort and performance. Designed by Dubois with the directive to create a world-capable sailing yacht, this aluminum Fitzroy built yacht is truly a "Best in Class" vessel. What sets her apart on the market is her 4-stateroom layout and exceptional condition following an exhaustive refit in 2022.

Boasting a new sail package with minimal use, this seaworthy yacht is the ideal choice for discerning sailing enthusiasts. During her refit, significant investments were made in updating her exterior sailing systems, including substantial mechanical refurbishments.

With an expansive exterior, yacht for sale LADY M features 180-degree immersive views. On the bow, the generous sundeck offers a lounging area for guests which is complemented by an awning to provide respite from the sun's rays. The aft deck hosts a sheltered dining area for enjoying al fresco meals adjacent to the twin cockpit. A spacious area behind the main cockpit provides additional space for relaxation and easy access to the hydraulic drop-down swim platform.

LADY M's interior, originally designed by RWD, was transformed by H2 Yacht Design in 2022. The result is a comfortable living area, distinguished by a comprehensive redesign of the interior décor and furnishings. Boasting a warm color palette with neutral and cream shades, the retrofitted interior focuses on creating an inviting space for social gatherings. This intention is seen by the versatility as well as the specific arrangement of furnishings in both the upper and lower salon.

Yacht for sale LADY M stands prepared to deliver a blend of comfort, safety, and agile sailing performance all within a manageable size that allows for lower crew requirements. With an illustrious racing career, sailing yacht LADY M is well-suited for both global adventures and everyday sailing alike.

Specifications

• Name: LADY M
• Yacht Type: Sail Yacht
• Builder: Fitzroy Yachts
• Exterior Designer: Dubois Naval Architects
• Refits: 2011,2019,2021,2022,2023
• Length Overall: 38.9 metres
• Length at Waterline: 34.1 metres
• Beam: 8.3 metres
• Max Draught: 4 metres
• Gross Tonnage: 170
• Displacement Tonnage: 185

Construction

• Year of Build: 2006
• Hull Number: FY05
• Hull Type: Monohull
• Classification: LR

Performance & Capacities

• Max Speed: 13 kn
• Cruising Speed: 10 kn
• Fuel Capacity: 16150 litres
• Water Capacity: 5140 litres
• Range: 3750 nm
• Engine Make: Caterpillar
• Total power: 700hp
• Hull: Aluminium
• Superstructure: Aluminium

Accommodation

• Passenger Rooms: 4
• Master Rooms: 1
• Twin Rooms: 2
• VIP Rooms: 1

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Lady M is a custom sailing yacht launched in 1985 by Alloy Yachts.

Established in the early 1980s, the 100% New Zealand owned Alloy Yachts is a builder of high-quality sailing and motor yachts driven by a quest for excellence.

Lady M measures 31.70 metres in length, with a max draft of 5.00 metres and a beam of 7.30 metres.

Lady M has an aluminium hull with an aluminium superstructure.

Lady M also features naval architecture by William Garden.

Performance and Capabilities

Lady M has a top speed of 14 knots. .

Accommodation

Lady M accommodates up to 8 guests . She also houses room for up to 4 crew members.

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Philippe Strentz

Sail and Work Experience With over three decades of sailing experience, Philippe has navigated the world's waters, from the tranquil Caribbean to the mesmerising Mediterranean. His career began in 1989, honing his skills as a skipper and second aboard various vessels in the Caribbean and Venezuela, including a Scorpio 72, a Cata 90, and a Maxi 88 CIM. Since then, Philippe has embarked on numerous adventures, including sailing through the enchanting waters of the Pacific Ocean, exploring destinations like Rangiroa and the Marquesas Islands aboard an Archipel 57. His expertise extends beyond the operation of yacht charters, encompassing maintenance and refitting projects. This has been demonstrated been demonstrated through his involvement in refit projects for prestigious vessels like the Selene 62 M/Y SOLAR FOX. He has also managed charters for renowned yachts such as Lady M Lagoon 620 and CNB 76 Neyina, ensuring impeccable service for the most discerning clients. With his wealth of experience and expertise, Philippe is committed to delivering unparalleled adventures on the open seas. Job Description Philippe is responsible for navigation, safety, the overall running and financial management of the vessel, crew, and guests. He always ensures the safe and efficient operation of LADY M, including compliance with all procedures and regulations that keep our guests safe. He takes care of adhering to flag regulations, port state and local laws and regulations, and manages the crew to ensure adherence to, and a full understanding of, the catamaran’s policies. He further encourages teamwork, individual growth, and personal attention in delegating duties and supervising all crew tasks. Licenses and Certificates - Captain 200 - BPPV - BPPV STCW - PCM - PCMM - Padi Advanced

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Sail and Work Experience Helene is a seasoned chef-stewardess with a rich background in hospitality and service. Her culinary career has taken her across the seas, gracing the decks of luxury yachts such as the S/Y AYAXA Oyster 72' and the M/Y PHOENIX Moonen 84'. With her extensive yachting experience, Helene brings a unique blend of culinary expertise and impeccable hospitality to every charter experience. She joins LADY M excited to bring her culinary creations and impeccable hospitality to guests aboard. Job Description As stewardess, Helene is responsible for organisation, management, and cleanliness of all interiors. She maintains an accurate record of all service items and supplies and ensures cleaning and preparation of the vessel to the highest standards prior to all guest trips. As chef, Helene is further responsible for the crew and guest meals throughout the charter. With a deft touch and creative flair, she crafts meals that can be likened to the finest dining experiences. From haute cuisine to international treats, her artful skill in the kitchen knows no bounds. Licences and Qualifications - STCW 95 - BTS MUC

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Setting Sail in Style

Lady M is a 39m Fitzroy Yacht launched in 2006. She has had a successful racing career competing in the likes of Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta, Dubois Cup and The Superyacht Cup. Her racing history has been paired perfectly with comfort and luxury. She has been designed for both global adventures and daily sailing.

CHARTER LOCATION

Summer: Mediterranean, West Mediterranean, East Mediterranean

Winter: Caribbean, Bahamas

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Immersive Views

Lady M offers stunning 180-degree views, perfect for leisurely relaxation.

Versatile Sailing

Lady M offers diverse sailing experiences, including a convenient swim platform.

Social Spaces

Salon, decks ideal for socializing; circular furnishings create inviting atmosphere. Versatile outdoor table.

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180 Degree Views

From the moment you step on board, Lady M provides exceptional views. Her decks provide 180-degree views, no matter where you are positioned. You can spend your days soaking up the rays with an iced coffee and simply move backwards to her sheltered dining area, ideal for al fresco lunches with a view.

Swim Platform

From racing to cruising, Lady M has considered all aspects of sailing and provides an experience for guests to remember. She has a drop-down swim platform which offers easy access to the water. The thrill seekers searching for adventure below can dive straight in.

Social Hubs

The main salon and outside decks provide ideal spaces for socialising. Her hubs are designed to bring groups together to share the day's activities. The soft furnishings inside are carefully arranged in a circular manner, creating an inviting and social atmosphere. Her outside dining table can be used from morning until night, making it perfect for a casual breakfast or formal dinner, and everything in between.

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Master Suite

The master suite is large and comfortable. It provides ample space and storage for complete comfort.

Double Cabin

One double cabin features dark cherry-stained wood with cream furnishings.

Twin Cabins

To offer flexibility for groups, there are two twin cabins.

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The search for a sailor who went missing when a yacht overturned off the Queensland coast has ended in tragedy after his body was recovered.

Police said the 65-year-old man had been travelling on the yacht from Yeppoon to Brisbane when an EPIRB was activated about four nautical miles south of Lady Elliot Island about 5am Sunday.

The vessel was found shortly after 10:15am with two men in the water.

RACQ LifeFlight said the father and son had managed to climb onto the upside-down vessel to raise the alarm.

They were winched into a rescue helicopter.

"It's believed the keel snapped on the boat the men were on, causing it to overturn," LifeFlight said in a media release.

Police said a 62-year-old man and 27-year-old man were taken to Bundaberg Hospital where they remained in a stable condition.

They said the body of the 65-year-old man was found shortly after 2pm.

Police said all three men were from Yeppoon.

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A popular Tunisian beauty influencer died after suffering a suspected heart attack while aboard a yacht in Malta, according to local reports.

Farah El Kadhi, 36, who amassed more than 1 million followers on Instagram, died on Monday at the Mater Dei Hospital at around 6:30 a.m., the Times of Malta reports.

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Port Frankfurt am Main cruise ship schedule shows timetable calendars of all arrival and departure dates by month. The port's schedule lists all ships (in links) with cruises going to or leaving from Frankfurt am Main, Germany Hesse. To see the full itineraries (ports of call dates and arrival / departure times) and their lowest rates – just follow the corresponding ship-link.

Frankfurt is a Main River cruise port and city in Germany's Hesse state (Urban district). By population (around 0,77 million) the city is ranked Hesse's biggest and Germany's 5th-largest (after Berlin , Hamburg , Munich , Cologne . By metro population (over 5,6 million) it is ranked Germany's 4th-largest metropolis (after Hamburg, Berlin, Rhine-Ruhr). EU's geographic center is located approx 40 km (25 mi) east of Frankfurt. The city's namesake is the smaller German city Frankfurt-Oder (Brandenburg state, on Oder River).

Frankfurt is Europe's most important financial centre. Here are the headquarters of Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank, European Central Bank, DZ Bank, Commerzbank, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The Messe Frankfurt trade fair is one of the world's largest. Other famous worldwide fairs are the Frankfurt Motor Show (world's largest) and the Frankfurt Book Fair (also world's largest). The city has renowned universities (Goethe University, University of Applied Sciences), numerous museums (including Senckenberg Natural Museum, Stadel, Goethe House, Schirn), botanical gardens (including the Palmengarten - Germany's largest).

According to a ranking list by the University of Liverpool in 2001, Frankfurt is the richest European city by GDP per capita. Next in line are Karlsruhe, Paris , Munich . On the other hand, Frankfurt consistently features Germany's highest level of crime per 100,000 inhabitants and is therefore dubbed the "crime capital" of Germany. However, the statistic is often criticized as it ignores very important factors: it is calculated based on administrative 680,000-inhabitant figure but the urban area has 2.5M inhabitants. On weekdays it adds another million people, not to count the 53M passengers passing each year through the airport.

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Frankfurt-Oder (aka Frankfurt an der Oder) is an Oder River cruise port and city in Germany's Brandenburg state, with population around 60,000. The town is located on the Germany-Poland border, approx 80 lm (50 mi) east of Berlin (Germany's capital). Until 1945, Słubice (Poland) was also part of Frankfurt-Oder.

The settlement was established as a Polish village (named Zliwitz) in the early-13th century. During the Thirty Years War (1618-48), in April 1631 in Frankfurt an der Oder fought Konungariket Sverige (Kingdom of Sweden / 1611-1721) and Heiliges Romisches Reich (Holy Roman Empire / 800-1806). After a 2-day siege, the Swedish troops entered the town and destroyed most of its buildings.

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The Alternative to Huge Cruises? 3 Masts, 28 Sails and Wind Power.

We checked out the 136-passenger Sea Cloud Spirit on a Mediterranean cruise. In this era of gargantuan ships, its elegant clipper design, wooden decks and relatively small size stands out.

By Ceylan Yeğinsu

From the bridge of the three-masted windjammer, the Sea Cloud Spirit , the captain called out the words we’d all been waiting for.

“Let’s set the sails!” he cried, after turning off the engines, while maneuvering to maintain an optimum angle for his 18 deckhands to climb into the shrouds and unfurl the ship’s 44,132 square feet of sails by hand.

Like acrobats, the crew scurried up the masts to the upper topgallant sails that rose nearly 200 feet above us. The ship’s captain, Vukota Stojanovic, later insisted that none of it was for show. “Whenever there is an opportunity to sail, we sail,” he said.

For the next hour, the crew hauled the ropes until the 28 sails were billowing in the wind, propelling the 452-foot-long ship — the world’s largest passenger sailing vessel on which the sails are raised by hand — toward its first port of call, Portofino, Italy.

At a time when cruise lines are packing their ever-more-gargantuan ships with water parks and basketball courts, the 136-passenger Sea Cloud Spirit, with its old-fashioned clipper design and wooden decks, stands out. It is the newest ship from the Hamburg-based Sea Cloud Cruises , and while it is the company’s biggest, Sea Cloud said it wanted to leave space for passengers to connect to the surrounding elements.

“Wherever you are on the ship, it feels like you are sitting on the water,” said Amelia Dominick, 71, a retired real estate agent from Cologne, Germany, who was on her third cruise onboard the Sea Cloud Spirit.

I had arrived for a four-night “taster sailing” from Nice, France, to the Ligurian region of Italy, designed to entice passengers to sign up for a longer cruise. Here’s what I found.

The ship and cabins

The Spirit has many comforts and luxuries, including a fitness center, library, hair salon and a spa with a Finnish sauna that overlooks the sea. The deck layouts are spacious, with nooks carved out for privacy and relaxation.

Sixty-nine spacious cabins have windows that open onto the sea. My room, a junior suite on the third deck, had two large arched windows, mahogany tables, a balcony and a comfortable couch and armchair. The marble bathroom was lavish, with a gold-plated sink and large jetted bathtub.

The elegant interior design is inspired by the original Sea Cloud, built in 1931 for Marjorie Merriweather Post, the American heiress of the General Foods Corporation, with glossy wooden panels and gold trimmings. The Sea Cloud was the largest private sailing yacht in the world before Post handed it over to the U.S. Navy for use as a weather-reporting vessel during World War II. The four-mast, 64-passenger ship has since been restored to its former glory and will sail across the Aegean and Adriatic this summer.

The experience felt authentic — even before the sails were set — with a detailed safety drill. On most cruises, the drill entails a safety video and signing in at an assembly point. But here, passengers put on their life jackets and walked through emergency scenarios that included rationing food supplies and fishing from the lifeboat.

Each day, the sails were set, even during heavy rain and wind speeds over 30 knots. Guests wanting to participate in the rigging are usually invited to do so, but the weather conditions made it too risky for this sailing.

“It was amazing to watch the work go into putting the sails up and down and to experience the wind power pulling the ship so fast without the engines,” said Malte Rahnenfuehrer, a 50-year-old psychologist from Zurich, who was traveling with his partner and two children.

The captain

It is rare for cruise passengers to see the ship’s captain after the initial welcome drinks or gala dinner. But Capt. Vukota Stojanovic was omnipresent throughout the cruise, from setting sails to lifeguarding to mingling with guests.

Originally from Montenegro, Captain Stojanovic piloted container ships for years. When he was asked to consider helming the original Sea Cloud nearly 10 years ago, he hesitated because he had no experience sailing. Even after he learned the ropes — and there are 340 ropes (known as running rigging) on the vessel — he was unsure. “I grew to love the sailings, the boats, the crew the lifestyle, but I still felt I belonged on container ships,” he said. “It would be a big adjustment, especially because I would have to shave every day,” he joked.

Eventually, he accepted the opportunity and worked tirelessly to learn how to sail and operate the ship. Today, he keeps an “open bridge” policy, allowing passengers to visit the control room, even when he is wrestling with the wind.

“The crew and the passengers are all part of the experience, and I like to meet people and receive their feedback,” Captain Stojanovic said.

Environment

Sea Cloud Cruises aspires to take a “gentle” approach, using wind power to drive its ships wherever possible, even if that means changing course for optimal weather conditions. When sailing is not possible, the Spirit has two diesel-electric engines that run on low-sulfur marine diesel fuel. The company is also working with ports that have shore power capabilities to plug into the local electric power.

Onboard, there is an emphasis on reusable bottles and paper straws, and crew members separate solid waste to be compacted and removed when in port.

Excursions and Activities

We made stops in Portofino, San Remo, Italy, and St.-Tropez, France, anchoring offshore and getting to land by tender — a contrast to the big cruise ships with their loud horns and thick plumes of exhaust spewing from their funnels.

For passengers wanting to take a dip (there is no pool), the crew marked an area in the water with floats and an inflatable slide. The water was frigid, but many passengers took the plunge from the swimming deck. Guests could also take “Zodiac Safaris” around the ship to get views of the vessel from the water.

Excursions ranged from food and wine tours to e-biking and beach trips. In Portofino, passengers were free to explore the sights independently, including the Castello Brown Fortress and the lighthouse on Punta del Capo rock. There was ample time to eat meals on shore as the ship did not depart until 11 p.m. Over the summer, the Sea Cloud Spirit will sail to Spain, Portugal, France and the Azores, among other destinations. On Nov. 11, she will depart for St. Maarten in the Caribbean for the winter.

Wherever the vessel goes, said Mirell Reyes, president of Sea Cloud Cruise for North America, the company tries to “stay away from the crowds and ports where big cruise ships spit out 6,000 passengers.”

Summer prices, which include food and beverages, range from $3,995 for a four-night sailing in a superior cabin to $9,420 for a veranda suite. Seven-night sailings cost between $6,995 and $16,495.

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