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Aviva: Inside the 98.4m Abeking & Rasmussen flagship yacht

The owner of Aviva challenged his design team to build a yacht around a padel tennis court — and 98m, 4,966GT and a mere three years later, she was launched.

She’s big — let’s get that out of the way. At 98.4 metres,  Aviva  became the 46th longest yacht in the world when she was delivered by  Abeking & Rasmussen  in 2017, and there are very few boats of her length that can match her for volume.

Her 17.24 metre beam is so generous that the designers pulled in the bridge deck superstructure to add side decks — improving crew circulation and refining the profile — because “we just didn’t need that much beam”.

They were right: spaces on board are magnificently expansive, from guest suites the size of the master suite on a 50 metre to an owner’s wardrobe that is, designer Andrew Langton notes quite seriously, “bigger than my house in France”. The fact that scale sits fairly low down on the list of Aviva ’s extraordinary features speaks to the imagination and belief-beggaring ambition of this project.

Aviva is the third yacht of her name delivered to owner Joe Lewis, British businessman and major shareholder in Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. The first, a 62 metre Winch design, was built at Feadship in the Netherlands; the second, a 68 metre Reymond Langton design , at Abeking & Rasmussen on the banks of the Weser river in Lemwerder, near Bremen.

For his grandest project yet Lewis returned to Abeking. “They were, surprisingly, much less conservative than other people. Maybe it’s because of the military stuff they do,” says Toby Silverton, head of design on the project, working with Reymond Langton, and who was also involved in Lewis’s two previous projects.

The yard’s biggest project had been 82.48 metre Secret and to take on Aviva it extended its build shed to accommodate yachts of up to 125 metres — a bold move into a larger size category. And its courage didn’t end there.

“Build a big yacht around a padel tennis court was the main brief, I guess,” says the yard’s project manager Andreas Hering, with admirable understatement. “In three years.”

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A project of this size might easily take five years, even if the yard already had a shed big enough for the purpose. And this was a highly unusual project. Design was accelerated too: the complex interior was penned in six months, when they would have liked a year; and the exterior in just one month, when it might more comfortably have taken six.

Knowing that makes Aviva ’s elegant profile even more impressive. “There was a lot of work to [visually] break up the mass, using facets,” says Langton. “We also tried to keep the lines long, so the sheer line is very long and jumps up forward with a clean line.”

They also minimised the details that act as size references, to disguise the scale. Rub rails are eliminated, stanchions replaced with glass, crew quarters windows are grouped to create long lines of glazing and even the anchor pocket has been elongated and disguised, lest a little square of gleaming stainless gives the game away.

Some upright elements of the silver superstructure were also picked out in a darker shade. “They disappear a bit, which makes the slope of the boat more raked,” says Langton.

The long bow adds to the effect, but the aesthetic is the beneficiary of a practical decision: this boat will roam far and the long covered bow makes it likely to survive the kind of rogue waves that have battered a few cruise ships over the years.

“I talked to the captain of the QE2 who went through a wave, and what happens is all the wheelhouse windows smash, they had four foot of water, you then lose all your instruments and they had no ability to control the boat, communicate or navigate,” says Silverton.

To strengthen Aviva he added extra watertight doors and armoured the two forward VIP cabins and superyacht wheelhouse so that they could be sealed off to save the boat. “You can lose everything on the bridge and you can still navigate and control the boat from the engine room,” he says.

Apart from safety, the main aim of the naval architecture was stability. Before the build of Lewis’s second Aviva , Silverton had been frustrated by a lack of data on how rolling motion affects passengers, so he put 36 people in a motion simulator for three days.

“There’s two things: one is the period of roll and the second is the way it rolls,” he says. “The typical roll period of the 62 metre would be around 7.5-7.8 seconds, one of two roll periods people were particularly upset by. And we found that if it was a soft stop and then a soft movement away again, people were much more tolerant of it.”

The design of the second boat addressed those concerns and the new Aviva ’s hull — patent pending — is an evolution of that. It has a nipped in “waist” which bulges back out below the waterline. This both slows and softens the roll. Her near-vertical bow and narrow sailing boat-like stern (which helps reduce pitching) also aid efficiency.

So much so that they were able to go down two engine sizes from the original spec (she has two MTU 16V4000 M73Ls, which put out 2,880kW each) and still hit 20.3 knots in sea trials. Silverton notes that she runs most comfortably at a zippy 16.5 knots, despite an official cruising speed of 14 knots.

Supplementary electric motors offer smooth manoeuvring and silent 11 knot running at night, while extra solidity comes from MAGLift stabilisers aft and one pair of fin stabilisers forward.

But it is the padel tennis court that lies literally and metaphorically at the heart of this project. This high intensity squash-tennis hybrid is a daily routine for Lewis and his explorations with his previous yachts had been limited to destinations with courts.

“The original idea I had was to put it on the aft end main deck and have folding panels and sliding walls,” says Langton. “It never even entered my head to put it inside, because it’s so big.”

Not only would putting the court at the back have made for a profile that Langton likens to a pick-up truck, but Silverton notes that the court would not have been playable at main-deck level. “You’re way above the roll centre, so it’s moving sideways – humans can’t cope with sideways movement of the ground,” says Silverton. “So we looked at putting it as low down as possible.”

Achieving such a large area in that position was an engineering feat but the results are spectacular. Its dimensions short-circuit spatial understanding — it seems impossible that this towering 6.65 metre tall space could be accommodated in Aviva ’s profile.

But it is, and it functions beautifully. “We’re running along at 19 knots, white horses everywhere, and they’re downstairs playing padel having no idea that there’s any sea at all,” says Silverton.

This sort of intelligent ambition has transformed every space on board into something special. “The owner has been in many businesses – hospitality, hotels – so he really understands how spaces work,” says Silverton.

Apart from strategically placed pantries and concealed crew entrances, there are three massive dumb waiters, a lower deck entrance for loading supplies, a dedicated crew galley and much more. The final GA was version 57.

On the more glamorous side of this equation, the upper saloon is a highly functional family room that’s comfortable, bright and airy. The sofas are extra squashy, and there’s a games table as well as a sculptural Bogányi piano.

The head height is 2.6 metres and nine metres of openable full-height windows run along each side of the room – with balconies. Rather than the usual glass, doors to the aft deck are leather clad, making the room feel more private. In fine weather, with those doors open, glass panels slide out to surround the aft deck dining area, creating one long, protected inside/outside space.

Designing such a huge area without pillars for support was a challenge and the corners are, says Hering, packed with extra structure. “Also, in the ceiling, all the girders are very thick because the unsupported length is just enormous.”

In contrast to this space, the main saloon below is a glamorous introduction to Aviva , up the sweeping superyacht staircase from the swim platform and inside to take in starry pieces from the owner’s art collection from a round of sunken seating. Adding a dash of intrigue there’s a secret cinema forward of the space, behind a hidden door.

The master suite is in the nose of the main deck rather than higher up, for extra stability. It stretches from a full-beam cabin to a massive bathroom centred with a monolithic Corian bathtub (there’s a spa just aft of the cabin for even more serious pampering), to a wardrobe-cum-dressing room of spectacular scale and glamour, inspired by Chanel boutiques.

But while some spaces are grand in scale, others are decidedly intimate. Rather than a dining saloon, there are two art-filled “bistros” on board for cosy meals, and many other small dining areas elsewhere. The owner’s bridge deck office is also modestly proportioned, with a conference room next door for larger meetings.

In terms of interior style, the owner’s brief was for something revolutionary. “He didn’t want anything to be symmetrical, it had to be curvy or organic,” says Langton. “He wanted it to be very different. No wood, nothing traditional.”

From the furniture and fittings to walls and overheads, there is barely a straight line on this boat. That was no mean feat for Abeking & Rasmussen’s outfitter Rodiek, which, as well as building most of the yacht’s bespoke furniture in organic forms, produced undulating wall panels from high density CNC-milled foam. “Five or ten years ago this was only used to do models or moulds for the car industry. It is very expensive,” says Langton.

It is, however, perfect for creating curves. “For this boat we decided to use a lot of new materials, even for the base materials, because of the big curved ceiling spaces,” says Hilmar Westermeyer, COO of Rodiek, who had to buy a new CNC milling machine for the project. Rodiek works only for Abeking & Rasmussen (and vice versa) in a symbiotic relationship.

In terms of the interior styling, the ethos was love it or lose it — at least visually. “This door disappears when it is closed and becomes part of the wall,” says Langton in one of the forward VIPs, swinging it to the latch, where its undulations perfectly meet those on the wall. “You either make a door a feature, make it beautiful, or you make it disappear.” The same goes for handles: those on wardrobes are invisible, but ones used on cabin doors are gnarled and textural, incorporated into a cracked bronze plate “like desert clay”.

“Because we’ve not used any wood, basically the whole interior is a mixture of leather and lacquer, it’s really almost tailored.” Take the artfully stitched cream leather of window frames, or the iridescent shot silk that runs down the broad main deck corridor, printed with a bespoke cartographical motif.

A neutral palette is enriched with precious materials: sunset-toned onyx, vanilla marble, shagreen, shimmering leathers. There are glossy panels dripping with resin and acrylic by Alex Turco in the lobby, and panels of velvet mottled with gold, by Sabina Fay Braxton, above guest beds. Staircases are works of art; one with floating treads like turbine blades, another a leather and glass form that spirals up from the floor.

This interior — where, as Langton puts it, almost every surface has “richness and form” – melts into the deck spaces via visual tricks: organic patterns in the Esthec decking that continue in the interior carpets; or the bar that is half in the main saloon and half on the aft deck, a mirror image joining the two spaces.

The superyacht sundeck is the exterior equivalent of the upper saloon — a comfortable family lounge. This massive space, with sunshine yellow upholstery, runs from a shaded central area for dining, with a projector for movie nights, to an aft sunbathing area with sunpads (with a wedge shape to sit as well as lie) and another forward around a spa pool, set low against a glass windbreak for spectacular views.

This forward end is a cosy space like so many on board. It’s that understanding of usable, enjoyable spaces, of human scale, human comfort and passions that makes Aviva a truly grand design. Those 98 metres just help pack it all on board.

First published in the April 2018 edition of BOAT International. Get this magazine sent straight to your door, or subscribe and never miss an issue.

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Jake Straw New Member

Hello All! I’m new to the forum and boating in general. I’m looking for (or at least think I am) for a 50-60’ fly bridge MY. I really like the accommodations/layout of the prestige, but notice they get hated on pretty hard here. I also see everyone loves the hatteras 60’. I’ve seen people say you shouldn’t take a prestige 550 to the Caribbean. Could someone explain to me what makes a MY more sea worthy than another of the relative same size. I see where the hatteras is super heavy and that would seem to cut through water better, but other than that I’m a bit lost. My budget is $1MM USD. I’m very open to suggestions! I don’t need to go to the Caribbean, I just hate spending that kind of money and being limited. I get I’m not going to cross the Atlantic for $1MM lol Thanks y’all!

NYCAP123 Senior Member

Hi Jake. Let's address the elephant in the room: "I’m new to …. boating in general." Once you get near 50' you'll probably be required to hire a captain for the first year and may find you need the captain for several years. I gave a lesson to a fellow and his wife on a 44 and ended up his captain for about 10 years through 4 or 5 boats. He found that he loved driving a boat but hated the stress of docking and realized it paid to have my experience aboard. Also above that size you're probably talking about a 6' draft. Georgia has a lot of shallow water. Since you don't seem to have a planned type of usage in mind yet I'd suggest you look for something under 48' at which size you can probably get by with just lessons, and running aground won't ruin your season. As for what makes a boat more sea worthy the answer is extremely complex. Size, weight, hull design, hull strength, power, etc, etc. How do you picture yourself using a boat? Fishing, coastwise cruising, extended cruising, day out on the bay with friends, just hanging out in the marina, party? How many people sleeping aboard? Do you want to run fast (25-30kts $$$$) or relaxed (8-12 kts)? If this is your first larger boat there's no need to spend anywhere near the budget you have planned, especially if you're planning to get seriously bigger in a few years. Have you thought about your maintenance budget?

Capt J Senior Member

It's a lot more complex than that. Let's compare the Prestige 55' and Hatteras 60'. The Hatteras is a lot more comfortable and better built in every aspect. Exterior the teak on the Prestige will need to be replaced in 6-7 years.....the Hatteras teak will go twice as long. Prestige cushions and such will need to be replaced much sooner. Prestige is more maintenance heavy. Hatteras has a flybridge with HVAC that is comfortable all of the time, the Prestige has no HVAC. The interior of the Hatteras is much quieter and you won't hear a lot of noise while you're sleeping. Hatteras holds a lot more fuel and has a lot better range on a tank of fuel. Much better quality build components and easier to source parts for them. Hull design makes more importance to ride than sheer weight. I can't think of very many planing even as large as 75' MY's that have a 6' draft......besides Riva's........

True, mostly 4.5'-5.5' unless he goes sail, but 6' is close enough as an example. Far too little info to get into specific discussions. Yes Hatteras is better than Prestige, and you could write a book on why, but if he plans to just cruise local waters it's irrelevant. Once had a client who picked up a new 52' Bertram with outriggers and a swim platform to cruise L.I. Sound and occasionally drop a hook for flounder. He liked how it looked. Over $1M and totally the wrong boat.

NYCAP123 said: ↑ Hi Jake. Let's address the elephant in the room: "I’m new to …. boating in general." Once you get near 50' you'll probably be required to hire a captain for the first year and may find you need the captain for several years. I gave a lesson to a fellow and his wife on a 44 and ended up his captain for about 10 years through 4 or 5 boats. He found that he loved driving a boat but hated the stress of docking and realized it paid to have my experience aboard. Also above that size you're probably talking about a 6' draft. Georgia has a lot of shallow water. Since you don't seem to have a planned type of usage in mind yet I'd suggest you look for something under 48' at which size you can probably get by with just lessons, and running aground won't ruin your season. As for what makes a boat more sea worthy the answer is extremely complex. Size, weight, hull design, hull strength, power, etc, etc. How do you picture yourself using a boat? Fishing, coastwise cruising, extended cruising, day out on the bay with friends, just hanging out in the marina, party? How many people sleeping aboard? Do you want to run fast (25-30kts $$$$) or relaxed (8-12 kts)? If this is your first larger boat there's no need to spend anywhere near the budget you have planned, especially if you're planning to get seriously bigger in a few years. Have you thought about your maintenance budget? Click to expand...

Pascal Senior Member

This discussion is useless unless you tell us how you will Use the boat. For coastal use in the US and even trips to Bahamas pretty much everything will get you there. Even a Carver... Now if you re going to go across the stream and the TOTO every couple of months and don’t want to waste a few days for a window then forget the prestige and get the hatt. you need to get the boat best suited for the use

Capt J said: ↑ It's a lot more complex than that. Let's compare the Prestige 55' and Hatteras 60'. The Hatteras is a lot more comfortable and better built in every aspect. Exterior the teak on the Prestige will need to be replaced in 6-7 years.....the Hatteras teak will go twice as long. Prestige cushions and such will need to be replaced much sooner. Prestige is more maintenance heavy. Hatteras has a flybridge with HVAC that is comfortable all of the time, the Prestige has no HVAC. The interior of the Hatteras is much quieter and you won't hear a lot of noise while you're sleeping. Hatteras holds a lot more fuel and has a lot better range on a tank of fuel. Much better quality build components and easier to source parts for them. Hull design makes more importance to ride than sheer weight. I can't think of very many planing even as large as 75' MY's that have a 6' draft......besides Riva's........ Click to expand...

I ran both a 50' Prestige and a 55' Princess extensively. The 55' Princess Fly is a very capable boat. The lower stations means nothing as regards to having people around you, as they're all behind you while you're in the starboard forward corner running the boat. I'd look at Sunseeker also, as the 52' Manhattan is a very well laid out boat. The Prestige will have you with a lot of frustration with broken parts, waiting on parts, dealing with sub par dealers (as far as even getting parts.) The Princesses have their share of issues as well......The problem is, you don't even begin to know, what you don't know.........

Jake Straw said: ↑ so I have a 26’ sea ray on a lake, but figured that wouldn’t count as real boating. I live in GA, but plan to keep potential boat in FL I’m planning on hiring a captain for as long as needed to feel 100% safe and comfortable with taking my family out. Mostly wanting to play around in the gulf, go to Bahamas, and cruise up the east coast. Caribbean would be cool, but I don’t like most of the boats capable in the size I want and I don’t have 3MM in the budget for a larger boat. The hatteras 60 honestly doesn’t do it for me. Not being able to drive from main level means me stuck up on the fly bridge alone forever seemingly. We want a 50-60’ for comfort and ability to bring others. Considering prestige, princess, and Galeon. Definitely open to other suggestions and general advice. Click to expand...

olderboater Senior Member

You need to back up a moment from brands to your use, to your desired speed, to your desired range, to your desired draft, to your budget. Then look at boats that fit within those requirements. The boats you've listed are all semi-displacement so I'm assuming you're looking for that style and speed. If so, I'd put Hatteras among the best. I'd look at Sunseeker and put Princess slightly below. I'd also put Galeon, Prestige, and Beneteau Swift Trawler a step down. As you're looking at used, don't overlook Sea Ray. Might Grand Banks fit your need? Both built a lot of quality boats. How many people aboard, normally and maximum? I do not like Hatteras' lack of lower helm but look at the whole picture before dismissing them. Then in the same year, they will cost you more. You're years if not decades from the Caribbean. You'd be more inclined to do the Great Loop first but definitely US coastal cruising and Bahamas. You'll purchase another boat before you do the Caribbean, if you ever do. Think of that for your second boat but don't let it overly influence this one.

Btw, when and if you head for the Caribbean leave your boat home and charter one, maybe bareboat. You'd be amazed at the sea state you can run into getting down there.

NYCAP123 said: ↑ Btw, when and if you head for the Caribbean leave your boat home and charter one, maybe bareboat. You'd be amazed at the sea state you can run into getting down there. Click to expand...

olderboater said: ↑ So you've made a lot of trips to the Caribbean and run into those sea states? Click to expand...

NYCAP123 said: ↑ I'm surprised you don't know that the Florida Straits are fairly notorious. Click to expand...

I ignored you because being a smart ass is beneath you. Some others no but you I expected more of.

NYCAP123 said: ↑ I ignored you because being a smart ass is beneath you. Some others no but you I expected more of. Click to expand...

You don't want to buy the totally wrong boat. Figure out what you NEED in a boat, think about how you will be using it, where, speed.....are the refrigerators and freezers large enough, is there anywhere outside you can enjoy when it's raining etc. etc. I have an owner that went down on length on his 19th yacht, ordered it and waited months and month, his wife hates it and two months later he's replacing it. Your best bet will be chartering a yacht or two or three in this size with a captain for a week each.

JWY Senior Member

Jake - Welcome to YF. I agree that speed and range may be important factors. I have sold numerous Princess motoryachts for clients whose only cruising interest was in the Bahamas and had one client move up in size for 3 Princess's. I also support Sunseeker as a very good choice. I'm leaving Hatt out of the equation since you don't like it and there are so many viable choices. If you look at speeds more in the 12-17 knot range, it opens up another category of vessels called semi-displacement or fast trawlers. They all have lower helm stations, draft less than 6 feet, and tend to be heavier and more comfortable rides. Lots of options in this category. Judy

jsschieff Senior Member

A few other brands that might offer suitable boats include Belize, Riviera, Maritomo, Offshore, and Krogen Express.

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Providing specialized closing services to simplify boat and yacht transactions. Registration, Documentation, Lien Searches, Escrow, and much more!

Specialized loan programs and concierge level service for yacht brokers and their clients.

About YachtCloser

YachtCloser is the yacht brokerage industry’s leading web-based contract management solution.  YachtCloser provides a simple, seamless connection between buyers, sellers, brokers and yacht services through a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use application engine.  YachtCloser provides the most accessible and robust transaction and administrative tools available – managing more than $10 Billion in active boat and yacht contracts nationwide.

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January 15, 2016.

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Shane Faunce

Tampa yacht sales.

The team at YachtCloser has always provided top notch service at affordable rates. So when they began offering web design services, I jumped! The end result was a new website that is leagues ahead of my previous one - at a fraction of the price. If you're thinking of redesigning your current site, or building a new one, I highly recommend the YachtCloser team!

Owner/Broker

Sea change yacht sellers, llc.

I couldn't be HAPPIER with you and your support people. This is just the coolest thing to hit the marine industry since the fax machine! (And I was there when Bertram Ft. Lauderdale got their first fax machine!) I am just such a huge fan of YachtCloser and I am just constantly amazed at the ease and range of documents that are at my fingertips. Kudos to Brad and the entire group!

Pat Burchard

Gold key yachts of florida.

Having worked with YachtCloser in the past at other brokerages made it a “No-Brainer” to use when Aqua Sol Yacht Sales launched.  The ease and simplicity of creating the agreements and forms for both the buyer and seller and the ability to sign from a mobile device makes your software indispensable.  I am still amazed that every yacht brokerage does not use this software.  Keep up the good work and we look forward to integrating the listing information automatically from the website in the future.

Bonnie Edson

Aqua sol yacht sales.

Thank you to Brad Parker and the whole staff at YachtCloser. We have been utilizing YachtCloser for six months now at Stotler Yachts and the administrative side of our business has become much easier and efficient. Last month we used YachtCloser for documentation for the first time and it was a perfectly seamless operation. I recommend YachtCloser to everyone and look forward to what is next from this dynamic company.

Robert Stotler

Broker/principle, stotler yachts.

Yacht Closer is everything that was promised. Excellent orientation and after sale service by Brad and his team. I'm sorry I didn't sign up earlier as it has been an incredible deal facilitator as well as a valuable management tool. Our brokers love it and our clients are very comfortable with it.

Michael Myers

Boston yacht sales.

My experience with YachtCloser has been financially rewarding. Speed to close along with the security of backup, ease of use and the professional support makes this the best investment I have made for my company. Thanks!

Tom Whittington

Manatee pocket yacht sales.

Brewer Yacht Sales has incorporated the YachtCloser system into our SOP. It has not only provided easy access to all our clients and contracts from anywhere in the world it has also speedup the entire process of a yacht transaction. Our brokers like it because it saves them time and helps organize things while on the go. What really stands out with YachtCloser is their customer service; I would have to say that it is the best I have ever encountered in any industry! That matters.

Dave Pugsley

Vice president and general manager, brewer yacht sales.

Phone: (954) 361-1322

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