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Profile: Blohm + Voss Yachts

April 13, 2009 by john
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Services/Goods Offered: build yachts
Languages: English
Operating Locations: EUROPE

In the course of a history of building large yachts in Hamburg and Kiel, Blohm + Voss, a company of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, has set countless benchmarks.

One major item in successful yacht building is the yard itself with its facilities. With the yacht competence centre located in Hamburg Blohm + Voss Shipyards possesses covered docks which offers ideal circumstances for new building as well as for the refit of yachts up to nearly 200 m (650 ft). Additionally one covered dry-dock with a capacity of approximately 300 m (980 ft) can be used in Kiel.

Blohm + Voss Shipyards is a company within the ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems. As management holding company, Hamburg-based ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems parents the new shipyard group, bundling staff and service functions which are furnished to the various companies.

The group comprises today Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft GmbH, Kiel, TKMS Blohm + Voss Nordseewerke Gmbh, Emden and Hamburg, Blohm + Voss Shipyards GmbH and Blohm + Voss Repair GmbH, Hamburg, as well as Kockums AB, Sweden, and Hellenic Shipyards S.A., Greece.

Today, the shipyard delivers some of the finest, most sophisticated vessels afloat.
Engineering features are cutting edge. Flight decks and adjoining helicopter hangars. Hinged transoms and cavernous shell doors enable the wet docking and dry berthing of big tenders and private submarines.

Blohm + Voss are Versatile, impressively powerful CODAG-WARP drive chains deliver economic trolling speeds and fast re-locatings.

A Blohm + Voss yacht is imagination unlimited, driven by the client and designer teams’ creativity.

Made in Germany, it is an ultimate piece of engineering built to mesmerize for generations.

Current superyacht projects underway by Blohm + Voss:

The Yacht LIZA Project
LOA: 100.00 m (328 ft)
Max beam: 16.20 m (53 ft)
Design Draft: 4.50 m (14 ft)
Displacement: abt. 5 200 GT
Max speed: 20 knots
Range: abt. 6 000 nm
at 14 knots.
Accommodation: 2 owners
16 guests
30 crew Designer: Lobanov Ltd.
London/UK

The STRIKER Yacht Project
LOA: 101.00 m (331 ft)
Max beam: 18.50 m (61 ft)
Design Draft: 4.50 m (14 ft)
Displacement: abt 5 800 GT
Max speed: 20 knots
Range abt 6 000 nm
at 14 knots
Accommodation: 2 owners 16 guests
30 crew
Designer: Luiz de Basto Design,

Miami/USA
In the course of a history of building large yachts in Hamburg and Kiel, Blohm + Voss, a company of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, has set countless benchmarks.

Today, our exciting new deliveries are some of the finest, most sophisticated vessels afloat. Engineering features are cutting edge.

Flight decks and adjoining helicopter hangars. Hinged transoms and cavernous shell doors enable the wet docking World Cruiser Project

LOA: abt. 73 m (240 ft)
Max beam: abt. 12m (40 ft)
Design Draft: abt. 3.6m (12 ft)
Displacement: abt. 2 000 GT
Max speed: abt. 17 knots
Range: abt. 4 500 nm
at 14,5 knots.
Accommodation: 2 owners
14 guests
up to 21 crew. Designer: NewCRUiSe
Hamburg/Germany

http://www.blohmvossyachts.com/


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