New build Sanlorenzo SL96A 2024

Wow. Still named Match.

Sticky Fingers said:

Wow. Still named Match.

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Those letters were glued on properly…

Any updates! Must have done some WOT runs by now

Busy here and have not found time for updates, sorry.

Boat is in water, has finished sea trials and is in final de-bugging. Delivery to me is delayed till mid May, due to needing to replace an important component and the delay in getting it. That’s not a problem and allows time for some last minute tweaks on minor items.

Sea trials went well – hit 29.6 knots and hit exactly MTU’s 2450 max rpm at WOT. So that implies about 1,600rpm cruising, which is exactly what I want noise-wise. Few pictures below:











I don’t have time to write tons but I can say I’m incredibly pleased with the boat and below are some assorted pics and quick comments. First, the engines are pictured below. MTU 16V2000M96, 2434hp each. Engine room is tight with these, their big exhaust silencers, 2 x Kohler 45kw generators and everything else with nearly everything backed up and duplicated. One of the custom features is no chequer plate on the engine room floor (bliss!).





Aft deck is below. Nice size. The tables work as two coffee tables, electric up down plus fore-aft sliding, and there is a fill in piece to make a big (2.3m long) dining table:





Below is flybridge (with covers, sorry) and strataglass enclosure






Now some interiors – first the salon is below:








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Owner cabin on main deck. The 4th pic is the dressing area, forward of the headboard, and at the far end (ie starboard side) of that dressing area is a washer/drier so I can do my own tee shirts without bothering the crew The zillions of lightswitches by the inner door are because there are 4 windows including the skylight and each has a shade blind and a black out, so that's 8 blinds to control, plus the skylight opens electrically. It can all be controlled from bedside iPad but I wanted "hard wired" switches too. There are two doors you have to go through to get into this cabin: outer door gets you into the lobby, then another door gets you to the bed area. There's a Samsung OLED TV behind the mirror and a garmin screen that repeats via HDMI to the TV. Everything is ipad controlled and there are USB A and C sockets sprinkled all over the place













Lobby for lower deck cabins is below, including one of the two industrial strength 3phase laundry machine sets hidden in this lobby (the other set is in the crew area):













Below is a guest cabin bathroom:





All the guest bathrooms have the same marble/bronze finish as in the picture above, while the main deck owner’s cabin uses a different marble:





Galley is pretty much finished as shown below:













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Below is the pilothouse, pretty much finished. There was discussion above in the thread worrying that the 5 Garmin 9022 screen block the driver’s vision– they have been tweaked and they now don’t block the driver’s view at all. Hard to imagine till you’re standing there, but all forward vision is through the top half of the glass windscreens; all you can see through the lower half is only the sunpads, as I think the second picture shows













Below is a view of the screen that tells me if any portholes are open. It’s being edited to say “Portholes” not “Porthole”





Here’s the bow crew cabin – this has turned out really well and has an ensuite shower room.





Finally, Boats Ltd formerly Essex Boatyards have been brilliant as usual. They supplied then modded/finished my Williams tender perfectly, with the Garmin plotter described above and some other mods, and they collected in their Essex yard all my deck furniture (which I sourced in UK from CocoWolf) and an Atlas Baby Davit from Jeremy Rogers in Lymington, and loaded it into a lorry for Italy where it has since arrived safely. Huge thanks to Boats.co.uk and their longstanding can-do attitude. The Williams is in identical livery to the chase boat - exact same orca tube materials, gelcoat colour, flexiteek deck, and upholstery












Sorry few words and mostly pics here – I’m in a rush. Pictures more use anyway ). I’ll update the thread after delivery in week 3 of May.

Stunning!

Not too shabby!

Incredible.

That helm is damned sexy!

Absolutely awesome J……what’s next

fantastic !

She looks amazing, the helm looks fantastic. Nice job.

Looking absolutely amazing!

Simply superb JFM, huge congratulations! Twin dishwasher an absolute must not only on the boat but also in a domestic property. Quick question which may already have been covered, do you have any scent/air freshener type system on the boat?

Intelmacs said:

Simply superb JFM, huge congratulations! Twin dishwasher an absolute must not only on the boat but also in a domestic property. Quick question which may already have been covered, do you have any scent/air freshener type system on the boat?

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Agree - stunning boat JFM although I have my wife to do the dishes so would probably convert that particular area to a sauna or another essential luxury.

Intelmacs said:

Simply superb JFM, huge congratulations! Twin dishwasher an absolute must not only on the boat but also in a domestic property. Quick question which may already have been covered, do you have any scent/air freshener type system on the boat?

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Many thanks .
I'm on same page as you regarding dishwashers. As well as providing redundancy in case of breakdown, the plan is for them to do saucepans and cooking utensils, and to run heavily including during meals - helped by the quick cycle times these days. You might note that the galley sink is small - that was a trade off for the 2nd dishwasher but its a direct trade because the machine will do what the sink would have done. The sink has an insinkertor by the way.

No I've never really come across scented systems. No real experience of them, and I'm a bit worried I or someone on board might not love the scent! What I have is:

1. Normal air-conditioning using chilled water loop. 3 x 50 btu/hour compressors with VFD-inverter driven variable speed motors instead of on/off, so there will not be any spike loads. R410A gas. Plenty of digital switching control and monitoring screens in the technical areas of the boat. All Condaria, which is Dometic these days. No chilled air enters the living areas of the boat through nozzles or small grilles (except in pilothouse) - it all goes into long plenum boxes in the ceilings to keep noise down. The whole boat is insulated - completely different approach from Fair/Prin/Seek where if you look behind the scenes you just see GRP hull/superstructure moulding. On a Sanlorenzo you see foil-skinned insulation everywhere.
2. Forced air recirculation system in master cabin to help with the split level dressing/wardrobe area and the size of the cabin and its not-simple shape (entrance lobby etc). This was SL's suggestion by the way
3. Massively upgraded air extraction in the shower rooms and w/cs - this was my upgrade. Literally 3 phase 1/2hp motors driving big centrifugal fans, hidden in convenient voids under the side decks or in the ceiling. Noise is ok. Flow rate is massive compared with those little 12v or whatever fans fitted by uk boat builders. Any moisture/odour is sucked out instantly, gale force wind style.

MrB said:

She looks amazing, the helm looks fantastic. Nice job.

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Thanks everyone for the kind words.

I'm really pleased with the pilothouse. I realise that having the nav screens floating rather than built into a big dashboard box isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I love it. The 22 inch screens are a delight. The dashboard has a lot of red backlighting - I'll post some night pictures in due course.

That's far too good to have people actually walking around it and using it
I'm always curious as to why things look old-fashioned / modern / futuristic or timeless - I think what you have there will still look good in 10-15 years time.

How is the actual visibility from the lower helm station? The photo perspective make it looks a bit limited.

SC35 said:

That's far too good to have people actually walking around it and using it
I'm always curious as to why things look old-fashioned / modern / futuristic or timeless - I think what you have there will still look good in 10-15 years time.
How is the actual visibility from the lower helm station? The photo perspective make it looks a bit limited.

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Yup that's true. The whole exterior style of SL is meant to be timeless/classic with a modern twist. Meant to not look 10 years old when it's 10 years old. It's the opposite of sunseeker/azimut/astondoa and several others i suppose.

Plenty of other boatbuilders do timeless style quite well I think - it's certainly not unique to Sanlorenzo imho.

Interior is meant to be similar. Somewhat timeless but with contemporary bits too. I thought hard about light oak wood because it looks great, but so does the dark wood if you get the degree of glass/matt correct. Dark vs light is one of those difficult binary choices you have to make and I'm very happy with the how the darker wood with bronze metal work has turned out. The crew zone is all light oak - SL strongly encouraged me to do that and I just went along with it. Seems ok

Visibility is perfect. I'm aware how it seems in pictures. When standing or sitting at the helm you only ever see out of the top 1/2 or 1/3rd of the glass. The lower half of the glass just shows the sunbeds. The pic below is a perfect representation - it was taken standing at the helm with the camera at eye level (5'10-5'11 bloke), and you can still see the sunbeds so the Garmin screens don't obscure any of the sea view. The view seated is the same because the seat motors up to put your eyes at the same height as if you were standing. Of course you have to accept that with any RPH 30m boat you are always going to get a sort of letterbox view out anyway.

FWIW here is another view of pilothouse. Doesn't add much info regarding the view out really. The seat is motored to its lowest position, and normally it will be a foot higher.