This morning Lürssen launched the 70m Saint Nicolas from the shipyard in Rendsburg, Germany. Saint Nicolas (project Nemo) is a near sistership to the 67m Apoise and another sistership, project Shark, is still under construction and due for launching in 2008.

The exterior lines of the yacht are from the hand of Antibes based designer Espen Oino and the interior decoration was done by Francois Zurretti. The steel hulled Saint Nicolas is powered by twin 1850 HP Caterpillar 3512B DITA diesels which give her a maximum speed of 15.5 knots and she cruises at 14 knots.