Croatia

Heli Yachts

The Pula based shipyard Avangard Yachts (formerly Heli Yachts) launched the 50m Avangard II at the end of March. Her exterior lines come from the drawing board of Frank Mulder, while the interior is designed by the Rome based design studio Lazzarini &amp; Pickering. <img alt="" src="https://syt-store-production.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/photo/124399/image/large-5f6e400c607f40bb211847fef2830536.jpg" data-gid="gid://syiq/Photo/124399">The steel hulled <a href="#managed-by-application" data-legacy="true" data-gid="gid://syiq/Yacht/103">Avangard II</a> is a full displacement yacht and built to Lloyds classification. Besides a ski-boat and wave runners, she also carries a 40ft Sunseeker onboard. For transportation to the shore she carries a Eurocopter 130B4, which can be stored in a hangar on the wheelhouse deck. The yacht is powered by twin 1650 HP Caterpillar 3215B, enabling her to achieve a top speed of 16 knots. She cruises comfortably at 14 knots and when cruising at 12 knots she has a range of 8,000nm. By Merijn de Waard

Avangard Yachts launches 50m Mulder design

<img alt="" src="https://syt-store-production.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/photo/124115/image/large-baed71f35a60d56ab6df7e0d3618671a.jpg" data-gid="gid://syiq/Photo/124115">Galatea cruising off PulaThe 34m <a href="#managed-by-application" data-legacy="true" data-gid="gid://syiq/Yacht/102">Galatea</a> cruising off Pula after she had just left her home berth in Tehnomont Marina Veruda on 30 July 2006. Galatea was built in 1998 as the first yacht of the Croatian shipyard Heli Yachts. Both the interior and exterior were designed in Croatia, by Nesactium and USCS respectively. Her current Swedish owner made her available for charter. She can be chartered from € 27,000 per week.