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Pendennis sailing yacht Adela for sale

The 55.11 metre sailing yacht Adela has been listed for sale by Alex Busher at Edmiston & Company .

Originally launched in 1903 and rebuilt with a steel hull and superstructure by British yard Pendennis to a design by Dykstra Naval Architects , Adela was delivered in 1995 and has only ever been used privately. Accommodation is for eight guests in four cabins comprising a master suite, double and two twins. The master suite has a television screen and all cabins come with en suite bathroom facilities while a further four cabins sleep nine crewmembers aboard this yacht for sale .

Over the years, Adela has enjoyed numerous refits at the Pendennis shipyard, including a five metre hull extension in 2000 and a full engineering overhaul, complete with new generators and new paint in 2012. Today, she boasts a classic profile blending traditional fittings with modern technology within her sumptuous interior as well as on deck.

Custom made blocks and winches, concealed state of the art communications and a modern climate control system, all provide the comfort and convenience one would expect on a modern superyacht. Since her initial restoration Adela has seen an extensive maintenance programme which includes rigging, full engineering overhaul, new generators, new paint, teak decks, plus minor interior and electrical work. Under power, a single Lugger 640hp diesel engine delivers a range of 1,200 nautical miles at 10 knots.

On display at the Palma Superyacht Show, Adela is asking €12,950,000.

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Previously named ‘Heartsease’ she had a remodelling in Pendennis Shipyard in 2000, which involved Dykstra Naval Architects, and they increased her overall length by cutting her in half and adding a section to her middle and adding a bowsprit.

Adela returned to Pendennis for subsequent refits in 2006, 2011 and 2012.

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The design challenge presented by Adela was to incorporate every conceivable modern yacht system and convenience into the original interior without losing the charm and elegance of the original W.C. Storey design.

Today, Adela cuts a classic profile blending traditional fittings with modern technology within her sumptuous interior as well as on deck. Custom made blocks and winch, concealed state of the art communications and a modern climate control system all provide the comfort and convenience one would expect on a modern superyacht.

BUILDER J.G.Fay & Co, Southampton

YEAR OF BUILD 1903

FORMER NAME Heartsease

TYPE Sailing Yacht - Schooner

NAVAL ARCHITECT Gerard Dykstra (Restoration)

EXTERIOR STYLING Gerard Dykstra (Restoration)

INTERIOR DESIGN Gerard Dykstra / Pendennis (Restoration)

CONSTRUCTION Steel

LOA 50m pre-remodel / 55.5m (182.09ft) post-remodel

BEAM 7.90m (26ft)

DRAFT 4.80m (15.75ft)

DISPLACEMENT 250 tonnes

PENDENNIS REFIT YEAR 2006, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017

PENDENNIS REFIT LOCATION Pendennis Falmouth, Pendennis Palma

PENDENNIS REMODEL YEAR 2000

PENDENNIS REMODEL LOCATION Pendennis Falmouth

PENDENNIS RESTORATION YEAR 1995

PENDENNIS RESTORATION LOCATION Pendennis Falmouth

AWARDS Winner: Best Sailing Yacht 36m+ - Showboats Magazine 1995

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Racing in the 2009 St Barth's Bucket regatta (photography Cory Silken)

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De-stepping Adela's mast in Falmouth during the 2009 refit

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The main salon, following an update by Pendennis' Interior Design team during the 2012 refit (photography Cory Silken)

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Adela was the overall winner of the Pendennis Cup in 2010

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Leading the fleet off the start line in the 2012 Pendennis Cup

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Adela is a custom sailing yacht launched in 1995 by Pendennis Shipyard.

Pendennis is one of the world’s leading superyacht builders, with a heritage spanning 23 years including over 200 Refit projects and 25 custom New Build yachts.

Adela measures 55.50 metres in length, with a max draft of 4.80 metres and a beam of 7.90 metres. She has a gross tonnage of 169 tonnes.

Adela has a steel hull.

Her exterior design, naval architecture and interior design is by Dykstra Naval Architects.

Dykstra Naval Architects is an industry leading naval architecture firm specialising in high-performance and sustainable sailing yachts.

Performance and Capabilities

Adela has a top speed of 12 knots. She is powered by a single screw propulsion system.

Accommodation

Adela accommodates up to 8 guests . She also houses room for up to 9 crew members.

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Specifications

Yard : Pendennis
Type : Sailing yacht
Guests : 8
Crew : 9
Length : 55.11 m / 180′10″
Beam : 7.9 m / 26′0″
Year of build : 1995
Maximum speed : 12 knots
Cruising speed : 10 knots
Range : 1200 nm
Exterior designer : Dykstra Naval Architects

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55.11m  /  180'10 | pendennis | 1995 / 2015.

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The 55.11m/180'10" classic yacht 'Adela' was built by Pendennis in the United Kingdom at their Falmouth shipyard. Her interior is styled by design house Dykstra & Partners and she was completed in 1995. This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Dykstra & Partners and she was last refitted in 2015.

Guest Accommodation

Adela has been designed to comfortably accommodate up to 8 guests in 4 suites. She is also capable of carrying up to 11 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience.

Range & Performance

Adela is built with a steel hull and steel superstructure, with teak decks. Powered by 1 x diesel Lugger (6170A) 640hp engines, she comfortably cruises at 10 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 12 knots with a range of up to 1,200 nautical miles from her 17,916 litre fuel tanks at 10 knots. Her water tanks store around 9,232 Litres of fresh water. She was built to Lloyds Register classification society rules.

Length 55.11m / 180'10
Beam 7.9m / 25'11
Draft 7.46m / 24'6
Gross Tonnage 169 GT
Cruising Speed 10 Knots
Built | (Refitted)
Builder Pendennis
Model Custom
Exterior Designer Dykstra & Partners
Interior Design Dykstra & Partners

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Divers search sunken yacht as entrepreneur, five others, remain missing

The deep-sea search for six passengers missing after a luxury yacht sank during a ferocious storm, including a prominent British tech entrepreneur and his daughter, continued Tuesday, with divers attempting to search the yacht as it lay on the ocean floor off the northern coast of Sicily.

But Italian officials acknowledged that, as time went on, the chance of finding the missing alive was getting slimmer.

“We have no memory of situations in which, with sunken vessels, people remain alive after 36, now [almost] 48 hours,” said Vincenzo Zagarola, a Porticello coast guard official. It was “difficult to imagine” that people could still be alive inside the yacht’s hull underwater, Zagarola said.

So far, only one crew member has been confirmed dead in Monday’s disaster. The body of the yacht’s chef, identified as Recaldo Thomas, a Canadian Antiguan, was found during initial recovery efforts. Fifteen people have been rescued.

Still missing are British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his teenage daughter, Hannah; Morgan Stanley International Chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife, Judy; and attorney Chris Morvillo , a partner at Clifford Chance in New York who represented Lynch in a recently concluded legal battle, and his wife, Neda.

Lynch, charged in the United States with fraud associated with his 2011 sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard, was acquitted on all counts in June. The voyage on the 183-foot-long Bayesian, owned by a company controlled by Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, was intended to be a celebration of his legal victory, Britain’s Telegraph reported .

Divers resumed work around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday but have struggled to enter the narrow passages of the cluttered wreck, Luca Cari, a spokesman for the fire rescue service, said.

Tables and chairs were blocking entrances, and cables and wires were forming a “sort of mesh,” Cari told The Washington Post. “At the moment we are working on land to plan for an intervention and above all to create new openings.” The divers were searching the yacht’s stern.

Divers have found “no indication” that any of the missing people are on the ship, he said, but one “operational hypothesis” is that individuals may still be inside their cabins, based on the early-morning time of the sinking.

Violent weather appears to have caught many by surprise. Zagarola, the coast guard official, said that they had only expected “strong gusts” on the day of the sinking and that no weather warnings had been issued.

One passenger, Charlotte Golunski, told Italian media of holding on to her 1-year-old daughter, Sophie, amid the storm.

“For two seconds I lost my baby in the sea,” she told Giornale di Sicilia. “Then I immediately hugged her again amid the fury of the waves.”

The British-flagged Bayesian was carrying 12 passengers and 10 crew members roughly half a mile from the Sicilian fishing village of Porticello when it encountered rough weather at about 4 a.m. Monday. Lightning flashed, thunder boomed and waves thrashed the vessel.

A fisherman described the scene to the Italian news agency ANSA. “It was floating, still, then suddenly vanished,” Pietro Asciutto said. “I saw it sink with my own eyes.”

Golunski and her partner, identified by Italian media as James Emslie, had been invited onto the ship as Lynch’s guests. She told Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper that she held her daughter “afloat with all my strength, my arms stretched upward to keep her from drowning.”

“It was all dark,” she said. “In the water I couldn’t keep my eyes open. I screamed for help, but all I could hear around me was the screams of the others.” Eventually, Golunski, Sophie, Emslie and eight others were able to get onto an inflatable lifeboat.

The Sir Robert, a Dutch-flagged sailing vessel anchored nearby, responded immediately to help survivors before the Italian coast guard arrived.

Britain was expected to deploy a team of four inspectors to conduct a preliminary assessment into the disaster.

“We are providing consular support to a number of British nationals and their families following an incident in Sicily, and are in contact with the local authorities,” a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.

Carl Sputh , a former yacht captain who now works as a broker for Northrop and Johnson, a yacht brokerage firm based out of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., said that sudden weather changes at sea were not uncommon.

“I was a captain for 27 years, and I can tell you that I’ve been in waterspouts and microbursts that are similar to what happened out there that night with them,” Sputh said in an interview. “You go from like zero wind and a beautiful night into 80-to-100-mile-an-hour winds out of nowhere. And it happens extremely fast, and they’re extremely violent, and then they’re over.”

Yachts like the Bayesian would have a retractable keel that helps balance the yacht when sailing and improves stability, Sputh added. The Bayesian was anchored offshore. If the ship was planning to move closer to shore soon, Sputh said, it would have been normal for the keel to be retracted, to allow for navigation in more shallow waters.

Bacares, Lynch’s wife, was among the 15 survivors, according to a person familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the delicacy of the situation. The Bayesian is owned by Revtom, a firm controlled by Bacares and registered on the Isle of Man, records show.

Ayla Ronald, a senior associate with Clifford Chance in London, also survived.

“We are in shock and deeply saddened by this tragic incident,” the firm said in a statement Tuesday. “Our thoughts are with our Partner, Christopher Morvillo, and his wife, Neda, who are among the missing.”

“Our utmost priority is providing support to the family as well as our colleague Ayla Ronald, who together with her partner, thankfully survived the incident.”

Bloomer, in addition to chairing Morgan Stanley International, joined the insurance group Hiscox last year as nonexecutive chair.

“We are deeply shocked and saddened by this tragic event,” Aki Hussain, the group’s chief executive, said in a statement. “Our thoughts are with all those affected, in particular our Chair, Jonathan Bloomer, and his wife Judy, who are among the missing, and with their family as they await further news from this terrible situation.”

Judy Bloomer worked with the British women’s health charity the Eve Appeal.

“Judy is a brilliant champion for women’s health and medical research, and has been an incredible supporter, committee member and trustee of our charity for over 20 years,” CEO Athena Lamnisos said in a statement Tuesday. “We are deeply shocked to hear the news that our very dear friend and her husband, Jonathan, are among those missing.”

The Bayesian was built in 2008 by Italian ship maker Perini Navi, according to the SuperYacht Times.

Three teams of divers, two from Italy’s coast guard and one from the fire brigade, are involved in the search-and-rescue operation, the coast guard said.

The yacht sank to a depth of more than 160 feet. The first attempt by fire brigade cave divers to search inside the yacht was unsuccessful, rescue authorities said .

On Tuesday evening, Zagarola said that it would be “beautiful” to find the other passengers, but the odds were stacked against them. “We are [still] looking for missing people.”

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Mike Lynch’s body is fifth found in yacht wreckage; daughter is last missing

The body of Lynch, 59, was recovered from the wreckage of the Bayesian, according to an Italian government official. The Bayesian yacht sank in a storm this week.

A previous version of the headline on this article incorrectly stated that Mike Lynch was the sixth body recovered from the yacht wreckage. He is the fifth recovered from the wreckage. Another body, that of chef Recaldo Thomas, was recovered during earlier search efforts. The article has been corrected.

ROME — The body of British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been recovered from the wreckage of a sunken yacht off Sicily’s coast, an Italian government official said Thursday, speaking on the condition of anonymity in keeping with protocol.

The British-flagged Bayesian was carrying 12 passengers and 10 crew members roughly half a mile from the Sicilian fishing village of Porticello when it encountered what authorities called a “violent storm” about 4 a.m. Monday. Fifteen people were rescued shortly after the sinking and the body of the yacht’s chef, Recaldo Thomas, was recovered during initial search efforts.

Six people — including Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter, Hannah — were missing in the days after the sinking. Four bodies were pulled from the wreckage on Wednesday, and the Italian official said Lynch’s body was taken out of the water and identified on Thursday.

As of Thursday, only Lynch’s daughter was still missing.

Authorities identified four bodies pulled from the sunken wreckage Wednesday. An Italian coast guard official, Vincenzo Zagarola, said the four bodies brought ashore by divers were identified as those of two couples: Morgan Stanley International Chairman Jonathan Bloomer and charity trustee Judy Bloomer and attorney Chris Morvillo and jeweler Neda Morvillo.

Lynch, 59, is best known for founding the tech venture capital firm Invoke Capital and co-founding the tech firms Autonomy and Darktrace. He sold Autonomy, which was once England’s biggest software company, to Hewlett-Packard in 2011 for more than $11 billion. He was subsequently accused of overvaluing the company and was charged in the United States with fraud. He was acquitted during a trial in San Francisco in June after a decade-long legal battle.

Many of the guests on the yacht had business or legal ties to Lynch: Chris Morvillo was a partner at the law firm Clifford Chance in New York and represented Lynch in the concluded legal battle. The voyage on the Bayesian was intended to be a celebration of Lynch’s victory, Britain’s Telegraph newspaper reported .

A Clifford Chance spokesperson said the firm was “heartbroken at the tragic passing” of the Morvillos and “still coming to terms with this terrible loss.” The firm was working to “support Chris’s family at this very distressing time,” the spokesperson said.

Tech entrepreneur and investor Brent Hoberman, who identified himself as Lynch’s longtime friend, told Sky News on Thursday that his friends and family were waiting for a “miracle” during the search, calling him a “titan and a figurehead” of the U.K. tech industry. Hoberman said Lynch had spent the last decade “defending his name” in the courts and that his death so soon after his legal victory was “unbelievably tragic.”

The 183-foot yacht was owned by a company controlled by Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, who was one of those rescued.

Divers from the Italian fire brigade have been undertaking daily recovery efforts since Monday, but the position of the yacht and the narrow passages of the cluttered wreck have complicated the process, they said.

The violent weather appeared to have caught many by surprise. Zagarola, the coast guard official, said that they had expected only “strong gusts” on the day of the sinking and that no weather warnings had been issued.

Suliman reported from London. Bryan Pietsch in Anchorage contributed to this report.

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    The magnificent schooner Adela competes at regattas all over the world and won the America's Cup Superyacht Regatta Trophy in San Francisco in September 2013. "We race Adela as hard as we can," explained Adela crew boss Guy (Nipper) Salter. "With a choice of up to six sails in the air at one time and a crew of around 35 - 40 people it ...

  4. ADELA yacht (Pendennis, 55.11m, 1995)

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  5. Yacht ADELA, Pendennis

    The sailing yacht ADELA is a 55 metre 181 (foot) impressive steel boat which was produced from the keel up at Pendennis and designed in the office of Wc Storey and Dijkstra & Partners. The sizeable twin masted schooner ADELA is a particularly distinctive United Kingdom made superyacht which was launched to celebration in 1995.

  6. Pendennis sailing yacht Adela for sale

    Pendennis sailing yacht Adela for sale. The 55.11 metre sailing yacht Adela has been listed for sale by Alex Busher at Edmiston & Company. Originally launched in 1903 and rebuilt with a steel hull and superstructure by British yard Pendennis to a design by Dykstra Naval Architects, Adela was delivered in 1995 and has only ever been used privately.

  7. Adela

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  8. Adela

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  9. 55.5m Adela Superyacht

    Adela is a luxury sail yacht built in 1995 by Pendennis Shipyard. Click for more information about this superyacht, including specifications, images, video…

  10. Sailing Superyacht Adela: an almighty ride

    The magnificent schooner Adela is privately owned and competes at regattas all over the world and won the America's Cup Superyacht Regatta Trophy in San Francisco last September.

  11. Majestic 55m Sailing Superyacht ADELA at Pendennis for fourth time

    Sailing yacht ADELA joins the 46m Feadship charter yacht Constance (ex Jana) and an 85,6m motor yacht both of which started refits earlier this year. With mega yacht Adix and superyacht Lionheart reaching the shipyard in September for short works, the winter refit season at Pendennis is once again expected to be very busy.

  12. Sailing Superyacht Adela: Almighty Ride

    The magnificent schooner Adela competes at regattas all over the world and won the America's Cup Superyacht Regatta Trophy in San Francisco in September 2013.

  13. Sailing yacht Adela

    Adela is a 55.11 m sailing yacht. She was built by Pendennis in 1995. The sailing yacht can accommodate 8 guests in 4 cabins and an exterior design by Dykstra Naval Architects.

  14. Classic sailing yacht Adela in Rothesay Bay

    The 55m classic sailing yacht Adela, built by Pendennis, is seen here anchored in Rothesay Bay, United Kingdom.

  15. ADELA Yacht Layout & GA Plans

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  16. Your Captain

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  17. Italy opens manslaughter investigation into Sicily yacht sinking

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  18. A great 2013 regatta season for Pendennis Yacht ADELA

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  19. Final body found in Sicily yacht wreckage is Hannah Lynch ...

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  20. ADELA Yacht Charter Brochure

    Download the full charter brochure for luxury Sail Yacht "ADELA" to explore her beautiful interiors, guest accommodation and full range of amenities as well as outdoor living spaces. This comprehensive overview provides the best way to get a feel for the charter experience on offer and gives detailed and accurate specifications so that you can match them up to your own requirements.

  21. Superyacht Adela video: on the wind

    Despite her age, sailing in a stiff breeze is still what Adela does best - as this video clip shows. Yachtworld.com journalist Louay Habib took a break from interviewing the crew of Adela to get his phone out and video a bit of the action. Watch the clip below taken during a training day for the Superyacht Challenge Antigua, which gives a glimpse of what it's like to sail on this beautiful ...

  22. Video: Super Yacht Adela from the Lee Rail

    Video: Super Yacht Adela from the Lee Rail. Written by: Staff on June 3, 2014. On a heavy-air day of training for the Superyacht Challenge Antigua, Louay Habib got out his phone and videoed a bit of the action aboard Adela. The clip below gives a feel for what it's like to sail on this beautiful super yacht. He wrote: "Wow what a ride.

  23. Divers search sunken yacht as entrepreneur, five others, remain ...

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  24. SY ADELA, Yacht

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  25. A2 Yacht• Lindemann Family $20M Superyacht

    Schooner Adela In 1995 Pendennis already did a refit on the 1903 built schooner Adela, which is also owned by the Lindemann family. The luxury yacht A2 actually serves as a support ship to the schooner Adela.

  26. Pendennis superyacht Rebecca under sail

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  27. Mike Lynch's body recovered in Sicily yacht wreckage; 1 still missing

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