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SKANDIA - WILD THING
SKANDIA - WILD THING is a 29.99 m Sail Yacht, built in Australia by Hart Marine and delivered in 2003.
Her power comes from a diesel engine. She can accommodate up to 0 guests, with 16 crew members. She has a 5.0 m beam.
She was designed by Don Jones , who also completed the naval architecture. Don Jones has designed 1 yacht and created the naval architecture for 1 yacht for yachts above 24 metres.
SKANDIA - WILD THING is one of 994 sailing yachts in the 24-30m size range.
SKANDIA - WILD THING is registered under the Australia flag (along with a total of other 171 yachts)
Specifications
- Name: SKANDIA - WILD THING
- Yacht Type: Sail Yacht
- Yacht Subtype: Racing Yacht
- Builder: Hart Marine
- Naval Architect: Don Jones
- Exterior Designer: Don Jones
- Refits: 2019
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A General Description of Sailing Yacht WILD THING/SKANDIA
This well sized luxury yacht WILD THING/SKANDIA is a sailing yacht. This 30 metre (98 ft) luxury yacht was manufactured at Hart Marine in 2003.
Sailing yacht WILD THING/SKANDIA has iconic lines that are recognisable anywhere. At 30m in length she is one of Australia's best known maxi sailing yachts.
Shipyard Work & Yacht Design with respect to Luxury Yacht WILD THING/SKANDIA
The yacht's wider design collaboration came from Don Jones. The formal naval architecture intellectual property are the creation of Don Jones. In 2003 she was formally launched to triumph in Mornington Vic and post sea trials and final completion was afterwards handed over to the new owner. Hart Marine completed their new build sailing yacht in Australia. A reasonable area is achieved with a maximum beam (width) of 5 m / 16.4 feet. The material composite was used in the building of the hull of the sailing yacht. Her superstructure above deck is fashioned from composite.
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For propulsion WILD THING/SKANDIA has a single screw propeller.
A List of the Specifications of the WILD THING/SKANDIA:
Superyacht Name: | Sailing Yacht WILD THING/SKANDIA |
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Built By: | Hart Marine |
Built in: | Mornington Vic, Australian |
Launched in: | 2003 |
Length Overall: | 30 metres / 98.4 feet. |
Naval Architecture: | Don Jones, Don Jones |
Displacement: | 26 |
Hull / Superstructure Construction Material: | composite / composite |
Owner of WILD THING/SKANDIA: | Unknown |
WILD THING/SKANDIA available for luxury yacht charters: | - |
Is the yacht for sale: | - |
Helicopter Landing Pad: | No |
Material Used For Deck: | grp |
The Country the Yacht is Flagged in: | Australian |
Official registry port is: | Melbourne |
Home port: | Melbourne, Australia |
Number of Crew Members: | 18 |
- Fresh water: | unknown. |
Yacht Beam: | 5m/16.4ft. |
Miscellaneous Yacht Details
She has a grp deck.
WILD THING/SKANDIA Disclaimer:
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Competitor Details
Yacht Name | Skandia |
Sail Number | M10 |
Owner | Grant Wharington (20) |
Skipper | Grant Wharington (2) |
Crew | G Taylor (7), I Johnson (7), Cosman (7), G Healy (6), B Coventry (7), J Rae (7), M Pearce (7), D Haines (3), G Durran, P Heyes, M Bartlett, S Crafer, S Haines, D Witt, W Findlay |
State | VIC |
Club | Mornington Yacht Club VIC |
Type | 100 SuperMaxi |
Designer | Don Jones / Fred Barrett |
Builder | Hart Marine |
Construction | Composite |
LOA | 30m |
Beam | 4.9 |
Draft | 5 |
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Skandia Has Slim Lead After Hitting a Sunfish
- Dec. 28, 2003
SYDNEY, Australia, Dec. 27 (Reuters) — The Australian super maxi yacht Skandia held a narrow lead over the rival maxi Zana in the 59th Sydney-Hobart race Saturday despite colliding with a huge sunfish.
Skandia led New Zealand's Zana by around two nautical miles at about 10 p.m. local time Saturday as the leading boats made their way across the notoriously rough Bass Strait between the Australian mainland and the island state of Tasmania.
Skandia, owned and skippered by the Melbourne property developer Grant Wharington, had covered about 360 miles of the 630-mile race since leading the fleet out of Sydney Harbor after Friday's start.
With strong southwesterly winds of 25 knots, the fleet was sailing upwind, at times with reefed mainsails and small headsails. Wharington's Skandia reported 10-foot swells and heavy going by radio earlier Saturday. Stewart Thwaites's Zana has been unable to make any significant impression on the bright blue Australian boat.
"We have eased up a bit over the past few hours as we are moving away from Zana," Wharington said.
Skandia, the prerace favorite, has been engaged in a close tactical battle with Zana since the start and managed to keep its lead despite hitting what the crew believed was a huge sunfish lying just below the surface in Bass Strait.
Skandia was sailing at about 13 knots when its crew heard a loud bang and the state-of-the art, 98-foot boat came to what navigator Will Oxley described as "a shuddering stop," the crew racing to drop sails to minimize any potential damage.
"We stopped dead in the water and we slid sideways, we were preparing to drop sails when whatever was on our keel came loose and suddenly we were away again," Oxley told race officials. "Thankfully no one was injured. We've checked the keel as best we can and there appears to be no damage."
The leading boats were sailing into southwesterly headwinds of up to 30 knots as they crossed Bass Strait, with choppy seas and 10-foot waves also battering boats.
Race officials projected Skandia and Zana would finish within minutes of each other some time on Sunday night. Zana had sailed within sight of Skandia's stern for most of Saturday after briefly heading the Australian boat on Friday.
"It has become an incredible match race in the open ocean," Zana's sailing master Peter Sutton said earlier on Saturday.
The heavy seas took their toll on other boats, with Swedish maxi and 2000 race winner, Nicorette, sustaining a damaged keel and Sydney 38-footer Dodo pulling out with mainsail damage.
The Nicorette skipper Ludde Ingvall said a retractable fin on the boat's radical new canting, or swinging, keel had snapped off in the mishap.
"We were coming down off three-meter waves when we heard the crash," Ingvall told race officials. "We don't know if there is any damage to the hull."
Ingvall and his crew were lucky to escape unharmed when their boat was knocked on its side by a water spout, or sea tornado, during the 2001 race.
Nicorette had overtaken the Australian 66-footer downwind flyer Grundig for third place before the incident and was back in fourth late on Saturday.
Fifty-five boats remain from an original fleet of 57 after Dodo's withdrawal. Small Australian boat Strewth was unable to start because of gear damage.
Grundig, a skiff-like boat built for downwind conditions, had been a surprise leader on Friday night after Skandia and Zana unsuccessfully sailed out into the Tasman Sea in search of strong winds and a following current. Crewed by a core of 18-foot skiff sailors, Grundig is low, light, wide and flat, with a huge amount of downwind sail area. Grundig showed part of her potential sailing down Sydney Harbor from the start line with a spinnaker set Friday, but nobody expected this boat to be able to sail well upwind too.
In a smart tactical decision shortly after leaving the Sydney Harbor Heads, Sean Langman and his crew tacked onto port and stayed close along the coastline, where the light hull benefited from relatively flat water and a favorable current. When the first rays of light came up over the horizon Saturday morning Grundig had more than a 10-mile lead on the two maxis, both more than 20 feet longer.
But the sheltered flat-water conditions would only last until the bottom of the Australian continent and soon the larger maxis were able to use their size and power in the stronger headwinds and rough seas to move back into the lead.
The prevailing headwinds meant that Danish flyer Nokia's 1999 race record of 1 day 19 hours 48 minutes 2 seconds would remain.
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