Oftentimes the designers behind a superyacht tender aren’t the same as those who designed the mothership. The founders of Baz Yacht Design believe it’s important to have the same guest experience aboard both. It therefore created the Kai Limousine Tender concept purposely as an extension of a recent custom-yacht concept, Project Kai. “Designing the Kai Limousine Tender for a yacht like Project Kai requires more than simply matching lines. It means carrying forward the soul of the family,” they say.
The co-founders of Baz Yacht Design, Bilge Zaptçıoğlu Atal and Barbaros Atal, have experience in both maritime and interior design. Bilge is an architect and interior designer, while Barbaros is a naval architect and marine engineer. They established the studio in 2014, currently with offices in both Hamburg, Germany and Marmaris, Turkey. Among other projects, Baz Yacht Design contributed to the refit of the 131-foot (40-meter) sailing superyacht North Star at Mengi Yay Yachts in 2023. Additionally, the two spend four to five months annually aboard their own sailing yacht.
Baz Yacht Design’s Project Kai concept is a 162-foot (49.5-meter), hybrid-powered motoryacht. She blends echoes of gentleman’s yachts with still-graceful contemporary flair. Similarly, she blends perennially popular amenities with more recently in-demand wishes. For instance, an office/lounge exclusively for the owners opens out to a private deck area. They can enjoy movies or practice their golf swing out here, too. All of this, plus the owners’ suite, is on a fully private deck. In fact, the crew won’t regularly access it for routine movement around the yacht. Guests, meanwhile, have their suites on the main deck, and upon walking outside aft can descend stairs to the open-air beach club. Finally, the beach club doubles as the Kai Limousine Tender stowage area, complete with a lifting platform to ease launch and retrieval.
As for the Kai Limousine Tender, she’s 41 feet (12.5 meters) LOA. Baz Yacht Design styled her with similarly flowing lines. For example, the bow shapes are identical. The tender has open space aft like her mothership as well. Furthermore, she’s for taking the full owners’ party of 12 wherever they need to go. Beam is a comfortable 10 feet (3.15 meters). Since Baz Yacht Design sees her a “a floating extension of the Kai lifestyle,” outfitting of the fiberglass tender, with a carbon fiber superstructure, can pick up the same aesthetics as the main megayacht.
Given its naval-architecture and engineering experience, Baz Yacht Design has already analyzed potential performance. According to the designers, the Kai Limousine Tender should achieve top speeds to 39 knots. Twin 400-hp Volvo Pentas deliver those speeds. Shallow waters won’t be a problem, considering a draft of two feet (0.62 meter).
The studio says Project Kai and her Kai Limousine Tender can each start construction within weeks of contract signing.
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