That satellite service will offer seamless worldwide streaming coverage within the year, meaning Gigi could soon conceivably have an uninterrupted screening of Jaws while bobbing in the Weddell Sea in the Southern Ocean, thousands of miles from civilization. One piece of equipment that Christian’s Gigi has that Baker is considering for Rena is Starlink. Baker says the entire pilothouse will undergo a revamp at the end of the next season, with hundreds of thousands of dollars in new electronics replacing the older equipment. The other thing about superyachts: Technology changes so fast that systems need to be replaced. “But it’s another level of security just in case.” Starship Enterprise? No, it’s the helm station of the 181-foot Axis, typical of most superyachts its size.Įven with all the state-of-the-art equipment, the boat has paper charts-it’s old school, like someone carrying a roadmap in their car in case their phone goes out. The farther offshore you go, the more you need.” For communications, we have satcom, AIS, VSAT, and are GMBSS compliant. “We also have two radars, double depth sounders, and bow thrusters. “We have a commercial-grade Wartsila Transas NS4000 plotter that is standard for larger ships,” says Baker, then pointing to the redundancies of other systems. In the pilothouse, both men point to the sweeping banks of electronics across their helm stations as proof of the complexities of the job. It means learning how to work with larger and more diverse crews (the larger boats have engineers, chefs and other specialists), using electronics more common on commercial ships than pleasure boats, and having larger, more complex, engine rooms to deal with. Switching yachts in ever-greater hull lengths is more than just upsizing boats. What looks like a haphazard career path in any other industry makes sense in the superyacht sector, given the wide-ranging differences between yacht types and ever-changing technology.

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