Todays Ship Highlight in the Philipsburg Port: Bravo Eugenia
St. Maarten Ship Review: Bravo Eugenia
St. Maarten is not just a very popular port of call for cruise liners, but also a hub for the Caribbean mega yacht industry. Every week, we give our visitors on land information on special ships visiting the Philipsburg St. Maarten Cruise Port and the mega yacht marina Dock Maarten next to it. Todays highlighted ship is the massive gigayacht Bravo Eugenia, exploring some features that can not be seen from its impressive exterior.
1. Of Famous Stock
Bravo Eugenia was built in 2018 at Oceanco, Alblasserdam, the Netherlands, a renowned mega yacht brand able to build yachts up to 150 meters. This famous mega yacht dock also built the black pearl, one of the world’s most remarkable sailing ships and also frequent guest on St. Maarten docks. Oceanco likes to build different classes of yachts with dreams of owners in mind: “Oceanco yachts tell the distinctive stories of their owners, who come to us with visions that go beyond the yachts that already exist. Sometimes, even beyond our notions of what a yacht can be.”
2. Not a Mega Yacht, but a Giga Yacht
With a 109 meters in length and a gross tonnage of 3,418, Bravo Eugenia officially can classify as a Gigayacht. Whereas superyachts are mostly classified as over 24 meters and mega yachts over 60 to 80, vessels over a 100 meters are often named giga yachts.
3. A Reason to Build a New Mega Yacht Marina
As the size of gigayachts like the Bravo Eugenia keep expanding in size, many of these behemoths no longer fit through the at the St. Maarten Yacht Club. This passage connects the large St. Maarten yachting industry in the Simpson Bay Lagoon to the Caribbean sea. To accommodate mega vessels Dock Maarten was created, a new mega yacht marina next to the Philipsburg St. Maarten cruise port. Its proximity to the St. Maarten capital provides a large array of things to do for yachties and crews, as the Simpson Bay area does for the ships fitting through the bridge.
4. An Eye on Sustainability
Bravo Eugenia is fitted out with innovations to make the ship more environment friendly than many of its equivalents. Amongst these are a hybrid propulsion system and 30 % less fuel usage than its counterparts would need at this length.
5. Bravo ! Eugenia: An Award Winning Ship
If the design and sustainability efforts by Oceanco, Reymond Langton Design and exterior by Nuvolari Lenard appeal to you, you are in good company. In 2019, Bravo Eugenia was a finalist in the Asia Boating Award competition for best Custom Built Yacht. Its sustainability aspects made it win the Yacht Club de Monaco Belle Classe Explorer Awards for Adventure, Ethics and Environment. In the same year, it won the Worlds Yacht Trophies Yacht of the Year and was finalist for the over 65 meters Best Power award.
6. Named After A Real Person
Contrary to most yachts visiting the St. Maarten port, the Bravo Eugenia is called after a real person. Eugenia Jones is the wife of the yachts owner Jerry Jones, famous for his involvement in the Dallas Cowboys, an American football team that also belongs to him.
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