Press Review 2010

The Yacht Report
August/September 2010
Cloud 9

Try Before You Buy
The Superyacht Charter Business Model

In the current market, we are seeing two things happen: yachts are being sold more aggressively with huge discounting to dispose of the fl oating asset, or those clients who still feel that they want their toy have decided to attract an increase in revenue in order to defray costs and make the yacht pay its way.

GEMS - New Generation Luxury
June 2010
SLIPSTREAM

The largest motor Yacht by French Shipyard "CMN"

With a 60 meter overall length SLIPSTREAM is the largest motor yacht ever launched by CMN shipyard (France), and the second unit of a new line of Motor-Yachts developed by the shipyard in cooperation with Andrew Winch Designs.

The Wealth collection
Summer 2010
SEA THE POTENTIAL

CMN Shipyard, based in France, the home of excellence and flair for luxury goods, introduces Project 803. This is an exciting venture that provides the opportunity to possess a superyacht, built to a proven formula but awaiting the individual stamp of an owner. Cyril Le Sourd, product manager of CMN, tells The Wealth Collection the story so far of the project’s Line 60 range.

Guards Polo Club
Yearbook 2010
CMN Yachts

"The French passion for style creates luxury vessels that become not just yachts but pieces of art."

Spring Summer 2010
Sea & i
CLOUD 9

Step aboard the heavenly charter yacht

Those looking to charter a low-key, beach-club style motoryacht in the Mediterranean this summer will find the recently launched Cloud 9 is the perfect choice

Mai Juin 2010
Mer & Bateaux
Carnet de bord international

Numéro un Français des superyachts

Le président du chantier naval ADM Shipyards, l'entrepreneur franco-libanais Iskandar Safa, qui avait acquis les CMN (Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie) en 1991, confirme qu'il souhaite conforter en Europe la position du chantier français dansl'industrie des superyachts...

Avril 2010
Mer & Bateaux

Cloud 9

Arpès Netanya 8 et Slipstream, ce 3ème CMN Line 60 m du chantier de Cherbourg " est émotionnellement un bateau différent et plus classique," selon le Britannique Andrew Winch designer de cette prestigieuse gamme de superyachts.

April 2010
ЯХТы
Boat International
(Russian version)

Necker Belle

Самый непредска- зуемый в мире бизнесмен не мог выбрать для себя обычную яхту. Сорвиголова Ричард Брэнсон бороздит морские просторы на борту углепла- стикового парусного катамарана размером с теннисный корт.

April 2010
Superyacht Business
NEW BUILD Round up

CMN

Now part of the abu Dhabi Mar group, cherbourg’s cMn is specialised in producing yachts and military craft. cMn is able to call on the expertise of racing yacht builder and sister yard JMV for carbon yacht construction, but it’s the Line 60 — cMV’s ‘highly adaptable platform’ — that is currently keeping the yacht division busy.

June 2010
Yachts International
CMN SLIPSTREAM AND CLOUD 9 UNFORGETTABLE DUO

TWO OF A KIND

Destined to become a world leader in CMN’s name is certainly not new in the pleasure yacht market, but the shipyard, now part of the recently created Abu Dhabi Mar Group, made quite a splash with the launch of two 197’ sisterships in 2009. The two Andrew Winch-designed vessels, both available for charter, have distinctive personalities but are true sisterships and share a common DNA.

Winter 2010
Arabian Knight
Abu Dhabi MAR Group powers ahead

Destined to become a world leader in yacht construction and naval shipbuilding, Abu Dhabi MAR Group will be making waves at this year’s Abu Dhabi Yacht Show as it reinforces its new unified brand in the market.

march 2010
Yachting
New Kid on the Dock

CMN's 60-meter Slipstream makes waves.
Slipstream is a great example of why CMN is turning heads. The largest yacht they've ever built, she features a striking black steel hull...

annual report 2009/2010
The Yacht Report
Caught Up In It

Slipstream
This yacht was built in tandem and as a two-yacht deal under Burgess's management for two different owners.

Winter 2010
Virgin Territories

He famously crossed the Atlantic and Pacific in a hot-air balloon, but with his latest venture entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson is getting closer to the ocean with the launch of his new catamaran Necker Belle

January 2010
Necker Belle

True to form, Sir Richard Branson has eschewed convention for his first superyacht, choosing to reincarnate a carbon-fibre cruising catamaran with just the right mix of speed, comfort and thrill

January 2010
Cloud 9

A step into the unknown for her two owners, this 60 metre is a sublime yacht that will delight guests and charterers alike.