Splash – Built by Rayburn Custom Yachts in 2008, motor yacht Splash is a comfortable 100′ semi displacement yacht with 4 large staterooms and a huge country kitchen. The traditional styling and beautiful satin finish hardwood floors and teak cabinetry would attract owners from all areas of the industry.
VvS1 – Built by renowned New Zealand manufacturer Alloy Yachts, VvS1 was designed for luxury blue water cruising. With 4 staterooms, a gym & Teppanyaki style dining area, this 2007 112′ yacht has plenty of room to let guests relax as the miles flow by.
Lazzara 116 – This popular 116′ Lazzara is perfectly designed for South Florida Living. Sleeping up to 10 guests in 5 staterooms, she has a large flydeck that is perfect for entertaining with wet bar, grill & jacuzzi and her shallow draft is perfect for heading across to the Bahamas.
Hi, everybody. Welcome to this week’s Insider Yacht Review. This is the brief roundup of the three boats that we have for you today. As always, the full-length reviews are down just below this video window. Click on any one of those three and it will take you to the full-length video, going through all of the photographs and specifications, all the detailed walk-throughs, and all the usual good stuff.
The three boats that we have for you today are all in the 100-foot range, between 100 foot and 115. They’re all great boats, personal favorites of mine, so this is a bit of a selfish indulgence for me going through these boats. Let’s get stuck in.
Splash The first one that we have for you today is called Splash. It’s a 100-foot Rayburn. Rayburn are custom boat builders. They’ve been in business for around 13 years I think now. Their main yard is just outside of Vancouver, about an hour outside, a town called Mission, and they build fantastic custom one-off boats.
This one here was built in 2008. It’s available now, a 100 foot, as I said. It’s got nice beam, 23 feet, and the draft is fairly shallow. It’s 5’ 11", full fiberglass hull and superstructure. The back deck on here is nice open plan. It has a real warm feeling to the boat on the inside. Again through some of the other specifications here, it’s full guest staterooms plus crew accommodation here as well.
It’s a fly bridge boat, or an enclosed fly bridge, so all of the main deck is dedicated to guests areas as opposed to some of the other boats in this range, which will have a small helm station down here. On this one, the helm station is up in the enclosed fly bridge. It’s almost like a sky lounge there like you see on the tri-deckers.
It’s got a nice, big country kitchen, nice open full 270-degree view out the windows, the forward-facing windows and the port and starboard side there. The main deck salon has a real nice, comfortable traditional feel, but not over the top on that, so the traditional take. It has nice king planks running down the ceiling and teak woods used everywhere. It’s a real nice comfortable feeling. It’s not overpowering with teak at all. They use cream-colored carpets and so neutral tones in there as well. Launched in 2008, as I said, Rayburn, four guest staterooms, still in South Florida now as it says there and it’s a great boat. They actually have a hull available at the Rayburn yard for someone to take and continue to build. It’s actually going to be slightly larger than this one, although it’s based on Splash.
What they’re going to do different is they’re going to add an enclosed fishing cockpit at the back which will bump it up to around 107, 110 feet so that’s available now. The hull is already built. It’s about 18 month build time to completion. There’s some flexibility there, I understand, for where you would like the boat to be completed as far as which yard, whether it’s in their Vancouver facility or somewhere else, so great opportunity, fantastic boat here though Splash.
I really like the Rayburns. They got some nice quality manufacturers and contractors that go into creating this boat so fantastic boat there.
VvS1 Next one we have which … I really, really love this boat. I like seeing boats that are built for a specific purpose and a specific need. It’s clear that it’s built for an owner who is passionate about something that he wants the boat to enhance that part of his lifestyle and this definitely that type of boat here.
It’s called VvS1. It’s 112 foot. It was built by Alloy Yachts and they are a very famous yacht-builder of New Zealand. Since it was built in 2007, it spent all of its time in the South Pacific around New Zealand and Australia and hasn’t really come out there until now. It’s very recently come up for sale. They put it on one of the dockwise ships that came through Fort Lauderdale. We had chance to chat with the guys onboard and it’s gone over to the Mediterranean.
So VvS1, 112 feet, has a nice big beam, almost 26-foot beam. It doesn’t mention the draft here, but it is 7’3" the draft. This is a full displacement hull. We haven’t done many full displacement style hull configurations on the reviews here. This is an expedition-style boat, so it’s definitely a true full-displacement hull, but typically you don’t see that many of them around here purely because a lot of people or 90% of people do the Bahamas and runs in that lower 100 range to the 80-foot range, you don’t see that many full displacement hulls.
Some of Benetti’s have full displacement hulls, but it’s a very stable hull. It’s a very smooth ride and hull out of the three so the types of hull that you have, a full displacement, semi displacement and plane hull, this is the most stable out of the three and that’s why it’s usually expedition styles.
That being said, it does greatly reduce your speed and you can see that here, 10 knots cruising and 13 knots maximum. With this style boat, you’re not going anywhere in a hurry. You’re using the boat for pleasure, and when you get there, you get there. Great boat, great fuel burn at that speed as well, and they have the Caterpillar. I think it’s the 34 series that they have on here, 3406 I think.
Built in 2007 by Alloy, a long-range cruise expedition-style yacht, four guest state rooms and it runs between four and six crew there as well. The interior on this is such a nice mellow interior, very social feel to it, has these polished teak floors or satin varnished teak floors, running throughout the entire boat on the interior. The exterior on the fly bridge they have a very cool teppanyaki-style dining area. Teppanyaki is where the Japanese chefs will cook the tofu in front of you and then flick it up and you catch in your mouth. I’m sure you’ve all been to those style restaurants but a great boat here.
They have the nice big tender. The tender is perfect for fishing and for diving. In fact, they’ve done over 7,000 miles just in the tender. The boat has been used very heavily as far as the amount of miles that they’ve covered, but they’ve done big refits and rebuilds over that time. They had a big refit period during 2012, both the generators were rebuilt, and they have around 1500 hours on them since those rebuilds.
You can see from the photographs here nice huge windows in that main salon area. The salon area sits just forward to the dining room. Then they have the forward cabin on deck master and three cabins down below and then the crew is back aft. Fantastic boat. I really like this one. It has nice big fishing cockpit at the back, carries two tenders, as mentioned and it just purely fits a purpose. If you want to go off the beaten track and go and disappear off the charts for a couple of months on the boat, this is the boat to do it in.
Lazzara 116 Moving on to our last of the three today, another Lazzara. I like to include Lazzaras in there from time to time. They’re another boat that’s built for the pure purpose of South Florida and Bahama living. This is the largest out of the three today, yet it has the shallowest draft and we saw that on last week’s review as well with our 86’ Lazzara that we did the review on.
This one was built in 2009, it’s 115’ 7“, it’s their 116 model, 23-foot beam and 5–1/2” draft, that’s amazing draft for this size, fiberglass hull and superstructure. It’s here in South Florida. It’s around the Palm Beach area.
This boat, for the privacy of the owners, they’ve actually taken the name off of the listing so for now it’s being called Withheld, which is fitting, so out of respect for that, I won’t say the name on this review.
Since there are seven staterooms, it’s actually five staterooms plus two crew cabins. It’s actually four true staterooms, but off of the master is a study/exercise room with a big pull-out couch and that could be the fifth cabin, so really it’s four, but can quite easily be converted into five or four with a small gym.
The current owners do live aboard this. It’s a great livable boat with lots and lots of space just for those four or five cabins, so real nice social areas in here. Has a big country kitchen as all of Lazzaras do up on the sundeck. It has a nice Jacuzzi, nice social area, nice grill up there. At the back it has this big hydraulically-operated swim platform which is perfect for staging water sports and we’ve seen on a few on the other boats we saw on last week on the Lazzara and on the Sunseeker that we did a review on.
Another great boat. It’s very traditional on the interior, lots of dark woods with a high-gloss finish to it, also has very traditional style furniture and soft goods. If that’s not quite your style, that can be toned down quite a bit by changing out some of the soft goods, but you only really notice that in this salon area and a little bit in the master cabin. The rest is not quite so heavy on the traditional styling, but pure personal preference. A lot of the Lazzaras are built with that traditional styling and it caters to a large portion of the market.
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