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A Smart Bridge
The future of yachting is here and it’s on display in Darse Sud. Palladium Technologies has created a buttonless bridge to integrate ship monitoring and controls for yachts. It incorporates the same technology in use with smart phones including pinching motions to make things bigger and smaller, touch and drag to pull items from menus, and swipe motions to collapse windows. “I’ve always wanted a clean, flat glass bridge,” said Mike Blake, president of Palladium. Palladium was an original beta software developer for the iPhone. The company also created the award-winning, Apple-based iSiMON and SiMON² products. “SiMON GOLD is a key enabling technology, closing the gap between science fiction and reality and setting the standard for the glass bridge of the future,” Blake said. Find Palladium in Darse Sud at QS85, or see a video at www. simon-gold.com.
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SIGNS OF A CLASSIC: Chief Eng. John Galloway shows off a guest cabin on M/Y Audacia that still has its originals stainless steel portholes. PHOTO/LUCY REED
Some buyers prefer the classics By Lucy Chabot Reed When one thinks of the Monaco Yacht Show, one thinks of the newest, most state-of-the-art superyachts. Indeed, about 40 percent of the show’s exhibiting yachts either launched in 2012 or were recently rebuilt and are making their debut here. But there are a handful of yachts on display that some might consider classics. These yachts carry something a bit different, and they usually attract a different kind of owner. “Some guests prefer an old boat,” said Chief Eng. John Galloway of the 25-year-old M/Y Audacia, a 48.5m (160-foot) Feadship. “We were on a charter with two newer yachts, and the guests liked being here. They said it was more comfortable. Here you can come in, relax, throw yourself on the couch and not worry that you’re going to hurt
something.” Chef Rob Condron, who spent three years on the busy charter yacht before rejoining her this season, said he likes the professional galleys Feadship puts on its yachts. “The center island is just classic and the nice big window makes for a bright galley,” he said. “It’s a classic old Feadship. They built it right the first time.” The yacht’s lines are original as is much of her interior wood. During a 2007 interior refit, original murals by Pierre Marie Rudelle, considered one of the masters of contemporary trompe l’oeil, were found beneath the silkcovered panels in two cabins. In 2010, a swim platform and stabilizers were added. And while much of her equipment
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