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“This yacht is superbly suited for a live aboard couple who intend to cruise far afield with visiting family and friends,” says S&S President Greg Matzat.
The 88 will be available with either three or four staterooms and two crew cabins. Unlike the 60, this yacht is designed for live aboard crewmembers. The layout on the 88 provides maximum privacy with the crew quarters located forward and guest accommodations aft with the engineroom in the middle. It has a spacious, attractive galley and full-beam master. Like her smaller sister, the 88 will be built in China.
The aesthetic elements of the yacht’s design draw on the elegant cruisers of the mid-20th century. The yacht will have a canoe stern, a Portuguese brow, high bulwarks and a funnel. Unlike many modern yachts that tend to have a flatter sheer, the 88’s sheerline will exhibit some “spring,” rising higher at the ends than in the middle.
The main saloon will have a teak sole and the owner’s choice of teak, cherry or makore joinery finished bright. Her interior will have the fundamental woody appeal of a classic, but without the sometimes-confining feel of an older, narrow-beam yacht.
S&S has employed several creative approaches to enhance the sense of size and volume on the 88. One is the use of an entry foyer with recessed, protected doors from the side decks, similar to the entries on larger yachts. An amidships stairway to the guest cabins below nominally separates the full-beam dining saloon from the main saloon, but leaves the space visually integrated. The recessed side entry doors allow the saloon to have windows on four sides providing light from all sides and sight lines fore and aft and beam to beam.
“When you can look forward, aft and sideways and see out a window, it always makes a space feel bigger,” says Matzat.
While aesthetics play a central role in the overall design, S&S has maximized the yacht’s functionality as well. For instance, the 88 will have an integrated swim platform, a feature not normally found on canoe-stern boats. The platform will be more squared than the canoe stern making it more functional as a swim and boarding platform and improving performance at higher displacement speeds.
The funnel, while venting the engineroom, also will house a grill protected from the wind, as well as a dayhead. There is extensive space on the sundeck for outdoor entertaining and the addition of amenities such as a Jacuzzi.
The 88’s hull will be tank-tested at the Shanghai Ship and Shipping Research Institute. The goal will be to maximize basic performance and refine the shape of the bow and bulb. An S&S engineer from the U.S. will oversee the tests.
The yacht will be equipped with a single Lugger diesel with twins offered as an option. With the single, the yacht will achieve a top speed of about 12 knots with a cruise of 10.
As with the Queenship 60, value was a defining goal of the 88 design. Base price is $5.2 million and includes a full complement of options.
“It will be a highly engineered and superbly designed boat with a very high level of finish for a reasonable sum of money,” says Matzat.
Matzat says projects such as these allow S&S to showcase its particular skills at creating uniquely styled boats and seakindly hulls. Model testing on the 88 will be completed by summer’s end and tooling begun in the fall. A 75-footer of a similar concept is currently in development for Queenship as well.
Located on New York’s Fifth Avenue, S&S was established in 1929 to engage in the practice of naval architecture and to conduct the business of yacht brokerage, charter and insurance. The company's founders, then-21-year-old yacht designer Olin J. Stephens II and yacht broker Drake Sparkman are towering names in the yachting industry. S&S remains one of the most enduring and venerated brands in yachting having delivered more than 2,700 commercial, military and pleasure craft designs throughout its storied history. Some of the company's best-known sailing yacht designs include Dorade, Stormy Weather, Finisterre, Running Tide, Bolero and Tenacious. It has also been heavily involved in the America's Cup, having designed successful defenders Ranger, Columbia, Intrepid, Courageous and Freedom. Notable recent S&S designs include the
Grand Banks 44 and 59, the Morris M36 and M42 and the 112-foot sloop
Zingaro.
S&S is unique in the yachting industry with its combination of design and brokerage services. The company is managed by Greg Matzat, President and Chief Naval Architect; Bruce Johnson, Executive Vice President and Sales Manager and employs 22 designers, brokers and staff, with offices in New York and Fort Lauderdale.