Damen Yachting has announced that 55m (180.4ft) support yacht TIME OFF, the ninth hull of its YS 5009 series, has been launched at its yard in Antalya and will be ready for delivery this summer.
The support vessel sports a number of new features that set her apart from her predecessors. A new accommodation layout provides space for seven guests and four staff plus crew members and enhancements have been made to onboard comfort including a generator sound enclosure, upgraded AV and navigation systems and updated engine room installations.
In keeping with other models she features a large multipurpose main deck hangar which can be configured for a range of uses including submersible and dive operations, vehicle garage or workshop facilities, stowage of equipment or space for socialising.
The flexible nature of support yacht TIME OFF is enhanced further by a 50 square-meter (538 sq. ft) area aft which can again be tailored to suit onboard needs and can serve as a fully equipped dive center, additional storage to additional activity facilities or even as a laboratory and research area.
“The fact that Time Off is the ninth Yacht Support to be launched from our YS 5009 design speaks volumes. The flexibility this design offers our clients to really make the vessel work to their own yachting needs and requirements is what continues to make it so popular. We are all very proud to see her hit the water in Antalya and look forward to seeing the finishing touches come together” said Wouter Kleijpoel, Design Manager for Yacht Support vessels.
The eighth vessel from the YS 5009 line, support yacht GENE CHASER, was delivered in early February to Dr. Jonathan Rothberg, a pioneer in genetic sequencing technology. It is being used as a support vessel to support yacht GENE MACHINE, also owned by Rothberg, and will be used to combat global warming and to clean up the oceans and the air.
Damen Yachting is part of the Damen Shipyard Group and has shipyards in The Netherlands, Turkey, Poland and Romania. As well as the Yacht Support series of utility vessels, which includes support yacht TIME OFF and GENE CHASER it also produces the SeaXplorer line of yachts, purpose-built, long-range yachts that can explore the furthest corners of the globe. The most notable yacht from this range is 77m (252.6ft) explorer yacht LA DATCHA, which is equipped with a plethora of toys including two helicopters, a three-person submersible, two expedition RIBS and two snow scooters.
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