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The First All-Carbon Superyacht Ever Built Could Be Yours for a Cool $30 Million

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One of the most striking superyachts sailing the Seven Seas has just gone up for sale. Khalilah and her luxe gold exterior have been turning heads since 2015 and now the showstopper could now be yours for a cool $31 million.

But it’s more than shine and dynamic lines that render this vessel worthy of eight figures; Khalilah is a straight-up history maker. The 160-foot cruiser was the first all-carbon superyacht ever built.

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The handiwork of Palmer Johnson , the yacht’s carbon composite construction and revolutionary wave-penetrating hull means she can cruise at high speeds—26 knots being the top—with optimal fuel consumption. Moreover, there’s no need for zero speed stabilizers thanks to her 35-foot beam.

Onboard, Khalilah can accommodate up to 11 gilded guests within five well-appointed staterooms. The suitably opulent master suites are situated on the main deck and feature full-length windows that afford panoramic vistas. Elsewhere on this level is a generously sized living space and salon featuring a contemporary LED light installation, an ultra-modern galley, an alfresco dining area—complete with a bespoke cactus wood dining table—and vast aft deck.

“Khalilah” superyacht  Courtesy of SuperYachtsMonaco

Set on the upper deck is the hip skylounge. Perfect for after-hours socializing, the space is equipped with a high-tech entertainment system, overhead lights and comfortable lounges where you can while away the evening. Just ahead of the skylounge, you’ll find a sheltered terrace with a sunken spa pool to accommodate a late-night dip.

To top it all off, Khalilah comes packed with a matching 20-foot tender—dripping in gold, of course—as well as an array of water toys, including a jet pack, hoverboard, wakeboard, jet skis, kayaks, paddle boards and inflatables.

Exclusively for sale with SuperYachtsMonaco , the superyacht has an asking price of roughly $31 million (€28.5 million). If the festive season has you watching your shekels, you can also charter the superyacht.

Check out more photos of Khalilah below:

Courtesy of SuperYachtsMonaco

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The Midas Touch: $4.8 Billion History Supreme Most Expensive Yacht Ever Sold

We’ve seen some opulent yachts, but the 100-foot History Supreme takes the gold-encrusted cake. Stuart Hughes, a British purveyor of luxury gadgets, took a break from his role as an iPad alchemist to create the $4.8 billion superyacht, covered in platinum and gold from bow to stern.

Purchased by an anonymous Malaysian businessman, History Supreme is the most expensive yacht ever sold, according to Luxury Launches. The Daily Mail reports that the impressive vessel took three years to complete and used over a staggering 220,462 pounds of precious metals. Everything – from the base of the boat, to the deck, dining area, rails and anchor – were decked out in gold and platinum.

The exorbitant price tag is also the result of the lavish master bedroom, adorned in platinum with a wall feature that is made from meteoric stone and a genuine T-Rex dinosaur bone. It is rumored that Robert Kuok purchased the superyacht, worth 10 times the amount Roman Abramovitch (previous title holder for world’s most expensive yacht) paid for the Eclipse megayacht. Kuok is one of only three Malaysians with a net worth of $5 billion or more, according to Forbes billionaire’s list . If the purchase price is accurate, “the most likely buyer is Robert Kuok , the richest man in Malaysia, with a net worth of $12.5 billion,” reports Business Insider .

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History Supreme: The £3 Billion Gold Plated Yacht

By Ben Roberts

Intriguing reports have emerged regarding the world’s most expensive superyacht today. Worth almost ten times more than Eclipse, the largest yacht in the world, the 30.48m Gold plated superyacht, History Supreme, has now apparently hit the water.

History Supreme has been a well kept secret in the Superyacht Industry, which is understandable as the yacht itself is reportedly worth over £3 billion. Containing around 100,000kg of gold and platinum, History Supreme was designed by Stuart Hughes, the world renowned luxury designer, and took just over three years to complete.

Her hull and exterior design are both wrapped in the most sought after precious metals on the planet, coating elements of the deck, dining area, rails and even the anchor.

History Supreme also holds one of the most unique interior features to ever grace a yacht; a wall feature which is made from meteor stone and Tyrannosaurus Rex bone.

However, we feel it is highly unlikely that a superyacht adorned to this level will ever actually grace the waters, and if the reports are in fact true, it would be far better suited to a museum exhibit than a life on the ocean.

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The world’s first all-carbon superyacht is on sale for over $30 million — take a peek inside the flashy gold vessel

• Launched in 2014 , Khalilah was the first all-carbon yacht ever built .
• The yacht (from US shipyard Palmer Johnson ) has a distinctive gold exterior. 
• Khalilah was a standout at this year's Monaco Yacht Show in September, where its flashy exterior turned heads. 
• The vessel is currently listed for sale through SuperYachtsMonaco and G-Yachts with an asking price of €28.5 million (or roughly $31 million). 
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The world's first all-carbon yacht is for sale , with an asking price of €28.5 million (or roughly $31 million).

The vessel, known as Khalilah , was constructed using all-carbon composites, designed to offer optimal fuel consumption and a top speed of 26 knots. The superyacht also has a distinctive gold exterior, made with custom Cordova Gold , and was a showstopper at this year's Monaco Yacht Show . 

Featuring five guest rooms — including two master suites — Khalilah can fit 11 guests on board, in addition to nine crew members.

The yacht is currently listed for sale or charter through both SuperYachtsMonaco and G-Yachts .

Here's a closer look at Khalilah.

Khalilah is the world's first all-carbon yacht. Its carbon composite construction was designed to give optimal fuel consumption, even when cruising at its max speed of 26 knots. In addition, it has an exterior finish of custom Cordova gold.

The yacht also doesn't need speed stabilizers because of its 10.8 meter beam.

Source: SuperYachtsMonaco

The interiors, designed by the team at Palmer Johnson, are said to mix "contemporary chic" with "Asian influence." And, with five bedrooms — including two master suites — the yacht can house 11 people, in addition to a nine-person crew.

The master bedrooms are both finished with bleached birch wood and feature floor-to-ceiling windows, offering panoramic views of the ocean.

Each guest bedroom also includes its own bathroom.

The yacht comes with plenty of toys, including a custom 7-meter matching gold tender, a jetpack, a hoverboard, jet skis, kayaks, paddle board, inflatables, and a wake board. There is also a sunken pool, and a three-person sun pad.

There are two al fresco dining areas, one of which has BBQ and buffet stations.

The yacht's interior offers floor-to-ceiling picture windows, a contemporary LED light installation, and an open-plan galley located on the main deck.

There is also a full entertainment system and a sky lounge with panoramic views of the ocean.

Khalilah is currently listed for sale through both SuperYachtsMonaco and G-Yachts with an asking price of €28.5 million (or roughly $31 million).

The yacht can also be chartered through either company.

Source: SuperYachtsMonaco , G-Yachts

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Khalilah: on board the golden 49m all-carbon superyacht

When Khalilah hit the water in 2015 she was a sight to behold. Not only was she the largest carbon-composite-built superyacht in the world, with a beam comparable to that of a 70 metre, but she was also gold - very gold.

There is no doubting the hottest topic of conversation in Miami Beach in February 2015. The boat in question was not part of the showcase event but her abstract sculptural quality, her golden pearlescent finish and black radar arch made Khalilah indisputably the star attraction – even tied up at a private home on the Indian Creek Waterway, a stone’s throw from the show. Craft of all sorts milled about as passengers craned their necks for a better look at the golden goddess.

One man was keeping his cool amid all the hullabaloo. Timur Mohamed, owner of American boatbuilder Palmer Johnson , which produced the 49-metre SuperSport Khalilah. “This,” says Mohamed, sweeping a hand towards the huge aft deck by way of explanation, “is what this is all about.”

Her goldness is not what sets Khalilah apart. Nor is the fact that Khalilah ’s the largest private yacht built entirely in carbon composite. Rather, it’s that amazing aft deck, formed by its 11-metre beam. “This yacht has the beam of a 70 metre,” he says proudly.

And Mohamed can rightly feel proud, knowing as he does the amount of effort and the degree of innovation that has gone into creating the SuperSport series. In 2010, Mohamed came across a concept that served as the starting point for a yacht to shake things up, in what he considers the conservative world of yachting. It came courtesy of a designer called Berkeley March, a finalist in BOAT International’s 2008 Young Designer of the Year awards, who had started working for Palmer Johnson.

What Mohamed wanted was a yacht without compromise and, with March’s design, he had it. “We wanted to tick all the boxes of what owners want,” Mohamed says. “The design intent had a clear and bold goal from the start: to create superyachts that did not compromise speed, efficiency, comfort and space. Once we had exterior elements we liked, along with the new hull form, the next [goal] was that design, technology and performance had to be woven seamlessly into the essence of the yacht. We were aiming to capture the hearts and imagination of the discerning and knowledgeable.”

The first designs were produced in late 2011. A contract for the first yacht came a few months later. “It was a high-risk project,” says Mohamed, who admits he likes just this sort of challenge. 

“Innovative is when you change something fundamental,” Mohamed says. And the first SuperSport vessel did just that: a displacement yacht with no fin- or gyro-stabilisers, capable of reaching 30 knots and of providing the space of a multihull. “Thirty knots on a displacement hull simply does not happen,” he asserts. Shortly before heading to Florida, the yacht’s GPS registered 29.9 knots. Further fine-tuning inevitably followed.

Palmer Johnson, founded in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, in 1918 is no stranger to innovation. In the 1960s, the yard began building fast sailing yachts in aluminium. It expanded into the superyacht market, where it carved its niche with alluring and sporty yachts developed in co-operation with Italian design firm Nuvolari Lenard .

It was the company’s SportYacht series, launched in the mid-2000s, that first caught the attention of Mohamed. The first PJ120, Cover Drive , (now Ascari )was built for him. “It’s all part of the PJ story,” he says. “From Fortuna (a 30.5 metre built in the late 1970s for King Juan Carlos of Spain) to the SportYachts to the SuperSport series, PJ has always bred performance yachts with dynamic styling ahead of the market.”

It helps that the builder has like-minded clients. Palmer Johnson built the first SuperSport for a repeat customer who, in 2007, took delivery of another head turner: the golden, Nuvolari Lenard-designed 46-metre named O’Khalila (now Aquanova ). Unlike her predecessor, which was built in aluminium, Khalilah is entirely carbon composite: carbon fibre sandwich and vinyl ester.

Khalilah oozes the best of automotive styling with a soupçon of later-generation Palmer Johnson genes. On the water the 49-metre, despite her wide body aft, is sleek and sporty, with a long foredeck ending in what appears to be a reverse bow. 

Above deck, nothing is revealed: no tenders or cranes, no anchors, winches or mast clutter that foredeck; there is no towering superstructure, as Palmer Johnson eschewed such features many years ago. A wave-piercing element designed to part the water is visible only below the surface. Waves may rise occasionally to the level of side deflectors that also serve as interesting styling elements.

Seen from land, Khalilah offers a very different perspective and reveals her imposing scale. But even as Khalilah towers above, when you stand quayside (she is 16 metres tall from the waterline to the top of the mast), little prepares you for the space that she offers. The aft main deck sits on top of the widest part of the hull, courtesy of two sponsons that are designed to give stability. On closer inspection, these thin appendages have doors built right above them to allow the crew to unload tenders and toys.

Seen from the inside, they expand the storage space significantly. Twin side garages, one with a fuelling station, hold a seven-metre tender and three Jet Skis, and frame a large beach club protected from the elements by a wide glass door. With at least three functions, the sponsons are an integral part of the design and, when Khalilah is at anchor, they contribute to the feeling of space on board.

The aft deck’s size – 110 square metres – is closer to the space you’d expect on a multihull. Compounding the effect of that 11-metre beam, and the almost 12 metres from the transom to the saloon door, is the extensive use of glass, which opens up views everywhere you look. Seated or sprawled on the large outside banquette, or lying on enormous sunpads, you still enjoy uninterrupted views. Shapely railings support glass panels that break the wind effectively but don’t spoil the view.

More glass is inset in the carbon supports framing the main deck’s outdoor dining area, with the largest panes found forward at the main saloon level. “They are the biggest glass panels aside from Steve Jobs 's boat [ Venus ],” says Mohamed. In fact, at the time, they were the largest windows installed on a superyacht in the United States.

Thanks to the slender naval architecture and carbon composite construction (which represents a weight saving of about 20 tonnes, according to PJ’s own estimation), the SuperSport 48 requires relatively modest power to reach her noteworthy top speed of 32 knots. 

The engines are twin 16V MTU diesel M94s from the 2000 series, with a maximum 5,200hp output. As a result, total consumption at top speed is about 1,000 litres per hour. Consumption, says the captain who took the yacht from Wisconsin to Florida via Montreal, goes down significantly with speed. With an extra tank extending capacity up to 41,600 litres, and a consumption of 159 litres per hour, the yacht has a transatlantic range of 15 knots.

To build Khalilah entirely in carbon composite, Palmer Johnson selected a Norwegian shipyard well-versed in the material. Brødrene Aa, which specialises in fast ferries, built the first DNV-approved vessel in GRP sandwich panels in the 1970s and a few well-known yachts marketed under the Norship name, including the 36.5-metre Moonraker , once the world’s fastest yacht, in the early 1990s.

The assembled hull and superstructure, with engines and drives in place, made their way from Norway to Wisconsin in late 2013, and the PJ craftsmen installed the mechanics, electronics, a complex network of lights and built the custom interior to the owner’s requirements.

This owner wanted a simple but playful interior. A spiral of LED lights inset in the ceiling above the entrance foyer, a glass octopus, and low-lying colourful seats on top of wide-beam parquet flooring set the tone. But it is not long before the eyes wander towards the floor-to-ceiling windows that frame the saloon.

PJ’s standard layout calls for a larger main saloon, a galley down and a palatial master suite, sprawling full-beam forward on the main deck. Khalilah has a different layout, according to her owner’s wishes. 

The galley, a contemporary and alluring space with windows, stainless steel appliances and lacquered orange cabinets, looks as though it came from a Boffi showroom but was designed and built in-house. It was installed on the main deck at the owner’s request. Two similar-sized owner’s suites occupy the space forward, benefiting from great views through vertical portholes.

The guest cabins, including a comfortable VIP, are on the lower deck. Each has a different colour scheme, highly personalised décor and beautiful marble and colourful mosaics in the showers. The crew cabins (four twins and one single for the captain) are forward of a pleasant crew mess. A clever use of skylights allows light to stream belowdecks and the space is both practical and comfortable.

The pilothouse, up a few steps from the main deck, mirrors the progressive styling of the yacht herself. The modern bridge at the centre of it all was designed, assembled and built at Palmer Johnson, with control panels from Praxis Automation Technology. The wide windscreen offers a surprisingly good view despite the pronounced slant. A second, smaller helm station, or “skybridge”, is on the sundeck above. 

Modern Edge, an industrial design company based in Portland, Oregon, worked with Palmer Johnson on the design of this stainless steel and GRP console, which fits perfectly with the yacht’s exterior styling and integrates neatly with the Praxis control panels. Wing stations are on fold-out balconies, usually framed by removable stanchions and rails. Like many of this yacht’s design features, they are revealed only on closer inspection.

The yacht does have a forward navigation mast, but it disappears into the bowels of the vessel when not in use. The only indication of something there is the round shape of the teak detail forward of the sunpads. A system brings the mast up from below. Opening the trap and descending a rather steep ladder reveals a massive and perfectly finished mooring room where several crew can stand fully erect to supervise docking operations. Two anchors drop vertically from the bottom of that room, a system the yard chose to avoid unsightly anchor pockets that distract from the styling.

Practicality dictated most of the choices that the yard made on the technical side, from the sound damping material (Dynamat, a product commonly used in automotive and architectural applications) to the fixed Kohler generators and the conventional diesel power plant included. Most, but not all, of course. When you seek to provoke an emotional reaction and create a strong attachment from an owner to his or her yacht, the details count.

The owner of Khalilah clearly has a thing for gold, which is found at the heart of the engine room as a custom finish on the two MTU engine blocks. Gold suggests glamour and confidence but also courage and passion. It took all of that to imagine and build the first SuperSport. 

Khalilah is available for charter with Fraser .

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The Khalilah yacht was recently spotted off the coast of Croatia which has generated some buzz about the $28-million dollar sea craft. Outfitted with a gold exterior, this yacht is one that's tough to miss as it cuts through the shimmering waters off coastal cities. A yacht this expensive deserves to be seen and when it is, people have questions.

As it turns out, the yacht is currently for sale, but it's also available to charter... for a fairly steep price. Despite its construction back in 2015, Khalilah is still just as luxurious and decadent in design as if it were built only yesterday. So what does the inside of this seaworthy gold bar, and why is it such a big deal?

Outside Of The Yacht

Khalilah was designed by Palmer Johnson and was always intended to be eye-catching. Its design was a perfect example of modernity and sleek curves, which are apparent in its streamline shape. As it cuts through the water, the sun shimmers not only off its cresting wake but also off its exterior - which is finished in a custom shade called Cordova Gold.

Everything about the exterior of this yacht has been designed with competitive luxury in mind, from the bow that simply slices through the water to its minimalistic, yet high-end, options for deck seating and ocean views. Under the open sky, guests can socialize in the covered dining area or spend some lazy days on the sunpad-filled lounge.

The stairs down to the beach club are actually hidden from the exterior view but can be found off the outside art deck. From here, a pair of sliding glass doors lead to a bathing area, where a jetpack, wakeboard, waterboard, kayaks, paddleboards, and inflatables are kept. The skylounge is also located here, which is home to al fresco dining and entertainment space, as well as a covered terrace with a spa pool and oversized sunpad.

Inside The Yacht

If that wasn't enough to sell anyone on the amazing architectural detail of this yacht, then the inside surely will be. The interior design has subtle Asian influences combined with modern detail, combining massive windows with sleek lines and a contemporary finish of simple textures.

The yacht's birchwood bar leads directly into a full-beam salon. The decor here revolves around the strategic placement of LED lights and glass window installments, creating the perfect balance of natural and artificial lighting. The galley kitchen on the yacht was worked into the overall design, intending to be seen with its open floor plan. Here, guests will also find a breakfast bar for smaller meals, but the entire area can be opened as one space with the connecting salon.

The skylounge is the true gem of this yacht; with a fully-equipped entertainment system, this space is perfect for lounging or dancing the night away. The walls were designed with curved glass, offering a stunning panoramic view of the surrounding ocean while out at sea.

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Speed, Guest Size, Renting Protocol

The Khalilah can cruise at a top speed of 26 knots , with an average cruising speed of 15 knots. The craft also required no stabilizers, due to the installation of a 10.8-meter beam.

When it comes to personal space on the yacht, there's plenty - a total of five staterooms can be found, including two master suites, which accommodate a total of 11 people. On the lower deck, a 9-person crew can be accommodated as well, and each stateroom has its own en suite bathroom.

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