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Lavish accommodations, irresistible alfresco spaces, and exceptional amenities define Reverie, a magnificent 165' Feadship fully equipped to deliver the charter experience of a lifetime. From her palatial guest staterooms and plethora of recreational activities, to the impeccable service of her professional crew, Reverie will leave you dreaming of your next adventure on board.

Legacy of luxury

Navigating time with elegance and innovation.

Built in 2000, Reverie stands as a beacon of luxury and sophistication in the world of super yachts. With her impeccable design and unparalleled craftsmanship, she has gracefully navigated the seas, turning heads at every port.

Recognizing the evolving desires of discerning travelers, Reverie underwent major refits in 2017 and again in 2022, ensuring she remains at the forefront of modern luxury while retaining her classic charm.

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Our accommodations are designed to provide an intimate, serene, and lavish retreat for every guest. The master stateroom offers an opulent oasis, while the VIP stateroom redefines luxury with its exquisite features. Additionally, four elegantly appointed guest staterooms ensure that every journey is as comfortable as it is memorable. With the capacity to comfortably host 12 guests,

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A treasure trove of marine adventures.

Onboard Reverie, the excitement doesn't end once you drop anchor. Our collection of yacht toys promises adrenaline-packed adventures and serene moments alike. Glide over the water on one of our two jet skis, or dive beneath the waves with our ski bobs. For those looking to soar above the sea, our efoils offer an exhilarating experience like no other. And that's just the beginning. With a plethora of other toys waiting to be discovered, every moment spent on Reverie promises a new adventure.

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Dedication, expertise, and passion at your service.

The heart of Reverie lies not just in her luxurious design and amenities, but in the exceptional crew that brings her to life. Our handpicked team is dedicated to ensuring that every moment aboard is a seamless blend of comfort, safety, and unparalleled service. With a deep understanding of the sea and a passion for hospitality, they anticipate your every need, curate bespoke experiences, and transform your journey into an unforgettable voyage. From the captain's expert navigation to the chef's culinary masterpieces, the crew of Reverie is committed to making your time aboard nothing short of extraordinary.

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70m  /  229'8   benetti   2000 / 2016.

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Wowing with her sheer scale and glittering splendour, Benetti motor yacht FREEDOM brings opulence to the forefront of a luxury yacht charter

The 70.1m/230' 'Freedom' (ex. Reverie) motor yacht built by the Italian shipyard Benetti is available for charter for up to 12 guests in 8 cabins. This yacht features interior styling by John Munford.

Built in 2000, Freedom is custom-built for world-class luxury yacht chartering, offering a wealth of spacious living areas and fabulous amenities, you'll be in for a treat from the moment you step on board. She is equipped with a helipad, elevator and gym.

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Families will particularly love Freedom thanks to her child-friendly setup. She offers guest accommodation for up to 12 guests with a layout comprising a master suite located on the main deck, one VIP cabin, four double cabins and one twin cabin. There are 11 beds in total, including 2 king, 4 queen, 1 double, 2 singles and 2 pullmans. Additionally, there are 2 staff cabins aboard. Excellent service is guaranteed, with twenty-seven crew members on board to look after your every need.

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A charter on Freedom is comfortable and convenient thanks to the provided amenities including a gym with all the latest equipment to maintain your fitness routine. Soak up the bubbles in style in the deck jacuzzi.

Whatever your activities on your charter, you'll find some impressive features are seamlessly integrated to help you including an elevator, making any part of the yacht quickly and easily accessible. Freedom features a helipad, so you can arrive in ultimate style and comfort or take advantage of the on board Wi-Fi and stay connected at all times. Guests will experience complete comfort while chartering thanks to air conditioning.

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Freedom is built with a steel hull and aluminium superstructure. Powered by twin Caterpillar engines, she comfortably cruises at 12 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 16 knots with a range of up to 6,000 nautical miles from her 177,502 litre fuel tanks at cruising speed.

When not cruising Freedom has onboard an incredible selection of water toys and accessories for you and your guests to connect with the waters around you. Principle among these are Laser Pico sailboats to bring out the explorer in you. Guests can experience the thrill and adventure of riding a Yamaha WaveRunner. Additionally, there are waterskis that are hugely entertaining whether you are a beginner or a seasoned pro. If that isn't enough Freedom also features a Kite Surfer, scuba diving equipment, wakeboards, canoes, kayaks and much more. Freedom features two tenders, but leading the pack is a 10.5m/34'5" Wooden Tender to transport you in style.

Freedom is available upon request for charter this winter. She is already accepting bookings this summer for cruising in the Mediterranean.

This ocean-going luxury charter motor yacht carries up to 27 professional crew who will cater to your every need.

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For your relaxation and entertainment Freedom has the following facilities, for more details please speak to your yacht charter broker.

Freedom is reported to be available to Charter with the following recreation facilities:

• 10.5m  /  34'5 custom Wooden Tender with 2 x Volvo 265 HP engines
• 6.81m  /  22'4 Nautica RIB 265 HP engine

For a full list of all available amenities & entertainment facilities, or price to hire additional equipment please contact your broker.

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PADI CERTIFIED TRAINING CENTRE

Your family and friends could learn to scuba dive on your charter vacation onboard this luxury charter yacht. Motor Yacht Freedom is a certified PADI Dive Centre yacht so you could obtain your PADI diving card .

'Freedom' Charter Rates & Destinations

Summer Season

May - September

€500,000 p/week + expenses Approx $542,000

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Cruising Regions

Mediterranean Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Turkey

HOT SPOTS:   Amalfi Coast, Corsica, French Riviera, Ibiza, Mykonos, Sardinia, The Balearics

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October - April

$500,000 p/week + expenses

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$10 million price cut on Benetti's 70m superyacht Reverie at OCI

Almost a year to the day since I reported that the 70m motor yacht Reverie had come on the market with Michael White and Peter Thompson at Ocean Independence , comes news of a $10 million price reduction.

At the time of her build in 2000 she was the largest superyacht by tonnage built by Benetti and, despite her size, Reverie sleeps just 12 guests for charter in eight cabins with a further two cabins available for personal staff. A major attraction though, is that she can accommodate 18 to 24 guests for private use.

Internally, her six decks (all united by a lift) include one that is largely devoted to the owner. This includes a master suite that revels in a magnificent bedroom with panoramic forward views over the private terrace, sumptuous his and hers bathrooms and vast walk-in dressing rooms. The deck also offers two further family cabins (each with a double and a single bed), a study, an owner’s saloon and a circular inside-outside dining room.

Of the remaining guest cabins, four are identically sized double cabins with en suite bathrooms situated on the lower deck and an impressive VIP cabin, which occupies the forward element of the main deck superstructure.

Lying  in Genoa, Reverie is now asking $65 million.

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A helideck assures easy access no matter where you decide to cruise to.

Expansive sundecks are liberally appointed with sun-loungers and include premium facilities like a spa pool, a 12-person Jacuzzi and a semi-circular bar.

Other facilities on this stunning private yacht charter include a gym, a health club with steam and massage room, a beauty salon and a stone-lined pizza parlour. Yacht toys available include jet-skis, snorkeling equipment and kayaks.

Sleeping accommodation in this fabulous luxury yacht charter is provided in a series of sumptuous staterooms.

These include the master owner’s cabin with panoramic views, a VIP cabin with super king-sized bed and a heart-shaped jacuzzi, 2 family cabins and 4 double en-suite guest cabins.

The 27 highly trained professional staff on this crewed luxury yacht charter in the Mediterranean will ensure you enjoy the sailing holiday of a lifetime on board Reverie.

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Built in 1952 at the Chris Craft factory in Algonac, MI. In 1992 Dan Enloe of Portland, OR  purchased the boat and in 2000 did a major overhaul including new engines and christened the boat Cruise Missile. Current owners, Jerry & Karen O'Neill purchased the boat in Aug. 2013. They have completed projects including interior upgrades, electrical system, sanitation overhaul and extensive bright work on flybridge, aft cockpit and transom. Their goal is to restore it to its original splendor. They rechristened the boat Reverie in 2014.

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Why were so many metro stations in Moscow renamed?

Okhotny Ryad station in Soviet times and today.

The Moscow metro system has 275 stations, and 28 of them have been renamed at some point or other—and several times in some cases. Most of these are the oldest stations, which opened in 1935.

The politics of place names

The first station to change its name was Ulitsa Kominterna (Comintern Street). The Comintern was an international communist organization that ceased to exist in 1943, and after the war Moscow authorities decided to call the street named after it something else. In 1946, the station was renamed Kalininskaya. Then for several days in 1990, the station was called Vozdvizhenka, before eventually settling on Aleksandrovsky Sad, which is what it is called today.

The banner on the entraince reads: "Kalininskaya station." Now it's Alexandrovsky Sad.

Until 1957, Kropotkinskaya station was called Dvorets Sovetov ( Palace of Soviets ). There were plans to build a monumental Stalinist high-rise on the site of the nearby Cathedral of Christ the Saviour , which had been demolished. However, the project never got off the ground, and after Stalin's death the station was named after Kropotkinskaya Street, which passes above it.

Dvorets Sovetov station, 1935. Letters on the entrance: "Metro after Kaganovich."

Of course, politics was the main reason for changing station names. Initially, the Moscow Metro itself was named after Lazar Kaganovich, Joseph Stalin’s right-hand man. Kaganovich supervised the construction of the first metro line and was in charge of drawing up a master plan for reconstructing Moscow as the "capital of the proletariat."

In 1955, under Nikita Khrushchev's rule and during the denunciation of Stalin's personality cult, the Moscow Metro was named in honor of Vladimir Lenin.

Kropotkinskaya station, our days. Letters on the entrance: "Metropolitan after Lenin."

New Metro stations that have been opened since the collapse of the Soviet Union simply say "Moscow Metro," although the metro's affiliation with Vladimir Lenin has never officially been dropped.

Zyablikovo station. On the entrance, there are no more signs that the metro is named after Lenin.

Stations that bore the names of Stalin's associates were also renamed under Khrushchev. Additionally, some stations were named after a neighborhood or street and if these underwent name changes, the stations themselves had to be renamed as well.

Until 1961 the Moscow Metro had a Stalinskaya station that was adorned by a five-meter statue of the supreme leader. It is now called Semyonovskaya station.

Left: Stalinskaya station. Right: Now it's Semyonovskaya.

The biggest wholesale renaming of stations took place in 1990, when Moscow’s government decided to get rid of Soviet names. Overnight, 11 metro stations named after revolutionaries were given new names. Shcherbakovskaya became Alekseyevskaya, Gorkovskaya became Tverskaya, Ploshchad Nogina became Kitay-Gorod and Kirovskaya turned into Chistye Prudy. This seriously confused passengers, to put it mildly, and some older Muscovites still call Lubyanka station Dzerzhinskaya for old times' sake.

At the same time, certain stations have held onto their Soviet names. Marksistskaya and Kropotkinskaya, for instance, although there were plans to rename them too at one point.

"I still sometimes mix up Teatralnaya and Tverskaya stations,” one Moscow resident recalls .

 “Both have been renamed and both start with a ‘T.’ Vykhino still grates on the ear and, when in 1991 on the last day of my final year at school, we went to Kitay-Gorod to go on the river cruise boats, my classmates couldn’t believe that a station with that name existed."

The city government submitted a station name change for public discussion for the first time in 2015. The station in question was Voykovskaya, whose name derives from the revolutionary figure Pyotr Voykov. In the end, city residents voted against the name change, evidently not out of any affection for Voykov personally, but mainly because that was the name they were used to.

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Some stations have changed names three times. Apart from the above-mentioned Aleksandrovsky Sad (Ulitsa Kominterna->Kalininskaya->Vozdvizhenka->Aleksandrovsky Sad), a similar fate befell Partizanskaya station in the east of Moscow. Opened in 1944, it initially bore the ridiculously long name Izmaylovsky PKiO im. Stalina (Izmaylovsky Park of Culture and Rest Named After Stalin). In 1947, the station was renamed and simplified for convenience to Izmaylovskaya. Then in 1963 it was renamed yet again—this time to Izmaylovsky Park, having "donated" its previous name to the next station on the line. And in 2005 it was rechristened Partizanskaya to mark the 60th anniversary of victory in World War II. 

Partizanskaya metro station, nowadays.

Another interesting story involves Alekseyevskaya metro station. This name was originally proposed for the station, which opened in 1958, since a village with this name had been located here. It was then decided to call the station Shcherbakovskaya in honor of Aleksandr Shcherbakov, a politician who had been an associate of Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev had strained relations with Shcherbakov, however, and when he got word of it literally a few days before the station opening the builders had to hastily change all the signs. It ended up with the concise and politically correct name of Mir (Peace).

The name Shcherbakovskaya was restored in 1966 after Khrushchev's fall from power. It then became Alekseyevskaya in 1990.

Alekseyevskaya metro station.

But the station that holds the record for the most name changes is Okhotny Ryad, which opened in 1935 on the site of a cluster of market shops. When the metro system was renamed in honor of Lenin in 1955, this station was renamed after Kaganovich by way of compensation. The name lasted just two years though because in 1957 Kaganovich fell out of favor with Khrushchev, and the previous name was returned. But in 1961 it was rechristened yet again, this time in honor of Prospekt Marksa, which had just been built nearby.

Okhotny Ryad station in 1954 and Prospekt Marksa in 1986.

In 1990, two historical street names—Teatralny Proyezd and Mokhovaya Street—were revived to replace Prospekt Marksa, and the station once again became Okhotny Ryad.

Okhotny Ryad in 2020.

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