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Motor Yacht RHAPSODY II was built in 2006 by american ship builder JOHNSON YACHTS. She has a length of 89,9 feet, (27,4 meters) for a beam of 23,6 feet, (7,2 meters) and a draft of 6,6 feet, (2 meters). M/Y RHAPSODY II is powered by engines developing up to horse power for a cruising speed of 12 knots and can reach a max speed of 19 knots.

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Rhapsody II

Rhapsody ii was built and fully optioned to be the johnson motor yachtsflagship of johnson motor yachts. proudly demonstrating the workmanship and detail of the skilled tradesmen that created this modern style super yacht. the owner has recently made upgrades including the audio and visual equipment to current hd lcd tv, navigation 3d furuno displays, flir remote control cameras, satelite tv and internet. this vessel has true long range capabilities in 6 star luxury. master suite is on main deck and guest twin cabins have pullmans. crew have own galley fascilities and captains double cabin..

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RHAPSODY Yacht for Sale

*Not for sale to US residents while in US waters.

Motor Yacht RHAPSODY is a 94’ (28.65m) yacht for sale, built and launched by yacht builder Paragon. Delivered to a knowledgeable yacht owner in 2009 and refit in 2019. This vessel sleeps up to 8 guests in 3 staterooms and has accommodations for 3 crew in 2 cabins.

Northrop and Johnson is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel. This boat is centrally listed by Worth Avenue Yachts. It is offered as a convenience by this broker/dealer to its clients and is not intended to convey direct representation of a particular vessel

Specifications

Accommodations, dimensions & capacity, construction, engines (x2).

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Other machinery.

•  60 hp 16” dual prop vortex bow and stern thrusters
• 16 sq ft. Roll- fin stabilizers by Wesmar
• Aquamet #22 or equivalent (3-1/2”) propeller shafts in conjunction with “rubber design” flex couplings at gear to shaft couplings
• Water cooled exhaust system with 6” bypass tubes aft with additional silencers for bypass exhaust
• Power train & exhaust systems have been designed for the smoothest and most quiet results possible
• Dual Racor 75/1000 fuel filters/water separators with vacuum gauges for each engine
• R.C.I. fuel purifiers (RCM 800) for each engine installed in-line before
• Racors Bronze “V” struts with cutlass bearings
• “Tides” dripless propeller and rudder shafts
• Glendenning: 2003 Model electronic engine controls at skylounge helm, port & starboard bridge command stations; including remote control for aft deck
• Dual hydraulic power assisted steering system
• Two 4” dia. posts S.S. foil section, streamlined rudders
• Engine room start/stop panels with engine instrument gauges
• Visual and audio alarms for engine systems at pilothouse
• Wesmar stabilizers
• Aqua air, 15-ton chilled water air conditioning and heating system with surge-less startup
• Central vacuum system
• HRO systems reverse osmosis watermaker (1400 g.p.d.) with freshwater flush system
• Automatic fire extinguishing system with automatic engine shut down “Tecma” marine heads throughout
• (4) “Odyssey” pc 1700 dry-cell batteries for main engine start (2 ea. engine) 2 “Odyssey” pc 1200 dry-cell batteries for generator start (1 ea. generator) Sixteen “Trojan” l-16 6 volt batteries for ships 24 volt dc service system
• (2) “Trace” 4kw/120 amp inverter/charger for charging ships battery system, interface for 8kw and house battery bank monitoring panel
• Newmar 24 volt battery charger for main engine batteries
• Newmar 24 volt battery charger for service batteries (back up charger)
• Newmar 24v to 12v transformers
• (2) 75 amp (engine alternators) for charging engine start batteries
• (2) 160 amp (large frame engine alternators) for charging ships service batteries
• (2) Charles Marine ISO-Boost shore power isolation transformers
• Marinco shore power 125/250 vac 
• 50 amp inlets aft & one fwd
• Marinco 100 amp shore power 125/250 inlet aft on a Glendenning cable master and one 75 foot extender

Accommodation

OWNER STATEROOM

• Accessed via private stairway from the salon
• King-size walkaround berth with large drawers & storage underneath
• Nightstands with drawers
• Cedar-lined hanging & walk-in closet
• Sofa to starboard
• Combo washer/dryer to port
• Dresser cabinet, desk/vanity area to port
• (2) Wall-mounted reading lights 
• Overhead LED lights on dimmer controls
• Entertainment system
• Air conditioning system

VIP STATEROOM

• Queen walk-around with storage beneath – drawers and hinged access
• Portside settee that converts to a full-size berth
• Cedar-lined hanging lockers
• Overhead LED lights on dimmer control
• (2) Wall-mounted reading lights
• (2) Opening Freeman port lights at stbd, and one to port

GUEST STATEROOM

• Queen-size island berth with hinged access to storage underneath
• Port & starboard outboard storage lockers
• “Freeman” escape/ventilation hatch w/ “OceanAir” screens
• Entertainment System
• Built-in desk

Communication Equipment

• Icom VHF radio w/command mic & remote

Navigation Equipment

• (4) Furuno 17” Monitors
• Furuno dual 12kw Navnet Radars
• 6 ft open array Furuno dual WASS GPS
• Furuno digital fishfinder/sounder
• Furuno F150 instruments
• Comrod Antennas
• Simrad autopilot w/ handheld remote backup
• Nauticomp PC computer
• WXWorx XM satellite weather
• Skymate Senrtymate system
• Panasonic PABX intercom phone system
• Elbex CCTV Cameras
• Monitor for all onboard cameras –Foredeck looking forward, (1) on each side deck, aft deck looking aft, arch looking aft, engine room fore and aft
• FLIR Camera
• ACR Spotlight controls

Deck Equipment

• All exterior stainless steel # 316 grade with welds ground smooth and highly polished 
• Seating area at bow with removable table and filler piece for transition into large sun pad lounge
• Large storage lockers port & starboard at bow area
• Central fuel tank fills port & starboard
• Cambered decks w/ outboard drain channels
• Watertight forward deck hatch, access to anchor well (“Freeman Hatch”)
• Forward deck hatch & ventilation/escape hatch for forward guest stateroom
• “Freeman Hatch” Freshwater and saltwater washdown hook up at bow area
• Fire hose at forward starboard bow locker with 15’ hose & fire hose nozzle
• Built-in, high-pressure anchor chain wash system (freshwater)
• High polished S.S. handrails
• 250 lb. S.S. polished plow type anchor, 400’x 5/8” high test chain “Nautical Structures” 2200 lb.
• S.S. Hawse holes and bollards Port & starboard bulwark doors
• Overhead Cantalupi lights on dimmer controls for walk-around deck
• “Underwater lights” at walkarounds on forward main deck
• Cantalupi deck safety lights
• “Marquipt” boarding ladder – access at port and starboard mid-side deck
• Teak for all main decks
• Warping winches - port & starboard
• Portside integral stairway up to boat deck/fly-bridge (teak steps)
• FRP starboard side storage cabinet with refrigerator
• FRP molded bench seat with large dining tables
• Portside locker with engine controls/thrusters, autopilot joystick in lieu of steering wheel
• Overhead stereo speakers
• VHF radio station cabinet PBX phone system hook up
• Aft facing hailer horn location
• Floodlights facing aft
• Fire hose at port side w/ 15’ hose & fire hose nozzle
• Swim Platform
• Teak decking with stairway port & starboard, up to aft deck (teak steps)
• Hydraulic stow away swim ladder inside swim platform
• Hands-free hot/cold water shower
• (3) Extra-large pop-up cleats, port center & starboard
• Watertight “Freeman” door, access to utility/crew & engine room
• S.S. rails on stairs up to aft deck
• Water-proof safety lights on stairs up to aft deck
• Salt-water hook up
• (4) “Underwater” floodlights, on transom underwater
• (4) S.S. “U” rails around swim platform
• Maxwell liberty 2500 stern windlass 2500, 250’ rode and 75’ chain
• Freshwater shower on swim platform
• Salt-water wash down at bow and stern

Refit History

In 2016 all lighting was updated to LED throughout the boat. During 2018/19 the boat had an extensive refit and refurbishing performed by Lyman Morse in Maine. The refit included servicing of all equipment and system, new soft goods, the addition of the dining area, conversion of the flybridge area to an enclosed skylounge and repainting of the upper deck areas. A complete list of the refurbishing completed is available.

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Rhapsody is a custom motor yacht launched in 2006 by Paragon Motor Yachts and most recently refitted in 2015.

Rhapsody measures 28.04 metres in length, with a max draft of 1.80 feet and a beam of 6.58 feet.

Rhapsody has a GRP hull.

Performance and Capabilities

Rhapsody has a fuel capacity of 4,500 litres, and a water capacity of 750 litres.

Accommodation

Rhapsody accommodates up to 8 guests in 3 cabins.

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RHAPSODY for sale

Specifications.

• Name: RHAPSODY
• Yacht Type: Motor Yacht
• Series, Model, Class: Paragon 94
• Builder: Paragon Motor Yachts
• Naval Architect: Scott Robinson
• Exterior Designer: Scott Robinson
• Length Overall: 28.65 metres
• Beam: 6.59 metres
• Max Draught: 1.81 metres
• Gross Tonnage: 178
• Displacement Tonnage: 100

Construction

• Year of Build: 2009
• Hull Number: 94-06
• Hull Type: Semi Displacement
• Number of Decks: 2

Performance & Capacities

• Max Speed: 20 kn
• Cruising Speed: 15 kn
• Fuel Capacity: 2839 litres
• Water Capacity: 1893 litres
• Engine Make: Caterpillar
• Total power: 3100hp
• Superstructure: GRP

Accommodation

• Passenger Rooms: 3
• Master Rooms: 1
• Double Rooms: 2

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• SPECIFICATIONS

Rhapsody is a thoroughly updated Paragon 2009 94′ Motor Yacht with an enclosed pilothouse. She features twin Caterpillar C-32s and (2) Northern Lights Generators with only about 2000 hours on all machinery. 

In 2018/19 she was refit by Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding Co . The flybridge was converted to an enclosed pilothouse, the interior received all new soft goods, new appliances in the galley, as well as granite countertops and new a dining area, all upper deck areas were repainted, and all equipment and systems were serviced.

Rhapsody is turn-key and ready to go cruising!

Just Reduced by over $750,000

Now Asking $2,975,000

Specifications

• beam 21' 8"
• displacement 200,000 pounds
• fuel capacity 4000 gallons
• water capacity 750 gallons
• type Motoryacht
• designed by Paragon Motor Yachts
• builder Paragon Motor Yachts
• model Flybridge Motoryacht
• year 2009 (refit in 2018/19)
• construction Hand-laminated FRP
• hull material GRP
• location Nova Scotia
• boat engine Twin Caterpillar C-32
• horsepower 3100 hp
• cruising speed 14 knots
• top speed 20 knots

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In 2018/19 she was  refit by Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding Co . 

Accommodations

Rhapsody has a warm welcoming feel as soon as you walk through the salon doors to the open layout of the main deck. Rich Mahogany can be seen throughout. The boat flows well and has a spacious skylounge and after deck with all the amenities for entertaining.

Walking into the salon through double automatic sliding doors is a spacious and comfortable sofa as well as an elegant armchair. To starboard side, are cabinets, built-in fireplace and a pop-up TV. At the forward end of the salon on the port side, is a desk/counter area with drawers and lots of storage space. Across from the desk/counter area is a wet bar with ice maker and wine storage along with a cabinet with Audio/Video components. Forward of the wet bar on the starboard side amid-ship, is a stairwell to the large full-beam private Owner’s stateroom.

Moving forward to port, is a large and open chef-style galley with a Viking gas range, Sub-Zero refrigerator/freezer, dishwasher, pantry, high-low pop up appliance center, and a “Dutch” door accessing the covered walk-around decks (great for crew moving in and out without disturbing the salon area).

Forward of the galley is a formal dining area with seating for 6 guests and built-in storage cabinets. Between the galley and dining area is an automatic divide that separates the galley from the dining area on-demand. The area has direct access to the foredeck sun lounge seating thru sliding doors on both port and starboard sides. On the starboard side is a staircase leading to the skylounge and a separate stairway leading to the lower guest staterooms. At the landing of the forward stairway to the left (aft), is the full-beam VIP and to the right (forward) is the guest stateroom, both with private ensuite heads and stall showers. 4 heads total.

The forward end of the enclosed skylounge houses a dash with a full array of electronics and seating with two Pompanette chairs. Directly aft to port and starboard are L-shaped settees with large wood finished tables. To the aft of the settees to starboard is a convenience galley with sink, fridge and microwave, and storage. To port is a storage cabinet and a 2-piece head.

The skylounge sliding door access the aft skylounge deck with teak decking, a “U” shaped settee with 2 tables and a barbeque/storage and sink area to port. There are stairs leading from this deck to the lower aft deck.

The aft section of the skylounge deck is equipped with a davit and dingy storage.

• Twin Caterpillar C-32 1550 BHP diesel engines with remote ZF #2050A electronic marine reduction gears using a torsional coupling and vibration dampening system • Engine Hours: Port 2078; Starboard 2076 (Jan 2020) • Engines mounted on “rubber design” soft vibration dampening mounts, engine installation shall be approved by the engine manufacturer, during installation and at sea trials. American built #316 stainless steel exhaust risers with S.S flex bellows connecting to custom spray nozzles and FRP towers with internal silencers & underwater exhaust • Main engines driven to run the following: 60 hp 16” dual prop vortex bow and stern thrusters, 16 sq ft. Roll- fin stabilizers • Aquamet #22 or equivalent (3-1/2”) propeller shafts in conjunction with “rubber design” flex couplings at gear to shaft couplings • Water cooled exhaust system with 6” bypass tubes aft with additional silencers for bypass exhaust • Power train & exhaust systems have been designed for smoothest and most quiet results possible

• Dual Racor 75/1000 fuel filters/water separators with vacuum gauges for each engine • R.C.I. fuel purifiers (RCM 800) for each engine installed in-line before • Racors Bronze “V” struts with cutlass bearings • “Tides” dripless propeller and rudder shafts • Glendenning: 2003 Model electronic engine controls at skylounge helm, port & starboard bridge command stations; including remote control for aft deck • Dual hydraulic power assisted steering system • Two 4” dia. posts S.S. foil section, streamlined rudders • Engine room start/stop panels with engine instrument gauges • Visual and audio alarms for engine systems at pilothouse • Aqua air, 15-ton chilled water air conditioning and heating system with surge-less startup • Central vacuum system • HRO systems reverse osmosis watermaker (1400 g.p.d.) with freshwater flush system • Automatic fire extinguishing system with automatic engine shut down “Tecma” marine heads throughout • Hydraulic system by Wesmar

Electrical, Communication & Navigation

• Northern Lights 30kw diesel generator with exhaust silencers, sound shield & custom gas/water separators – 2940 hours (Jan 2020) • Northern Lights 20kw diesel generator with exhaust silencers, sound shield & custom gas/water separators – 1949 hours (Jan 2020) • (4) “Odyssey” pc 1700 dry-cell batteries for main engine start (2 ea. engine) 2 “Odyssey” pc 1200 dry-cell batteries for generator start (1 ea. generator) Sixteen “Trojan” l-16 6 volt batteries for ships 24 volt dc service system • (2) “Trace” 4kw/120 amp inverter/charger for charging ships battery system, interface for 8kw and house battery bank monitoring panel • Newmar 24 volt battery charger for main engine batteries • Newmar 24 volt battery charger for service batteries (back up charger) • Newmar 24v to 12v transformers • (2) 75 amp (engine alternators) for charging engine start batteries • (2) 160 amp (large frame engine alternators) for charging ships service batteries • (2) Charles Marine ISO-Boost shore power isolation transformers • Marinco shore power 125/250 vac • 50 amp inlets aft & one fwd • Marinco 100 amp shore power 125/250 inlet aft on a Glendenning cable master and one 75 foot extender • Marinco phone/TV inlets (one aft & one fwd) • 75’ 125/250 amp shore power cords • AC & DC back-lit distribution/circuit breaker panel w/digital amp & volt meters • Shielded wiring for stereo/TV speaker systems • Color-coded high quality shielded co-ax with “pro-connect” crimp on connectors for TVs and miscellaneous • Electrolysis and Bonding system with copper strapping connected to two zinc plates at transom • AC duplex receptacles throughout with GFI protection in dedicated areas “BEP” vapor proof battery selector switches • “Exalto” heavy-duty variable speed windshield wiper system • International navigation lights • “ACR” high intensity spotlights with skylounge station controls • “PBX” type phone/intercom system

Skylounge Electronics: • Navnet 3D • (4) Furuno 17” Monitors • Furuno dual 12kw Navnet Radars • 6 ft open array Furuno dual WASS GPS • Furuno digital fishfinder/sounder • Furuno F150 instruments • Icom VHF radio w/command mic & remote • Comrod Antennas • Simrad autopilot w/ handheld remote backup • Nauticomp PC computer • WXWorx XM satellite weather • Skymate Senrtymate system • Panasonic PABX intercom phone system • Elbex CCTV Cameras • Monitor for all onboard cameras –Foredeck looking forward, (1) on each side deck, aft deck looking aft, arch looking aft, engine room fore and aft • FLIR Camera • ACR Spotlight controls

Crew Quarters Electronics: • Furuno F150 NAV repeater • Icom VHF radio • Furuno Navnet data displayed on LCD TV for monitoring • CCTV displayed on TV for monitoring

Refit in 20017-2019 by Lyman Morse

Rhapsody underwent a 14-month interior refit at Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding in Thomaston during 2017-19 that included the addition of an enclosed flybridge, relocation of the steering station, and significant interior work.

The refit, overseen by 35-year Lyman-Morse Project Manager Bill Belyea, involved installing all-new custom African hardwood burl veneers and a redesign that included enclosing the entire flybridge. The resulting so-called “skylounge” creates a third interior level to the boat that features a dedicated helm station, two settees, additional galley, camera locker, head, and other features. The skylounge sits atop the 200,000-pound Rhapsody , yet reduced the yacht’s total weight by approximately 3,500 pounds.

Belyea says the retrofit was part of a series of upgrades that the owners sought after living on the boat for several years. “Essentially, this was like you buy an existing house and there is always something you don’t like. So you refit it,” says Belyea. “The owners knew what they wanted and we gave them that.”

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.

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The Ice Curtain: Modernization on the Kola Peninsula

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Brief by Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. , Heather A. Conley, and Matthew Melino

Published March 23, 2020

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The Ice Curtain: Bringing Transparency to the Arctic is an ongoing collaborative series between the CSIS Europe Program and NGA.

The Kola Peninsula is the crux of Russia’s military establishment in the western Arctic, and its air and maritime capabilities are essential to Russia’s homeland defense, Arctic dominance, and global power projection capabilities. Russia’s modernization and expansion efforts at Severomorsk-1 air base, Gadzhiyevo submarine base, and Okolnaya submarine support base have significantly improved Russia’s operational readiness and its ability to control the surrounding maritime space in the Arctic. The Kola Peninsula is also home to systems such as the RS-24 YARS, located at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, which pose a significant challenge to U.S. and allied defense systems. Russia’s willingness to use its arsenal of ballistic and cruise missiles to defend its position in the Arctic was on display during the Grom-2019 exercise. The expansion of Russia’s military presence in the Arctic is far from over—Russia will continue to deepen its military presence in the Arctic to protect Russian strategic interests well into the future.

INTRODUCTION

Russia’s western Arctic features a great concentration of advanced conventional capabilities for defensive and potentially offensive purposes centered on the Kola Peninsula and serves as home to Russia’s Northern Fleet headquarters, which hosts Russia’s most advanced Arctic land, air, and naval assets, notably including its nuclear arsenal and second-strike capabilities. The peninsula’s location—a gateway between the Arctic and the North Atlantic—and its extensive military assets make it central to Russia’s homeland defense and power projection capabilities. Russian military modernization efforts and new construction on the Kola Peninsula have centered around the refurbishment of air bases and expansion of naval bases. Severomorsk-1 air base, Gadzhiyevo submarine base, and Okolnaya submarine support base are particularly important because they expand and Russia’s defenses while ensuring Russia’s freedom of navigation and air sovereignty. Neighboring sites, such as the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, located at the Kura Missile Test Range in Arkhangelsk, enhance Russia’s Arctic military capabilities, as the recent Grom-2019 exercise demonstrated. The Plesetsk Cosmodrome is a particularly noteworthy site for testing advanced weapons such as the RS-24 Yars ICBM. Military exercises and weapons testing in and around the Kola Peninsula is frequent and reveals Russia’s operational readiness to engage its nuclear forces to deter adversaries in a potential conflict. Exercises such as Ocean Shield and Grom-2019 also demonstrate Russia’s calculation that the Arctic is a critical domain to its national security, power projection capabilities, and economic interests. Russia’s modernization and expansion efforts will likely continue on and around the Kola Peninsula well into the future, with the ultimate aim of asserting Russian sovereignty across the region.  

MODERNIZATION OF SEVEROMORSK-1 AIR BASE

Located on the southern outskirts of Severomorsk and approximately 15.5 km northeast of Murmansk on the Kola Peninsula (Murmanskaya Oblast) is the Severomorsk-1 air base. Severomorsk-1 dates to World War II, when it was known simply as Severomorsk air base, protecting the Soviet Union’s northern flank and providing air protection for both navy facilities on the Kola Peninsula and Allied supply convoys destined for the port of Murmansk. 1 During the Cold War, Severomorsk-1’s strategic importance increased, along with that of its two sister air bases, Severomorsk-2 and Severomorsk-3. Strategic bomber (e.g., Tu-16/-95), strike (e.g., Su-24), and patrol aircraft (e.g., Il-38) based or staged at the bases were tasked with protecting the Soviet Union’s northwestern Arctic flank and providing strategic strike capability against the United States. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the serviceability and capabilities of the Severomorsk air bases declined precipitously.

The strategic importance of Severomorsk-1 reemerged, however, during late 2011 or early 2012. During that time the Russian military began an extensive multi- year modernization project of the base in advance of the Russian Defense Ministry’s 2013 announcement that it was reengaging in the Arctic to guard its northern approaches, protect mineral and energy resources, and monitor shipping on the Northern Sea Route (NSR). 2 Since 2014, the air base has fallen under the command of the Northern Fleet. 3

Satellite imagery of Severomorsk-1 (69.030776 N, 33.42271 from May 14, 2012 shows that the base ceased to be operational as the modernization project was underway. Noticeable developments include:

• The concrete on the main runway and taxiways had been removed and the sub-surface was being graded.
• All operational aircraft had been moved to other air bases (likely Severomorsk-2 and -3).
• The remaining non-operational retired aircraft awaiting parts recovery and scrapping had been concentrated along the southwest side of the base in abandoned revetments, with 18 aircraft visible.
• The helicopter servicing and storage facility (also used for parts removal and scrapping) in the southwest corner remained operational, with at least 67 helicopters of several types and in various states of repair.

Five years later, on July 30, 2017, satellite imagery shows that considerable, albeit very slow, progress was made:  

• While the base was still not operational, the paving of the 3,500-meter-long runway appeared to have been finished.
• Several new taxiways were under construction.
• The revetments and parking aprons for operational aircraft at the north end of the runway had been completed.
• The infrastructure for the instrument landing system (ILS) was under construction.
• The 18 retired aircraft awaiting parts recovery and scrapping that were previously in abandoned revetments on the southwest perimeter had been repositioned to an unimproved taxiway in the center of the air base.
• The number of helicopters at the helicopter servicing and storage facility declined to approximately 53 of several types and in various states of repair.
• Many of the previously abandoned aircraft revetments had been razed.

More recently, a September 4, 2019 satellite image shows that while the air base has once again become operational, the modernization project is not complete, as much of the work on parts of the infrastructure (e.g., completion of taxiways and aprons) remains to be completed. Among the indications that the base is operational include:  

• Patrol and transport aircraft and helicopters were deployed on aprons and in revetments at the north end of the runway.
• A transport aircraft was present on the taxiway leading to the runway.
• Tire tracks from landings were visible on either end of the runway.
• The taxiways and aprons have continued to be slowly expanded.
• The number of helicopters at the helicopter servicing and storage facility have continued to decline, with approximately 36 of several types and in various states of repair being present.
• Only 12 of the approximately 18 retired aircraft awaiting parts recovery and scrapping remained. Several of which showed recent signs of being disassembled (e.g., wings sections laying on the ground).

Throughout this modernization, minor improvements have been undertaken among the air base’s supporting infrastructure, including housing, warehouses, machines shops, and support areas on the north side of the base.  

However, the modern Murmansk-BN electronic warfare (EW) system, which had been reported as being deployed in the Severomorsk area, was not readily identified in the area immediately around Severomorsk-1 in the most recent satellite image. 4 Given the relatively slow pace of construction observed during the past seven years, it is unclear when the entire modernization project will finally be complete.  

Upgrades to Severomorsk-1 increase Russian operational readiness, presence, and capabilities in the northwest Arctic region, particularly improving domain awareness and operational capacity around the Kola Peninsula. Increased numbers of patrol aircraft tasked for search-and-rescue operations improve the viability of the NSR as a maritime commercial route. With further upgrades to the base, operational capacity could expand further into the Barents Sea, Greenland Sea, North Atlantic, and an increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean. In anticipation of receding ice and increased human activity in the Far North, Severomorsk-1 can deepen Russia’s strategic reach and propel its forward line of defense further from its coastline, enhancing anti- access/aerial denial capabilities near the Kola Peninsula.   If the Murmansk-BN EW system is deployed (none of the satellite imagery currently shows the Murmansk-BN system), it would further bolster Russia’s Arctic capabilities by improving safety along the NSR and providing early- warning capabilities. With a reported range of 5,000- 8,000 km , Russia could theoretically monitor and disrupt communications across the entirety of the NSR and Scandinavia as well as deep into the Central Arctic Ocean. In May, the Northern Fleet reportedly completed its new Center for Radio-Electronic Warfare, which will oversee systems on Severomorsk. The Murmansk-BN and complimentary EW systems add another layer to Russia’s defense capabilities on the Kola Peninsula, potentially disabling foreign ships, submarines, or aircraft traveling toward the eastern entrance of the Russian Arctic. These EW assets would essentially render an intruder “ deaf, numb, and blind .” Russia’s EW capabilities were on display during NATO’s Trident Juncture 2018 exercise, when both Norway and Finland were the victims of Russian GPS jamming and interference, an increasingly important tool used frequently by Russia.  

NEW MISSILE STORAGE FACILITY AT OKOLNAYA SUBMARINE SUPPORT BASE

The Okolnaya submarine support base (69.095773° 33.450602°) is located on the eastern shores of Guba Okolnaya (Okolnaya Bay), Murmanskaya Oblast, and serves as one of several strategically important Russian Navy submarine bases and submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) storage and loading facilities on the Kola Peninsula. Other SLBM loading facilities include the Gadzhiyevo submarine base and Severodvinsk submarine base. 5 In addition to housing and maintaining SLBMs, Okolnaya likely stores nuclear warheads. While most often described as a submarine support base, it likely also supports the cruise missile requirements of other Northern Fleet surface combatants, such as the warships based across the bay at the Severomorsk navy base. The Okolnaya submarine support base has been associated with nuclear-armed SLBMs since the late-1950s. As a historical footnote, the base appears to have played a minor but important role during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when nuclear weapons may have been transported from Okolnaya to Cuba and back again during October-November 1962 by the merchant vessel Aleksandrovsk . The voyage of the Aleksandrovsk was unique in several ways: it was the only merchant vessel known to have carried missile-related equipment from Cuba to the Soviet Arctic, and it was one of the first to depart after the Soviet decision had been made to remove strategic weapons from Cuba. The vessel may have carried nuclear warheads to and from Cuba, perhaps without ever having offloaded them. By transferring nuclear warheads via this Arctic facility, the Soviets probably hoped to avoid any possible radiological monitoring or surveillance in either the Danish or Turkish Straits,” underscoring the importance of the Arctic as an avenue of approach to the United States. 6 During 2013, media reports indicated that the Okolnaya submarine support base would be expanded by the construction of a large storage facility for “. . . more than 100” RSM-56 Bulava SLBMs (NATO reporting name: SS-NX-30 or SS-N-32). The Bulava equips the Project 955/955A Dolgorukiy-class (also known as Borei-class) nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN), each of which can carry 16 missiles. The Dolgorukiy-class SSBNs are expected to eventually replace the Delta III- and Delta IV-class SSBNs currently in service with the Northern Fleet. 7 The location chosen for the new storage facility (69.114642° 33.525728°) is 3.7 km northeast of the main Okolnaya facilities on the site of an old open storage facility that consisted of 14 large revetments, several support buildings, and a large parking area. Satellite imagery shows that by May 2014 construction started and that by August 2015 there were a total of 31 weapons storage bunkers under construction (none of which were completed), with excavations underway on others. 8 By July 30, 2017, the number of bunkers completed or under construction rose to 38, and construction of what appears to be a triple fence security perimeter began. 9  

Most recently, in satellite imagery from September 4, 2019, there are a total of 41 weapons storage bunkers (35 completed and 6 under construction) and excavations underway for at least 9 more. Additionally, there are several new small support buildings, and construction work on the triple fence security perimeter appears to slowly continue. Media reports indicate that construction of the facility is scheduled to be completed during 2020, and given the current rate of progress, and barring unforeseen circumstances, this projected date appears feasible. 10 All of the storage bunkers observed to date consist of an approximately 40-meter-by-32-meter concrete structure that is protected on three sides by earthen berms, with an approximately 52-meter-by-20-meter concrete pad on the fourth open side and a final 75-meter-by-18- meter protective berm in front of it. Thus, each storage bunker occupies a footprint of approximately 75-meters- by-90-meters. Internally, each bunker consists of fourapproximately 20-meter-by-32-meter storage bays. Adjacent to all the weapons storage bunkers is a smaller auxiliary bunker of varying sizes for unidentified purpose (potentially for power and environmental controls). It is assumed that when completed the facility will consist of a total of 50 storage bunkers, each with four storage bays, with the potential to house a total of 200 RSM-56 Bulava SLBMs, corroborating media reports from 2017. 11 While almost all media reports describe the new storage facility as being for nuclear-armed RSM-56 Bulava SLBMs, there is nothing to prevent sensitive non-nuclear munitions (e.g., cruise missiles) from also being stored. It is also likely that aside from ballistic and cruise missile support, the base provides other submarine-related support services. Likely in support of the larger role of the RSM-56 Bulava SLBMs stored at Okolnaya, and the slowly increasing number of Dolgorukiy-class SSBNs in the Northern Fleet, a second missile loading facility was built during 2012-2018. 12  

NEW MISSILE STORAGE FACILITY AT GADZHIYEVO SUBMARINE BASE

The Gadzhiyevo submarine base (69.258878° 33.335251°) is located on the eastern shore of Guba Sayda (Sayda Bay), Murmanskaya Oblast, and serves as one of several strategically important Russian Navy submarine bases and SLBM storage and loading facilities on the Kola Peninsula. 13 It reportedly is the primary home port for the Northern Fleet’s Project 667BDRM Delfin (Delta IV) and Project 955/955A Dolgorukiy-class SSBNs. 14 As such, the base not only houses and maintains the R-29MU2 Liner (NATO reporting name: SS-N-23) SLBMs for the Delta IV and RSM-56 Bulava (NATO reporting name: SS-NX-30 or SS-N-32) SLBMs for the Project 955/955A Dolgorukiy-class SSBNs but also the nuclear warheads they support. The base may also support the cruise missile requirements of Northern Fleet surface combatants.

During 2013, media reports indicated that the Gadzhiyevo submarine base would expand to include the construction of a new SLBM storage facility. 15 The location chosen for the new storage facility (69.251165° 33.357418°) is one kilometer south of the main Gadzhiyevo facilities on the site of an existing storage facility. The existing facility consists of several vehicle maintenance and storage facilities and yards, bunkered storage facilities, open storage yards, and a number of support buildings. All but the bunkered storage facilities and open storage yards would be retained for the new facility. Satellite imagery shows that construction had started by May 29, 2014 and that there was a total of three weapons storage bunkers under construction, with excavations underway for others. By May 23, 2016, the number of bunkers under construction (none of which were completed at the time) rose to 10, and excavation work for a new support building began. Most recently, satellite imagery from June 30, 2019, shows that there is a total of 10 weapons storage bunkers with 5 completed and 5 under construction. Space within the existing storage facility remains for additional storage bunkers should the Russians decide to build them. Media reports suggest that construction of the facility is scheduled to be completed during 2020 to coincide with the launch of the eighth Dolgorukiy-class SSBN. 16 Given the current rate of progress, and barring unforeseen circumstances, this projected date appears feasible. All of the storage bunkers observed to date are similar to those built at the Okolnaya submarine support base and consist of an approximately 40-meter-by-32-meter concrete structure that is protected on three sides by protective berms, with an approximately 55-meter-by-20-meter concrete pad on the fourth open side and a final 65-meter- by-20-meter earthen berm in front of it. Thus, each storage bunker site occupies approximately a 90-meter- by-80-meter footprint. Internally, each bunker consists of four approximately 20-meter-by-32-meter storage bays. Adjacent to all the weapons storage bunkers is a smaller auxiliary bunker of varying sizes for unidentified purposes (potentially for power and environmental controls). At present, there are a total of 10 storage bunkers, each with four storage bays, which would imply that the facility has the potential to house a total of 40 RSM-56 Bulava or R-29MU2 Liner SLBMs, although most reports state that they will be used for the nuclear-armed RSM-56 Bulava. Regardless, there is nothing to prevent sensitive or non-nuclear munitions (e.g., cruise missiles) from also being stored here. Unlike the Okolnaya submarine support base, no second missile loading facility has yet to be built at the Gadzhiyevo submarine base.  

Russia’s 2017 updated Naval strategy elevated the role of its maritime forces in securing Russia’s Arctic domain. The strategy builds on President Putin’s promise in 2010 to spend more than 20 trillion rubles to modernize 70 percent of all Russian military equipment by 2020. Under this modernization plan, Russia’s naval forces are a priority, harkening back to the Cold War when Soviet maritime capabilities posed a formidable challenge to NATO. Upgrades at Gadzhiyevo and Okolnaya reinforce defensive and offensive capabilities around the Kola Peninsula. Naval bases housing Delta IV-class and Dolgorukiy-class SSBNs are a key component of Russia’s bastion defense concept. These SSBNs, when equipped with SLBMs, are the backbone of Russia’s sea-based component of its nuclear triad. Importantly, the SSBNs represent Russia’s second- strike capabilities and serve as a deterrent against potential adversaries. The Dolgorukiy-class in particular boasts improved stealth capabilities as well as increased SLBM payload, adding to Russia’s “ defense in depth ” of the Kola Peninsula. Stealthier submarines such as these enhance the regime’s survivability and pose a challenge to NATO’s sea lines of communication in the North Atlantic as NATO is increasing its anti-submarine warfare capabilities. While the primary objective of the SSBNs is defensive, they also serve as a tool of power projection beyond the Kola Peninsula. Admiral James Foggo, commander of Allied Joint Force Command Naples, warned about Russia’s renewed capabilities in the North Atlantic and the Arctic. Of particular concern is the ability of Russian submarines to project power through the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom (GIUK) Gap. In October 2019, NATO tracked 10 Russian submarines south of Iceland testing their stealth abilities and demonstrating their capacity to threaten the strategic maritime route between the United States and Northern Europe. The exercise also exposed Russia’s ability to break out into the North Atlantic and threaten the east coast of the United States. Russia’s defense of its western Arctic territory is determined by its ability to control the surrounding maritime space and assert its presence in maritime choke points like the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom-Norway (GIUK-N) Gap. To this end, Gadzhiyevo and Okolnaya are critical staging grounds and house Russia’s most advanced capabilities.  

PLESETSK COSMODROME: TESTING RS-24 YARS ICBMS DURING GROM-2019

Between October 15-17, 2019 Russia held its annual Grom (Thunder) strategic nuclear forces exercise (Grom-2019). Among the elements that participated in the exercise were units from the Strategic Rocket Forces, Long-Range Aviation, Military Transport Aviation, and Russian Navy. Included within the exercise was the launch of a road-mobile RS-24 Yars (NATO reporting name: SS-29 or SS-27) ICBM from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, in Mirny, Arkhangelsk Oblast, at the Kura Missile Test Range, originally known as Kama, in Kamchatskiy Kray (eastern Russia). 17  

On October 3, 2019, just 12 days before the start of the Grom-2019 exercise, a satellite image was collected of the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. This image covered what is reported to be “Launch Complex 158” (63.008134° 41.551304°), 52 km east of the main facility. 18 The complex encompasses approximately 148,350 square meters and is surrounded by a security fence. The site’s launch pads, single-bay garage, and support buildings occupy a T-shaped area lying on a generally east-west axis. The maximum east-west width is 365 meters and maximum north-south height is 240 meters. Visible in the October 3, 2019 image of Launch Complex 158 are two RS-24 Yars ICBMs resting on their MZKT- 79221 16x16 Transporter-Erector-Launchers (TEL). These TELs are positioned, one apiece, on the complex’s east and west launch pads. Also visible are several support vehicles on the east launch pad and additional support vehicles in the complex’s parking area. From ground imagery released by the Russian Defense Ministry, the TEL at the western launch is the one that subsequently conducted the training launch during the exercise. 19 The TEL at the east launch pad was likely present as a backup in case of mechanical issues. It is unknown from which  of the five reported rocket divisions these two RS-24 systems came from.  

The RS-24 YARS is an ICBM capable of carrying multiple thermonuclear warheads. It has an estimated range of 10,500 km , allowing Russia to escalate a regional conflict to a global context. The system is a cornerstone of Russia’s land-based nuclear deterrent, and its road-mobile delivery system increases its survivability. Other factors, including the missile’s ability to maneuver during flight, deploy active and passive decoys, and its reported seven minute launch time, pose significant challenges to U.S. and allied missile defense systems. Russia exercised both its strategic and tactical nuclear forces during Grom-2019. The exercise included naval assets from all four Russian fleets, showing the extent to which Russia will mobilize across its military districts to defend its Arctic interests. As other analysts have noted , Grom highlighted Russia’s willingness to defend its Arctic territory with a growing arsenal of ballistic and cruise missiles. It also demonstrated the extent to which Russia has already integrated intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles in its nuclear strategy in light of the uncertain future of arms control. 20 Grom also offers insight into Russia’s evolving nuclear doctrine. Major General Evgeny Ilyin described the exercise as one where the preservation of borders and the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation is threatened, thus warranting the use of nuclear weapons. President Putin noted in October 2018 that Russia would only use nuclear weapons when the country is “under attack.”  

The Kola Peninsula is the centerpiece of Russia’s military establishment in the western Arctic, and its air and maritime capabilities are essential to homeland defense, Arctic dominance, and global power projection capabilities. The concentration and range of  multi-domain  assets— from SLBMs and ICBMs to EW—deployed on and around  the Peninsula underscores the Arctic’s strategic value to Russian national interests. As Arctic nations increase their capabilities in a more accessible Arctic and as non- Arctic nations such as China seek greater access to the Arctic, we can expect Russia’s military presence to expand to include conventional and dual-use assets. As the head   of the Northern Fleet noted on December 8, “In the near future, we should expect a further increase in the military presence of the combined armed forces and, as a result, an increase in the likelihood of conflict.” Although Admiral Moiseev was referring to NATO as well as Sweden and Finland, his comment could easily refer to Russia’s military presence in the Arctic. Matthew Melino was an associate fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. Heather A. Conley is senior vice president for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic and director of the CSIS Europe Program. Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. is senior fellow for Imagery Analysis at CSIS. This brief is made possible by general support to CSIS. No direct sponsorship contributed to this brief.  

The Center for Strategic and International Studies' Europe Program and the  National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency  partnership uses unclassified geospatial imagery and data to produce new, timely, and accurate reporting on Arctic construction and modernization of civilian, dual-use, and defensive infrastructure. For more info, read the  Tearline Program Explainer .   To read more, visit  NGA’s Tearline article  or download the Tearline app from the  Apple Store  or  Google Play .   This content also syndicates to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s website  intelligence.gov , which is a transparency effort to better explain certain strategic, economic, and humanitarian IC missions to the public.

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Walking into the salon through double automatic sliding doors is a spacious and comfortable sofa as well as an elegant armchair. To starboard side, are cabinets, built-in fireplace and a pop-up TV. At the forward end of the salon on the port side, is a desk/counter area with drawers and lots of storage space. Across from the desk/counter area is a wet bar with ice maker and wine storage along with a cabinet with Audio/Video components. Forward of the wet bar on the starboard side amid-ship, is a stairwell to the large full-beam private Owner's stateroom.

Moving forward to port, is a large and open chef-style galley with a Viking gas range, Sub-Zero refrigerator/freezer, dishwasher, pantry, high-low pop up appliance center, and a “Dutch” door accessing the covered walk-around decks (great for crew moving in and out without disturbing the salon area).

Forward of the galley is a formal dining area with seating for 6 guests and built-in storage cabinets. Between the galley and dining area is an automatic divide that separates the galley from the dining area on-demand. The area has direct access to the foredeck sun lounge seating thru sliding doors on both port and starboard sides. On the starboard side is a staircase leading to the skylounge and a separate stairway leading to the lower guest staterooms. At the landing of the forward stairway to the left (aft), is the full-beam VIP and to the right (forward) is the guest stateroom, both with private ensuite heads and stall showers.

The forward end of the enclosed skylounge houses a dash with a full array of electronics and seating with two Pompanette chairs. Directly aft to port and starboard are L-shaped settees with large wood finished tables. To the aft of the settees to starboard is a convenience galley with sink, fridge and microwave, and storage. To port is a storage cabinet and a 2-piece head.

The skylounge sliding door access the aft skylounge deck with teak decking, a “U” shaped settee with 2 tables and a barbeque/storage and sink area to port. There are stairs leading from this deck to the lower aft deck.

The aft section of the skylounge deck is equipped with a davit and dingy storage.

• Twin automatic Freeman sliding aft doors with fixed glass windows

• Extensive floor damping system to reduce noise/vibration

• Port aft stairway with access to engine room, utility room, captain’s quarters

• Carpeted sole with “Soundown” barrier padding

• Overhead LED lighting with dimmer control

• Stbd side custom cabinet for TV/Entertainment center, built-in electric fireplace, wine cooler, large icemaker, under- counter sink, bottle & glass storage

• Stbd forward private stairway down to master stateroom

• Air-conditioning system

• Separate work reading area with granite countertop, drawers and storage and bar-type stools

• Starboard side window

• “Tecma” head

• Exhaust fan

• Overhead LED lights on dimmer

• 110v ac GFI protected duplex receptacle

• Accent lights at cabinet base & valance

• Granite counter tops

• Wood floating floor system - cherry

• Air conditioning system

• Mahogany wood w/ satin finish

• (2) Sub-zero full height refrigerator with two freezer drawers at bottom section

• Fisher Paykel double drawer dishwasher

• GE “Profile” trash compactor; GE microwave with exhaust fan

• Viking gas stove/oven with removable butcher block top

• Soap dispenser

• Instant hot water dispenser

• Insinkerator stainless garbage disposal with countertop air switch

• Port-side hinged Freeman Dutch door from galley to side deck

Dining Area

• Port & starboard side Freeman sliding doors with access to side decks

• Cherry sole

• Electric operated divider to separate dining and galley areas

• Storage cabinets for china and glasses for dining area

• Wood dining table with burl inlay with seating for 6 guests

• 10mm clear forward windshield glass with burl cabinet top

• Tinted tempered windows from side doors aft

• AC & DC electrical panels

• LED overhead lighting with dimmer control

• Feature medallion recessed ceiling with feature and rope lighting

• Starboard side stairways up to skylounge and to lower staterooms

• Stereo speakers in overhead w/ volume control

Owner Stateroom

• Accessed via private stairway from salon

• King-size walkaround berth with large drawers & storage underneath

• Nightstands with drawers

• Cedar-lined hanging & walk-in closet

• Sofa to starboard

• Combo washer/dryer to port

• Dresser cabinet, desk/vanity area to port

• (2) Wall-mounted reading lights

• Overhead LED lights on dimmer controls

• Entertainment system

Owner Ensuite

• His and Her Heads

• Portlight on the port side

• “Tecma” full-size ceramic bowl head

• Grohe faucets

• Fully enclosed shower with Grohe controls

• 110v ac duplex receptacles (GFI type in head)

• Accent lighting (per plan)

• Hidden overhead exhaust fan

VIP Stateroom

• Queen walk-around with storage beneath – drawers and hinged access

• Portside settee that converts to a full-size berth

• Cedar-lined hanging lockers

• Overhead LED lights on dimmer control

• (2) Opening Freeman port lights at stbd, and one to port

• Freeman port light

• Granite counter-top & cherry wood flooring

• Ceramic sink

• Full enclosed shower

• Louvered lockers

• Grohe faucets and shower controls

• Overhead exhaust fan in the head

Guest Stateroom

• Queen-size island berth with hinged access to storage underneath

• Port & starboard outboard storage lockers

• “Freeman” escape/ventilation hatch w/ “OceanAir” screens

• Entertainment System

• Built-in desk

• Port light

• Granite countertop and cherry wood flooring

Crew Quarters

Captain's Quarters

• Queen-size berth

• Hanging locker

• Head with shower accessed from either Captains’ quarters and general crew area

Crew Area / Galley

• Countertop, built-in sink, microwave

• Drawers, storage cabinets

• Fold-down berth with sliding doors to separate area from hallway

Enclosed Flybridge

• Center helm station with (2) “Pompanette” helm chairs, complete engine instrumentation & alarms, navigational electronic equipment, “Night Watch” ships systems monitoring computer

• Port & stbd wing command stations with engine controls, bow & stern thruster controls

• Air conditioning, heating, and defrosting systems

• Chart storage lockers

• Two “L” shaped settee with wood tables

• Aft sliding door with access to aft deck

• Carpeted sole

• 10mm clear fwd windshield glass

• Tinted tempered windows

• LED overhead lighting with dimmer control and rope lighting

• Overhead NAV lights (red)

• Stereo speakers in overhead w/volume control

• Aft of starboard settee convenience galley with sink, refrigerator, drawer microwave and drawers/storage

• Aft of port settee storage cabinet and enclosed head

Skylounge Aft Deck

• “U” shaped FRP seats with two FRP tables with storage under

• FRP Arch & Mast tower with (5) Cantalupi lights on dimmer controls FRP hardtop with lighting

• Portside Viking gas BBQ, sink, and lockers

• Accent lighting at base of all FRP cabinets and seating areas

• Aft port boat deck, integral steps down to aft deck with S.S. framed sliding hatch/ cover

• Teak decks, galley/dinette & fly-bridge sections

• 2200 lb Nautical Structures hydraulic davit with hydraulic rotation

• S.S. Handrails around boat deck

• Freshwater wash down & outboard engine flush hook up station

• Decks cambered & drains plumbed to insure no standing water

Aft Utility Area

• Accessed from swim platform or salon/main deck

• AC & DC breaker panels

• Night watch monitoring display

• Stereo and speakers with volume controls

• Industrial hard rubber mat flooring (non-slip)

• Formica wall coverings

• Watertight “Freeman “door to swim deck

• Direct access from swim platform to engine room

• (2) Opening port lights, port side by extra crew berths, fold-down berth port side

• Polished stainless steel grab rails (per plan)

• Large counter-tops & spare parts storage lockers

• S.S. air compressor hook-up

• (3) 110v ac receptacles

• Crew amenities: TV, Corian or Formica countertops, S.S. sink with faucet, microwave, Subzero under-counter refrigerator & Sub-zero under counter freezer, lockers for dishes and miscellaneous

• Full-size GE washer/dryer (stacked)

• Storage and counter area

• Overhead LED lighting

• All exterior stainless steel # 316 grade with welds ground smooth and highly polished

• Seating area at bow with removable table and filler piece for transition into large sun pad lounge

• Large storage lockers port & starboard at bow area

• Central fuel tank fills port & starboard

• Cambered decks w/ outboard drain channels

• Watertight forward deck hatch, access to anchor well (“Freeman Hatch”)

• Forward deck hatch & ventilation/escape hatch for forward guest stateroom

• “Freeman Hatch” Freshwater and saltwater washdown hook up at bow area

• Fire hose at forward starboard bow locker with 15’ hose & fire hose nozzle

• Built-in, high-pressure anchor chain wash system (freshwater)

• High polished S.S. handrails

• 250 lb. S.S. polished plow type anchor, 400’x 5/8” high test chain “Nautical Structures” 2200 lb.

• S.S. Hawse holes and bollards Port & starboard bulwark doors

• Overhead Cantalupi lights on dimmer controls for walk-arounds

• “Underwater lights” at walkarounds on forward main deck

• Cantalupi deck safety lights

• “Marquipt” boarding ladder – access at port and starboard mid-side deck

• Teak for all main decks

• Warping winches - port & starboard

• Portside integral stairway up to boat deck/fly-bridge (teak steps)

• FRP starboard side storage cabinet with refrigerator

• FRP molded bench seat with large dining tables

• Portside locker with engine controls/thrusters, autopilot joystick in lieu of steering wheel

• Overhead stereo speakers

• VHF radio station cabinet PBX phone system hook up

• Aft facing hailer horn location

• Floodlights facing aft

• Fire hose at port side w/ 15’ hose & fire hose nozzle

• Swim Platform

• Teak decking with stairway port & starboard, up to aft deck (teak steps)

• Hydraulic stow away swim ladder inside swim platform

• Hands-free hot/cold water shower

• (3) Extra-large pop-up cleats, port center & starboard

• Watertight “Freeman” door, access to utility/crew & engine room

• S.S. rails on stairs up to aft deck

• Water-proof safety lights on stairs up to aft deck

• Salt-water hook up

• (4) “Underwater” floodlights, on transom underwater

• (4) S.S. “U” rails around swim platform

• Maxwell liberty 2500 stern windlass 2500, 250’ rode and 75’ chain

• Freshwater shower on swim platform

• Salt-water wash down at bow and stern

Swim Platform

• (4) “Underwater” flood lights, on transom underwater

• Fresh water shower on swim platform

• Storage lockers port and starboard for parts and equipment

• Watermaker, aft anchor windlass

• (2) Aft fuel tanks and clean outs

• Freeman door to swim platform

Engine Room and Bilges

• 12,000 BTU air conditioning system in engine room

• Engine room camera system

• S.S. welded & polished engine beds

• Aluminum (marine grade 6mm) fuel tanks with proper sight gauges, and accessible 20" inspection plates

• Two sea chests for specific raw water intakes

• (6) 24 VDC heavy duty bilge pumps w/ ultra-switches High bilge water alarm system

• Full flow S.S. ball valves for all piping systems

• S.S. air compressor hook up with hose

• 125 Vac oil change system for main engines and generators

• 60 Gallon per minute emergency bilge pump system for each bilge

• Fire hose pump system with hose at forward deck and aft deck

• Freshwater anchor wash down system at bow anchor area

• Freshwater hose and nozzle in engine room

• Delta “T” positive pressure engine room air intake system to minimize water ingestion w/fire flaps and demisters

• (1) 30 gallon and (1) 40 gallon hot water heater

• Central freshwater tank fills, port & starboard

• Dock side water pressure hook up at bow & stern w/quick release fittings

• 125 Vac Headhunter fresh water system pumps (2) with filters

• Central drain system for upper and lower deck drains, sinks, etc. to minimize thru hull fittings

• 500 gallon holding tank with deck fitting for pump out and two macerator pumps for overboard discharge (1) 110 vac pump & (1) 24 vdc

• 110 Vac florescent lighting in engine room and utility room

• Marine grade bronze sea cocks for all thru hull fittings, bonded to bonding system

• “Whale” high output manual bilge pump

• Stereo speakers w/volume controls

• Compressed air system for Buelle air horns with engine room air hose

Main Machinery

• Twin Caterpillar C-32 1550 BHP diesel engines with remote ZF #2050A electronic marine reduction gears using a torsional coupling and vibration dampening system

• Engine Hours: Port 2078; Starboard 2076 (Jan 2020)

• Engines mounted on “rubber design” soft vibration dampening mounts, engine installation shall be approved by the engine manufacturer, during installation and at sea trials. American built #316 stainless steel exhaust risers with S.S flex bellows connecting to custom spray nozzles and FRP towers with internal silencers & underwater exhaust

• Main engines driven to run the following: 60 hp 16” dual prop vortex bow and stern thrusters, 16 sq ft. Roll- fin stabilizers

• Aquamet #22 or equivalent (3-1/2”) propeller shafts in conjunction with “rubber design” flex couplings at gear to shaft couplings

• Water cooled exhaust system with 6” bypass tubes aft with additional silencers for bypass exhaust

• Power train & exhaust systems have been designed for smoothest and most quiet results possible

• Dual Racor 75/1000 fuel filters/water separators with vacuum gauges for each engine

• R.C.I. fuel purifiers (RCM 800) for each engine installed in-line before

• Racors Bronze “V” struts with cutlass bearings

• “Tides” dripless propeller and rudder shafts

• Glendenning: 2003 Model electronic engine controls at skylounge helm, port & starboard bridge command stations; including remote control for aft deck

• Dual hydraulic power assisted steering system

• Two 4” dia. posts S.S. foil section, streamlined rudders

• Engine room start/stop panels with engine instrument gauges

• Visual and audio alarms for engine systems at pilothouse

• Aqua air, 15-ton chilled water air conditioning and heating system with surge-less startup

• Central vacuum system

• HRO systems reverse osmosis watermaker (1400 g.p.d.) with freshwater flush system

• Automatic fire extinguishing system with automatic engine shut down “Tecma” marine heads throughout

• Hydraulic system by Wesmar

Communication and Navigation Systems

Skylounge Electronics

• Navnet 3D

• (4) Furuno 17” Monitors

• Furuno dual 12kw Navnet Radars

• 6 ft open array Furuno dual WASS GPS

• Furuno digital fishfinder/sounder

• Furuno F150 instruments

• Icom VHF radio w/command mic & remote

• Comrod Antennas

• Simrad autopilot w/ handheld remote backup

• Nauticomp PC computer

• WXWorx XM satellite weather

• Skymate Senrtymate system

• Panasonic PABX intercom phone system

• Elbex CCTV Cameras

• Monitor for all onboard cameras –Foredeck looking forward, (1) on each side deck, aft deck looking aft, arch looking aft, engine room fore and aft

• FLIR Camera

• ACR Spotlight controls

Crew Quarters Electronics

• Furuno F150 NAV repeater

• Icom VHF radio

• Furuno Navnet data displayed on LCD TV for monitoring

• CCTV displayed on TV for monitoring

Electrical Systems

• Northern Lights 30kw diesel generator with exhaust silencers, sound shield & custom gas/water separators - 2940 hours (Jan 2020)

• Northern Lights 20kw diesel generator with exhaust silencers, sound shield & custom gas/water separators - 1949 hours (Jan 2020)

• (4) “Odyssey” pc 1700 dry-cell batteries for main engine start (2 ea. engine) 2 “Odyssey” pc 1200 dry-cell batteries for generator start (1 ea. generator) Sixteen “Trojan” l-16 6 volt batteries for ships 24 volt dc service system

• (2) “Trace” 4kw/120 amp inverter/charger for charging ships battery system, interface for 8kw and house battery bank monitoring panel

• Newmar 24 volt battery charger for main engine batteries

• Newmar 24 volt battery charger for service batteries (back up charger)

• Newmar 24v to 12v transformers

• (2) 75 amp (engine alternators) for charging engine start batteries

• (2) 160 amp (large frame engine alternators) for charging ships service batteries

• (2) Charles Marine ISO-Boost shore power isolation transformers

• Marinco shore power 125/250 vac

• 50 amp inlets aft & one fwd

• Marinco 100 amp shore power 125/250 inlet aft on a Glendenning cable master and one 75 foot extender

• Marinco phone/TV inlets (one aft & one fwd)

• 75’ 125/250 amp shore power cords

• AC & DC back-lit distribution/circuit breaker panel w/digital amp & volt meters

• Shielded wiring for stereo/TV speaker systems

• Color-coded high quality shielded co-ax with "pro-connect" crimp on connectors for TVs and miscellaneous

• Electrolysis and Bonding system with copper strapping connected to two zinc plates at transom

• AC duplex receptacles throughout with GFI protection in dedicated areas “BEP” vapor proof battery selector switches

• “Exalto” heavy-duty variable speed windshield wiper system

• International navigation lights

• “ACR” high intensity spotlights with skylounge station controls

• “PBX” type phone/intercom system

Hull Design and Construction

• Full-planning hull, 13.5 ° deadrise at transom, generous flair at bow sections, integral swim platform

• Vessel scantlings, construction, systems, and installations meet or exceed all applicable ABYC & ABS standards

• One-piece hull, hand laminated FRP utilizing Bi-directional, and Uni-directional, Knytec, and Cotech high-quality resin and vacuum bagging

• Solid FRP below the waterline with Vinylester resin laminates for maximum osmosis protection

• “Interlux Gel-shield” is applied to add osmosis protection during build time and after

• Full-length hull girders of high-density foam core and bi & uni-directional Knytex

• Exterior hull finish in high gloss white, Cook gel coat with vinylester skin coats below water line4

• Upper deck area AWL Grip painted 2018

• Smooth finish on all bilge areas

Superstructure and Deck

• Hand laminated FRP utilizing bi & uni-directional, Knytech & Cotech w/Divinycell sandwich, high-quality resin and vacuum bagging, NIDA core per plan.

• Proper high compression cores as required for hardware mounting

• (4) Main (watertight) bulkheads padded and cored with appropriate sandwich materials Sylomer floating floor system (per plan) with sound absorption and insulation

• Sylomer floating bulkheads (per plan) Exterior - Nonskid on boat deck

Refit and Upgrades

• In 2016 all lighting was updated to LED throughout the boat.

• During 2018/19 through boat had an extensive refit and refurbishing performed by Lyman Morse in Maine. The refit included servicing of all equipment and system, new soft goods, the addition of the dining area, conversion of the flybridge area to an enclosed skylounge and repainting of the upper deck areas.

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Cherubini 44 Mark II

• By Tim Murphy
• Updated: October 3, 2008

We are four souls aboard Elysium sailing up Maryland’s Eastern Bay in late June. Four incarnate souls, that is, but more if you count the Cherubini relatives-the uncles, the grandparents, the ancestors from a mistier Florentine past-whose own migration to the Elysian Fields can’t keep them off the water with us on this tempestuous Chesapeake day.

Dave and Joanie Ballard know a thing or two about the Cherubinis, this family of designers and craftsmen, this family whose roots are so intertwined with Old World artistry and up-to-the minute technology in media that range from pianos to automobiles, from aircraft to pleasure boats. The Ballards also know something about how objects of lasting art can become part of the glue that binds a family together through the years. In 1984, Dave’s dad bought the Cherubini 44 Sunshyner. For more than two decades, Dave and his brothers and their families sailed that boat together. Then, in the fall of 2006, when Ballard felt Sunshyner’s time for a thorough refit had come, he contacted the folks at the newly reorganized Cherubini Yachts in Delran, New Jersey. After several conversations and one overnight ponder, Ballard arranged a trade and commissioned the yard to create a new 44 along the lines of the old. Elysium was launched last April.

“One of the reasons we built this boat was for our kids,” says Ballard, 59, who retired this year from a career in home construction. “I know it’ll change our lives. It already has.”

The Art and the Science

On this June weekend, the Ballards and I are sailing aboard Elysium with Dave Cherubini. (His family’s name is pronounced with an initial “k” sound.) At 42, he’s the president of Cherubini Yachts and our living link to the clan that played such a leading role in America’s early composite-boatbuilding industry. But don’t let his executive title fool you: Dave Cherubini is a craftsman in his heart and his soul and his hands. He was 13 back in 1979 when he first went to work at the Cherubini Boat Company that his uncles John and Frit founded. Like most of his cousins and siblings, Dave reckons he was fired half a dozen times over the years; whenever that happened, he’d go build and restore pianos, often with his dad, Richard.

But these days, Cherubini’s full attention is on boats. Ask him about virtually any detail aboard Elysium, and before long he’s waxing rhapsodic. “The interior of this boat is built mostly out of one tree,” he says of Elysium’s Honduran-mahogany joinery. “One tree that we had for a long, long time.”

He points out the coamings at the base of the cabin house. “See this? This was all done by hand. You can see that there were two boards, but it was the same tree. One board was early in the tree. It was a little pithier than the other board, where the old growth was stronger by the limbs and where the photosynthesis happened, where it carried the nutrients, and they got trapped in the tighter grains. What we did was we resawed the planks, then book-matched them, brought them back over, then split the sides.”

Ask him about virtually any detail-about the hull’s laminate schedule, say, or the deck construction, or about the 44’s design history or the particular improvements featured in this boat-and you’ll soon understand that here’s a company president who knows his product to its finest details.

Elysium, hull number 34 of the Cherubini 44 line, is built of hand-laid fiberglass in Derakane vinyl-epoxy resin, all carefully squeegeed out for an optimal fiber-to-resin ratio. In fact, this hull came in 10 percent under the 6,000 pounds of previous polyester-resin 44s, allowing Cherubini to reallocate almost 600 pounds directly into ballast. A web of unidirectional fiberglass takes the rig loads amidships. A watertight bulkhead protects against a breach or any leaks around the bow thruster. In the laminate under the cockpit, more than 100 square feet of copper foil provides counterpoise should the Ballards decide later to install a single-sideband radio.

Elysium’s deck is built of AA marine-grade fir and okoume plywood, overlaid with heavy E-glass. It’s vacuum bagged and infused with epoxy. In places where deck hardware is installed, Cherubini added G-10 Garolite bolsters to facilitate bedding and to prevent water from wicking into the plywood. The deck is bolted to a massive sheer clamp that’s integral to the hull.

“The decks were always done this way, with deck beams and carlins and real through-bolted cabin sides,” says Cherubini, “because that’s what Frit wanted. He knew the boat could withstand 30 tons of water pressure anywhere. And that’s pretty much how it’s been. Every boat is still sailing.”

That said, materials have evolved since Dave’s Uncle Frit was building boats in the 1980s. Looking to the future, Dave took a mold from Elysium and built the deck of the next 44 from Corecell foam-thus removing 200 pounds from the structure and 1,500 hours from the roughly 10,000 labor hours that, on average, have gone into building previous 44s. With that in mind, he estimates the basic sailaway price of a new 44 at $960,000.

The Cherubini 44’s interior is agreeable and reassuring in a way that few contemporary yachts are. True, the boat’s 11-foot-6-inch beam doesn’t afford the volume for the aft cabin with queen-size island berth of so many of its peers in today’s 40-something category, but the tradeoff is a traditionally laid out saloon, beautifully suited to the human form, that never leaves you more than an arm’s length away from a robust handhold or from a secure place to plant your hip when the boat is under way. And as for the way the 44 sails-well, we’ll get to that.

From Elysium’s structure to the more nuanced aesthetic experience her owners and guests will enjoy over time, Cherubini exhibits uncommon care. “When you’re sitting down here,” he says, “you’re engulfed by a color value that’s going to set the mode of your day.” He points out the satin-varnished mahogany, then the white-painted raised-panel bulkhead. “We made that color and sheen,” he says. “When you’re on the ocean, everything’s glare, glare, glitzing glare. But when you come down here, you want to be here. So we softened everything.”

Details abound the closer you look. Take the main-saloon table: Its joints are all blind-splined; the sockets it sits in are mounted flush in the sole to prevent stubbed toes if the table’s ever removed, say, for racing. Now notice the spirits locker: The spaces are fitted to accommodate bottles of the Ballards’ preferred libations, exactly.

Having spent much of his career sailing and restoring older boats, including other 44s, Cherubini redesigned Elysium’s interior and mechanical spaces so that everything-engine, air-conditioning, genset, tanks-can be removed through the hatches for easier, less costly maintenance down the line. The engine has two feet of working space on the service side; its oil drip pan comes out for easy cleaning.

“This boat is perfect,” says the photographer John Bildahl after looking into Elysium’s deepest corners. “God is perfect,” Dave Cherubini replies. “But thank you.”

The End of Everything

Any adult who’s grown and evolved and taken on daunting responsibilities probably knows what it’s like to experience a clarifying epiphany along the way. Dave Cherubini does. His epiphany came in October 2003. In a Dumpster.

The storied legacy of the Cherubini brothers-the generation of Dave’s father and uncles-has been amply told in other places. (Visit www.cherubiniyachts.com to read a good selection.) In brief, John Cherubini’s design credits include the early Hunters from 25 to 54 feet; Hunter’s Child, the ultra-light-displacement boat aboard which Warren Luhrs won the monohull class in the 1984 OSTAR race; the Mainship 34 trawler; and a host of other successful production and one-off boats. Racing cars fascinated John, and he spent the 1960s designing aircraft for Boeing. In each of these media, he had an uncanny knack for translating his imagination onto the page. When it came to boats, his brother, Frit, had the uncanny knack for translating John’s drawings into three-dimensional wood and metal and fiberglass. From the mid-1970s and all through the 1980s, the Cherubini Boat Company flourished, earning praise from sailors and critics and training the next generation of Cherubini cousins.

But in 1990, with Frit having retired and John having died seven years earlier, the company foundered, a victim of the federal luxury tax that decimated American boatbuilding. In its place, beginning in the mid-1990s, the Independence Cherubini Company-founded by Frit’s son, Lee, and a partner-built trawlers and the occasional sailboat. (See “Old-World Innovation,” February 2001.) For several years, Independence employed other members of the Cherubini clan, including Dave for a time.

By 2003, that company, too, was nearing its end, and all the Cherubinis had moved on to other things. Meanwhile, Dave was at work restoring boats and pianos at a small shop he kept on the Delaware River. But he still had his own boat stored at the Independence yard. Sometime that fall he noticed that Independence had gone quiet-too quiet.

“This isn’t good,” he said to himself. So he hired a hauler to help retrieve his boat before it got tangled in bankruptcy or receivership disputes. There, on that October day, he went looking for a bit of cribbing or blocking to help with the move. And that’s when Dave Cherubini came to the big junction buoy in his life. The two channels it separated could hardly have diverged more.

“I went to the Dumpster,” Dave says, “and I saw templates, old templates of things. Of the 44 and the 48. Cockpit-coaming shapes and caprail shapes and things, you know, that we made as kids.” He describes how he felt at that moment: “It broke my heart. I’m just standing there thinking this is the end-of everything my family had done in America. Everything that everybody lived and died for is getting ready to be hauled away and tossed in a landfill. Just because it was a bad marriage of business. And economy. And circumstances.”

Cherubini saved the templates, but he didn’t decide then and there to revive the family business. He wasn’t ready for that. Still, people starting goading him to do something about it. “See that place over there?” one friend said. “Only you could put that back together.”

“That’s ridiculous,” he’d say. “I could never do that. The whole corporation couldn’t do it.”

But one thing led to another. When the folks at the Independence Cherubini Company stopped returning calls, the more persistent suitors found Dave. One of them was Chris O’Flinn. He wanted to buy White Hawk, the first Cherubini 44, from her original owner-but only if he could hire a Cherubini to restore her. Next came a call from Rob Turkewitz, in South Carolina, asking whether Dave knew anything about another 44 called First Light.

“This can’t be happening!” Dave remembers thinking. “It was like God with his big golden mallet was slapping me in the head, saying, ‘You’ve got to do this.'”

By January 2004-with a whole lot of help from family and friends-he’d done it. He’d filed his business name with New Jersey’s secretary of state. Negotiated the purchase of the yard. Sorted out the insurance. Created an accurate, trackable business plan. Hired a company to work through environmental issues. Purchased rights to build a 20-foot Eric Sponberg runabout. And secured a couple of contracts to restore a pair of the 44s his family had created.

And so begins the next chapter of Cherubini boatbuilding in America.

What It’s All About

Elysium shoulders her way purposefully up the Miles River as Dave spins his yarns for the Ballards and me. In just three hours, we’ve been through the calms and squalls that make the Chesapeake in summer so famous. The wind blasts from zero to 30 out of a black electric sky; the V.H.F. radio says it’s blowing 60 down around Point Lookout. But eventually all of that passes, and a gentle southwesterly fills in to carry us on to St. Michaels and the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, where we’ll tie up alongside one of the traditional bugeye ketches that John Cherubini so admired. Indeed, the bugeyes were among his several inspirations for the 44. “I’d had the boat’s concept in mind since the late 1940s and did dozens of drawings through the years,” John Cherubini said in a 1978 Cruising World interview. “I’d draw on anything that lay flat and didn’t move-plasterboard, cardboard boxes, paper towels. I even scribed on Formica at times.” After years of working it out, John finally finished the design for the 44 in 1971. “It had been like having a mirage in mind all that time, and finally the appropriate dream took shape on paper.” This boat, he said, was his favorite of all his creations.

It’s easy to see why. For as much as we love to court novelty and innovation, some of the best things in this life are timeless. John Cherubini in his own life worked both sides of that dilemma, even seemed to glory in it, and we today are the happier for his not having surrendered too easily to either side. Elysium under full sail plants her ample tumblehome into the river, settles in at a moderate heel, and gathers speed with a seakindly deliberateness. She communicates power, comfort, and performance all at once. Yes, her displacement-to-length ratio of 208 may be higher than today’s average, but that only means she’s less prone to accelerate and decelerate in every gust and wave. While other boats pitch in the bay’s chop, Elysium’s motion is all forward-driving speed. Her sail area of more than 1,100 square feet keeps her moving in all but the lightest zephyrs. Indeed, her sister Silhouette won the 2007 Marion-Bermuda race, beating 71 other boats. You can imagine arriving at the end of a long, fast ocean passage like that feeling rested and cared for by this boat.

That’s the moment Dave and Joanie Ballard look forward to, when they’ll sail to the Caribbean next year with Dave’s brother, Tom, and arrive in the Virgin Islands aboard this boat that’s at once so new and yet so familiar to them.

As for Dave Cherubini, he’s doing exactly what he wants to be doing right now. “I’m a simple guy,” he says. “I can live in a van or a truck; I don’t care. Because our success is within our day. At the end of our lives, it’s what we left behind-something that somebody else is going to appreciate. It’s about what we can do. I’m just telling you. That’s the truth of it.”

Amen, brother.

Tim Murphy is a Cruising World editor at large, a 2009 Boat of the Year judge, and an independent book editor living in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. His most recent book project is Divide or Conquer: How Great Teams Turn Conflict Into Strength by Diana McLain Smith (Penguin/Portfolio).

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