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BP318 BOTIN 85′ DEEP BLUE LAUNCHED!

  – April 20th 2020

D eep Blue, a Botin Partners designed, King Marine built 85′ yacht, has been recently launched, exploring a new chapter in the Maxi racing arena. Deep Blue is destined to fill the gap between custom-built record-breakers such as Comanche 100′, and the 72-footers that are on the smaller scale of the Maxi class such as Bella Mente and Cannonball.

The carefully selected team assembled by Terry Halpin to design and launch Deep Blue included more than 110 people from 11 different nationalities.  Project Manager Micky Costa, with his extensive network, was also an essential part of the project, creating unique parts for this project. Pure Engineering played a big role in delivering the platform’s strength and stiffness while keeping the weight in check.

See more technical information in the full project page: http://www.botin.website/portfolio/bp318-deepblue/

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Wendy Schmidt Is No Longer a Rookie at the Maxi Cup

In 2021, the first year helming her boat, Deep Blue, she came in fifth. She’s back for another shot.

By John Clarke

Last year, the American sailor Wendy Schmidt helmed Deep Blue, the new Botin 85 sailboat she owns, on its inaugural run at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup. One of very few women skippers in maxi racing, Schmidt stood out from the fleet, winning the start and placing fifth in her class.

She started sailing in 2007 when she was 52 years old. “My husband didn’t think I would spend much time on the boat because I was a tennis player,” she said. “But I ended up going out every single day. It’s been a gradual seduction ever since.”

Schmidt first sailed in the Maxi cup in 2011, aboard the boat Selene. She finished third at the Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez last year and also placed third this year in her class of Les Voiles de St Barth Richard Mille.

This year, Schmidt, 67, a philanthropist who is married to the former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, returns to Porto Cervo, Sardinia, with her mind on racing and spreading the word on ocean restoration. The following conversation has been edited and condensed.

Tell me about your debut last year at the Maxi cup.

We launched in 2020, but weren’t able to race her until 2021 because of the pandemic. We managed to practice in partial groups of our crew. We arrived as the new kid on the block.

This was our first race. We felt pretty darned good about staying up with those boats that have been around regattas for years. But the thrill for me was the start. You’re going 12 knots and crisscrossing with these big maxis. You need to time it just exactly right.

What do you hope for your return to Porto Cervo?

I don’t think we’ll do anything differently. We’ve made some improvements on the boat. That’s a constant course for any boat. But it’s always about playing. When do you get a chance to get 25 people together on a boat from different countries speaking different languages doing amazing things together? That’s the attraction.

What’s your approach to being a skipper?

There’s a great sense of family in my crew. I’m in awe of the skills around me. They know things I don’t know. Everybody on the crew knows something, and nobody knows everything. You are a collective brain and rely on each other, and deeply trust every single person on that boat. You have to do everything well together in concert like a ballet. When I’m driving, I’m looking at my instruments. I’m listening to my trimmer, tactician and navigator. It’s an enormous task of concentration and focus.

Even when you feel a boat breathing down your neck and coming fast, you don’t turn your head and look because you might turn the wheel a little bit. You need to practice focus. When you do, it becomes a Zen-type place.

What’s it like being one of very few women skippers in maxi racing?

I grew up in a household of four brothers. It never occurred to me there was anything I couldn’t do. I don’t really think about skippers as a gender role. There are some extraordinary women in sailing rising to the highest echelon of the sport. There are a lot of challenges for women in their lives and getting into this kind of work, but it isn’t impossible. The only challenge for me is the limit of physical strength. I’m not a big person, and I’ll never be strong like a big guy.

Finally, how can we restore the ocean?

It begins with connection, understanding and caring. The biggest threat to the ocean is ignorance. Understanding what we don’t know about the ocean is absolutely fascinating. Most of life on earth is hidden from us. Sailors are the most natural advocates for ocean health. They go places nobody goes and see things nobody sees. When you start to ask them what’s changing in the ocean, they’ll tell you.

Our group — 11th Hour Racing — wants to transform the sailing industry and change the way regattas operate. We do that through demonstrations that get people thinking about the ocean. There are concrete changes that can be made — races with zero waste, refillable bottles and water stations. I think it’s setting a new standard on how the race world should work.

Because of an editing error, an earlier version of an online summary and a picture caption accompanying this article misstated the number of times Wendy Schmidt has competed in the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup. She has sailed in the race three times, not two; this is the second time she has sailed it on her boat, Deep Blue.

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The 43.68 metre Oceanco motor yacht Deep Blue II has emerged from a six-month refit period at the Lusben shipyard in Varazze, Italy.

Deep Blue II checked into Lusben in November 2021 and was redelivered to her owner in May 2022. Her winter refit programme was supervised by captain Meo Palmieri, M/Y Deep Blue II 's manager, and included a full hull and superstructure repaint, an interior refresh and a reconfiguration of the sun deck.

The sun deck was a key area of focus during the refit in order to continue the yacht's charter success and maximise her market appeal. The space was remodelled to include a bar and barbecue area, a new Jacuzzi and movable sun loungers, while a large crane was removed to create more space for guests to move about. The modification of the sundeck was complete with the assistance of Engineering Studio Nattero Genova.

The interior benefitted from a repaint, new carpet, new upholstery and new curtains throughout to brighten the look and feel of the vessel. The saloon is now a lighter space for guests to relax and a new marble dining table is a welcome addition. The reupholstery of the yacht's soft furnishings, across the interior and exterior, was completed by P.f. Cabib di Dario e Liana Cabib, along with the repanelling of the bed bases and walls.

Deep Blue II can sleep up to 10 guests in a flexible four or five-cabin layout: a convertible VIP suite on the lower deck can be used as a full-beam cabin with an adjoining lounge area or converted into two separate guest cabins. All the leather bench tops in the guest cabins were replaced with marble.

The owners of Deep Blue II also took the opportunity to take delivery of a new 12-metre Axopar 37 chase boat and a second Jet ski. On the technical side, a full service of the engineering and electronic components was completed.

Deep Blue II is currently available for charter with Edmiston from €135,000 per week. She will be cruising the West Mediterranean this summer. 

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