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Building the largest sailing yacht in the world

Published 12 April 2021

At 141m (462.6ft), the sheer scale of Project DREAM SYMPHONY is jaw dropping, the engineering involved is ground breaking, and when a new owner is found and she sets sail, she will have pushed back the technical boundaries of yacht classification.

Currently in build at Dream Ship Victory's yard in Bozburun,  Turkey , is a sailing yacht project of quite staggering scale. DREAM SYMPHONY is a 141m (462.6ft) four-masted schooner-rigged sailing yacht. To put that in context, the largest sailing yacht under canvas today is the 106m (347.8ft) BLACK PEARL. DREAM SYMPHONY is over 30 percent longer - indeed she is only 1.8m (5.8ft) away from equalling the world's longest masted vessel, the sail assisted motor yacht A. Length, however, is only part of this story's ambition, as we will discover.

A natural solution

The yacht features hull design and engineering by Dykstra Naval Architects and interiors by Ken Freivokh, the same team that imagined BLACK PEARL and the 88m (288.6ft) MALTESE FALCON. However, whereas BLACK PEARL, A and MALTESE FALCON all feature steel and aluminium construction, DREAM SYMPHONY is being constructed from an entirely natural material: wood. Epoxy laminated iroko to be specific.

The use of wood was quite deliberate. It is entirely renewable and recyclable, it provides a warmer environment and, correctly constructed, a vessel of equal or even greater strength compared to steel and aluminium yachts.

The yard approached RINA to certify construction and there they ran into a problem: RINA had never certified any wooden structure over 30m in length. There followed an exacting scientific research project managed by Dykstra Naval Architects, involving composite experts SP-High Modulus, now Gurit, and exhaustive testing by laboratories at the Delft University of Technology in Holland and Italy's University of Messina. The results satisfied RINA to certify construction and the build began.

'Unique design'

Comfortably creative

Freivokh's interior, a contemporary interpretation of traditional nautical stylings, is designed to enhance the warm ambience of wood and echo the historical importance of wood as a vessel building material. The result is universal in its appeal and understated in its magnificence, celebrating the space.

Key features include and two deck atrium with a spiral staircase and an owner's duplex apartment with bedroom, bathroom and private lounge on the lower deck and the saloon and office on the main deck. A 'convertible conservatory' creates an all weather winter garden between the owner's living quarters and the main lobby.

Other features include a circular double height glass swimming pool on the aft deck, with a bottom that rises to serve as a dancefloor for entertainment purposes or as a helipad. She also has meeting rooms, spa facilities with hair and nail salons and a massage room, and a gym.

A new age awaits

Construction is currently on hold as she is looking for a new owner but when she does launch, she will redefine superyacht sailing for the modern age in a way that honours the past and acknowledges the future. Sleek, stylish and outstandingly impressive, she will be an utterly unmistakable feature in the finest destinations around the world.

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Wooden Sailing Yacht Dream Symphony Is Built for Speed

The design team behind the maltese falcon, the 289-foot sailing yacht that can be operated by one person, has created another technological marvel—dream symphony..

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The latest sailing yacht from the Maltese Falcon designers appears more conventional but is no less impressive.

The design team behind Maltese Falcon , the 289-foot sailing yacht that can be operated by one person, has created another technological marvel. When it is completed next year, Dream Symphony , at 463 feet, will be the world’s second-largest private sailing yacht, and the largest one made of wood. “It is the largest-ever all-wood yacht in the modern era,” says Ken Freivokh, whose firm, Ken Freivokh Design, collaborated with Dykstra Naval Architects to design the vessel.

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When it launched from a Perini Navi boatyard in 2006, Maltese Fal­con established a new benchmark for sailing technology. Its most notable—and most noticeable—feature is its unique automated rig, which enables a skipper to sail the yacht solo. Known generically as a DynaRig and specifically as the Falcon Rig, it features three self-standing, 190-foot-tall carbon-fiber masts that rotate to trim the sails. Each mast houses five square sails. When the sails unfurl—electronically—along the masts’ rigidly attached yards, there are no gaps between them, so each sail plan essentially serves as a single sail. Together, the sails cover more than 25,800 square feet, helping to propel the vessel to a top speed of 18 knots.

Dream Symphony is being built by the Turkish boatyard Dream Ship Victory (DSV), whose owner, Valeriy Stepanenko, is responsible for the yacht’s conception. He also commissioned a 656-foot-long shed at his company’s Marmaris headquarters to accommodate the construction. It appeared as though Dream Sym­phony was going to be the world’s largest private sailing yacht, but in May, the German shipyard Nobiskrug launched White Pearl , which, reportedly at 482 feet, now claims the title. ( White Pearl ’s owner is expected to take delivery in 2016.)

Maltese Falcon and Dream Sym­phony share a design team, but they are two completely different vessels.

“They are not really comparable, and they are not sister ships,” says Anneliek van der Linde, Dykstra Naval Architects’ marketing manager. Though she concedes they do share at least one common trait: “Both are big yachts.”

Dream Symphony , a four-mast schooner, will not have a DynaRig, which was developed for Maltese Falcon in part by Dykstra under the direction of the yacht’s original owner, the American venture capitalist Tom Perkins. It is based on a concept first proposed by the German hydraulics engineer Wilhelm Prölss in the late 1960s. “The [ Dream Sym­phony ] owners decided against the DynaRig option because it did not offer the classic ‘cloud of sail’ look typical of a large schooner,” says Freivokh. Instead, the yacht’s nearly 54,000 square feet of sails will be controlled by a more traditional setup that includes Hoyt booms. “They offer considerable advantages compared with traditional booms, and they will slightly reduce the number of crew required to hoist and lower the sails and make adjustments underway,” he says. “[The rig] does not, however, provide the full manning advantages of the DynaRig, as crew are still required to assist with winching lines to adjust the trim of the sails.” Dream Symphony is designed to carry 32 crew members.

According to Freivokh, the sails and the rest of the rig will enable Dream Symphony to achieve faster speeds than Maltese Falcon . “It should be a very exhilarating and powerful experience to see such a long, sleek-sailing ship cut through the waves under sail alone at speeds in excess of 20 knots,” he says. “The whistling of the wind on the rigging and over the huge sail plan will be amazing for guests and crew, much more expressive than the DynaRig, where the sails are high up and held in total control by the curved booms with no standing or running rigging.”

Majestic as the sails will look, the construction material, not the rig, is the most remarkable aspect of Dream Symphony . Steel and aluminum are the preferred materials for yachts of this size— White Pearl is made of aluminum and steel—but Dream Symphony is fashioned mainly from iroko, a highly prized hardwood from the west coast of Africa. “Wood presents certain limitations in the size of openings, such as shell doors, open transoms, and windows,” says Freivokh. “Conversely, it provides great flexibility and quite unique acoustic isolation proper­ties, with minimum transmission of vibration from machinery.”

Adds Van der Linde: “Wood is a much less stiff material than steel or aluminum. This means that not only the strength of the hull, but also the deflection of the hull becomes very important in the structural design. Also, determining the properties of the wood material and the fact that the strength varies depending on how the wood planking is oriented in relation to the loads makes this aspect quite complicated.”

Dream Symphony will accommodate 20 guests in an interior that includes a duplex owner’s suite, two VIP suites with their own saloons, and four guest staterooms.

Amidships, an imperial-style mahog­any staircase connects the lower deck to a main-deck atrium. Other highlights include an all-glass swimming pool equipped with a rising floor that can convert the pool into an entertainment area or a touch-and-go helipad. A hair salon and nail salon, massage rooms, a gym, and outdoor dining and lounging areas are also among the yacht’s amenities. A glass-covered area of the main deck, between the owner’s suite and the guest deckhouse, transforms into an air-conditioned conservatory when electronically controlled glass panels emerge from recesses in the superstructure and enclose the space.

According to Van der Linde, despite the yacht’s size, its design will enable passengers to feel connected with the water. “Even though the vessel is very large,” she says, “the relatively low freeboard and single layer of superstructures with large glass panels all around will give a true sailing experience to those onboard.”

Dream Symphony , dream-symphony.com ; Dream Ship Victory , dsvyachts.com ; Dykstra Naval Architects , dykstra-na.nl ; Ken Freivokh Design , freivokh.com

Danielle Cutler started covering yachts, marinas, and the yachting industry in 2005. Besides writing and editing yacht content for Robb Report, Danielle has worked for Yachts International and the…

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Dream Symphony: World’s Largest “Green” Sailing Yacht

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Earlier this year, plans were solidified for the construction of Dream Symphony , a 463-foot staysail schooner. Ken Freivokh Design penned the lines, and Dykstra & Partners Naval Architects plan to boost the boat’s “green” credentials by using carefully selected tropical, renewable wood in the build. Construction will take place at the Dream Ship Victory yard in Turkey with a planned launch date of 2016. If Dream Symphony takes to the seas, she will surpass Barry Diller’s Eos , with an overall length of 305 feet, and become the largest sailing yacht in the world.

How long will she hold this title? We’ll have to wait and see.

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With a total length of 462 ft (141 m) and with a structure made entirely of wood, Dream Symphony will be the largest sailing yacht in the world. The imposing ship is currently under construction.  

Announced more than ten years ago by Turkey-based shipyard Dream Ship Victory , the imposing ship is still in the making, but when it will finally be done, it promises to push back the technical boundaries of yacht classification, as boasted by its current owner, Burgees. It will be 30 percent longer than the Black Pearl, which is currently considered the world’s largest sailing superyacht, measuring 347 ft (106 m) in length.

The design of the Dream Symphony was entrusted to Ken Freivokh from the U.K., while the naval architecture is the job of Dykstra Naval Architects, a company based in the Netherlands.

In addition to the yacht being truly special for its mind-blowing dimensions, it is also unique in that it is going to be an all-wood (epoxy laminated Iroko) construction. The wood gives the Dream Symphony a warm interior vibe, while still making it just as strong as steel and aluminum vessels.

In terms of design, the owner asked for privacy, practicality, classical elegance with a modern twist, as reported by Burgees. The Dream Symphony will feature a diesel-electric propulsion system offering a maximum range of 5,900 Nm at 14 knots.

With a two-deck atrium and a spiral staircase, the vessel will have the owner’s duplex apartment on the lower deck, with a bedroom, private bathroom, and lounge. On the main deck, you’ll find a salon and office. There’s also a circular, all-glass swimming pool with a rising floor that can be deployed as a helipad.

A convertible conservatory located between the main lobby and the owner’s living quarters can be closed at a touch of a button and creates an all-weather winter garden.

Other notable features are a spa with nail and hair salons, a gym, a massage room, and meeting rooms.

The building process of the yacht has been stalled for a significant amount of time and it is currently on hold. But the hull of the ship is almost complete and Burgees is now striving to speed things up by looking for a new owner for the Dream Symphony. There’s no price mentioned, so you have to contact  Burgees  for more info on that.

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Keel laid for 141m sailing yacht Dream Symphony

Dream Ship Victory has begun work on the record-breaking 141 metre sailing yacht Dream Symphony , for which it has purpose-built a 200m construction shed.

The Turkish yard decided that the extension to its Marmaris base was necessary to accommodate the construction of the vessel, which will be the largest sailing yacht ever built. Dream Symphony ’s keel has now been laid at the site. Ken Freivokh, who designed the yacht in conjunction with Dykstra Naval Architects, also had to think outside the box to do the enormous yacht justice.

‘I’m particularly proud of developing a design that actually suits the scale of the yacht, because many large yachts are really just pumped-out small yachts,’ says Freivokh, principle of Ken Freivokh Design. ‘We have taken all the opportunities that the size and the length afford us to make all the amenities and the spaces proportioned and useable.’

‘It is quite a challenge – for example, how are you going to do simple things such as serve food? There are cleverly sited pantries with dumb waiters. The yacht has a very good infrastructure – we segregated the crew from the guests so they don’t get in the way but we can also serve all the needs of the yacht seamlessly behind the scenes,’ he says.

Despite these unusual features, Dream Symphony is a more traditionally rigged yacht than comparable Freivokh/Dykstra collaboration the Maltese Falcon. This vessel is more reminiscent of traditional large yachts, with wooden construction. In the interiors Freivokh took advantage of the bare beauty of boats made in this way.

‘We developed a style that exposes the fact of how it’s built, so it’s a combination of largely wood, with some carbon and stainless steel. We’re not trying to hide everything and pretend it’s a palace. It’s a bit like some of the higher performance cars – you would expose certain things internally, says Freivokh.

Back at the yard, the new facilities are helping Dream Ship Victory to make these designs a reality. The main shed in its present form can accommodate yachts up to 160 metres, with an array of overhead cranes, climate control and support facilities, including offices and accommodation facilities all on site.

In parallel, work is also progressing on both the 55 metre Princess Maria and the 43 metre Imagination , while the 63 metre Mikhail S. Vorontsov is nearing completion at its fitting-out base at Balk Shipyard in the Netherlands.

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Dream Symphony is a gaff schooner sail 141.00m (462'7"ft) from Dream Ship Victory, due to launch in 2019.

The 141m 4-masted schooner was given the go-ahead for constuction in 2011, and is due to emerge from the Turkish shipyard in 2019. She was designed by Dykstra Navel Architects, with beautiful exterior and interior stylying by Ken Freivokh

A top speed is of 19.5kn is achieved by two diesel electric engines, and she is able to accommodate a whopping 18 guests and 32 crew members.

Dream Symphony offers an incredible aesthetic in addition to the unique wood building technology proposed by Dykstra & Partners. The luxury yacht also boasts excellent green credentials.

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At the Monaco Yacht Show 2010 Dream Ship Victory signed a contract with Dykstra & Partners for the Naval Architecture and Ken Freivokh Design for the design and styling of the 141-metre sailing yacht Dream Symphony .

Dream Symphony will be the largest sailing yacht ever built. The yacht will be classical with a twist and will feature the unique all wood construction.

Dream Symphony will be the forth sailing yacht designed by the same naval architecture and design team. The previous three, Mikhail Vorontsov (65 m), Princess Maria (55 m) and Imagination (42 m), are currently under construction.

An initial concept of the Dream Symphony was presented at the Monaco Yacht Show on the Dykstra & Partners stand and construction will start in 2011.

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The world’s biggest sailing yacht: 141 metres of wood

Its name is  Dream Symphony  and once its building will be concluded in 2017, with a 141 metres length and a 18 metres beam it will become the  world’s biggest sailing yacht ever built.

The never-ending duel between EOS and Maltese Falcon will thus come to an end. It’s been quite a battle, with the  Falcon claiming for leadership  by considering its waterline length of  256′ , 20′ more than the one of  EOS , while  EOS  has always declared itself the biggest sailing yacht thanks to the bowsprit, with a total length of  305′.

Dream Symphony will serve as a peacemaker , since when its building will be completed next year, it will be without any doubt the world’s biggest private sailing ship.

Designed by  Ken Freivokh and Dykstra Naval Architects Studio , those who signed Maltese Falcon blueprints, Symphany will have four masts for a total sailing area of 5.000 sq.m.

It will have two decks , with a clear division between the owner’s area and guests and crew areas. A swimming pool will be built at stern,  with a upholstery capable of sustaining the weight of a helicopter. The yacht is being built at  Dream Ship Victory shipyard, Turkey.

To make the project even more interesting is the fact  Dream Symphony is being built mainly of wood , that is a real technological challenge since beyond a certain length traditional planking cannot be used because of the strain and stress the yacht is undergoing.  Builders made an assembly work with  laminates in order to create a solid and robust hull , completing the building with fiberglass as an external protective layer.

The wood used in the making is  iroko , a highly resistant wood that will absorbe the huge amount of work originating from the mast compression , stays and waves solicitation.

Luxury onboard doesn’t only apply to materials and finishings but to spaces as well. There will be only 18 guests and 9 cabins onboard,  while the crew will be made up of 32 members.

Price? That’s a question you shouldn’t ask.

Technical file

LOA                 141 mt

Beam                18 mt

Max draugh     8 mt

Engines            2 X 6700 HP total

Materials         Wooden and epoxy hull – teak bridge – aluminum, epoxy and wooden superstructures

Hi, I am a Cabinet maker&Joiner, I am 67 years young I have been in the game since I was 15 years old, may be I can help with the timber ship, kind regards David.

This is an extremely significant engineering undertaking. I’ll be following the progress, companies and personnel who will be contributing their life’s work on this “for professionals only” vessel. Can’t wait to see the rest of the specifications and engineering systems. Let me know if you need any trans-Atlantic delivery crew. Hopefully we’ll see Dream Symphony in Bermuda. I’ve got the resume for joining the deck, engineering & bridge crew for some of your longer passages. Good luck! ~ Pete

One of my pet peeves is when they call vessels it instead of she it is highly disrespectful and very lubberly Good luck with the Turks I try to start my business down there 10 years ago and the young Turkish naval architect told me don’t believe a thing we say we lie about everything one day he would save it say to me he can supply 20 men at 8 Euros an hour the next day he would put it up to 12 I never knew where I was so I gave up

looks that this boat has not been built finally?

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Dream symphony: inside the 10-year build of the world’s biggest sailing yacht.

December 14, 2021

Announced in 2010, the 141 metre sailing superyacht  Dream Symphony  was revealed with a number of groundbreaking promises. The four-masted schooner-rigged sailing yacht, currently in build at  Dream Ship Victory’s  yard in Bozburun, Turkey, would become the largest sailing yacht in the world when launched.

Constructed entirely from wood, epoxy laminated iroko to be precise, it would also break numerous engineering feats. RINA was approached to certify construction, but there was a problem – it had never certified any wooden structure measuring over 30m in length. 

This resulted in a scientific research project spearheaded by designer  Dykstra Naval Architects , which involved composite experts and extensive tests undertaken by Italian universities and Dutch laboratories. By the end of the process, RINA was satisfied and construction on the truly unique project began, with the keel laid in 2011.

Since then, progress on the project has stalled and now Burgess is seeking a new owner to bring the yacht to completion. Luckily, the project isn’t shy of unique selling points. For starters, it’s designed by Dykstra and  Ken Freivokh  – who also worked on the 106m  Black Pearl   and 88m  Maltese Falcon . But unlike  Black Pearl  and  Maltese Falcon , both of which are constructed from steel and aluminium, Dream Symphony features a unique all-wood construction providing a “warmer environment”, as well as being renewable and recyclable, according to Burgess.

While the original concept, according to Freivokh, called for “a very traditional schooner in terms of the rig”, the layout of the interior was less conventional. In fact the interior concept was almost completely created around a “very private owner’s quarters”.

Split across two levels with an atrium and spiral staircase, this dedicated apartment includes a bedroom, bathroom, and private lounge on the lower deck while an adjoining saloon and office sit on the main deck above. “The owner almost has the whole rear section to themselves”, Freivokh says. The rest of the accommodation sits on the lower deck and sleeps 16 guests in eight cabins, including two VIPs, three doubles, one twin and two convertible rooms.

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source: Boat International

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The Dream Ship Victory shipyard in collaboration with architects Dykstra & Partners and styling by Ken Freivokh Design will build the exclusive 141 mtr Dream Symphony Yacht . The keel-laying will occur at Dream Ship Victory’s facility in Turkey later and launch scheduled for 2016. The yacht is said to combine classical with contemporary styling. The interiors and exteriors will feature materials to tie in with extensive unique wood fittings. It is also expected to be one of the largest yachts .

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141m  /  462'7 | dream ship victory | 2026.

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Special Features:

• Elevator for convenient access
• Impressive 5,900nm range
• Two VIP cabins
• RINA (Registro Italiano Navale) classification
• Interior design from Ken Freivokh

The 141m/462'7" sail yacht 'Dream Symphony' is due to be launched by Dream Ship Victory in Turkey at their Bozburun shipyard. Her interior is styled by British designer design house Ken Freivokh and she will be completed in 2026. This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Ken Freivokh.

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Dream Symphony has been designed to comfortably accommodate up to 16 guests in 8 suites comprising two VIP cabins.

Range & Performance

Dream Symphony is built with a wood hull and wood superstructure. Dream Symphony reaches a maximum speed of 19 knots with a range of up to 5,900 nautical miles at 14 knots. She was built to RINA (Registro Italiano Navale) classification society rules.

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