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L’expérience du Chantier ALUBAT en matière de dériveur intégral et la réputation des cabinets d’architecture Mortain/Mavrikios et CBA en matière de performance se sont unies pour la première fois pour donner naissance à l’OVNI 370 : une belle collaboration qui met en avant l’ADN des OVNI, voiliers de grand voyage confortables et performants.

L’OVNI 430 fait partie de notre nouvelle génération de bateaux alliant innovation, élégance, ergonomie, confort et performance.

L’OVNI 450 est une nouvelle version de l’OVNI 445, déjà construit à 46 exemplaires depuis son lancement en 2008. Marc Lombard, à l’origine des plans de cet excellent dériveur, a donc réfléchi à des éléments nouveaux pour lui apporter une nouvelle jeunesse.

Ces constructions demandent une grande capacité d’adaptation et des finitions de qualité que le chantier révèle dans chacune de ses unités produites.

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First look: Ovni 370 – smaller rugged alloy yacht

• August 18, 2021

Rupert Holmes takes a look at the recently announced Ovni 370, which brings much of the forward thinking seen in previous Ovni design in a smaller package

Ovni is another French yard that builds rugged shoal draught aluminium boats. It has recently focussed on larger models, but this Ovni 370 brings much of the thinking behind the 400, launched three years ago, to a smaller size bracket.

A key feature of the boat lies in the distinctive coachroof styling. It’s not as sleek as that of most more performance oriented designs, but allows for generously sized forward-facing windows that provide the best possible view out. The optional deck saloon layout enables watchkeeping to be carried out from the shelter of the cabin.

Forward hull sections are very rounded, which increases forecabin volume and form stability, while helping to reduce pitching. An optional square top mainsail increases upwind sail area by almost 10% without the need for a taller rig. Displacement is a hefty 9.4 tonnes, yet the boat is designed to take a payload of almost an extra two tonnes when cruising long term.

The first boat is currently in build.

Ovni 370 specifications:

LOA: 11.95m / 39ft 2in LWL: 11.40m / 37ft 5in Beam: 3.99m / 13ft 1in Draught: 0.92 to 3.08m / 3ft 0in to 10ft 1in Displacement: 9,400kg / 20,700lb Ballast: 3,000kg / 6,610lb Base price: €272,000 ex VAT. Builder: alubat.com

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Alubat currently offers six models such as the Ovni 365, Ovni 445 and Ovni 450. More than 15 different models have been created since 1974. Ovni 43 has clearly been conceived for sailing the high seas, with excellent autonomy. Ovni 345 is balanced and stable, offering exceptional close-hauled performance. Given its size, it is the ideal model for two or three sailors. Band of Boats has an array of previously-owned sailboats among its boats for sale . See if you can be tempted by one of the Alubat Ovni models on sale!

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Targeting super yachts owned by Russian oligarchs could hit a nerve in Moscow

Poor transparency around ownership of assets can cause challenges, experts say.

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With sanctions levied and financial assets seized, Russian oligarchs have been scrambling to get their super yachts out of Western ports in search of safer harbours. 

One yacht, said to belong to Russian President Vladimir Putin himself, abruptly left port in Hamburg, Germany, just weeks before the Russian invasion of Ukraine prompted wide-reaching sanctions. Others were not so quick to leave European ports. 

Authorities in La Ciotat, on France's Mediterranean coast, seized a yacht they say is linked to sanctioned Russian oligarch Igor Sechin, the CEO of state oil company Rosneft. He was Russia's deputy prime minister from 2008 to 2012.

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Industry watchers say oligarchs everywhere are trying to keep their yachts from being taken.

​​"There's a few yachts that we are watching at the moment in the Atlantic," said Sam Tucker, head of super yachts at the firm VesselsValue, which tracks and estimates the value of these giant luxury yachts. 

"I'm expecting some of them to start doing U-turns in the middle of the ocean," he told CBC Radio's Day 6 .

Western countries have imposed a punishing package of sanctions and export control restrictions on Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine. Russia's biggest banks were hit, as was the country's central bank. Major state-owned companies and some of the country's wealthiest individuals have seen overseas assets frozen.

The investment bank JP Morgan Chase believes Russia's economy will shrink 35 per cent in the second quarter of 2022 and seven per cent for the entire year.

White House spokesperson Jen Psaki says the suite of sanctions is meant to make every aspect of life difficult on Putin and the oligarchs who protect him.

"What we're talking about here is seizing their assets, seizing their yachts and making it harder for them to send their children to go to colleges and universities in the West," Psaki said in a briefing this week. "These are significant steps that will impact the people who are closely around President Putin."

<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Putin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Putin</a>´s Yacht "The Gracefull" inbound Kaliningrad from Hamburg in anticipation of future sanctions due to the conflict in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ukraine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Ukraine</a>. <a href="https://t.co/qdhAUhCH1m">pic.twitter.com/qdhAUhCH1m</a> &mdash; @GDarkconrad

Symbolic target

The yachts themselves are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but experts in Russian sanctions say this isn't just about the dollar value.

"They don't have much value compared to the total net worth of an oligarch," said Bill Browder, a long-time advocate for stiff sanctions against Russian oligarchs, in an email to CBC Radio. 

But they are "a highly symbolic attack on something coveted by the oligarchs."

These ultra-luxurious ships became a status symbol for the oligarchs as they amassed fortunes in the 1990s and early 2000s.

"There is a bit of oneupmanship," Tucker told Day 6 . He says the biggest and most expensive ships are cloaked in secrecy. They have extreme privacy and security features, including bulletproof glass, and some require crew to sign non-disclosure agreements.

But Tucker says the biggest security and privacy feature of all is the opaque ownership structure of the yachts. He says precious little information about who actually owns these ships is available.

"[Only] basic information is disclosed — for example, the registered owner — which is often a shell company or a 'special interest vehicle' registered in Monaco, Malta, [or the] Cayman Islands," he said.

Untying those knots is a notorious problem, but one usually confined to taxation issues.

"One thing that I think may come out of this whole situation is the increased call for transparency and transparent ownership," said Tucker.

Yachts on the move

So far, only four super yachts have been seized, including a 213-foot yacht owned by Alexei Mordashov in Imperia, Italy.

While authorities sift through the byzantine paper trail of ownership, other oligarchs have scrambled their crews to get the yachts to somewhere safe.

"One of the things I've been trying to figure out is, where do they go [next]?" asked Alex Finley, a former CIA officer living in Barcelona, in an interview with  As It Happens host Gillian Findlay .

This week, Finley tweeted photos tracking a ship said to be owned by Roman Abramovich, the Russian billionaire who owns the Chelsea Football Club.

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"A lot of these yachts that we've been looking at are heading towards the Maldives or the Seychelles. A few are in Montenegro, but they look like they're probably going to be on the move," Finley said in the interview .

Here you can see the sterns of both Aurora and Valerie, and in the other pic, the empty slip where Solaris used to be (which is the size of the empty hole in my heart). 7/ <a href="https://t.co/Luvj5vyWXp">pic.twitter.com/Luvj5vyWXp</a> &mdash; @alexzfinley

Neither the Maldives nor the Seychelles signed onto the sanctions, so the ships are probably safe from seizure there. Another major hub is Dubai.

"I think we're going to see Dubai as a big hotspot for these yachts," said Tucker. "It has hot weather all year round and … Russians can fly to Dubai without going through the EU airspace."

Tucker agrees that targeting the yachts is a symbolic move.

"It's really sending the message that they aren't untouchable. We've closed the skies on both sides of the Atlantic so their private jets can't operate, and now we're going after their super yachts," he said.

"I'd be feeling quite vulnerable if I was an oligarch right now."

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Peter Armstrong is a senior business reporter for CBC News. A former host of On the Money and World Report on CBC Radio, he was previously a foreign correspondent and parliamentary reporter for CBC. Subscribe to Peter's newsletter here: cbc.ca/mindyourbusiness Twitter: @armstrongcbc

Interview with Sam Tucker produced by Rachel Levy-Mclaughlin

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Alubat » La gamme » OVNI 450

The full experience

The OVNI 450 is the new version of the OVNI 445, of which already 46 units have been built since the first one in 2008.

Marc Lombard, who designed the original plans of this amazing lifting keel boat, has thought of new elements to give it a new youth.

With the same hull as the OVNI 445, the OVNI 450 has a wider sugarscoop with flat floor and open access to the cockpit. It will be equipped with twin helm stations, bigger fixed hull portholes and a straighter stem. There will also be a platform bowsprit, which will include the bow roller, a larger hatch for the sail locker and a re-designed pulpit.

Various options of the 445 will become standard on the 450, like the Staron cockpit table or the S/S ladder integrated to the swim platform, among others.

Information

• Architect : Marc LOMBARD
• Hull length : 13.98 m
• Length at waterline : 12.66 m
• Maximum beam : 4.29 m
• Draught with centreboard up : 1.05 m
• Draught centreboard down : 2.90 m
• Displacement : 11,550 kg
• Ballast weight : 3,725 kg
• Water tanks : 540 l
• Fuel tanks : 2 x 250 l
• Upwind sail area : 95.50 sqm
• Mainsail : 43.50 sqm
• Genoa : 52 sqm
• Staysail : 25 sqm
• Engine : Volvo D2-50 shaft drive (36.5 kW)
• CE Category : A

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