Motor yacht Destriero - for some years at the Lürssen facility in Lemwerder. Is this the sad end of a legend?
Destriero has a length of 68m and thanks to three gas turbines with 60,000 hp a top speed of 60 Knots. The yacht was built by Italian shipyard Fincantieri 1991.
In 1992 she crossed the Atlantic (3,106 nautical miles) in 58 hours at an average speed of 53 knots
Article on Wikipedia
Fincantieri celebrates twenty years of the Destriero challenge – The Italian motor yacht’s Blue Riband record still stands – press release from 2012.
Video of Destriero in her good times
Edge RC Models from Milan remastered the legend in 1:43 (Update April 2017)
Video of the model's first sea trial
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Ahoy, I’m René, the “captain” of this luxury yacht blog, and found my passion for the big ones at the age of 17. I have grown up with sailing since a little child. I have an education in Business Informatics and specialized in digital media solutions (alongside luxury yachts) like Online-Marketing, User Experience Design et cetera. My home port is in Oldenburg, Germany next to Lürssen and Abeking & Rasmussen. More about yachtemoceans