


Porsche Design apparently wants to get its talented fingers into everything. Next is a line of yachts it's designing for high-end Singaporean yacht builder Royal Falcon Fleet, starting with this model RFF135, for which Porsche will create the exterior and interior. This 135-foot luxury watercraft of the future doesn't even seem like a boat — add a warp drive to this twin-hull catamaran design and it could pass as a starship. Too bad it'll only speed up to 35 knots in the real world, but that's pretty fast for a luxury yacht.
This design direction makes a lot of sense for Porsche Design. Creating go-fast boats and fancy yachts that look like they could easily go 5000 parsecs per second makes a lot more sense for a marque whose claim to fame is fire-breathing road rockets. Sure beats hawking toasters, clock radios and cell phones at the flea market. Let's hope the final design resembles this wunderbar rendering.
By Anonymous at 7:18 AM ON 09/12/08
This Yacht looks amazing, the only problem is that since is a design by porche, it will continue looking the same for the next fifty years.
By ULF at 6:37 AM ON 11/24/08
We read about this planned project on Saturday in Norwegian magazine Motor. Interresting, but surely not a new design. Almost identical design was proposed by Katamaran Konstruktion / Dr. Martin Mai back in the 1990ties. Even a large scale mock up was made and exhibited. We were fasinated by the design but suggested to Dr. Mai that they used a hull form that matches the "looks" in terms of performance and efficiency. Fitted out with the patented Air Supported Vessel (ASV) technology - 55 + knots would be feasible with acceptable power, and the design/image/performance would match. To know how this could be achieved - please contact: Ulf Tudem - Effect Ships International AS, Norway. Phone: + 47 334 65 650.
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