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Greatness and Grace! His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Name that pretty much says more as all. The designer, Pavel Shaposhnikov, thoughts were to design a yacht that Will be worthy the Highest Name and will emphasize Traditions and Spirit of the Great Emirates. It is possible that this could not to be the largest private yacht for some time to come, but She should be one of the most Beautiful and Prestigious World Largest Yacht. HH Sheikh Khalifa will have accommodations for 20 VIP Passengers and guests consisting of 10 apartments and an Owners private penthouse suite on the top deck. There are large lounge areas and a dining room on the aft of the Main Deck with an outside swimming pool and cinema arrangement. All other entertaining facilities include a large gymnasium, well-being center, sauna and steam rooms. The indoor cinema and a beach club has side folding platforms port and starboard and a large drive-in docking facility at the aft end for boats . There is also a dive center included in this area. A five deck high atrium with central staircase and 2 elevators connect all decks, including the sun deck. The sun deck has a shaded dining area and sunning areas with a Jacuzzi tub. There are additional service cores including service elevators on both port and starboard side. Access via helicopter is possible on the top most aft deck which includes a platform lowering into a heli-hangar below and possibly 3 cars and associated landing craft. There are accommodations for approximately 40 crew and 20 staff and operational staff (heli-pilots, security staff etc.) located on the forward lower decks. This vessel is capable of trans-Pacific cruising at approximately 24 knots. Propulsion is diesel electric with azipods. Introduction to Designer/Builder More than 20 YEARS OF INNOVATION AND MARINE TECHNOLOGY PS Design NAVAL is a new successfully developing shipyard in the worldwide market and who has for more than 20 years been at the technological forefront in the field of pleasure cruising and high-speed ship construction and with their hallmark being a very high quality product. PS Design was founded in 1981 as a small ship repair yard, and in 1991 was registered as Private Company. In 1983 PS Design delivered the first racing sail boat, using unique NormanBond own technology (carbon-epoxy - aluminum sandwich construction) - this boat is still winning a lot of Local regattas and last summer was sasses-fully resell in six time to new owner. Since 1981 up until today, PS Design Naval has specialized in the construction of technologically advanced and innovative yacht ships from 14 m to 150 m built in fiberglass or aluminum, in carbon fiber or steel for the pleasure, race, and yacht markets. At the present at the Sumy shipyard have produced 20m Classic Schooner for the Swiss customer and 17m Traditional schooner for the USA customer. The integration between the specific production facilities and the research, engineering and development centers allows for the transfer of technology and knowhow to the diverse elements of the group thereby maintaining a continuous quality improvement and an optimization of the production processes. By the way - the own NormanBond technology allow to construct extreme light hull for race or fast power and sail boats. About the Pavel Shaposhnikov: 55 years life experience, sea military officer, two high degreeUniversity education, married, have daughter. Leading design engineer 10 years at the biggest machinery building plant for military production, have sailing twenty seas and Atlantic, about 12 thousands sea mile as ship Captain. Taken part at lot of race regattas, repeatedly winner of national regattas and Kieler Wockhe. Single hand sailing experience. Yacht design - more then three hundred different designs. Official user Germanisher Lloyd and ABS Rules. Macintosh fan user, User Maxsurf Naval Architecture Software. A very experienced of Manager, in some years the company have had about 200- 400 employers. Love life and people around, friendly and responsibility. Own workshop 72x36meter (under construction) and about 8000 sq.meter of land. Have lot of positive energy. Communicate English. Open and flexible. Pavel Shaposhnikov designs and builds boats at Norman Yacht Shipyard in the Ukraine. Mr. Shaposhnikov has quite an interesting background. He has two high degrees from RussianUniversity, was a decorated naval military officer, then went on to become the leading a design engineer for 10 years at the largest military machinery building plant. He has also logged 12,000 nautical miles as a ship captain, has taken part in many sailing regattas, and has been a repeat winner of the national regatta and the Kieler Wockhe. Mr. Shaposhnikov has over 300 different yacht designs to his credit, and has developed a Carbon/Aluminum sandwich construction design which he guarantees is lighter and stronger than the competition. To date, Mr. Shaposhnikov has built many boats up to 75 feet in length, and plans to build boats up to 600 feet. Norman Yachts has a own building currently under construction on about 8000 m” of land. Depending upon the season and the number of orders in hand, he employs between 30 and 400 people. They are currently building five boats for European customers, and expect production to increase to 40-50 boats per year. Some recent information: Below is a letter about a sail race boat from the Skipper Ericsson Racing Team (was confirmed as the first official entry in the VolvoOcean Race 2008-09). Dear Pavel, Looks like a great boat - I'm sure you will have a lot of fun and success in sailing it. We are ...... but if we get the chance it would be good to have a chat about your project all the best of luck with everything Neal McDonald and line from the letter three-multiple Olympic Champion and Skipper of a Sweden Team of America Cup Mr. Jesper Bank ... it is obvious that the boat has a quite remarkable speed potential, ... and we experienced a fast and quickly acceleration boat. ... also here the sensation was an easy to sail and fast boat.... boat will be an interesting new boat to follow on the racing scene.