The Dutch design firm Vripack has worked on more than 7,500 yacht projects, including a 171-foot, six-deck sportfisher. It also partnered with Nordhavn Yachts on the interior design of Nordhavn’s 80-foot trawler. Suffice it to say that custom is a word Vripack’s team knew quite well even before they met a Norwegian man named Ivar Presttun.
Even still, when Bart Bouwhuis, co-creative director at Vripack, talks about the 61-foot boat that Presttun commissioned, he calls it just as much of a reminder that an owner can truly get what he wants in a custom design.
“This boat proves that when you have a vision, it can be done,” Bouwhuis says. “We all know many examples of failure and frustrated owners who say they’ll never own a boat again. But here, it proves that it can be done.”
Presttun, who earned his millions in the pager and SMS business, is a longtime boater who found himself with the money—and, just as importantly, the time—to bring his vision to life. He had owned five sailboats prior to commissioning a 59-foot powerboat from Steeler Yachts, a Dutch
