This is a tale of two yachts. And one yacht. It is the tale of a small Dutch shipyard that combined catamaran and monohull into a single vessel. They call it the X-treme 105, and, for once, the term feels like an apt description. Extreme engineering lies behind this intriguing creation: a 108ft yacht that can carry an enormous 36ft custom tender from Skipper.
“We always welcome owners with innovative ideas at Holterman Shipyard, but it's fair to say that the Lady Fleur project pushed us well beyond the norm,” yard owner Robert Holterman says. “The design and construction challenge for this [108ft] yacht was to meet a seemingly contradictory request from the highly experienced clients: ‘We want to carry a [36ft] tender on the aft of our yacht while also having a swimming pool for the grandkids.’”
The client in question was a Dutchman and a friend, and he asked Holterman to build him a yacht with offshore range that could welcome the whole family in comfort, provide a saltwater pool on the aft deck and also wet launch and recover a huge tender. It is not an equation that
