Open sesame
floating dock’s gate malfunction in Lürssen’s Bremen shipyard outed the in-build 466ft Project Ali Baba. News of the incident leaked to the local press and social media, and Lürssen took the lead on the narrative by releasing a brief statement: “A technical failure of the dock gate forced water out of the dock thereby pushing the nose of the yacht into the dock curtain.” The yard pulled the yacht out into the open before organizing its transfer to its Hamburg facility for final commissioning, providing no further details about the project. However, yacht enthusiasts may