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Lurssen launches highly anticipated superyacht ARETI a.k.a. Project Sasha

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One of Lurssen ‘s most secretive builds in recent years, the yard has announced that 85m/279ft motor yacht ARETI  (ex. PROJECT SASHA ) was successfully launched on the 10th of April.

Lurssen launches ARETI (ex. Project Sasha)

Built to exceptional standards to meet the owner’s requirements and those of the Passenger Yacht Code, she is a completely bespoke design. Areti features concept work and traditional interior and contemporary exterior styling from Winch Design , who have completed interiors for notable superyachts LAUREN L and ASOLARE .

The spacious on board layout contains a generous Master suite and 8 guest cabins, while her facilities include a sauna, hammam, Jacuzzi pool, a full depth plunge pool and an open beach club. Private exterior decks allow guests their own private outdoor area and plenty of space for total indulgence in luxury.

Main Specifications:

LOA:                                      85,00 m / 278’9’’

Beam:                                     14,80 m / 48’6’’

Builder:                                  Lürssen Yachts

Exterior Designer:                       Winch Design

Interior Designer:                        Winch Design

Motor yacht Areti is expected to be delivered to her owner this summer.

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Lürssen’s Superyacht Project Sasha Splashes

• By Grace Howard
• Updated: April 11, 2017

Project Sasha, now known as Areti , launched yesterday at Lürssen ‘s Rendsburg shipyard. Areti is 278 feet 9 inches length overall, and her launch comes just one week after the launch of the 446-foot superyacht Project Thunder .

The superyacht Areti has interiors and exteriors by Winch Design , which gave her a raked bow reminiscent of the 403-foot Lürssen Project Jupiter .

Areti has nine staterooms; amenities include a spa with sauna, Jacuzzi, hammam and plunge pool on the lower deck aft near the beach club. With a 48-foot-6-inch beam, Areti ‘s design allowed for lounging areas on all decks.

Delivery is expected to the owner this summer.

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Sasha, a 2009 Lagoon 500, can accommodate up to 6 guests in 3 comfortable and light double cabins, each with private bathroom and head.

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Sasha has an easy accessible steering station on her flybridge, wide trampolines for sunbathing and a luminous saloon offering panoramic view.

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Project Sasha is a voluminous yacht featuring a large master suite and 8 spacious guest cabins. A luxurious spa accommodating a sauna, hammam, jacuzzi pool and full depth plunge pool on the lower aft deck present a relaxed outdoor space with a light and open beach club. The main tender garage is up front in the bow served by two large top-hinged shell doors for ease of operation. Sasha easily sprawls 5 decks above the waterline and should be delivered to her owner later this year after sea trials are successfully concluded. Project Sasha's final name will be "Areti" as seen on her sides already. Just last week Lurssen launched another superyacht under Project name 'Thunder'. For more information: Lurssen Zum Alten Speicher 11 28759 Bremen Germany www.*********** *** ​

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SASHA I is a 28.19 m Motor Yacht, built in Italy by Maiora - Next Yacht Group and delivered in 2001. She is the only 28DP model.

Her top speed is 28.0 kn and she boasts a maximum range of 750.0 nm when navigating at cruising speed, with power coming from two MTU diesel engines. She can accommodate up to 8 guests, with 3 crew members waiting on their every need. She has a gross tonnage of 130.0 GT and a 6.8 m beam.

She was architected by Maiora - Next Yacht Group , who also designed the interior. Maiora - Next Yacht Group created the naval architecture for 94 yachts, and designed the interior of 85 yachts for yachts above 24 metres.

She was designed by Roberto Del Re , who has designed 95 other superyachts in the BOAT Pro database.

SASHA I is in the top 30% by speed in the world. She is one of 5708 motor yachts in the 24-30m size range, and, compared to similarly sized motor yachts, her cruising speed is 1.79 kn above the average, her top speed 1.5 kn above the average, and her volume 18.0 GT above the average.

SASHA I is registered under the Spain flag (along with a total of other 98 yachts)

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• Name: SASHA I
• Yacht Type: Motor Yacht
• Model: 28DP
• Builder: Maiora - Next Yacht Group
• Naval Architect: Maiora - Next Yacht Group
• Exterior Designer: Roberto Del Re
• Interior Designer: Maiora - Next Yacht Group

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Sasha 2 1977 Marine Trader 33.5 ft FOR SALE

$69,000 jensen beach, fl, us.

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1977 Marine Trader 34 "Sasha 2"

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Industry classic, the Marine Trader 34 Double Cabin is the best-selling small trawler ever imported and sold in the U.S. Built by CHB in Taiwan, there were other distributors besides Marine Trader and she may be recognized on the West Coast as the La Paz, Eagle, or CHB 34 DC. She enjoyed her best years during the 1970s when powerboats, with their big fuel-guzzling engines, were out of favor. There were several updates to the 34 over the years. Prior to 1975 she was built with a plywood house and a fiberglass cloth overlay. Until 1985 the decks were teak-planked and fastened through fiberglass to a balsa sub-deck—a constant source of deck leaks—and after 1985 the 34 was constructed of solid fiberglass. The flybridge was revised in 1991, and the teak window frames were eliminated in 1992. Below decks, the allteak interior is arranged with small staterooms fore and aft, two heads and a very practical passageway from the aft stateroom to the cockpit. A lower helm was standard, and a sliding salon door provides easy access to the deck. No one will ever confuse the Marine Trader 34 with a Grand Banks when it comes to quality.

Sasha 2 for Sale is a 33.5 ft yacht built by Marine Trader in 1977. Currently she is located in Jensen Beach and ready for her new owners.

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 Auto pilot: Garmin GHP 10 NEMA to Chart plotter

Auto pilot: Added remote to system

Inverter: 3500 (Modified Sine Wave) wired to selector switch (main shore or generator to inventor) Inverter is wired only to this switch, which is only powering ice maker ref. ref. freezer and lower helm 120 volt outlet.

Water Maker 40 gals per hr, automatic flush system and cleaning/ pickling pick up.

BATTERY: Additional 8D House battery

DECK CHAIRS: 2 Additional deck chairs Tender: New West Marine RIB-310 inflatable

ANCHOR: Yacht type kedge anchor 60#

INSTALLED: Sight gauge on fuel tanks

FUEL TANK AIR VENTS: Removed and replaced both fuel tank air vents with 1" dia. hose

OUTSIDE SHOWER: Added alum. bracket, frame and shower curtain

OUTBOARD MOTOR DAVIT: Added to aft deck

R/R TRANSOM ZINC: Changed transom zinc to DP-1 more protection

INSTALLED: Stand alone battery for Bow Thruster (wired to Battery charger only)

ADDED: Two round A-4 fenders

ADDED: Aft. T/V with DVD player and TV antenna Spare parts

Impellers, for main engine and Generator: 2700 hours, oil filters and oil for engine and generator, oil for

both, new starter for main engine, belts for both, fuel filters (primary and secondary for both), dock lines, awning for aft deck (new), new a/c raw water pump, 20uf run capaster for generator. Raw water raiser for generator, 2 water maker membranes sealed in plastic.

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SASHA private yacht

The luxury sailing yacht SASHA is a private yacht and is not available to charter.

SASHA was built by Lagoon and delivered to her owner in 2009.

SASHA can accommodate 6 guests in 3 cabins consisting of a primary suite with a queen size bed and en-suite bathroom facilities, a cabin with a queen size bed and en-suite bathroom facilities and a cabin with a queen size bed and en-suite bathroom facilities.

Amenities on board include Air Conditioning, BBQ, Coffee machine, Outdoor shower, Defibrillator, Ice maker, Indoor audio system, iPod dock, Local TV, Sun pads, Swim platform, Water maker and Wi-Fi.

An extensive list of further amenities and water toys can be seen under the features and amenities section.

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Jim is a mechanical engineer and worked for a long time in medical robotics. He has travelled a lot and even lived in the U.S. for two years. He started to take an interest in sailing when he was twelve. At the age of eighteen, he had a sailing Federal Monitor degree. Since then, he has been sailing recreationally and has always had a passion for the sea and diving. Jim has his STCW95 Sailing 200 tons Captain's Licence (Sailing Yacht Master). He also has his PADI Dive Master with more than two hundreds dives. His two kids are divers and sailing lovers too. Jim knows the beauties of the Caribbean sea, especially in the BVI, St Martin, St Vincent, Grenadines, Martinique and Guadeloupe areas.

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Sylvia was originally a qualified nurse and has also worked as a pharmacist for more than twenty five years. She is a first aid instructor. Sylvia is a sea and nature lover ; she has been diving for the last twenty years in oceans and seas all over the world. She has seen almost every underwater creature and will be happy to share her knowledge of fauna and flora with you. In order to teach her three children how to dive, she decided to pass her FFESSM “Federal Monitor” degree in 2000. She upgraded it to PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor in 2009. She has done over two thousand dives.

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SASHA has a weekly charter price starting at $15,500 and an estimated daily charter price of $2,580.

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Born and raised in London, Sasha has always been around the ocean from sailing at a young age to more recently spending over 12 years onboard super yachts as a Chef. Sasha qualified as a Cordon Bleu Chef in 2009 and spent her first year in London restaurants. After that she embarked on her journey into the yachting world in 2010, working on busy charter boats such as Aquila, Lady Britt, Titania and Siren. In that time, she gained a true insight into what the client wants and what it takes to make a charter successful. With her many years onboard superyachts she will ensure that your charter will be the most unforgettable to date. In her spare time, Sasha enjoys staying active, loves travelling and experiencing new food around the world.

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I tutored the children of Russia's elite amid the backdrop of war. One teenager said he had his own massage therapist.

• I used to teach the children of Russian oligarchs and politicians.
• Our classrooms were penthouse apartments, yachts, and mansions in exclusive Moscow suburbs.
• The outbreak of war in Ukraine revealed just how isolated the kids were. 

This essay is based on the recollections of Cameron Manley, 24, a news fellow at Business Insider who previously worked as a private tutor in Moscow and, following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Monaco. The names of students have been changed to protect their identity.

In late 2021, I started working for an international tutoring agency in Moscow.

The agency counted some of Russia's elite among its clientele — so I was quickly thrust into a world of private jets, guarded estates, and personal chauffeurs.

I worked in Moscow until Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, when I was relocated to Monaco.

We charged $150 per hour minimum for classes, but more experienced tutors and specific packages for private-school assessments or English-language testing would cost more.

Tutoring does not require any kind of formal qualification, but parents were still often happy to part with their cash as long as the tutors had a native-English accent and some connection to either the British private school system or some of the UK's top universities.

$150 was also small change for many of these families, which was reflected in the various classroom settings — Monaco penthouses, Moscow mansions, and yachts.

The money the Russian elite were willing to throw at young, inexperienced tutors was unbelievable — and frankly quite frightening.

I had acquaintances who worked as governors or nannies who were earning well into six figures.

Others were offered similarly extortionate salaries to spend their summers teaching on yachts in places like St. Barts in the Caribbean or sailing around the world.

I taught in luxurious villas and penthouse apartments

Often the children we taught, who were from four to around 18 years old, had private drivers who hurried them about in tinted Range Rovers or Mercedes-Benz cars.

In Moscow, many of our classes took place in Rublevka, an elite guarded estate in the west of the capital, where Russian President Vladimir Putin owns a home.

Many of the kids we taught lived in a world entirely different from any we had known.

A colleague of mine did after-school classes there with an eight-year-old boy called Ivan.

One week his family had been planning a weekend trip to get away from the capital: "I hope the weather isn't too bad so we can take the helicopter and don't have to drive," he said.

We also homeschooled two pupils: Alexei, 13, and his younger sister, Elena, 11.

The first time I met Alexei, he walked into our office sporting $1,000 Balenciaga trainers and a watch worth at least five times as much.

He was nevertheless a pleasant child but, like Ivan, appeared somewhat disconnected from reality.

In one class, he was shocked to hear that we didn't receive regular pampering from staff at home: "It's been seven months since you had a massage? I have a massage every day, I have my own massage therapist," he told us.

Elena was less communicative and didn't seem to enjoy the lavish lifestyle she had.

"What have I done to deserve this? I hate my life," she would often say.

My colleagues and I became increasingly concerned about her well-being as time went on.

She didn't enjoy classes alone and wanted to be with friends in a normal school.

But her parents insisted.

She seem tied to the life into which she had been born.

The job constantly surprised me

I met two types of parents in the job: Those who spent thousands of dollars on their children because they cared about them, and those who spent the money so that they didn't have to think about them.

I felt that many of the parents fell into the latter category.

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Frequently, we had little, if any, contact with the parents, and we would usually deal with nannies or drivers instead.

It felt like many of the parents found you to be an eye-sore in their luxurious lives.

Once, I had to teach a lesson at a seaside villa in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, an exclusive area between Nice in the south of France and Monaco.

The home was on a private road, and I entered through a large automatic gate that was littered with security cameras.

The house was spread out over two floors, with a swimming pool, a fully-equipped gym, a sauna, and a steam room.

When I arrived, they told me that the kids, aged four and six, had not finished their personal training session and that I would have to wait outside in the street.

Eventually the nanny said she would find me somewhere to sit "out of sight," so I was hurried into a large store cupboard in the furthest corner of the house. The kids strolled in about an hour later.

Some tried to get their children out of Russia after the invasion began

When the war in Ukraine broke out, a number of families came to us looking to find school placements for their children either in the West or in the United Arab Emirates , where many wealthy Russians fled at the outbreak of the war.

There was one family with three young children who were looking to find schools in Dubai.

Speaking to us in perfect English on Zoom with a background that boasted enormous paintings and palatial pillars, they seemed polite, well-mannered, and bright.

We later discovered that the kids were the grandchildren of a senior Russian politician who had played a major role in starting the war in Ukraine.

The irony was not lost on us that some of those who had played a key part in helping Putin initiate his brutal, unprovoked invasion were now trying to help their children escape Russia.

The children often brought up politics and the war

The company we worked for had explicitly told us to avoid discussing politics with the pupils, as the government was cracking down on protestors, and it could have put us and our pupils in danger.

But the children often brought the topic up themselves, their comments ringing with the ideology they had likely absorbed at home.

"Ukraine is ours, after all," Alexei told me in one class just after the invasion began in February.

Ivan, referring to a picture of Putin, once said, "Oh, he's amazing! Don't you think he's amazing?"

"You should open an office in Kyiv. It's beautiful there," one parent also wryly said to me.

There were occasional breakthroughs

We taught many different pupils but only one really seemed to appreciate just how lucky they were.

Elizaveta, 15, frequently expressed her discontent with Putin's Russia.

"We're killing thousands of innocent Ukrainians. It's awful," she once said.

That week, she had been kicked out of school for dyeing her hair and had asked her parents to book some additional classes so that she didn't fall behind.

Her parents were looking to send her to an English private school that September.

"The best thing I can do now is leave Russia," she told me. "That's the last option I have. Perhaps from abroad, I might be able to do some good."

Elizaveta was an anomaly, and most of the time, you had to settle for smaller victories.

I distinctly remember telling our homeschooled pupils that my colleagues and I had decided to leave Russia .

Elena seemed like she could not have cared less.

But Alexei looked genuinely upset.

It was as though the prism through which he saw the world had been, if not broken, then at the very least a little scratched.

Watch: VIDEO: How Russian media manufactured an alternate reality about the war in Ukraine

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