“The Wally Cento was created to give the owners a Wally with more performance and more excitement with square-top mainsails, bowsprits, and big-size gennakers … a bit more bang for their dollar,” says Wylie, who oversaw the boat’s two-year build. At this summer’s Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup it even took a few light-air races, which pleased its project manager, Bob Wylie, a veteran of the grand-prix game. Only two weeks after its May 2013 launch, Magic Carpet 3‘s owner, Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones, of England, entered it into the Gaastra PalmaVela Regatta in Mallorca, Spain, and swept class line honors, finishing between five and 20 minutes ahead of its closest competitor. It’s good looking, and it isn’t slow, either. The newest Wally Cento 100 is Magic Carpet 3, a Reichel/Pugh design with a combination of high life and high performance. The stakeholders at Wally Yachts have since reintroduced the brand with what’s called the Wally Cento box rule, which encourages lighter designs while retaining the distinctive Wally look and interior requirements. As eye catching as they were (and still are), when the Wallys of old came out to play among the handicap grand-prix set, they usually struggled. Beneath those decks were lairs of modern luxury, but when it comes to racing, luxury doesn’t usually equate to lightweight. Ingrid AberyĪ decade ago it was impossible to mistake a Wally design, those queens of the superyacht scene with their expansive and barren teak decks, low-profile deckhouses, cockpit couches, and beamy, aggressive hull lines-aggressive at least for the traditionalists of the Mediterranean yachting set. But it certainly is eye-catching and question-causing no matter where it’s seen.Wally Cento Magic Carpet 3 The newest Wally Cento is Magic Carpet 3, a Reichel/Pugh design with an overall length of 100′, maximum beam of 23’7″, draft of 16’5″, and displacement of 110,231 lb. The Magic Carpet is not constructed to be seaworthy when the ship is moving. Nor will the ship move when the Magic Carpet is down functioning as a boarding area for the ship’s tenders. Passengers will never be on the Magic Carpet when it moves. For those who thought the Magic Carpet may be a fancy elevator that passengers ride up and down – no way. Worldwide celebrated architect and longtime sailing aficionado, Tom Wright of WKK, created the all-new-at-sea traveling terrace. Instead of the usual unpleasant task that passengers must endure on some cruise ships to board a small tender boat to go ashore when the ship must anchor off shore, the Magic Carpet makes getting on and getting off a tender boat a fun and comfortable experience. When it’s down close to sea level on deck 2, that’s when the structure shows its real magical function. When it is on deck 14, it serves as a late-night bar. When it’s up on deck 5, the Magic Carpet is a restaurant offering unforgettable al fresco dining as the ship glides over the glistening water below. The apparatus moves up and down the exterior of the ship to reach heights of 13 stories above sea level. Positioned on the side of the ship, the brightly colored structure about the size of a tennis court is one of the world’s first cantilevered floating platforms. “It can move up and down to be used for different things.” “It’s called The Magic Carpet,” the security guard answered. I listened for the answer, although I already knew what it was. “What is that strange device on the side of your ship?” Overheard: Heading ashore in Cozumel from my Celebrity Apex cruise ship, I heard a passenger from the Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas docked nearby ask a question of our security guard.
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