Evolution of the Exceptional
Over three-plus-decades, Princess Yachts America has evolved its close partnership with Princess Yachts in the U.K. to bring class-leading yachts across myriad ranges to the North American, Central American, Caribbean and Venezuelas markets.
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From creating comfortable all-weather furnishings in the alfresco spaces to designing chic, luxe interior schemes, Princess Yachts America works with its owners to help put their personal-style stamp throughout their yacht.
The partnership between Princess Yachts and Princess Yachts America benefits from the fact that both companies are-first and foremost-boatbuilders with similar philosophies on how to build a better yacht every day.
Designing yachts that tick the boxes on function, style, performance and luxury, is a sizable task.
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The F65's aft-galley layout enables seamless service for guests in the salon as well as those lounging in the cockpit.
Experiencing the Exceptional
With Princess Yachts America, owners don't simply make a purchase, they join a close-knit community of like-minded boaters. Through regular rendezvous events, cruises, and more, PYA owners have at-sea adventure, connect with old friends, make new friends and live a next-level boating lifestyle.
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Building the Exceptional
Princess Yachts America works in close collaboration with Princess Yachts in Plymouth to ensure the look, feel, layout and function of its yachts headed across the pond are dialed in for its owners.
Meet the Exceptional
Princess Yachts America works with owners to spec out yachts for how they live the on-the-water lifestyle. PYA helps with optimizing space utilization, selecting appropriate onboard equipment and appliances, personalizing decor and more.
Behind the Build
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EXPERIENCE THE EXCEPTIONAL
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Finding Their Dreamboat
Alan and Cindee Funk zeroed in on their dream boat’s characteristics: a flybridge, a full-beam stateroom, a garage and sunroofs, with a builder known for service and support.
Life of Leisure
The PYA Family
Princess Yachts America holds several rendezvous events per year, and owners travel far and wide to come together for several days of fun in the sun and cruising camaraderie.
Living the Exceptional
Celebrating at Sea
Paul and Sue Brands celebrated 50 years of wedded bliss with their Princess V48 Jubilee. Sue Brands says she loves the IPS joystick helm, which makes it easy for the couple to be owner-operators. She also likes the massive interior headroom and the wide-open salon. Most of all, they like that the V48 brings them together on the water.
Bahamas Bound
The Shipyard
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Princess Yachts America Timeline
The Owner Perspective
Introduction
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Viking Yachts is launched in New Gretna, New Jersey.
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There are three guest staterooms and two crew berths.
Headroom is 6 feet, 4 inches. A dressing area has closets and dressers, while the head has twin vanities and a shower.
The master stateroom has a leather-topped vanity to port, and a love seat is opposite with hull-side windows for light and ocean views.
The galley is aft in the salon with a lifting window that opens to the cockpit. This window is the first clue that the Y72 balances an elegant interior with alfresco fun. The galley is a step down, allowing for a full-height fridge, and an aft-facing, L-shaped dinette is opposite to include cockpit guests. Forward, the salon is geared for family entertainment, with a 55-inch pop-up TV and two sofas.
At the stern, a hydraulic swim platform can lift a Williams Sportjet 395 tender, and there’s a waist-level stowage locker with charging ports for Seabobs. A passerelle is hidden in the portside stairs to the aft deck.
The good sea manners of the Princess Y72 are the result of naval architect Bernard Olesinski’s background of racing powerboats in the English Channel.
The flowing hullside windows, superstructure and hardtop put movement into the Princess Y72’s profile. Ferrari designers Pininfarina pitched in on the yacht’s exterior lines.
Y72 Walkthrough
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HANDMADE
Handmade is a word that isn't used too often these days, but the craftsmen at Princess Yachts' furniture shop leverage their considerable skill to hand build furniture that is exacting in its execution and flawless in its finish.
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Design
The Design
Designing yachts that tick the boxes on function, style, performance and luxury, is a sizable task. The Princess Yachts team takes it creativity, knowledge, experience and expertise, to conceive and build vessels that do just that.
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Powered by Yachting and Princess Yachts America, the Princess Passport is the ultimate resource for the inspired yachtsman. Updated with new stories and articles regularly, this hub is your place to explore, discover and enjoy.
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“I found Princess in my research, and it had everything,”
Cindee Funk, Owner of Princess S60, Lady Ashford.
Craftmanship
Princess Yachts employs more than 3,200 craftspeople across its seven shipyards.
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Designing yachts that tick the boxes on function, style, performance and luxury, is a sizable task. The Princess Yachts team takes it creativity, knowledge, experience and expertise, to conceive and build vessels that do just that.
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It's a great one-on-one experience with the customer. We really get to develop a relationship with them at that time. It's exciting to be able to offer them a complete design library, here with us at Princess Yachts America, and really help them personalize their yacht, and put their own personal style and stamp on it." -Melissa DiMarco, Interior Design and Marketing Coordinator, Princess Yachts America
The Materials
From creating comfortable all-weather furnishings in the alfresco spaces to designing chic, luxe interior schemes, Princess Yachts America works with its owners to help put their personal-style stamp throughout their yacht.
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More than 80 percent of a Princess yacht is constructed in-house, from metal fabrication to furniture and more.
Princess Yachts America works with Princess Yachts to ensure that all of its yachts have the correct wiring and power specifications for its owners. Princess employees loom more than 1,780 miles of wire per year.
Additionally, PYA works with PY to maximize available onboard real estate, U.S. spec'd appliances and voluminous layouts for its clients.
All PYA owners' yachts are built to an exacting schedule. An owner can call and find out exactly what is happening on any particular day during the build process.
Hullside windows provide ocean views from the master stateroom amidships.
The forepeak VIP has a step-up berth. Hullside windows enhance the sense of space and volume.
The retractable hardtop lets the sun in when desired and shade when needed.
The helm has unobstructed sightlines out the massive raked windshield with quick side-deck access too.
The Shipyard
Princess Models
Introduction
The Princess Passport
Princess Yachts Timeline
The Owner Perspective
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Princess Yachts launches in Plymouth, England.
Tom Carroll inquiries with Marine Projects about its yachts.
Viking enters an exclusive partnership with Princess Yachts.
"We have a complete design library at our Princess Yachts America office in West Palm Beach where we sit down with owners, have a conversation about what they'd like to do and go from there."
"In addition to the two books of fabric offerings from Princess Yachts, Princess Yachts America has established its own relationships with fabric houses where we have our own fabrics that we can show to them that are above and beyond the standard selections. They can really customize what they'd like to do."
"We walk them through the process of selecting their seating materials, their granite and quartz, materials for the kitchen countertops and marble for the bathrooms, and more."
"We walk them through each space and let them tell us what style, look and feel they would really like on their boat."
"About midway through the build, we have them come in and select their timbers, then we get their galley-countertops selection at that point. which is usually about a month before the decor is due."
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Viking Yachts is launched in New Gretna, New Jersey.
Princess Yachts, formerly known as Marine Projects, launches in Plymouth, England.
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Tom Carroll, Viking Yachts' Executive Vice President of Viking Yacht Company, takes note of of several motoryachts at the Cannes Yachting Festival that are built by a company called Marine Projects. Carroll, intrigued by the stylish, finely finished yachts, inquiries with the company about its yachts.
Early 1990's
Viking enters an exclusive partnership with Princess Yachts to bring in the new luxury cruising-yacht brand Viking Sports Cruisers to the U.S. the original branding was to illustrate that these yachts were supported and backed by the powerhouse parent company Viking Yachts. A three-decade-plus-and-going-strong partnership begins.
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Success in the States with the 75 Motor Yacht.
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Success continues as the 61 is embraced by U.S. yachtsmen.
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Princess became part of the exquisite LVMH family.
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Viking Sport Cruisers and Princess Yachts announce merger.
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Viking Sports Cruisers become. Princess Yachts.
Viking Sports Cruisers makes a strategic decision to become Princess Yachts America. Today, all Princess Yachts in North America, Central America, the Caribbean and Venezuela are sold, delivered and supported by PYA.
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Viking Sport Cruisers and Princess Yachts announce that starting in 2011, yachts destined for North America, Central America and the Caribbean will now be sold under the Princess Yachts brand with Viking Sports Cruisers being the sole distributor, while also supplying sales and service support for these markets via its broad dealer network.
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In 2008, Princess became part of the exquisite LVMH family of luxury brands, which includes over 60 of the world's pinnacle companies best known for uncompromising quality. Some of these brands include Louis Vuitton, De Beers, Fendi, Moet Hennessy, and the Feadship Yacht brand acquired by LVMH later in 2008. In addition, the introduction in 2009 of the M Class range of yachts with initial offerings in the 32 meter (105') and 40 meter (132') range moved Princess into a new market with world-renowned super yacht builders.
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Success continues as the 61 is embraced by U.S. yachtsmen. Market share expands.
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Viking Sport Cruisers has great success in the States with the 75 Motor Yacht.
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A massive sun pad for a few or more guests sits over the garage. Guests can also catch rays at the foredeck lounge.
The salon has an aft-galley arrangement to port with a dining area across.
This yacht’s full-beam (16’) master stateroom offers ocean vistas via large hillside windows. There are two other guest staterooms, including a forepeak VIP.
Twin 1,200 hp V-8 MAN diesels provide a 33-knot cruiser speed and up to a 38-knot top-end speed.
The S62’s electro-hydraulic swim platform accommodates a 10-foot, 8-inch tender or JetSki.
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A massive, house-spanning single-pane windshield creates clean sightlines at the twin, in-house produced helm seats to starboard.
The cockpit’s convivial arrangement is set up for sundowners with friends thanks to the U-shaped seating across the transom as well as an L-shaped seat just forward to port.
The retractable roof floods the helm and below decks spaces in natural light, enhancing the sense of space and volume.
Thanks to IPS propulsion, the V50 is a two-stateroom, two-head arrangement with a fuell-beam amidships master.
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A U-shaped lounge and optional Jacuzzi tub with a view.
The X95’s after deck can be set up for an owner’s desires, including loose furniture and tables for al fresco dining, a drop-down TV, a grill, cinema, or use it for tender stowage with an integrated davit and more.
A full-beam master amidships has ocean vistas via hillside windows. Owners can also choose from chairs and a table or a chaise loungelongue to port.
The glazing amidships can also be sliding doors for side-deck access and to create cross breezes at the formal dining space.
The main-deck master is one of several standard options for this space. A country kitchen is also available.
Full glass overhead enhances the sense of space and light with fluted slats diffusing the light.
Power is twin 1,900 hp V-12 MAN diesels. Other equipment here includes twin 40 kW generators as standard (50 kW units are optional) and fuel-polishing system with AC and DC pump.
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The master stateroom has a leather-topped vanity to port, and a love seat is opposite with hull-side windows for light and ocean views.
The galley is aft in the salon with a lifting window that opens to the cockpit.
At the stern, a hydraulic swim platform can lift a Williams Sportjet 395 tender, and there’s a waist-level stowage locker with charging ports for Seabobs.
The good sea manners of the Princess Y72 are the result of naval architect Bernard Olesinski’s background of racing powerboats in the English Channel.
The flowing hullside windows, superstructure and hardtop put movement into the Princess Y72’s profile.
A massive sun pad for a few or more guests sits over the garage. Guests can also catch rays at the foredeck lounge.
The salon has an aft-galley arrangement to port with a dining area across. Forward, U-shaped seating to port enables unobstructed views out nearly 360 degrees of glass while keeping within earshot of the helmsman to starboard.
Twin 1,200 hp V-8 MAN diesels provide a 33-knot cruiser speed and up to a 38-knot top-end speed.
This yacht’s full-beam (16’) master stateroom offers ocean vistas via large hillside windows. There are two other guest staterooms, including a forepeak VIP.
The S62’s electro-hydraulic swim platform accommodates a 10-foot, 8-inch tender or JetSki.
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Power is twin 1,900 hp V-12 MAN diesels. Other equipment here includes twin 40 kW generators as standard (50 kW units are optional) and fuel-polishing system with AC and DC pump. Stabilizing actuators are also located here to ensure quiet cruising for owners and guests.
Full glass overhead enhances the sense of space and light with fluted slats diffusing the light. A settee to starboard and bar to port create a relaxing space for sundowners with friends. Forward is the helm area, which can be separated from the rest of the skylounge via pocket doors.
A U-shaped lounge and optional Jacuzzi tub with a view.
The X95’s after deck can be set up for an owner’s desires, including loose furniture and tables for al fresco dining, a drop-down TV, a grill, cinema, or use it for tender stowage with an integrated davit and more. Glass balustrades enable unobstructed views of the sea from all points.
Nearly sole-to-ceiling glass floods the salon in natural light. The glazing amidships can also be sliding doors for side-deck access and to create cross breezes at the formal dining space. Owners can also choose from a plethora of standard layout, equipage and furniture options.
The main-deck master is one of several standard options for this space. A country kitchen is also available.
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A massive, house-spanning single-pane windshield creates clean sightlines at the twin, in-house produced helm seats to starboard.
Thanks to IPS propulsion, the V50 is a two-stateroom, two-head arrangement with a fuell-beam amidships master.
The retractable roof floods the helm and below decks spaces in natural light, enhancing the sense of space and volume.
The cockpit’s convivial arrangement is set up for sundowners with friends thanks to the U-shaped seating across the transom as well as an L-shaped seat just forward to port.
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The retractable hardtop lets the sun in when desired and shade when needed.
The helm has unobstructed sightlines out the massive raked windshield with quick side-deck access too.
The forepeak VIP has a step-up berth. Hullside windows enhance the sense of space and volume.
The F65's aft-galley layout enables seamless service for guests in the salon as well as those lounging in the cockpit.
Hullside windows provide ocean views from the master stateroom amidships.
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DELIVERING the Exceptional
Whether it’s a brand-new yacht or an older model, Princess keeps parts on hand for all occasions. If an owner needs advice, seasonal service or something more, Princess prides itself on being readily available and real-time responsive.
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A robust apprenticeship program helps to develop the next generation of yacht-building craftspeople.
Whether built in-house or outsourced, Princess only uses best-in-class materials for the yachts across its models range.
The builders on the floor give perspective of this massive single-piece deck mold.
Princess builds its composite yachts via resin-infusion, which requires a dry fiberglass layup. The result is an optimized resin-to-fiberglass ratio, stronger form, lighter weight and reduced emissions.
Woodworkers build interior pieces from scratch for a new Princess yacht.
Meet the X-Class flagship, Princess Yachts X95.
Builders are putting the final touches on these yachts before launch day. These luxury craft will soon be delivered to their happy owners.
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