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LUXURY YACHT CHARTER

Available and new (2010) to the luxury yacht charter market is the Malta based SEALION, a 32 meter long range classic Dutch yacht built by Hakvoort. With spacious accommodation for up to 8 guests in one master, one VIP and two large twin cabins. All with ensuite bathrooms. The 6 experienced crew members are there to look after you during your cruise.

Please contact jhughes|@hugheship.com for more information

LUXURY YACHT CHARTER

Available and new to the luxury yacht charter market is the Malta based SEALION, a 32 meter long range classic Dutch yacht built by Hakvoort. With spacious accommodation for up to 8 guests in one master, one VIP and two large twin cabins. All with ensuite bathrooms. The 6 experienced crew members are there to look after you during your cruise.

Please contact jhughes|@hugheship.com for more information

WE ARE PLEASED TO OFFER FOR CHARTER A FAIRLINE SQUADRON 66 (21M) MOTOR YACHT BASED IN NORWAY.

WITH SPEEDS UP TO 30 KNOTS SHE WOULD BE THE IDEAL VESSEL TO EXPLORE THE FJORDS AND NORWAYS AMAZING COAST LINE. ACCOMMODATES UP TO 8.

PLEASE CONTACT JOHN HUGHES AT john@rothwellcharters.com FOR MORE INFORMATION.

In service as and from end of summer 2010 is the brand new  MUTIARA LOUT a classic locally built 2 masted schooner based on the designs of a 18th century North Atlantic schooner. With an over all length of 46 meters she offers air conditioned accommodation for 14 guests. Based in BALI she offers cruises throughout the INDONESIAN ARCHIPELAGO. An exiting cruise would be a start from BALI and then an island safari to include Komodo, Lombok, Sumba, Flores. West Timor and further if time allows.

For a brochure & more information on availability and charter rates contact john@rothwellcharters.com

The Southamptonwater based motor yacht SEAFIN has cancellations and is now available for charter at Cowes up and until Cowes Week. Also free after the Cowes Week.  The ideal corporate platform for your staff and guests.

 

Email john@rothwellcharters.com for more information

The motor yacht BEL ABRI a brand new Amels build 52.30 meter is now avaialable for charter. With accommodation for 11 guests and 13 crew this “new and out of the box” yacht offers you the luxury and comfort expected from a new Amels.

 

Contact 

john@rothwellcharters.com  for more information

Motor Yacht ARKLEY winner of this years Motor Yacht Of the Year at the World Superyacht Awards is now available for charter at € 450,000 a week. Judges comments were: “the winner was clear – ARKLEY, the 60 meter Lurssen was judged to be the winner of the prize being of such proven design and offering the performance and facilities that the majority of the panel admire in along range cruising yacht”.   Interior design by Mark Berryman.

Email  john@rothwellcharters.com  for a brochure.

This 12 berth first class charter yacht is now available for private or corporate use in British waters. Cocktails parties, weddings, company presentations, golf tours is now possible from a 189 foot motor yacht. The HARMONY II is featured in our web site. Owners have dropped their summer 2010 rates especially for cruises in and around Scotland. The yacht will be based in Bristol for the winter and will be aviable for corporate entertaining or for that special event.

Contact john@rothwellcharters.com for more information.  Now offered for sale (2010)

We are pleased to be able to offer an attractive motor yacht that can carry up to 30 persons on day trips around the Solent.

Start off from the Hamble, lunch at historical Bucklers Hard, anchor off the Isle of Wight for swimming and some water sports and then back to Hamble. What better way to say thank you to your staff……..

Email   john@rothwellcharters.com for more information

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Part 1 : The story of a name

Boat names have long been a subject of quayside conversations and often the stories behind a particular name are pretty interesting too – some are personal, some historical, and some are just humorous. And so for our series on the history and construction of Raja Laut, we can think of no better place to start than to talk about whats behind the name “Raja Laut”.

The name “Raja Laut” means “King of the Seas” in Malay, and was chosen in hommage to the Malay Archipelago – the history, the people, the cultures. “Raja”, itself a derivation of the hindustani for king, is an honorific title used in ancient times from Srivijaya to Malacca, Makassar to Ambon. The type of vessel, the name, and the whole region really captured our imagination. Much thanks certainly goes to the writing of Joseph Conrad – and one can easily envision the schooner carrying adventurers and traders in his depictions of the exotic East. There is also the portrait, in the Sarawak museum, of James Brooke’s schooner “The Royalist”, which has a very similar design to Raja Laut and which young Brooke had purchased in England and then sailed across the world to explore what was then known as the Malay Archipelago.

Main Content Inline SmallWithin Asia, strategically located between East and West, with it’s geography of thousands of islands, and a rich bounty in spices, the Malay Archipelago was a major seafaring region with flourishing entrepots, cities and kingdoms, attracting traders from all over the world. In the late 19th Century Conrad sailed extensively through the Archipelago as a mate aboard the British Merchant Navy steamer “Vidar” and it was the intensity and richness of these experiences that provided the writer with much material for his novels. It was also during this time that a young Conrad came across a real life “Raja Laut” in the form of Captain William Lingard. Lingard was then a well-known figure in Singapore and throughout the Archipelago, where he had sailed his own ships and cargoes and amassed a considerable fortune.

Legend has it that on one of Lingards numerous voyages to Borneo he fought a large fleet of Bugis pirates (the most feared and skilled seafarers of the region), rescuing a surrounded Dutch man-of-war. His bravery on this occasion earned him the thanks of the King of Holland and he was made a Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion. Locally, he acquired the unofficial title “Raja Laut” bestowed by the Sultan of Gunung Tabor, and was known by this sobriquet among the Malays.

Nearly one hundred and fifty years later another “Raja Laut” is launched on the shores of Borneo, commissioned by a Malaysian company, designed and built by a multinational team of European and Asian boat builders, carpenters and shipwrights. East meets West, once again, in the Malay Archipelago… except that today the region abounds with holidaymakers hungering for eco-treasures rather than spices, for new adventures with a new “Raja Laut”… Contact john@rothwellcharters.com for more information on chartering the Raja Laut which can viewed in our catalogue.

Our Charter Consultants

:: John Hughes ::A lifetime in the marine industry - charter yacht skipper to a yacht broker, to running a cruise line and now a sales & purchase broker in yachts & ships and the senior charter broker of Rothwell.
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:: Alan McGregor ::Over 23 years in the South African advertising industry and as a business consultant.
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