I was walking in Mooloolaba today and saw this beautiful ketch anchored in the bay.



She's a very impressive boat.
She looked to be a good size (50 foot plus?) and has inmast furling on both masts plus a cutter rig.

I would love to know more about it, anybody any info?
cheers

Wow fantastic
Schooner not ketch

Nice
Id say 80 plus feet, bow sprint looks to be close to 8 feet alone

Let marinetraffic.com be your friend ...... Just as Google is .....sometimes

www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:201091/mmsi:235102003/imo:0/vessel:NEORION

104 feet in length and nearly 20 foot beam

Hi Cockpit,
She could be the Orient Pearl, a Custom 90 that used to be out of NSW somewhere.
Nice toy!

Edit: scratch all that, didn't see Loose' post!

How goods that, not something you see every day, just anchored out there like the marina ain't big enough

www.oliviervanmeer.com/yachts/5812/95--schooner--neorion-.html

Yep a Schooner as Banana B said as the aft mast is bigger than the fore mast, I knew there was something different about it when I was looking but couldn't figure it...
She actually upped anchor and went down the channel into the marina area and we tried to follow on foot but when we arrived we couldn't find her...
Still, it's easy to lose a 100 foot plus boat in a small channel like that
Oh well, she WAS beautiful.

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Cockpit said..
Yep a Schooner as Banana B said as the aft mast is bigger than the fore mast, I knew there was something different about it when I was looking but couldn't figure it...
She actually upped anchor and went down the channel into the marina area and we tried to follow on foot but when we arrived we couldn't find her...
Still, it's easy to lose a 100 foot plus boat in a small channel like that
Oh well, she WAS beautiful.

Currently off Msc Charles Clark Park at River Esplanade

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Bananabender said..
www.oliviervanmeer.com/yachts/5812/95--schooner--neorion-.html

that's serious yacht porn !! but no wonder those bowsprit stays are called dolphin strikers !!

If you look in gallery you will see short video on that schooner

You would think she would be cutting it fine with the amount of water to get over that bar. Somehow the longliner Esbjorn which apparently draws 13 feet gets through. On an old wooden yacht like that one you wouldn't really want to be pounding the bottom to hard would you?

Technical Specifications of super yacht 'NEORION' (ex Green Seagull):

Naval Architect Horst Stichnoth (G) - Hoek Design (NL)
Interior Design & Sailplan Olivier van Meer (NL)
Project Management Olivier van Meer (NL)
Hull Builder Bloemsma, Makkum, The Netherlands
Year of Hull build 1999
Year of launching 2014
Hull Construction Aluminium
Keel Semi longkeel (S-shape) with hydraulic centerboard
Rudder Semi balanced, mechanic
Over all length (incl. davits & bowsprit) 33.80 m
Length between stem and stern 29.04 m
Waterline length 21.00 m
Overall breadth 6.75 m
Draft liftkeel up 2.60 m
Draft liftkeel down 4.10 m
Displacement 85 tons (fully loaded)

She's in Yamba at the moment, and makes all the other vessels look, insignificant.

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Cockpit said..
Yep a Schooner as Banana B said as the aft mast is bigger than the fore mast, I knew there was something different about it when I was looking but couldn't figure it...
She actually upped anchor and went down the channel into the marina area and we tried to follow on foot but when we arrived we couldn't find her...
Still, it's easy to lose a 100 foot plus boat in a small channel like that
Oh well, she WAS beautiful.

Yes she overtook me [in Seaka] just inside the walls. She went to the marina near Sea World,