Super yachts galore are in the port as Falmouth welcomes multi-million pound vessels at the Port Pendennis Marina and Pendennis Shipyard.
The 77m motor yacht Pi, owned by American billionaire Howard Schultz – former chairman of Starbucks – made a dramatic entrance into port when she arrived from Horta, Azores.
Built in the Netherlands by Feadship the £100m vessel has a crew of 18 and can accommodate 12 guests in six staterooms. Pi has entered the Pendennis wet dock for repairs.
Pi moored to the Port Pendennis marina Picture: David Barnicoat
Slipstream, a 60m motor yacht reportedly owned by Australian billionaire 79-year-old Jack Cowin, which has undergone a refit at Pendennis, is moored to the marina for final fitting out.
Bella Vita built by the Lürssen shipyard, Germany arrived from Kinsale. Her owner is 80-year-old American businessman Dwight Schar who founded NV Homes which employs 5,000 people and one of the largest home construction companies in the United States.
Bella Vita in Falmouth Picture: David Barnicoat
As a young boy I recall the summer days when Cardigrae V, a splendid motor yacht owned by the distributor of Rolls-Royce and Bentley, Richard Dutton-Forshaw, would anchor off Kiln Quay.
Lord Hartley Shawcross QC, chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, who was a keen yachtsman and well known in these waters, moored his yacht off Flushing and in St Mawes.
These classic yachts are now few and far between as the mega futuristic vessels adorned by satellite communications domes, helipads and boy’s toys have taken over.
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