Beauty & Power

DYNAMIQ’S JETSETTER NOT ONLY LOOKS GOOD, BUT SHE ALSO PERFORMS AT THE TOP OF HER CLASS.

- Justin Ratcliffe

Traditionally, yachts have come in two flavors: planing and displacement. Planing hulls are fast with styling to match, but they have limited range and comfort. Full-displacement hulls offer more com-fort underway, but they are generally slow and less exciting to look at. “Why can’t we have something in the middle?” asks Sergei Dobroserdov, a Moscow-born yacht broker turned designer and builder. “A new category that combines fast performance with good comfort and range?”

His answer is the 126-foot (38.6-meter) Jetsetter, the first D4 model, which made her debut at the 2016 Monaco Yacht Show. She is the first in the Dynamiq range of all-aluminum displacement yachts with a common technical platform.

To create the Dynamiq range, Dobroserdov gathered some of the top names in the yacht industry: Azure Yacht Design & Naval Architecture for hull lines, Van Oossanen Naval Architects for optimization and Bannenberg & Rowell Design for interiors. Together, they developed three models that vary in size, volume and performance: the D4, with a top speed of 21 knots; the S4, at the same length overall but with a top end of 25 knots; and the 131foot (40-meter) D4 L, also with a top speed of 21 knots. Dobroserdov calls the fleet Gran Turismo Transatlantic (GTT) yachts, borrowing from Italy’s gran turismo cars, which are fast and can cover long distances in stylish comfort.

“The number of very wealthy people in the world is increasing, but yacht sales do not reflect this growth because the products are not appealing enough,” Dobroserdov says. “I simply believe we can propose something better that offers owners more choice.”