Force Blue (formerly Big Roi) is a trawler-expedition style luxury yacht built by Royal Denship in 2002. She is the world's 78th-largest superyacht
 Force Blue
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| History | |
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| Name | Force Blue |
| Owner | Flavio Briatore |
| Builder | Royal Denship |
| Launched | 2002 |
| Sponsored by | Roy Speer |
| Homeport | Cayman Islands |
| Identification |
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| Status | Operational, for charter |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Lloyds Register |
| Type | Yacht |
| Length | 63.23 m (207.4 ft) |
| Beam | 11.38 m (37.3 ft) |
| Draft | 2.95 m (9.7 ft) |
| Installed power | 4,000 hp (3,000 kW) |
| Propulsion | 2 × 2000 hp Caterpillar Inc. |
| Speed |
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| Crew | 17 |
Design edit
Built in 2002 by Royal Denship, she was designed by Ole Steen Knudsen and Tom Fexas as part of Royal Denship's "expedition" series, that included Turmoil and Big Aron. She was commissioned by Roy Speer, the founder and owner of the Home Shopping Network.
Briatore edit
Purchased from Speer by Italian motorsports entrepreneur Flavio Briatore for £68.2m,[1] she was given a refitted interior designed by Celeste Dell'Anna, and given a blue exterior.
Force Blue was seized by Italian Customs in May 2010 in La Spezia, near Genoa. On the authority of a local prosecutor, the state claims that the vessel's owners, Autumn Sailing Ltd, that there was outstanding Value Added Tax owing which should have been paid on the fuel used by the yacht. The amount evaded was estimated to be around five million euros.[2]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "La Dolce Vita: What really drives Flavio Briatore?". The Independent. 23 September 2008. Retrieved 21 May 2009.
- ^ "F1's Flavio Briatore to face trial over super yacht tax evasion". Telegraph. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
External links edit
- Pictures/details of Force Blue at Monacoeye.com Archived 4 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- Information to Charter this Yacht
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