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BETTER PLACE Yacht – Grandiose $50m Superyacht

The BETTER PLACE yacht is a 50.0m sailing yacht built by Italian shipbuilders Wally in 2012.

At the time of her delivery, she broke the record for being the world’s largest carbon sloop and the first yacht to earn a RINA’s Green Star for her minimal environmental impact.  

She is the first largest yacht built by Wally and she’s also one of the largest yachts in the world. 

BETTER PLACE Yacht Interior

The BETTER PLACE yacht interior was styled by Wally and Dutch design house  Wetzels Brown Partners. 

One of the key elements of this yacht is her interiors open onto the exteriors and vice versa, making easy access for natural light. 

Some of her sophisticated materials are satin, oak, leather, carbon fiber, and upholstery in white and grey colors. 

Her detailed décor includes lamps, cushions, frame pictures, and colors like raspberry, ice green, and sky blue to match the exterior of the vessel. 

What makes her unique is her integral design, where the interior meets the exterior in a smooth transition. She is illuminated with color-changing LED lights. 

Her amenities include an equipped flybridge, spa pool, side bathing platform, terrace on the sea, jacuzzi tub, and barbecue, among so many others. 

BETTER PLACE offers extensive open areas on deck, perfect to host up to 16 people. 

She was built to accommodate up to 10 guests in five cabins, comprising the owner’s suite, two double cabins, and two twin cabins. She can also host up to 9 crew members on board. 

The staterooms can be found on the cabin deck, they all have wall bulkheads and grey, black, and carbon finishes. The twin cabins were specially made for the children. 

BETTER PLACE Yacht Exterior

The BETTER PLACE yacht features exterior design by Wally and naval architecture by Tripp Design Naval Architects. She is one of the ultra-light yachts that displaces only 250 tons.

This modern sailing yacht has both a hull and superstructure built with carbon fiber, as well as a Teak deck. 

The vessel exterior has sporty lines featuring a metallic Bugatti blue painting and materials like carbon and lacquered oak. She also has an imposing 67.5m carbon mast by New Zealand company Hall Spars. 

Her layout comprises a main deck, a cabin deck, and a sundeck. 

BETTER PLACE Yacht Specifications

The BETTER PLACE yacht has a 10.25m beam, a 6.2m draft, and a gross tonnage of 310. She is the only Wally 164 model.

She cruises at 12.5 knots but can reach a maximum speed of 14 knots thanks to her 1x380HP Cummins diesel.

Her diesel-electric system helps reduce consumption, noise, and vibration while providing a more efficient cruising.  

She has a fuel capacity of 18,000 liters and can carry 6,000 liters of fresh water on board. She is in the top 10% by LOA and currently sails under the Cayman Islands flag. 

BETTER PLACE is not listed for sale or available for charter, but her price is around $30 million and a running cost of $3 million per year.  

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Better Place, the Newest Wally Sloop

• By Diane M. Byrne
• Updated: May 30, 2012

Wally Better Place

If the Bugatti blue hull of Wally ‘s Better Place doesn’t get your attention, then maybe her classification will. The 164-footer is the first sailing yacht to be granted the environmentally minded RINA Green Star classification.

Green Star is a voluntary notation that takes several factors into account. These include the materials used to construct a yacht, the onboard equipment, and the operations of the yacht herself. It all comes down to lessening impact on the environment, whether through cleaner, less wasteful build practices or avoiding pollution while cruising. Better Place is constructed of carbon fiber and has diesel-electric propulsion for times when under-sail operation isn’t practical. Three gensets developing 705 kW comprise the diesel-electric system and will power _Better Place’_s sheet-tensioning devices and other systems when so desired.

Still on the subject of Better Place’_s sailing systems, Wally’s in-house team equipped the yacht with mostly automated controls. It further designed the furling staysail with a no-torsion luff cable. As it has done in the past Wally additionally worked with a naval architecture firm, this time Tripp Design , for the hull design and overall engineering. While performance figures haven’t been released, Wally says _Better Place was designed for fast cruising under 10 knots of wind.

As for _Better Place’_s gathering spaces, a fully open layout on the main deck means large parties can take place. In fact, when there are more friends aboard than the 10-person dining table can accommodate, the saloon’s coffee table converts to handle upwards of eight. Nearly two dozen friends and family can also fit on the sunpads in the forward cockpit. But the 323-square-foot swim platform is somewhat of a private playground for the owners, given that it’s immediately accessible from their stateroom.

Better Place should be handed over in June so that the owners can enjoy the summer season in the Med.

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Better Place

The world’s largest performance sloop in carbon fiber and the first Green Star sailing yacht.

Better Place is the first megayacht of its size built entirely in advanced composites; an element requested by the client who desired high-performance as well as fine comfort.

The blue water sloop is designed to combine Wally’s trademark performance and ease of handling with all the modern comforts and amenities of a luxury megayacht. In order to boost performance she does feature a lifting keel that increases the draft from 4.2 metres to six metres when sailing, PBO rigging, and water tanks that will double as water ballasts. The measured displacement of this mega sailer perfectly matches the theoretical data: only 250 tons, of which 88 of the ballast (fin and bulb keel) and 11.5 of the full rigging (mast, boom, PBO rigging). The Wally 50m resulted also in perfect trim.

Design and styling evolution

Developed on the lines of Tripp Design with the interiors by Wetzels Brown Partners, the overall design, interior and exterior, is astonishing and innovative compared to any other similar yacht. The exterior and interiors are developed following the Wally concept of inside-outside living areas, whereas the interiors open onto the exteriors and vice versa. The 62-sqm owners’ suite is aft with extraordinary visibility and brightness. The natural light floods in from four sides of the vast stateroom: through the portholes on both sides, and the mirrored glass aft and above. The owners’ private area has direct access to the 30-sqm Terrace-on-the-sea, that is another distinctive feature of the Wally inside-outside concept.

On deck and inside

The main deck is open and free of unnecessary interruptions, the saloon, dining room and wheelhouse forming one continuous, 86 sqm open space under the deckhouse. The saloon with panoramic views seats 20 people as lounge opening onto the aft deck with further lounge space. There is an option for the central coffee table to be converted into an additional dining for eight people. The dining area forward seats 10 people in dining layout and can be converted into an additional lounge area with XL sofa seating six comfortably. The forward social cockpit, directly accessible from the interior dining and lounge areas, features table seats and sun beds for up to 20-people. Beyond this, the forward deck features a Jacuzzi, finished in black, which is positioned beneath deck level and is therefore invisible when not in use, an hidden winch “cockpit” for the halyards, two large tender garages, stay-sail locker, sail lockers, and the Wally submarine anchor locker. The 100-sqm sundeck is accessed both by an outside staircase and by an inside open staircase, leading to steering and navigation, lounge, dining, sunbathing and barbeque areas. A particularly innovative service feature is the open food lift connecting galley, interior dining area and sundeck– a ‘suitcase’ suspended in free space, connected by a single vertical track, to lift . The sundeck dining can be converted into a huge sunbed with the addition of an inflatable mattress, providing further comfort without stretching available storage capacity. hull side door is located amidships to starboard: when open, it converts into a swimming and tender boarding platform. Maximising space and minimising storage requirements, a newly designed seating module has been developed for the deck in carbon and mesh with low profile cushions, for easy stowage, by the interior designers Wetzels Brown Partners, who designed all the deck furnishing. The lower deck features the night and service areas accommodating the owners in the aft suite and up to ten guests in four double staterooms, and ten crew in five double cabins. All cabins have en-suites. The crew and service quarter is forward with galley, laundry and crew mess. The two engine rooms are amidships.

The Better Place features defining lounge areas in the forward cockpit, aft deck, fly bridge, and terrace on the sea. On the fly bridge/sun deck can be found a large Jacuzzi tub; two hidden tender garages; lounge/dining area for 16; barbeque; and the navigation and helmstations.

Sailing Performance

It is estimated that in true winds of eight knots the she will achieve 11 knots upwind and 14 knots reaching. In 20 knots of true wind she will increase performance to 14 upwind and 20 reaching. Better Place is propelled by a diesel-electric system used to improve energy management while providing a more efficient layout and reducing consumption, noise and vibration. Power for propulsion and services comes from three diesel generators.

Description of Interior Design of Better Place

Better Place has been designed to be quintessentially a Wally thoroughbred. Wally has an iconic approach to both interior and exterior design – a modern approach to yachting.

The interior design combines carbon look both gloss and satin, satin white lacquered oak, grey leather and colour matched upholstery to create a relaxed feeling. Colour-changing LED lights are used throughout the yacht and can be adjusted in order to change the atmosphere, reflecting the interior design concept to have soft and neutral tones that are coloured by the lights. The cabins are linked by a light installation, running along the spine of the yacht.

Some Wally interior design features on this yacht: - Clean flowing lines; - Open light spaces with available dimensions maximised - Yacht luxury materials – carbon fibre, satin white light oak, grey leather with colour matched upholstery. - The decoration of the yacht is in the texture of the materials and profile of the shapes, there are few added lamps, decorative cushions, vases or picture frames. Like a car this yacht is designed as one product with integral decoration rather than an exterior with an interior design added. - Interior spaces meet exterior spaces with seamless transition. - This is a sailing yacht in the true Wally tradition – relaxed, exclusive feel with design considered to the smallest detail. - The Wally sparkle, that little something extra has always been the attitude towards the use of strong colour. This yacht is metallic Bugatti Blue and inside the small elements of colours have the same strong metallic quality - raspberry, ice green and sky blue. - This is a large yacht so a changing dynamic environment is a challenge to create. Throughout the yacht LED lights can be programmed to change the atmosphere of the yacht and to complement the highlight colours. - Audio-visual technology is a high specification from HED in America (further details available of Crestron system if you need them)

Main Deck - Vertical connections are emphasized by an open staircase from sundeck to cabin deck> the open food lift is a ‘suitcase’ suspended in a free space attached to one vertical track – a yachting first - The saloon/dining/wheelhouse is one flowing open space - Seating and flooring is the same upholstery for both interior and exterior giving the ultimate open connection between saloon and deck - Exploring the Wally principle of keeping decks open and free of clutter, a new seating module has been developed is carbon and mesh with low profile cushions to reduce storage requirements. Cabin Deck - This most noticeable feature is the tunnel corridor treated as a light installation with “invisible” doors to the cabins. In architectural terms this is the spine of the yacht and a guest passes through the walls of the tunnel to enter the adjacent spaces.’ - Cabins – 2 double, 2 twin, owner and 9-10 crew. - Cabins have similar base materials – warm light grey, black gloss and carbon finishes with fresh wall bulkheads. Changing colour provided with LED backlight and ‘skylights in each cabin. The twin cabins are particularly suited to the children with a small element of ice green and raspberry.

Sundeck - On the sundeck the dining area converts with an inflatable mattress into a huge sunbed. The forward deck has a black jacuzzi seamlessly position under the deck and invisible when not in use. - The forward lounge space has direct connection to the interior dining and lounge spaces. - The sundeck has BBQ/ buffet, lounge, dining and sunbathing areas

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Better Place Specifications

49,9m (164´) sailing yacht Better Place is a wonderful Wally 164 vessel, launched in 2012 by the renowned Italian builder, Wally Yachts. With naval architecture by the Wally´s in-house team and sophisticated exterior by renowned Tripp Design Naval Architects, the Better Place superyacht boasts an impressive 67.5m carbon mast by Hall Spars. Her lovely interior design is by Wetzels Brown Partners.

Wally 164 superyacht Better Place easily sleeps a total number of 10 guests and a crew of 9 professionals. Built in composite, the 49.9m luxury yacht Better Place reaches a top speed of 14 knots, thanks to her single 380 HP Cummins diesel engine. Her beam is of 10.25m (33´63´´), while her maximum draft is of 6.2m (20´34´´).

Yacht Accommodation

Wally 164 luxury yacht Better Place can comfortably accommodate 10 guests and an impeccable crew of 9.

Amenities and Extras

We do have available further amenity, owner and price information for the 49.9m (164´) yacht Better Place, so please enquire for more information.

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The luxury yacht Better Place displayed on this page is merely informational and she is not necessarily available for yacht charter or for sale, nor is she represented or marketed in anyway by CharterWorld. This web page and the superyacht information contained herein is not contractual. All yacht specifications and informations are displayed in good faith but CharterWorld does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for the current accuracy, completeness, validity, or usefulness of any superyacht information and/or images displayed. All boat information is subject to change without prior notice and may not be current.

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BETTER PLACE // Wally Yachts

The 50m better place by wally from 2012 is a very modern flybridge sailing yacht in stunning bugatti blue..

BETTER PLACE  is one the largest sloop-rigged sailing yachts in carbon fiber and RINA Green Star certification. The boat offers 300 sqm of inside space and 500 sqm outside area. Furthermore, she has a hybrid propulsion system to reduce fuel consumption, noise, and vibrations.

Wetzels Brown Partners and the Wally in-house team created the exterior design. Wetzels Brown Partners is also responsible for the interior design.

Luca Bassani, Wally’s founder and President and Head of the R&D commented:

“With Better Place, once again Wally opens a new route in yacht design and innovation. We succeeded in delivering an environmentally friendly and breakthrough Wally 50m with aggressive and sleek lines of a true performance sailing yacht, rather than the motor sailer look typical of this class of yachts.”

Interior of Sailing Yacht BETTER PLACE

The Wetzels Brown Partners design sleeps 10 guests and a crew of 10 in light and bright interior.

The owners’ suite has a large size of 62 square meters with a lot of natural light, thanks to windows on the sides. Furthermore, the owner has direct access to the vast 30 square meter Terrace-on-the-sea – a typical Wally feature.

The deckhouse offers 86 square meters of open space with dining and lounge areas, surrounded by full-height windows giving an airy feeling. It is like a protected cockpit or like a pavilion. In the forward area of the deckhouse is the wheelhouse.

The forward social cockpit, directly accessible from the interior dining and lounge areas, features table seats and sun beds for up to 20-people. Beyond this, the forward deck features a Jacuzzi, finished in black, which is positioned beneath deck level and is, therefore, invisible when not in use, a hidden winch “cockpit” for the halyards, two large tender garages, stay-sail locker, sail lockers, and the Wally submarine anchor locker.

Better Place ‘s 100-sqm sundeck is accessed both by an outside staircase and by an inside open staircase, leading to steering and navigation, lounge, dining, sunbathing and barbeque areas, A particularly innovative service feature is the open food lift connecting galley, interior dining area and sundeck– a ‘suitcase’ suspended in free space, connected by a single vertical track, to lift . The sundeck dining can be converted into a huge sunbed with the addition of an inflatable mattress, providing further comfort without stretching available storage capacity.

A hull-side door is located amidships to starboard: when open, it converts into a swimming and tender boarding platform. The picture below is also good to compare the size. Another picture to compare is the one the crew member in the boom.

“Man in the Boom” – a lot of shares on social medias but often without context or what yacht it is. These photos show the size of the yacht.

Maximising space and minimising storage requirements, a newly designed seating module has been developed for the deck in carbon and mesh with low-profile cushions, for easy stowage, by the interior designers Wetzels Brown Partners, who designed all the deck furnishing.

The lower deck of Better Place features the night and service areas accommodating the owners in the aft suite and up to ten guests in four double staterooms, and ten crew in five double cabins. All cabins have en-suites.

The crew and service quarter is forward with galley, laundry and crew mess. The two engine rooms are amidships.

The interior design combines carbon look both gloss and satin, satin white lacquered oak, grey leather, and color matched upholstery to create a relaxed feeling. Colour-changing LED lights are used throughout the yacht and can be adjusted in order to change the atmosphere, reflecting the interior design concept to have soft and neutral tones that are colored by the lights. The cabins are linked by a light installation, running along the spine of the yacht.

There are currently no information if this yacht or sale or a price.

Main Specifications BETTER PLACE

The area around the deckhouse features the raised bulwark, appeared firstly on Wally’s ESENSE in 2006. This feature offers an aesthetically kind of safety without stanchions on the hull. Only the flush deck has stobs for the rail.

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49.9m  /  163'9 | wally | 2012.

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• Multi-award winning
• RINA (Registro Italiano Navale) C ✠ HULL ● MACH classification
• Sleeps 10 overnight

The multi-award winning 49.9m/163'9" sail yacht 'Better Place' was built by Wally in Italy at their Fano shipyard. Her interior is styled by design house Wetzels Brown Partners and she was delivered to her owner in June 2012. This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Wally.

Guest Accommodation

Better Place has been designed to comfortably accommodate up to 10 guests in 5 suites. She is also capable of carrying up to 9 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience.

Range & Performance

Better Place is built with a GRP hull and GRP superstructure. Better Place comfortably cruises at 14 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 14 knots. Her water tanks store around 6,000 Litres of fresh water. She was built to RINA (Registro Italiano Navale) C ✠ HULL ● MACH classification society rules.

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Better Place Awards & Nominations

• The World Superyacht Awards 2013 Best Sailing Yacht in 40m+ size range Finalist
• The ShowBoats Design Awards 2013 Interior Design Award: Sailing Yachts Winner
• The ShowBoats Design Awards 2013 Naval Architecture Award: Sailing Yachts Finalist
• The ShowBoats Design Awards 2013 Recreational Area for Guest Use Award Finalist
• The ShowBoats Design Awards 2013 Environmental Protection Award Finalist
• The ShowBoats Design Awards 2013 Holistic Design Award Winner
• International Superyacht Society Awards 2013 Best Sail 40 M+ Winner

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Parsifal III: Meet the charter star of Below Deck's sailing yacht spin-off

This week, producers have confirmed season five of hit reality TV show Below Deck Sailing Yacht will return to screens on 7 October for more crew drama and on-the-water antics. Set on the Balearic island of Ibiza, the series will again feature the 54-metre Perini Navi superyacht Parsifal III with Captain Glenn Shephard at the helm. In anticipation of the series' return, BOAT reflects on an interview with her owner Kim Vibe-Petersen , who unpacked the realities of filming a reality TV series on board his boat ahead of season three.

Below Deck Sailing Yacht is a spin-off series of the hit superyacht reality TV show Below Deck that follows the lives of the crew and guests across an eight-week charter season. For Danish owner Kim Vibe-Petersen, Parsifal III' s return is yet another opportunity to show off the yacht's charter credentials. 

Vibe-Petersen was personally approached by Below Deck producers in 2018 after they struggled to find a suitable sailing yacht. Parsifal III fitted the bill as she was already equipped for charter and a number of her existing crew were willing to take part in the show.

The Perini Navi sailing yacht first hit the water in 2005 and rose to instant fame scoring a number of prestigious accolades including a coveted Neptune at the World Superyacht Awards . On her launch, she also joined the ranks as one of the fast Perini Navi superyachts on the water with a top speed of 18 knots under full sail granted by two high-tech carbon masts, automated in-boom furling and a winged keel.

Vibe-Petersen admitted there were some yacht owners who didn’t want the names of their yachts connected with the drama-filled reality show, but he "didn’t have that concern." Although he had the option to change the yacht’s name for filming, he decided to keep it to maximise the charter appeal of  Parsifal III .

"It’s free advertising," he said. "The name of the yacht will come to people’s minds, especially to someone who has never chartered a yacht before. They will see that name and know the boat from the show."

Vibe-Petersen was also keen to secure a guaranteed packed charter schedule during low season. "I think there were a lot of boats that did not want to be chartered for the show but it's good money in the bank," he said.

While admitting he might not be the "specific audience targeted by the series," he said he has sat down to watch the first series, which took place in Corfu. Even in Vibe-Peterson’s home country of Denmark, the US show has gained a big following.

"This is the kind of show where they want to make a little drama," he added. "It’s not that wild on board a normal charter." The conveyor belt of colourful guests are chosen by the production team and given a "big discount" for appearing on the show.

Vibe-Petersen also explained the complicated logistics of filming Below Deck , each season of which features 16 charters filmed across a period of eight weeks. This means that two groups of guests separately charter the yacht in a single week. Meanwhile, the production team require a time period of at least a week to get  Parsifal III  rigged up and fit for filming. "There are 30 people on board each day with lots of wires and cameras – it’s a big, big operation."

Season one was filmed in Corfu, Greece, which posed a number of challenges for  Parsifal III as the sailing yacht was required to have a specific charter licence. "It’s pretty tough to get that," said Vibe-Petersen. "It’s not something we can do within a short amount of time. It can take 10 to 12 weeks to get a charter licence so it takes time."

For her second season, Parsifal III was filmed cruising Croatia's 3,600 miles of coastline. For season three, the show follows Parsifal III as she cruises around the Spanish island of Menorca, carrying a mix of new and old crew.

Season five of Below Deck Sailing Yacht will feature returning department heads chief stew Daisy Kelliher and first mate Gary King, while chef Cloyce Martin, chief engineer Davide Morosi, stews Diana Cruz and Danni Warren, and deckhands Keith Allen and Emma Crouch are amongst the new crew members.

Parsifal III is managed for charter by Camper & Nicholsons with a weekly charter rate starting from €245,000. 

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