K40 M/Y Kanga

CCN – Cerri Cantieri Navali and  Floating  Life  announced new  details  about  the  yacht  construction progress.

K40 M/Y Kanga – first hull of the Series K – is a “light ice class” explorer yacht commissioned to Floating Life by an American Owner in October 2015 with the precisegoal of long cruising around the world all the way up to the Poles. First  of  two  new  constructions  already  sold,  the  four-decks  M/Y  Kanga  is  a  41m  longmotoryacht extremely reliable and easy to handle with a full beam of 9.4m.

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 The hull is insteel, reinforced for the ‘Light Ice’ class while the superstructure is in aluminium, withoutexceeding 500 GT.WORK IN PROGRESSSince  January  2016,  when  works  began,  the  construction  timeline  has  been  perfectlyattended with all the foreseen steps respected. Asof today, January 2017, the hull hasbeen fully optimized and the internal partition on the lower deck has been started. Thesuperstructure (main deck) is now in  place.

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The shaft line alignment was performed and the installation of the flooring steel supports inthe  accommodation  areas  has  been  started.  Meantime,the piping alignment has  beenstarted as well.

The  completion  of  the  fitting  out  works  was  startedat  end  of  December,  and  will  becompleted in the coming year.Following  the  Owner’s taste  and  personal  choices,  K40  initial  project  has  been  greatlymodified - especially to what refers to the interior decoration - in collaboration with StudioSculli.  

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The  regular  meetings  between  CCN  and  Floating  Life  have  been  permitting  torespect the given timeline with no negative reflection on the construction timetable andwithout causing any delay to the shipyard.

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