Liquid Lights Up Lifestyles Of Rich And Famous
July 2010
Scoop: That’s the life Liquid Automation founders Stephan Goodhue and Bruce Cox have found themselves in after they started their company six years ago.
Motor Yacht 'A' Stylish Tenders by Philippe Starck
March 2010
Superyachts.com: Motor Yacht 'A' is deemed to be one of the most iconic superyachts ever designed. Her designer, Philippe Starck, also created some of the most stylish tenders to compliment the superyacht to ferry her guests ashore.
SY Thalia - an electronic haven on the high seas
August 2009
gizmag: The SY Thalia is a yacht with a difference ... while it's a beautiful looking vessel outside, it's what's inside that really takes your breath away.
58.4m (191.6ft)
Lutron Lighting system, Glass Bridge Navigation for three Fly bridge and six Pilothouse locations. Inputs include Radar, 2 x NavNet PC’s with Dual output’s, Comm’s PC, Seatouch PC, Mast and Spreader Camera’s.
Entertainment for Saloon, Owner’s cabin, Aft Deck, Bar, Dining, Fly bridge, Foredeck, Pilothouse, 4 Guest cabins, Crew, Captains cabin, Crew Mess, Galley, Laundry, Control room and engine room.
The system allows user’s easy access of multiple AV Sources such as movie/music server, Satellite and Digital TV, Crestron iPod Docks, Auxiliary input and Radio. Pilothouse Navigation Displays can be viewed on cabin TV’s, along with the Mast Camera which can be controlled from all the cabin’s with the exception of crew bunks.
Crestron 2 way RF Colour Touchpanels for control of the Saloon, Bar, Dining, Aft Deck, Flybridge, ForeDeck and Owner’s Cabin.
Crestron 2 way WiFi Colour Touchpanels for control of the Crew mess, Captain’s and Guest Cabins.
Crestron 3.6” and 6” colour Touchpanels in the Pilothouse for navigation selection, monitoring Equipment Rack temperatures, controlling Pilothouse audio and selecting the correct satellite decoders for the various regions of the world.
The Crestron System controls all switching of the Navigation Sources via Liquid Automation's Glass Bridge switcher for Video, trackballs, mouse and keyboards.
Kaleidescape 8 zones with High definition movie/music players and 4 zones with music players.
Kaleidescape Server with 7 Terabytes of storage.
Marantz Home Theatre Systems combined with Speakercraft in-ceiling Speakers and Velodyne Subs are used in the Owner and Saloon area’s. Deck areas have the selection of distributed audio via Crestron amps and Speakercraft Speakers. Guest, Captain and Crew Mess cabins are fitted with Onkyo DVD amps and Kramer Audio Switchers.
Each Crew member had their own bunk over head DVD/LCD Player and head phones and can access the Boats Distributed music.
26 video feeds to a variety of 15”-57” LCD TV’s. The Saloon and Owner’s TV’s are hidden behind picture lifts.
Lutron lighting control has been used extensively though out the yacht providing simple seen selections and global mood settings throughout the main common areas. Control has also been integrated to the wireless touchpanels in these areas.
Mast head cameras are a military grade pan tilt day night camera’s with window wipers. These are backed up with high power IR flood lights facing forward and aft for high quality night viewing.
Fixed cameras are positioned around the rest of the yacht. These combined with the mast cameras are fed into a digital video recorder. This has the option of remote access to view the onboard cameras real time remotely along with playback of recorded footage.
