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Motor Yacht 'A' Stylish Tenders by Philippe Starck
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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.
43.5m (142.7ft)
Lutron Lighting, Glass Bridge, Navigation and Control for two helm stations and 3 Pilothouse locations. Inputs include Thermal camera, 2 x NavNet PC’s with Dual output’s, 1 x Navigation PC’s, Communication PC, Seatouch ipc, Seatouch and 5 x CCTV Camera’s.
Entertainment for Saloon, Owner’s cabin, Aft Deck, Dining, Foredeck, Pilothouse, 3 Guest cabins, Crew, Captains cabins, Ships office, Crew Mess, Galley.
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. All Pilothouse Navigation Displays can be viewed on all cabin TV’s, along with the Mast Camera which can be controlled from all the cabin’s, except 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 Captain’s, Crew mess and Guest cabin’s. Crestron 3.6” colour Touchpanel in the Pilothouse for monitoring Equipment Rack temperatures and controlling Pilothouse audio as well as selecting the correct satellite decoders for the various regions of the world.
The Crestron System controls all switching of the Navigation Sources via Liquid Automations Glass Bridge switcher for Video, trackballs, mouse and keyboards.
Kaleidescape 8 zones with High definition movie/music players and 3 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.
Each Crew member has access to the ships navigation and entertainment systems with their own DVD player via their own bunk over head dropdown DVD/CD Player and head phones.
Visual
20 video zones with a variety of 15”-57” LCD TV’s.
Dual screens in each of the Owners cabin and Cockpit allows multiple source to be showen at the same time
Lutron lighting control has been used extensively though out the yacht providing simple seen selections and mood settings throughout the main common areas. Control has also been integrated to the wireless Remotes.
Mast head camera are a military grade pan tilt day night camera’s with window wipers.
5 Fixed cameras are positioned around the rest of the yacht. All cameras including the mast camera 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.
