August 12th, accompanied by melodious whistle, ILLUSION PLUS which built by PRIDE MEGA YACHTS, a brand of CIMC Raffles Offshore Ltd., slowly left the Yantai base to start the maiden voyage and attend the Monaco Yacht Show. ILLUSION PLUS is the largest superyacht of Asia currently. Its design, quality, performance and interior are in line with the world's most demanding European standards. This is another innovation of CIMC Raffles in the high-end marine recreation field. It also showed the excellent quality of “Made in China” to the world.
Stick to the Spirit of Craftsman Carved the "Pearl of the Crown"
With a total length of 88.5 meters and a width of 15.4 meters, ILLUSION PLUS has 6 decks and a space of 3,642 gross tons, the aluminum steel hull structure is very stable. ILLUSION PLUS is a "sea home" which integrating business, sports and leisure, she also adopts Rolls-Royce full-slewing electric propulsion system and is equipped with non-redundant DP0 dynamic positioning system. It can be controlled by one person. The economical speed is 15 knots, the maximum speed is 17 knots, and the endurance is 5000 nautical miles.
In the international yacht marketing, the requirements for innovation and technology are constantly improving. At present, there are less than 100 super yachts over 80 meters in the world, and only 10 yachts of the same specification are delivered every year. Design and construction of superyachts need lots of time to temper, most of workers are passed down from generation to generation, the professionalism is the ultimate and the almost demanding craftsmanship and quality are achieved. Therefore, the superyacht is regarded as "The Pearl of the Crown."
“ILLUSION PLUS is not only a superyacht with international quality, but also a piece of art that shows the beauty of high-end industry.” Wang Jianzhong, president of CIMC Raffles said. It is understood that ILLUSION PLUS has a detailed workmanship of every detail, with a total working time of more than 2 million hours. Taking the painting work as an example, ILLUSION PLUS uses the same quality paint as the large aircraft, It need up to 7 coatings, 8 processes, about 40 hours per square meter painting work, 160,000 man-hours for the whole ship, then, it can looks bright and smooth. The "artisan spirit" is reflected here.
Building such a superyacht is a huge challenge for project management. The construction of superyachts needs to integrate hundreds of suppliers, while China's yacht industry started too late, and high-end suppliers are mainly concentrated in Europe. This is undoubtedly a test for the system integration and global purchasing ability of builders. Based on the global supply chain network established over the years, CIMC Raffles integrates global resources and strives for excellence to ensure the high quality of ILLUSION PLUS.
With years of accumulation in the offshore industry, CIMC Raffles has the ability to “build platforms with platforms”. PRIDE MEGA YACHTS is a new platform that CIMC Raffles incubates on its own platform.
With nearly 20 years of heritage, PRIDE MEGA YACHTS specializes in the development, construction and marketing of luxury yachts from 80 to 120 meters and is committed to being a world-class superyacht builder. It delivered an 88-meter catamaran Asean Lady in 2004 and won the "Most Creative Yacht Award" at the same year.
PRIDE MEGA YACHTS has an international yacht expert management team of more than 10 people. The members have more than 15 years of experience in the yacht industry; establish long-term partnerships with world-renowned yacht building engineering companies, design companies, consulting companies, equipment suppliers, and build a database of exclusive resources for yachts. R&D capability is the core technology of yacht manufacturing. PRIDE MEGA YACHTS continuously learns and accumulates basic design capabilities and has trained a number of R&D and design backbones. “We fully participated in the basic design, detailed design, construction design and construction commissioning on ILLUSION PLUS, and finally reached the delivery status and provided after-sales service, and walked through the whole process of the superyacht.” Shao Huiliang，General Manager of Yacht Division said.
Facing the historical opportunity of the reform of tourism supply side, CIMC Raffles adheres to the craftsmanship spirit of “passion, dedication, perfection, inheritance and innovation”, and tailors different specifications of yachts, cruise ships and sea complex for different levels of groups. The amusement equipment includes both super-yachts for the global high-end market and private yachts and high-end cruise ships that meet demands of the consumer, helping to upgrade the marine tourism and health culture tourism.
In recent years, with the upgrading of consumption, yachts have become a new product and a new format of marine tourism as a high-end and fashionable industry. CIMC Raffles adheres to the craftsmanship, and tailors different specifications of yachts, cruise ships and marine complexes for different levels of groups. The amusement equipment includes both superyachts for the global high-end marketing and private yachts and high-end cruise ships that meet the needs of the mass consumer, helping to upgrade the marine tourism and health culture tourism. "Our dream is to satisfy people's yearning for a better life." Wang Jianzhong said.
