RMK Merrill-Stevens completes extensive work on award-winning superyacht

Florida’s most historic shipyard, RMK Merrill-Stevens, recently completed extensive work on an award-winning charter yacht known as Asteria.

Work on the vessel concluded in July 2022, and encompassed multiple upgrades and repairs, and included more than a dozen strategic partners.

The 49-metre (161-foot) yacht, which is currently cruising waters around Greenland as part of an expedition organised by the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, was returned back to the water via the RMK MS 2,700LT Pearlson shiplift.

After arriving at RMK Merrill-Stevens, Asteria was named the 2022 BOAT International World Superyacht International Voyager Award winner.

Gilius Grutterink, project manager at RMK Merrill-Stevens Superyacht Center, commented, “The award is a testament to the vessel’s capability to cruise anywhere. It truly is a special, one-of-a-kind superyacht.”

Work completed on Asteria was categorised as Lloyds Register Survey and non-Survey works, which was managed by Grutterink. The scope of work included scaffold and containment for media blasting of bottom paint and primer coatings to steel, and re-application of a new paint system, driveline work, and more.

The project presented several unique challenges to Grutterink and the RMK Merrill-Stevens team, including welding extra steel supports onto the hull to accommodate shell plate repairs.

Grutterink continued, “This was one of RMK Merrill-Stevens Superyacht Center’s biggest projects to date, a great experience for everyone involved.”

Asteria is currently available for charter and is specifically designed to travel nearly anywhere in the world safely and comfortably, including the North and South Poles.

For more information, visit RMK Merrill-Stevens.

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