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Miss C is not just another so-called Eco project with a few token solar panels, led lights and rain water collection. Her current owners went way and beyond modern superyacht design and she now boasts some incredible eco credentials. A considerable amount of resources and pioneering design have gone into making her one of the most eco friendly superyachts in Europe. Her bilge pump outs go through special pollution filters to prevent any water contamination. She runs on standard red diesel (not polluting heavy oil) and can even run on biodiesel / green diesel made from domestic vegetable oils, animal fats and recycled restaurant grease, removing overall emissions by up to 75%. She was fitted with an advanced onboard fuel cleaning system where diesel is spun at high speed through a centrifugal pump to remove contaminants allowing a much cleaner combustion.
Her sturdy steel construction is coated with a epoxy resin filler not just to provide a smooth polished finish but exceptional anti corrosion qualities requiring less toxic anti corrosion products and painting. Her high upkeep teak decks were all ripped up and replaced with zero maintenance, rubber crumb decking that requires no regular washing with harmful detergents and contaminating teak oils plus the constant deck repainting. Her mahogany handrails were replaced with non-rusting 316 grade stainless steel eliminating repeated toxic varnishing. She was completely blasted in and out and her interiors were gutted right back to bare steel where every square inch was repainted in and out. Her interiors were then sprayed throughout with highly insulating, closed cell, high density urethane foam (up to 3 inches thick in places). Leaving no exposed steel in her interiors apart from the bilges and one large steel wall which can be exposed in summer to provide a 'cool wall' which is naturally cooled by the sea and acts like an energy free air-conditioner. She was then further lined with thick, insulating plywood throughout from responsibly managed forests and then finished with special (highly insulated) decorative padded panelling.
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​The foam sprayed ceilings were sealed with yet another revolutionary product, a heat stretched decorative membrane which cut out wood consumption and intricate ceiling construction materials eliminating condensation from any warm air - cold bridging and condensating. Every single wooden door was ripped out and replaced with modern, twin sealed, UPVC double glazed doors thus eliminating drafts and regular noxious painting. Over 98% of her glazing was removed and replaced with argon gas filled double glazed windows, even portholes were double glazed. The large windows used special tinted glass which keeps the yacht so cool in summer that her electric guzzling nine air conditioning units were able to be removed.
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Such was the reduction in electric usage that her main 90kw (kilowatt) generator became obsolete and a modern low consumption eco 13kw generator was installed to provide house electricity when not shore connected. The resultant hot water from cooling the generator is used to heat the two hot water tanks onboard. Again one hot water tank can be switched off during low occupancy saving energy and wasting little. The mass of dark windows on her aft deck and the 360 degree round helio lounge (below the helipad) were replaced with special plexiglass panels which double up as huge solar heat transfer panels. On a sunny winter's day it can provide some 70% of the heating in those two huge areas. Her big, dirty boiler was replaced with two smaller, cleaner burn boilers. These are managed by sophisticated electronic sensors which switch one boiler off when demand is low, a massive reduction in energy and waste compared to one huge boiler blazing away. These Italian design boilers boast lower CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions than your standard household combi boiler and when it comes to emissions they produce less than one particulate per million (50 times less than the legal limit).
When berthed, the entire yacht has a lower energy consumption than your average 5 bedroom house. Usually, a lot of heat is lost through ventilation and bathroom extraction. The yacht now has no opening windows. It was fitted with the latest Genvex HRV system (heat recovery ventilation). The yacht is technically passive house (airtight) and each room is fed with ventilation through a complex network of pipes via an air purifier and more importantly a large heat exchanger which warms the cold incoming air with the warm extracted air, although the air never actually meets, the result is an impressive 86% recovery of heat from the warm extracted air. Eg fresh air intake at zero degrees would be heated with the outgoing air say 22 degrees air making it around 16 degrees fresh air being pumped into the yacht and with one fan doing the intake and outtake controlled by a sophisticated Bang & Olufsen design environmental monitoring system which consumes around £60 of electricity in a year.
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As would be expected of a new build the yacht is fitted with all the latest technology like occupancy sensors which switch off TV's and lights if no one is in the room or if it is daytime. Having eleven outside doors, it used to take an age to lock up, now with a click on an app every door can be remotely locked at once. Some 24 camera's monitor all areas of the yacht 24/7, some with facial recognition. The owners, having semi-retired in 2008, designed and project managed the both refits themselves.
