{"id":112840,"date":"2020-09-10T12:23:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T19:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/concept-mega-yacht-would-let-owner-swan-around-in-luxury"},"modified":"2020-09-10T12:23:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T19:23:29","slug":"concept-mega-yacht-would-let-owner-swan-around-in-luxury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/concept-mega-yacht-would-let-owner-swan-around-in-luxury","title":{"rendered":"Concept mega-yacht would let owner swan around in luxury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/concept-mega-yacht-would-let-owner-swan-around-in-luxury2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/jet-capsule-royal-version-001\/58377\/\">Jet Capsule<\/a> isn\u2019t an ugly duckling by any means, but designer Pierpaolo Lazzarini imagines a beautiful swan with his latest creation, the Avanguardia. The mega-yacht would feature a small watercraft that would serve as a removable cockpit in this ambitious conceptual project.<\/p>\n<p>The Avanguardia (Vanguard in English) is inspired by an unspecified Japanese Manga from the 1970s and its defining feature is that long \u201cneck.\u201d The idea is that the neck would serve as a crane and could be used to safely deposit a smaller craft in the water when anchor\u2019s dropped, allowing it to be used to reach shore, for example. Interestingly, the neck would actually be placed in a lowered back position while sailing \u2013 so presumably the raised position depicted above would end up mostly being used for showing off at port.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to an extendable crane\/bridge located in the bow (front) in this case named \u2018neck,\u2019 the head can be dropped off and used as an auxiliary 16-meter [52-ft] boat,\u201d explains Lazzarini Design Studio. \u201cDuring the sailing, the head \u2018control tower cockpit\u2019 adjusts its position by lowering in the middle of the mega-yacht body (like a swan, the neck goes in the middle of the wings).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jet Capsule isn\u2019t an ugly duckling by any means, but designer Pierpaolo Lazzarini imagines a beautiful swan with his latest creation, the Avanguardia. The mega-yacht would feature a small watercraft that would serve as a removable cockpit in this ambitious conceptual project. The Avanguardia (Vanguard in English) is inspired by an unspecified Japanese Manga [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}