Tech Area, CZone, Lighting & Cameras
Making excellent use of space, the Air Yacht has the luxury of a built-in specialised Technical Area, measuring 10.2m², in which most of the equipment – such as battery bank, electronics, electrics and solar equipment – can be worked on with greater ease. This area is ahead of the mast bulkhead (in front of the saloon), and it is air-conditioned as well as having natural ventilation.
Access to the Tech Area is under the front sundeck seat through a watertight hatch and also through a vertical bulkhead in a separate storage locker, which also has a watertight hatch. Changing-out of heavy batteries and equipment can be accomplished through these hatches without affecting the private and cabin areas.
Through well-thought-out design, access to the Tech Area in a seaway, which may be wet, has been designed from within the boat via the built-in cupboard in the port-forward cabin.
Technical Area
CZone
CZone technology allows us to entirely personalise the experience on the Air Yacht 80. There is a one-touch set-up for modes: for example, Navigation mode will turn on the nav lights, switch all interior lights to red underway lights; turn on the chart plotters and any other equipment required – all at the touch of one button. Another button can put the boat into party or quiet mode. When you return to the boat, a touch on the remote control wakes the boat up to welcome you back on board.
CZone also does far more. The weight of electrical cabling on the Air Yacht was reduced by 300kg when we moved to 48V; with CZone, this weight is reduced further as the system requires less cabling to all the light switches. Instead, a simple cat cable is led from the intelligent light switch to the main panel.
Different modes can be selected or programmed according to your individual needs, including monitoring of tank levels, battery data and circuit status. Notifications and warning of an item’s standard alarms or of critical items that that need immediate action all flow back to either an dedicated CZone screen or the B&G chart plotters via the NMEA backbone.
Lighting
Serious consideration has gone into the Air Yacht’s lighting – from the exterior low-level LED footlights to the elegant lighting on the mast; from LED strobes on the bimini corners to alert fishermen and boaters of your position (which can get lost in the backscatter of city lights) to the new port and starboard additional Navigation strip lights for better visibility.
Inside, the lighting is fully adjustable depending on conditions and required ambience. Choose from dimmable interior low-level and high-level LED lighting and touch-button mood lighting that is discreetly inset to conceal all fittings.
To ensure excellent lighting in the bathrooms, Hollywood-style lighting surrounds the mirrors above the vanity basins.
Cameras
The Air Yacht 80 has strategically positioned cameras for enhanced safety and peace of mind. Information for the thermal camera all the visual cameras is relayed back onto the chart plotter.
A camera is installed on the mast spreaders for complete visibility of port and starboard.
Cameras are installed aft in the cockpit roof to give a 160-degree view of the transom of the boat.
Cameras are installed in the engine rooms so you can check the status of the engines or if there is a fire.
A camera installed in the longeron facing the anchor gives the skipper a situational view of the anchor.
A high-resolution thermal camera and visual camera at the top of the mast detects, identifies and continuously tracks floating objects. For man-overboard (MOB) at day or night, it sees far better than the human eye and its position atop the mast gives a far larger range. Floating objects or semi-submerged objects can be identified and the skipper alerted to make a course correction to avoid a collision. It can see up to 150 metres ahead to detect a person or buoy in the water; it has a 750-metre sightline of an inflatable rib; and a 2 000-metre sightline of a motorboat or sailing vessel.
Information from internal cameras in the cockpit, saloon and galley are also relayed to the chart plotter so the skipper can have a command view of the yacht.
Additionally, when you’re not on board a connection can be made via the Internet to view all the camera images in real time, so you can see what is happening on board.
Thermal Camera