Big Fish Sets Out: Ground-breaking Big Fish from Aquos Yachts was launched in May and has just departed on her adventurous maiden voyage.

More than three years of design, engineering and construction culminated in May with the much celebrated launch of 45 metre Big Fish, the most recent motor superyacht built in New Zealand. Big Fish is the largest yacht project for shipyard McMullen & Wing and the premier launch from Aquos Yachts. Aquos has a number of sister ships planned, including 50 metre Star Fish, which has been contracted and construction started at McMullen & Wing.

Two days of celebration of the launch in Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour, on May 21-22, included laser light shows, fashion shows, traditional Maori haka performances, live music, and a party for shipyard workers and their families.

Finishing touches were completed on the vessel after the launch and she has just set out on her maiden voyage. Big Fish will undertake the first-ever Polar Circumnavigation - which will begin in Tahiti and continue to the Antarctic, then to the Amazon, then to the Caribbean, Northern Europe, and conclude with the first luxury yacht transit of the fabled Northeast Passage over the top of Russia’’ (aquosyachts.com).

The yacht will be available for charter throughout its route over the top and bottom of the world, and a number of charters have already been booked. Big Fish will take a detour from its circumnavigation in October and November to make a one-month stop in Fort Lauderdale during the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show to showcase the quality of its design and construction and its innovative features, which include the first use of granite decking, its extraordinary 25-foot-high HD TV screen, and folding stern beach" bulwarks’’.