User experience
Focusing specifically on yacht owners and their enjoyment of commissioning and sailing a Royal Huisman yacht, innovative thinking is applied to user experience.
Enhance the owner’s experience
The “Client App” for our clients is a fine example of dynamic involvement – allowing them to enjoy the yacht even before it is actually launched. This mobile tool has been developed to enhance the client’s experience. The unique App provides regular updates on the progress of the client’s yacht under construction, keeping both client and team fully involved.
Making an impression in the marina
Building a innovative motoryacht like Project 403 (Phi) was extremely exciting for many reasons, one standout feature was the innovative laser fiber-optic exterior lighting system developed with Fibr8.com. This system, designed to enhance the yacht's silhouette, emits continuous glowing threads of light that highlight its streamlined profile, creating a dramatic visual effect in any chosen color. Beyond aesthetics, this lighting solution is practical, avoiding the common issues of LED gaps and failures, and is low on energy use and maintenance. Housed in a compact, accessible unit, this trendsetting technology is also installed onboard Project 406 (Special One).
Ultimate flexibility pool
Another innovative feature onboard Phi, is an adaptable swimming pool. Situated on her aft deck and employing the patented DEPP system, this pool can be enclosed as a sealed tank, or opened for swimming, with fast-responding pushbutton transitions. This technology avoids the lengthy procedure of pumping water in and out of a separate dump tank.
Guests can enjoy a swim before playing a game on top of the covered pool just a few minutes later. When preparing for passage, the pool is topped up to prevent any surface effect and the inflatable seal is activated.
Typical Royal Huisman
Royal Huisman utilizes innovative glass techniques in their projects, notably in Project 386 (Twizzle) and Project 400 (Sea Eagle), featuring sliding glass walls by sister company Rondal that transition seamlessly from the deckhouse salon to the exterior guest cockpit without any sills. The doors for Sea Eagle and Phi, unlike traditional sliders, do not require center openings and can retract completely or seal tightly depending on the weather. This design enhances comfort and flexibility, maintaining the high-quality finish synonymous with Royal Huisman.
What sound do you hear in a closed library at night?
Royal Huisman has long built remarkably quiet yachts using conventional technology, with innovative soundproofing like "floating" floors now standard in the industry. Their in-house R&D team focuses on minimizing noise and vibration at the source, rather than simply adding insulation. This approach results in exceptionally low noise levels similar to a quiet library (30dB) when generators and other services are active, ensuring silent cruising and enhanced onboard comfort. Under power, the experience is very similar. Guy Booth, owner’s representative of Phi says,
At 22 knots you can barely hear the engines anywhere inside. You wouldn’t know you were moving unless you looked out of the window.