Construction has begun and a keel-laying ceremony was held at the AvA Yachts yard in Antalya early in June with Kando85 investors SRW Yachting and delivery will take place in the summer of 2025 with the Kando85 making her first appearance at the Cannes Yachting Festival.
At 25.70m length overall the Kando85 is constructed with a steel hull and aluminium superstructure, and with a waterline length of under 24m can either be operated by crew or run privately as an owner-operated vessel.
Designed as a full displacement world cruiser capable of immense distances and long periods at sea the Kando85 boasts an outstanding interior volume of 200 GT and with her 24000 lt fuel tanks and fuel consumption of just 63lts/hr at a cruising speed of 10 knots a range of over 4000 nautical miles is achieved. Powered by twin Volvo Penta D13MG 408 hp engines the Kando85 will reach a maximum speed of 11 knots.
The standard internal configuration is a four cabin arrangement with a main deck forward master suite.
SRW Yachting’s Svein Willadssen commented “To call the Kando85 a Pocket explorer would not do her justice. She’s a superbly well-equipped ultra-safe oceangoing explorer superyacht. We know very well AvA Yachts’ ultra-high quality of construction and excellent finished product and we see the potential of the Kando85 as phenomenal. It is hoped this will be the first of many Kando85s whereby we can establish a series production operation offering the very best of all worlds; the ultimate oceangoing comfort yacht, the proven engineered platform and efficiencies of scale, and whilst still being able to offer layout and customisation options unparallelled in this size range”.
“Our ‘soft’ launch
Atilla Küçükdiker the Chairman and Founder of AvA Yachts said “Our ‘soft’ launch last year of the Kando80 demonstrated very strong interest in a proper global explorer in this size range. It’s at the right size point to be able to be either a fully crewed yacht or for an experienced couple or family to run it themselves or with minimal crew operation. The Kando85 has been developed from the 80 and is super strong with an underwater steel thickness of 8-10mm and multiple watertight bulkheads for ultimate safety. With Turkey able to offer a really significant quality yacht construction price advantage, potential buyers will be pleasantly surprised to see how much quality explorer superyacht bang they can get for their buck”
The company AvA Yachts
The company AvA Yachts was established officially in 2005 as a naval architecture and engineering company.
In the past 19 years, Ava Yachts has engineered and designed many remarkable yachts in wide variety of Luxury Superyachts, Motor Yachts and Sailing Yachts which were constructed of Steel, Aluminum, Wood, Grp materials.
Today AvA Yachts builds from 24 meters to 50 met ers, steel hull & aluminum superstructure long range explorer yachts in more than 5000 sq.meters closed yard based in Antalya Free Trade Zone with highly skilled and talent Turkish workforce and with the advantages of infrastructures on Yacht Building field of Antalya Free Trade Zone which is an industrial tax-free area.
AvA Yachts approaches every new project in the aspect of a design and engineering challenge. We do prefer to be flexible against Owner requests. We don’t have strict rules.
Every yacht, with its exterior and interior, is designed from the beginning with special attention to the Owner’s tastes. We spend many hours making the designs to get close to one more step to perfection. Every part of a yacht to be built is handcrafted by talented Turkish Craftsmen.
AvA Yachts provides the owners to have high quality crafted brilliant yachts at very fair prices. We do provide the Owners to observe at any stage of the construction, how the works are going on in the workshops. Knowing this advantageous condition of AvA Yachts, we propose to make harden our place among reputable, well-known yacht builders in the world.
Yachts designs each new yacht, interior and exterior, with its experienced engineers and creative stylists.
Designers and Stylists
Designers and Stylists of AvA Yachts were specialized in designing.
AvA Yachts believes that the devil lies in the details and is aware that creating a splendid yacht requires a hard effort to figure out every single detail of the design.
It is where the success comes from. AvA Yachts produces the designs that are embodied in this manner.
AvA Yachts designs outstanding yachts to please the eyes and to be proud of her owner
The Founder of AvA Yachts, Atilla KUCUKDIKER
After graduating with a Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering degree from Istanbul Technical University. He built his career in the design and engineering of steel structures of Chemical Tankers in Istanbul.
He chased his dreams of designing and building Yachts and he started his own business in Antalya in 2002. He established thebrand AvA Yachts in 2005
He is the Owner, Founder, and Chairman of AvA Yachts brand for 19 years. He has performed Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering profession for 33 years.
The company AvA Yachts was established officially in 2005 as a naval architecture
