"Sea Cloud" versus ”Nabila"-a contrast in grandeur

With all sails set, Sea Cloud could clip off 165 miles in a day. The yacht also hod 0 6,000 hp diesel-electric power plant.

Nabilo was built with two 3,000 hp diesels. The winglike protrusion from the upper deck is one of two matching air vents for the engines and generators.

If one luxury yacht can be said to embody the glories of yesteryear, the lovely 316-foot square-rigger Sen Cloud, commissioned by Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton in 1931, might well deserve the honor. By a fluke, Sen Cloud was still sailing the seas in the 1980s. In 1978 a German captain, Hartmut Packsburg, found her rusting in Panama harbor, a near-derelict. He and a consortium of German businessmen restored her for seven million dollars and chartered her for cruising.

Much of her sailing was done in the Mediterranean, where she might cross paths with the most opulent modern yacht afloat, Saudi Arabian businessman Ad-nan Khashoggi’s 280-foot Nabilo (right]. The differences in seaborne splendor over half a century—from Sen Cloud’s original opulence of walnut paneling and antique furnishings toNabilo’s sleek lushness of mirror surfaces and suede sofas—are compared in the photographs on the following pages.

Adnon Kha. shoggi’s stateroom on Nobilo had a mirrored ceiling, abstract art and bedside cantrols/ortelevision and the curtains.

Sea Cloud’s main saloon resembled a country-house library, with a morble-monteled fireplace and a grand piano by the entrance ta the dining room.

In this v'ieiv the spacious main saloon af Nabila is lighted from above, /urnished with suede-covered couches and draped with Thai wall hangings.

Mrs. Hutton’s bathroom had a marble basin and tub. The bath mat carried the yacht’s first name. Hussar, changed to Sea Cloud in 1935.

Nabila’s dining room gleams with a long, Chinese-loquered table and 18 chairs of while leather. The yacht's design incorporated eight suites far guests.

A lady’s bathraam aboard Nabilo is/itted with a copper basin and toilet compartment of lapis lazuli (centerj. The marble tub has a miniature waterfall.