Actually, it made it into the game as the AI Small Container Vessel. I took that as my starting point and then remade it as a new playable vessel, as the AI is just a hull, basically. It took about 3-4 months of work. A lot of that was work on turning the 3D model into a working ship. That's where the real hard work is conducted (the model is less than 10% of the total work required. But that 10% is still a huge amount of work).
Unfortunately the 2006 ships aren't transferable. Sorry. I'd love that Super Yacht as well. If I could, I would.
Yes, the buoys are sort of reskinable. But due to the way that the skins wrap around, you can't get stripes etc. Otherwise I'd have done that as well!
The testers have also done a marvellous job, providing me with lots of good information about the handling of the vessel and its lighting and mooring and turning and so on.
Thanks to (alphabetically):
Art_Ship (Horst)
Des Healey
Matt Brown
Hugh Gammon
MVSmith (Marty)
Sad Sid (Eric)
Traddles (Angus)