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The first hybrid Heesen, and still the quietest yacht of her size. Forty-nine metres, delivered in 2017, and the propulsion is the whole story: she runs on batteries at anchor and at slow speed, with the generators off and nothing turning.

Silence at anchor is the thing nobody thinks to ask about and everybody notices. On a conventional yacht a generator runs through the night to keep the air conditioning going, and the sound of it is the background to every evening on deck and every night in a cabin.

Here it is not there. A hybrid yacht at anchor is as quiet as the water around it, which changes dinner on the aft deck, changes sleeping with a window open, and changes what the anchorage sounds like at six in the morning.

At slow speed the same applies. She can move under battery power, so the short passage between two bays happens without engine noise or vibration, and the yacht arrives having been somewhere pleasant to be rather than somewhere to be endured.

Twelve guests across six cabins, two to a room, dividing evenly. Six couples fit as drawn, and so does a family travelling in pairs or three households sharing. Nothing folds down and no cabin exists purely to reach the number twelve.

Nine crew for twelve guests. At forty-nine metres that is a full complement, and on a yacht with systems as particular as these it also means engineers who know precisely how she works rather than a crew adapting to something unfamiliar.

The interior is dramatic and lit for effect, with a bar as its centre. It is the counterweight to the silence outside: a yacht that is almost inaudible at anchor and theatrical inside, which is a more interesting combination than either quality alone.

She works the Balearics and the western Mediterranean, which is a cruising ground of short hops between anchorages and exactly where a hybrid earns its keep. Most of the moving is the kind she does on batteries.

Take her if you have chartered before and found the engineering more interesting than the upholstery. Nine years on, a great many yachts claim to be hybrids, and this is the one that was first and is still the quietest of them.