Vauban

Thirty-six metres nine carrying only eight guests. That is an unusually low number for the length and it is the whole argument for this yacht: the volume of a twelve-guest boat divided between eight people, which is a different order of comfort from anything the specification sheet can express.

There are five cabins for those eight, which means one stays spare. It can be a study, a place to put the luggage that does not fit, a room for a child who wants their own, or simply a door nobody has to open all fortnight.

Seven crew for eight guests. That is very close to one each, and at thirty-seven metres it is close to unheard of. It is the ratio that determines whether service is a thing you request and then wait for, or a thing that has already been done by the time you thought of it.

She was delivered by Sanlorenzo in 2024, so everything aboard is in its first seasons. On a yacht that works a full Mediterranean summer that is not a small point: nothing has been patched, nothing is tired, and the interior is current rather than merely maintained.

The interior is contemporary Italian, which in this case means restraint rather than display. Pale surfaces, clean joinery, rooms that read as calm rather than impressive, and detailing that will still look considered in five years rather than obviously of its moment.

Sanlorenzo build to a particular philosophy: fewer, larger, better-proportioned spaces instead of the maximum number of rooms a hull can be made to hold. On a yacht carrying eight this is exactly the right instinct, and it is visible everywhere aboard.

She works the western Mediterranean, where thirty-seven metres is a comfortable size. Small enough for the harbours of the Riviera and the Ligurian coast, large enough for a proper crossing to Corsica or the Balearics without the passage becoming the subject of the day.

Take her if you are eight and you want the yacht to feel empty rather than full. There is nothing else in this fleet that offers this much boat, this new, to so few people, and the spare cabin is the clearest possible statement of the intent.