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90m (295'3ft)

2018 / 2024

The exceptional 90-metre Oceanco superyacht DAR is available for charter since the summer of 2023.

She offers next-level luxury and unrivalled privacy, thanks to her specially designed glazing that stops people from looking in.

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Interior design & engineering

The use of glass on the DAR motor yacht is one of its most breathtaking features. The full-height glass wall in the upper salon offers uninterrupted vistas, yet it’s impossible for anyone to see through it—even with the lights on. It connects the interior and exterior world without sacrificing your privacy.

The Nuvolari & Lenard-designed interior is finished in a cream and white palette, creating spaces that feel airy and bright. The main deck of this luxury superyacht hosts a large lounge with a bar, games area and TV screen and leads to a separate formal dining room with a rounded table that seats 18.

You and 11 guests will be accommodated across seven cabins during your DAR yacht charter. Instead of a suite, you get a whole master deck that boasts a totally private spa pool surrounded by sun pads and obscured from the outside by the special privacy glass and lack of cameras. There’s also a salon forward, a 360-rotating sofa aft, and an en suite with a spa tub that gives you panoramic views while you bathe. The rest of the party will sleep forward on the main deck across two VIPS and four doubles.

Yacht facilities & Entertainment

The DAR yacht offers lots to keep you entertained during your charter. There’s an open-air freshwater pool with a counter-current that’s raised to keep children safe. The area is filled with long chairs and sofas for lounging in the sun and has an aft staircase that leads straight down to the beach club. Amidship sits an alfresco dining table that’s shaded by the deck above.

There’s also a Hammam, sauna and massage/therapy room on the DAR yacht, as well as a gym filled with Technogym equipment and floor-to-ceiling windows. You can quickly move between the three floors with the elevator.

The sky lounge is home to a sit-up bar and a cinema with its own library of more than 1,300 films and TV shows.

Toys and crew

Your DAR yacht charter will be overseen by a crew of 31.

An RYA-approved water centre, there’s no shortage of ways to enjoy the ocean with DAR. You can throw on the scuba diving gear or snorkel to explore the underwater world or race across it on one of the many inflatable towables like the banana or donut and beyond.

There are plenty of speedy toys to try, from waverunners to kitesurfs, waterskis, wakeboards, and more. You can even slide from the master deck straight into the blue or walk on water with the zorb and floating magic carpet.

When you want to head ashore, multiple tenders can take you there—and a relaxing lobby or beach club for you to wait in.

Key features

• Elegant and light interior with floor to ceiling windows throughout
• 100% private Owner’s deck with 360 rotating sofa aft and private salon forward
• Jacuzzi Owner deck forward, isolated from cameras for privacy
• Slide from Owner’s deck
• Elevator serving 3 decks (not heli deck)
• Dining arrangements: 12 x pax main aft deck, 18 x formal interior dining
• Upper deck pool with fresh water, counter current
• Wheelhouse – first Oceanco to offer IBS – Integrated bridge system
• 7-Cabins for 12 guests (all doubles, no Pullmans) including 1 x Master, 2 x VIPs
• Fully equipped gym with floor to ceiling windows
• Hammam, sauna, massage/therapy room
• Extensive list of watersports

Onboard Facilities

Luna comes with the following list of facilities. To enquire about the full list or to request further information, please speak to your yacht broker or contact us.

Elevator / Lift

Gym - bench

Gym - Fitness Bike

Gym - treadmill

Gym - weights

Inflatable towable

Inflatable towing donuts

Inflatable waterslide

Kite Surf Equipment

Stand up paddle board

Windsurfing

Specifications

90m / 295'3ft

14.2m / 47ft

4.05m / 13ft

Cruising Speed

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Azure Naval Architects

Exterior Designer

Luiz de Basto Design

Interior Designer

Nuvolari & Lenard, Valentina Zannier Interiors

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Superstructure Material

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"There’s no doubt about it, this is a yacht built to impress and will turn heads in the marina, yet guests will never feel their privacy is compromised."

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DAR (ex Project Y717) is a 90m/295ft luxury mega yacht built by Oceanco and launched in 2018. Her exterior profile created by Luiz De Basto resembles a silhouette of a shark, which creates her head-turning aggressive look. The spacious interiors were created by Nuvolari Lenard.

NOTABLE FEATURES OF DAR: ~Owner’s deck Jacuzzi ~Floor-to-ceiling windows for light-filled interiors ~Swimming pool ~Helipad ~Top speed of 20 knots ~Air conditioning ~Wi-fi

From the swim platform, guests have access to a spacious beach club and the main deck aft, where guests can enjoy the outdoor scenery and ambiance from the shaded lounge beneath the upper deck overhang.

The other decks contains a swimming pool that can be converted into a helipad, plus plenty of alfresco dining and sunbathing areas with the foredeck a great area for hosting dockside events and being used for nature watching.

The Owners' deck is placed above the bridge deck and provides a private forward balcony with a Jacuzzi, while the aft section has another comfortable alfresco living area.

The interiors from Nuvolari Lenard take advantage of the floor-to-ceiling windows to showcase high quality finishes and textures. The Owner requested that no dark wood varieties be used in the interior and the result is a blend of sycamore fiddleback, maple bleached grey and details in Brazilian carballo wood complemented by top quality wallpaper and upholstery. 3D lacquer and 3D-cut leather is also used to create even more interest in the inviting living spaces.

DAR Specifications

Nature is an important theme in the design and this is represented in blossom, feather, fish and wave motifs.

A whole deck is dedicated to the Owners' use, with an interior dedicated to the Owner's suite and connecting to the outdoor spaces while offering the utmost privacy.

Yacht Accommodation

The accommodation sleeps up to 12 guests over 6 contemporary cabins.

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Meet ‘Dar,’ the Sleek 295-Foot Superyacht That’s Shaped Like a Shark

The 295-foot oceanco used 22 tons of glass across its exterior, with an interior that includes 125 materials and 24 types of saddle leather., julia zaltzman, julia zaltzman's most recent stories.

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Oceanco’s 295-foot Dar , meaning “gift” in Russian, made its world debut at the 2018 Monaco Yacht Show. Robb Report stepped aboard at the time, and toured the yacht with Valentina Zannier, head of interior design for Nuvolari Lenard, which was tasked with creating a subtle, one-of-a-kind interior. As well as 120 different fabrics and 24 saddle leathers, the interior includes maple veneer, limed ash, and sycamore that is dyed gray.

Exterior styling by Miami-based designer Luiz de Basto Design takes inspiration from nature, notably a hammerhead shark. The interior focuses on detail and craftsmanship, calling upon some of the world’s best outfitters and artisans to bring the original owner’s vision for a marine-led environment to life. Emphasis is placed on balancing sea views with guest privacy. This is best exemplified on the owner’s aft deck, which features a rotating sofa that can spin 360 degrees to capture the best vistas. It is flanked by “privacy glass” balustrades.

Based in Monaco for the summer, Dar is currently listed for sale with Large Yacht Corp for around $223 million. Here are 10 things you didn’t know about one of the largest yachts on the brokerage market.

Transparent Design

When Dar delivered in July 2018, it featured the latest advances in glass technology. The aluminum superstructure is covered in 4,300 square feet of dark, reflective glass, which lets the owner see out but gawkers can’t see in. The six-foot-by-10-foot glass panels are fastened to the superstructure using a special glue and sealant, a novel process that needed to be approved by Lloyd’s. There are 186 windows in the superstructure, 28 of which are double curved. The recurring theme of glass is also evident throughout the interior, particularly in the floor-to-ceiling windows and the glass elevator floor by Benvenuto Artglass. 

Shark Attack

The natural world was a key source of inspiration for Dar’ s exterior designer, Luiz de Basto. “The yacht’s curved main superstructure is made of a black, continuous organic form that reminded me of a shark, so I decided to shape the mast like a dorsal fin, and everything else just flows from there,” de Basto tells Robb Report . “When you view the boat from above, the wing stations resemble a hammerhead.” Fittingly, Dar was known as Project Shark until its delivery.

Marine World

The owner’s interior brief asked for a “balanced combination of visual themes from nature,” such as blossoms, feathers, and sea life: Italian studio Nuvolari Lenard answered with fish, leaves, olive trees, blossoms and waves in myriad materials. There are glass artworks, sculpted leather wall panels by English artist Helen Amy Murray, and a theatrical staircase with bas-relief fish made from Venetian plaster (pictured) by DKT Artworks. The walls of the guest corridors are covered in oak trees that were sculpted from plaster using a special spatula technique and then painted by hand.

The cinema in the sky lounge has more than 1,300 films available. But if that fails to keep guests entertained, the games table (pictured) in the main salon is guaranteed to bring late-night revelry.

Waiting in Style

The side-entrance lobby, dressed in organic sea life shapes, is a welcoming area for guests stepping on and off the yacht, with high interior ceilings that reach up to almost eight feet in some areas.

Being Served

The formal dining table in the main salon seats up to 18 guests and features striking resin and metal art panels by British firm Based Upon. There is more outdoor dining on the upper deck aft, where taupe chunky knit chairs and bright pops of red, soft furnishings bring style to the table.

Dar sleeps 14 guests across six cabins, including two VIP cabins and four double cabins, each with en suite bathrooms. The private owner’s suite on the upper deck has a bathroom, a dressing room finished in palladium, and a private deck with Jacuzzi encased in tinted privacy glass. Other flourishes and finishes include “blossomed art glass” by DKT and ornate glass surfaces crafted by List GC.

Gracious Transportation

Dar has two 34-foot “mini-me” custom tenders by Hodgdon Yachts—one a covered limousine and the other open—which echo the design of the mothership. When covered, the upper-deck pool, which has a waterfall and swimming jet, converts into a helipad for guests arriving by air transfer.  

Pamper Perfect

On the lower deck, the family wellness area includes a large hammam, a sauna with a sea view, a gym, and a spa and massage room decorated with intricately stitched and painted wall art. A beach club at the stern is where guests access the vessel’s many toys.

Technical Innovations

The 22 tons of glass was not the only technological first aboard Dar . The Oceanco was also the first yacht in the Netherlands to have the official Lloyd’s Register Integrated Bridge System (IBS) notation, designating its advanced pilothouse. 

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DAR: On board the 90m shark-inspired superyacht now for sale

Now on the market for €208 million ,   DAR draws inspiration from an unlikely source - the hammerhead shark - and changes the glass game with her innovative approach to letting views shine through while keeping the inside out. Cecile Gauert steps on board the 90-metre Oceanco... 

A group of journalists linger over a sculptural bar, while a yard employee leads another wide-eyed writer past delicate leaf shapes traced in the floor of the light-filled spa, towards butterflies so vividly painted on the bathroom wall that they seem ready to fly away when the door opens. We’re exploring the treasure trove of details on the 90-metre Oceanco superyacht DAR , and it is bewitching us. But there is one feature that stops everyone dead: the panorama of Monaco unfurling behind a glass wall.

The view dominates the upper saloon: tenders shuttling in and out of the port, white yachts in the packed marina, apartment blocks on the hillside and the blue sky above it all. Walking to the edge of the space and leaning against full-height glass produces the sensation of being suspended in mid-air. There is no distortion: it’s like we’re looking through sunglasses that enhance colours and reduce glare. To the outside world, however, the glass might as well be a magical cloak shrouding all that is within. Even with lights on, it is impossible to make out what is behind the glass from the outside.

“You can see Monaco, but Monaco can’t see you,” says Luiz de Basto , DAR ’s designer. “The concept of the design is a completely connected interior and exterior.”

That immersive effect, that moment of surprise as the outside world pours in, the absence of boundaries between inside and out: de Basto had imagined it all eight years earlier while seated in his Miami office overlooking Biscayne Bay. His quest at the time was to design an 85 metre yacht that concealed its volume and decks within a shapely glass envelope that would give its owners what he says they value above all else: privacy.

“Glass was the main inspiration as a way to improve contact with nature,” he says. As he developed the idea further, he thought about one particular sea animal that eventually lent its name to the project. The shark.

“The association with the hammerhead shark jumped at me when I searched for a way to create wing stations. I’ve always been very interested in nature and the animal world, probably because of my childhood in Angola and early contact with the big outdoors,” he says.

Just as the hammerhead’s wide-set eyes give it exceptional vision, the shapely wing stations could enhance the captain’s ability to see down the long hull sides. He took his idea further. “If you look closely you see that the mast is like a dorsal fin. Everything sort of flowed from there,” he says. “In three or four pages, the yacht was born, almost like you see it here.”

Of course, it’s one thing to imagine and draw a concept; it’s quite another to bring to fruition a technically complex design such as this. The next step de Basto took was to show his idea to Dutch superyacht builder Oceanco. “I thought they would be the right match for this particular project, sportier and more unconventional than most and with lots of glass,” he says.

They had a meeting at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show a few weeks later. “We liked the overall design and the technical challenges associated with the project and started working on a design package together,” says Oceanco. The yacht grew a few metres to an even 90, but the integrity of the design remained. “We went to great lengths to keep the overall look, but also the details of his design. We remained faithful to the concept, which is strong and well thought out.”

One of the most complex aspects of the yacht was its most obvious feature – the seamless black glass that encloses the superstructure. “ DAR has about 390 square metres of glass in the superstructure alone, not counting doors and hull windows. The glass panels are 1.8 metres by three metres each, glued to the aluminium superstructure with no mechanical fasteners,” says de Basto. Adding all of its windows and doors, the yacht carries about 22 tonnes of exterior glass, made by German glass maker TILSE, which developed a special sealant and glue that had to be approved by Lloyd’s. “Elaborate calculations were made to assess the interaction between glue, superstructure and glass, and to see the relative movement in a seaway to make sure the glue would be able to cope,” says Oceanco.

From a purely engineering point of view, this required a massive amount of work, which continued as construction began – once the concept had attracted the eye of a buyer.

The owners of the yacht that would eventually become DAR entrusted captain Klaudio Marcelic to make some inquiries on their behalf. The commercial team at Oceanco showed him the project they had been developing. Marcelic says he was attracted by the boat’s “clean and distinctive lines”, and in January 2014 he contacted Oceanco CEO Marcel Onkenhout. “Project Shark was outlined as we see it today from January to May and then presented to the client. The letter of intent was signed one month later,” Marcelic says.

A larger team, which now included the owner’s project manager and interior designer Valentina Zannier of Italian studio Nuvolari Lenard , went to work on fine tuning features to more precisely fit the owners’ requirements and ideas. All these needed to be incorporated within the design envelope that they really enjoyed, particularly, according to Oceanco, “the total black surface, the ‘hammerhead’ and the shark fin”.

Realising this smooth “total black” glass effect, so essential to the original design, was one of the greatest technical challenges. “The thickness of the glass varies with the location, but the heaviest is 30 millimetres and consists of three layers. In the superstructure above the main deck there are 186 windows. Of these windows, 112 are bent in one direction and 28 are double curved,” says Oceanco.

To create the look de Basto had designed, “the glass had to be in one flush surface from the main deck to the sundeck. To achieve this, a lot of special solutions had to be found, which included measuring the superstructure in 3D multiple times at different stages of the build,” says Martin de Jager, engineering project manager for Oceanco. “From this, a three-dimensional model was then developed that was used not only for the shape of every individual window but also for the thickness of the filler where painted surfaces adjoin the glass. Another challenge was where to route pipes and HVAC [heating, ventilation and air conditioning] ducts. With the large glass surfaces there was little room to place piping and ducting [near] the outside of the superstructure. Usually the underside of side decks can be used for ventilation grills. In the case of DAR [which has no walkarounds for the sake of privacy] this was not possible.”

Where did all the pipes and ducts go? “We’ve put them everywhere. If you open up the ceiling, it is completely full,” de Jager says. In spite of this, the ceiling height is never lower than 2.25 metres and reaches up to 2.4 metres in some areas.

Changes made to the original layout included the addition of a helideck and the relocation of the pool from one deck to another, a 1.6-metre-deep oval basin with a waterfall that retains its trajectory even as the yacht moves, a detail de Basto insisted upon. He designed all exterior decks, including folding carbon masts for umbrellas that complement the contours of the yacht when they are stored, and a huge sofa that seems to hover above the deck as it spins on a small axis to the sitter’s desired position.

The owner’s deck includes a completely private spa pool flanked by windows that reveal the world to the owners, but not the owners to the world.

Although two designers handled the treatment of the exterior and interior decks, the overall feeling remains surprisingly cohesive and relaxing throughout. The theme of nature, represented by the shark, continues inside. “The client brief was to have a comfortable, light and very bright interior, with no dark timbers and inspired by nature,” Zannier says.

Motifs of fish, leaves, olive trees, blossoms and waves are cleverly integrated in a wide variety of materials, from paint to plaster, carved leather, engraved glass and embroideries. Linen is used in an unusual way, substituted for joinery on doors and drawers. Wood is used sparingly and when it is, it is mainly light-hued timber with an unusual finish, sycamore dyed grey, maple veneer steamed and bent into curves to form a floor detail, a little dark veneer used to contrast with limed ash.

Zannier says she is particularly fond of the staircase that wraps around the lift, which is finished in antiqued bronze – buttons and control panel included – and features a decorative glass panel as flooring. Along the wall a school of fish in Venetian plaster winds its way up the stairs, one of several pieces made by DKT Artworks . Tiny details are everywhere, including drops of resin mimicking water droplets on a window sill.

It all looks so effortlessly elegant. However, “with 120 different fabrics, 24 saddle leathers and a variety of artistic finishes and glass the interior was very complex to execute,” says Oceanco. The task of outfitting this intricate interior went to List General Contractor and Sinnex .

On the technical side, the yacht is just as impressive, fitted with a full Dynamic Positioning system and a classed integrated bridge. Its enormous garage accommodates a pair of 10.5-metre custom tenders, one open and the other a limo, built by Hodgdon Yachts in Maine.

The long foredeck conceals crew tenders and a telescopic mast, and is large enough for a helicopter to land and take off. The owners did not want teak, and de Basto opted for a grey paint that is cohesive with the overall colour scheme and does not create glare. The yacht also carries a built-in slide that deploys for a vertiginous drop from on high.

This enormous project now complete, de Basto delights in sharing the details. “I am glad to see it built and so close to the original sketches. That is amazing because of the many pressures any design of this size is subjected to from all sides during the construction process. Those pressures can derail an innovative, non-conventional design very quickly,” he says. When he walked on to the yacht for the first time, de Basto says it was like he was entering his sketch. It’s a grand design that has become an even grander reality.

DAR is for sale with Large Yacht Corp for €208,000,000 .

First published in the February 2019 edition of BOAT International. Subscribe now and never miss an issue.

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