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Elysium: On board the Sunseeker 131 transformed into a personal paradise

Carefully detailed customisation transformed a Sunseeker 131 into an owner’s exclusive slice of heaven, finds Sam Fortescue...

“If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you’re already dead,” says Russell Crowe’s Maximus in the 2000 blockbuster Gladiator . And so ran the thinking of Ron Gibbs when he named his Sunseeker 131 Elysium , after the Ancient Greek concept of a heavenly paradise.

And like any decent depiction of heaven, Elysium is heavily influenced by the mind of its beholder. Gibbs took Sunseeker at its word when it said its Bespoke programme offered “a clean canvas” for yachts of more than 30 metres – with the result Elysium is comfortably the most customised of all the 14 Sunseeker 131s delivered to date. An experienced owner, with four Sunseekers from 15 metres to 35 metres already behind him, Gibbs was clear from the start on the features he wanted to personalise. “I wrote the spec before I ordered the boat,” he says. “That way, the yard has everything up front and it minimises costly change orders.”

His list of custom features was long and detailed, with a first draft extending to 120 pages. And it drilled down as far as details such as not using push-in power sockets behind the bridge console – he’s had problems in the past with plugs rattling loose, requiring major surgery to access. “Why would you use a push-in fitting on a boat that is subject to vibration and movement?” he says. By the end of the build, they were on version 11 of the document.

Many of the changes boil down to just two things: Gibbs’s love of taking the wheel himself and his preference for a big tender . “I like driving the boat myself and I like being in the open air. I didn’t want to be in the same situation as with the Sunseeker 115, where you have to run between the sundeck and the bridge.” He specced a fully functional helm station up under the hardtop with an unparalleled view ahead. Literally every function on the bridge is replicated up here, from chartplotters to FLIR night-vision cameras and even the Bridge Navigational Watch Alarm System that spots when the helmsman has nodded off – a requirement of coding.

To complete his eyrie up in the fresh air, Gibbs wanted to put a new companionway in to connect the main bridge and the sundeck helm. This, in turn, meant extending the large fibreglass hardtop, to protect the stairs. “On the 115, you got drips from the hardtop going down the companionway. Every morning, the guys would be out with sponges and a chamois to clean it up, then 15 minutes later the water would be back. Sunseeker made me a whole new mould for the hardtop and there was no extra charge for that. They could not have been more helpful.” It now appears as an option for the 131.

The bigger roof needs a couple of stainless steel pillars to support its leading edge, and that has meant reconfiguring the forward sundeck area as well – all knock-on consequences. The spa pool that would usually sit here has been moved back behind the bar area. In its place, the sunpads have been extended to provide cover for raising the deck beneath, increasing headroom in the gym.

To finish the job, he had a custom mast put in forward with a bit of extra height that puts the yacht’s steaming light out of sightlines above the edge of the hardtop. “Otherwise you’re blinded by it for night sailing,” he says. Also, the elegant sweep of the bar up here has also been enlarged to make it a really convivial space for pre-dinner drinks.

It’s November and, even here in Italy’s San Remo, there’s a chill in the air. But it doesn’t take much effort to picture the sundeck as the nerve centre of the boat. It is with a wistful last look around that I take Gibbs’s new companionway down to the atrium on the bridge deck below. It’s a functional space – attractive enough – but this rather belies the effort it took to design. “There was a lot of work in the lobby,” Gibbs recalls. “We had to move the air conditioning and technical cupboards. I think we were all worried about that, but I’m astounded with the end result.”

On the standard 131 layout, stairs come up from the main deck to give access to the bridge, the skipper’s cabin to starboard and a pantry and dayhead to port. They also lead to a large saloon aft with sofas and a bar. This page of the general arrangement has been torn to shreds. The stairs have been rerouted and the cabin turned into a gym housing bikes and cross-trainers. Meeting Gibbs, all six-foot-plus of him, it is suddenly clear why the deckhead above had to be raised.

The pantry is now a bathroom, but the most impressive change concerns the saloon, which has been transformed into the owner’s cabin with an emperor-sized bed, floor-to-ceiling windows and even a walk-through wardrobe. Interestingly, it is smaller than the designated owner’s cabin forward on the deck below, but it is a really clever move from an experienced owner. “If you’re going to do overnight cruises, do not put your master cabin in the bow,” says Gibbs. “In my configuration, it is so stable and so quiet. You also have your own private deck behind you. In the morning it’s great, too: into the gym, then straight to the shower, change…”

Despite these layout tweaks, the project manager at Sunseeker, Mark Chinery, points out that much of it is just skin deep. “Although Elysium does have some bespoke elements, the core of the yacht, layout of systems and engineering and structural bulkhead positions remain faithful to the original 131 design. Without this element of control, we would not be able to deliver four 131 yachts per year.”

Gibbs’s view is that you only need one interior lounging area since you spend most of the time outside. There may be another strand to his thinking, though. Uniquely, Elysium is run without cooking on board. Oh, it’s got a galley (complete with two ovens, a microwave, four fridges and two freezers) – you wouldn’t build a 40 metre yacht without one unless you had no thought for its resale value. But Gibbs organises life on board so that hot meals are always taken ashore – for crew and guests alike. The galley is just used for preparing occasional snacks, breakfasts, sandwiches and so on.

“Trying to get cooking smells out of a boat with curtains is very difficult. It ages a boat very quickly,” he says. “Then there’s the time it takes to get food on board and waste off. And however good your chef is, after two weeks on board, you become pretty bored with what they do.” It is too comprehensive an argument not to have been well rehearsed with other sceptics. The point is that it works for Gibbs and his family.

I open one of the ovens to confirm that the crew doesn’t occasionally sneak a cheese toastie past the boss, but it contains only the original instructions, still in plastic. “Ask most of my family what the dishwasher’s for, and they’ll say ‘To store the crisps.’” This strategy also has the benefit of freeing up the neighbouring dumb waiter area for use as a laundry room. The other big area of change is around the transom, where skipper Chris Averis leads me next. A small 4.3-metre Ribeye tender lies lengthwise on chocks in the garage, alongside two Sea-Doo personal watercraft, Seabobs, inflatable kayaks and two inflatable Nautibuoy platforms. In short: lots of toys, but not a boat capable of getting guests from the boat to dinner ashore dry and unruffled.

That’s because Gibbs had the transom of the boat re-engineered to accommodate the largest tender possible – a 6.8-metre Ribeye with a 200hp engine – out on the bathing platform, rather than under cover. “Garages are always too small even on 40-metre to 50-metre yachts – plus there’s the height restriction for deep-V hulls,” he explains. “I like to get the biggest tender possible into the water – we lower it down on a full-beam hydraulic platform. You need a decent tender to get people aboard in rough seas.” Sunseeker once again had to build a new mould and beef up the structural members of the transom to support it. “We had to redesign the bathing platform so it would take the full beam,” says Gibbs. “This required a whole new mechanism.”

The skipper estimates that he can have the tender deployed in 90 seconds. “Plus we gain an entire extra RIB.” He admits that when entering a busy port, they may choose to first remove the tender before jostling into a berth. And using a bigger tender means they had to beef up certain stanchions to support the weight of a boarding ladder. The extra weight could have been a problem, but in fact it is very nicely offset by an extra tonne and a half of chain and anchor at the bow. “She balances up nicely on her lines,” Gibbs says.

This leaves the bow free of the rescue tender and davit that it would otherwise house, and this extra real estate has been put to good use. Gibbs has planted a plunge pool module here, with sunbeds and half a dozen big speakers. In the event of a sale, it can just as easily be returned to its standard use for storing a rescue boat in order to meet classification rules. “There were a lot of the standard ‘hidden’ components installed, such as crane sockets, wiring, plumbing and deck plates to make retrofit a lot easier,” says Chinery.

There are steps down to the bow, where the vast Lewmar capstans gleam like sculptures. In one of Gibbs’s final tweaks, the tip of the bow has been filled in and upholstered, with a lug for rigging a parasol. “This is one of my favourite places,” he says. “Sitting on the edge of the foredeck, out of the wind.” Here, then, is the man’s true Elysium – his paradise within a paradise.

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Quite early in our conversation over lunch, Elysium owner Ron Gibbs casually mentions that he’s negotiating over three new 50-metre yachts. We were here to discuss how much of his own vision he’d poured into the Sunseeker 131, so I’m surprised, to put it mildly, to hear that he’s already thinking about the next project. “I’m looking at hull No 2 of the Sunseeker 161 , being built by Icon ,” he explains. “Also a 52-metre Heesen and a custom Mercedes yacht.” The Sunseeker he likes because the yard already knows how he thinks, making the build process less fraught. The Heesen speaks for itself, and the Mercedes would be a custom project with Gibbs’s own Silver Arrows Marine business, which builds the striking 14-metre Arrow 460 to Mercedes-Benz styling. Elysium is on the market with Burgess for just shy of £18 million, although Gibbs intends to sail her intensively over the next few years, unless a good offer comes in. And why does he want a bigger boat? Well, I get a sense that he really enjoys the design experience, hard work as it is. But he explains it differently. “I’d get a slightly larger tender and a pool on the bow with jets to swim against,” he says. “Then I wouldn’t need to go off the boat any more.”

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40.05m  /  131'5 | sunseeker | 2018.

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• 1,500nm range
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• Sleeps 10 overnight

The 40.05m/131'5" motor yacht 'Elysium' was built by Sunseeker in the United Kingdom at their Poole, Dorset shipyard. Her interior is styled by British designer design house Sunseeker and she was delivered to her owner in June 2018. This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Sunseeker.

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Elysium has been designed to comfortably accommodate up to 10 guests in 5 suites. She is also capable of carrying up to 8 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience.

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Her features include deck jacuzzi, WiFi and air conditioning.

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Built with a GRP hull and GRP superstructure, with teak decks, she benefits from a semi-displacement hull to provide exceptional seakeeping and impressive speeds. Powered by twin diesel MTU (12V 4000 6M93) 12-cylinder 3,181hp engines, she comfortably cruises at 12 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 25 knots with a range of up to 1,500 nautical miles from her 26,700 litre fuel tanks at 10 knots. Her water tanks store around 4,950 Litres of fresh water. She was built to RINA (Registro Italiano Navale) classification society rules.

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40m Elysium was delivered in 2018 as a Sunseeker 131 model, built by Sunseeker International to RINA class standards. Expect all the high quality of a traditional Sunseeker model, with a touch of difference. Her interiors have been given a splash of warmth with quarter swan oak instead of the standard wenge. Step inside and discover the spacious areas and elegance on board.

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In keeping with her interiors, Elysium’s outdoor spaces provide guests with exceptional spaces to socialise and relax while cruising. The outdoor bar is perfect for al fresco drinks, the hot spot for sundowners after a day's adventures. The designs are elegant and offer a larger space than usual for yachts of this size. Overlooking the spa pool, guests can socialise however they prefer.

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Elysium recognises the significance of scenic views and prioritises offering its guests ample opportunities to enjoy the panoramic vistas from various locations on board. Her master suite and main salon feature floor-to-ceiling windows, allowing guests to fully immerse themselves in the surroundings. The abundance of natural light enhances the warm and open spaces, encouraging guests to seamlessly move from one room to the next.

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Sunseeker 131 Elysium [Boat Review]

June 17, 2020 4:01 pm

A personal paradise: carefully, detailed customization transformed a sunseeker 131 into an owner’s exclusive slice of heaven, finds sam fortescue..

This article originally appeared in the June 2019 edition of  Boat International Magazine , written by  Sam Fortescue

“If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you’re already dead,” says Russell Crowe’s Maximus in the 2000 blockbuster Gladiator. And so ran the thinking of Ron Gibbs when he named his Sunseeker 131 Elysium, after the Ancient Greek concept of a heavenly paradise.

And like any decent depiction of heaven, Elysium is heavily influenced by the mind of its beholder. Gibbs took Sunseeker at its word when it said its Bespoke program offered “a clean canvas” for yachts of more than 100ft – with the result Elysium is comfortably the most customized of all the 14 Sunseeker 131s delivered to date. An experienced owner, with four Sunseekers from 50ft to 115ft already behind him, Gibbs was clear from the start on the features he wanted to personalize. “I wrote the spec before I ordered the boat,” he says. “That way, the yard has everything up front and it minimizes costly change orders.”

His list of custom features was long and detailed, with a first draft extending to 120 pages. And it drilled down as far as details such as not using push-in power sockets behind the bridge console – he’s had problems in the past with plugs rattling loose, requiring major surgery to access. “Why would you use a push-in fitting on a boat that is subject to vibration?” By the end of the build, they were on version II of the document. Many of the changes boil down to just two things: Gibbs’s love of taking the wheel and his preference for a big tender. “I like driving the boat myself and I like being in the open air. I didn’t want to be in the same situation as with the Sunseeker 115, where you have to run between the sundeck and the bridge.” He specced a I ordered the boat,” he says. “That way, the yard has everything up front and it minimizes costly change orders.”

His list of custom features was long and detailed, with a first draft extending to 120 pages. And it drilled down as far as details such as not using push-in power sockets behind the bridge console – he’s had problems in the past with plugs rattling loose, requiring major surgery to access. “Why would you use a push-in fitting on a boat that is subject to vibration and movement?” he says. By the end of the build, they were on version 11 of the document.

Many of the changes boil down to just two things: Gibbs’s love of taking the wheel himself and his preference for a big tender. “I like driving the boat myself and I like being in the open air. I didn’t want to be in the same situation as with the Sunseeker 115, where you have to run between the sundeck and the bridge.” He specced a fully functional helm station up under the hardtop with an unparalleled view ahead. Literally every function on the bridge is replicated up here, from chartplotters to FLIR night-vision cameras and even the Bridge Navigational Watch Alarm System that spots when the helmsman has nodded off – a requirement of coding.

To complete his aerie up in the fresh air, Gibbs wanted to put a new companionway in to connect the main bridge and rhe sundeck helm. This, in turn, meant extending the large fiberglass hardtop, to protect the stairs. “On the 115, you got drips f om the hardtop going down the companionway,” he says. “Every morning, the guys would be out with sponges and a chamois to clean it up, then 15 minutes later the water would be back. Sunseeker made me a new mold for the hardtop and there was no extra charge for that. They could not have been more helpful.” 1 t now appears as an option for the 131.

The bigger roof needs a couple of stainless-steel pillars to support its leading edge, and that has meant reconfiguring the fo1ward sundeck area as well – all knock-on consequences. The spa pool that would usually sit here has been moved back behind the bar area. In its place, the sun pads have been extended to provide cover for raising the deck beneath, increasing headroom in the gym.

To finish the job, he had a custom mast put in forward with a bit of extra height that puts the yacht’s steaming light our of sight lines above the edge of the hardtop. “Otherwise you’re blinded by it for night sailing,” he says. The elegant sweep of the bar up here has also been enlarged to make it a really convivial space for pre-dinner drinks.

It’s November and, even here in Italy’s San Remo, there’s a chill in the air. But it doesn’t take much effort to picture the sundeck as the nerve centre of the boat. It is with a wistful last look around that I take Gibbs’s new companionway down to the atrium on the bridge deck below. It’s a functional space – attractive enough – but this rather belies the effort it took to design. “There was a lot of work in the lobby,” Gibbs recalls. “We had to move the air conditioning and technical cupboards. I think we were all worried about that, but I’m astounded with the end result.”

On the standard 131 layout, stairs come up from the main deck to give access to the bridge, the skipper’s cabin to starboard and a pantry and dayhead to port. They also lead to a large saloon aft with sofas and a bar. This page of the general arrangement has been torn to shreds. The stairs have been rerouted and the cabin turned into a gym housing bikes and cross-trainers. Meeting Gibbs, all six-foot-plus of him, it is suddenly clear why the deckhead above had to be raised.

The pantry is now a bathroom, but the most impressive change concerns the saloon, which has been transformed into the owner’s cabin with an emperor-sized bed, floor-to-ceiling windows and even a walk-through wardrobe. Interestingly, it is smaller than the designated owner’s cabin forward on the deck below, but it is a really clever move from an experienced owner. “If you’re going to do overnight cruises, do not put your master cabin in the bow,” says Gibbs. “In my configuration, it is so stable and so quiet. You also have your own private deck behind you. In the morning it’s great, too: into the gym, then straight to the shower, change…”

Despite these layout tweaks, the project manager at Sunseeker , Mark Chinery, points out that much of it is just skin deep. “Although  Elysium  does have some bespoke elements, the core of the yacht, layout of systems and engineering and structural bulkhead positions remain faithful to the original 131 design. Without this element of control, we would not be able to deliver four 131 yachts per year.”

Gibbs’s view is that you only need one interior lounging area since you spend most of the time outside. There may be another strand to his thinking, though. Uniquely,  Elysium  is run without cooking on board. Oh, it’s got a galley (complete with two ovens, a microwave, four fridges and two freezers) – you wouldn’t build a 40 metre yacht without one unless you had no thought for its resale value. But Gibbs organises life on board so that hot meals are always taken ashore – for crew and guests alike. The galley is just used for preparing occasional snacks, breakfasts, sandwiches and so on.

“Trying to get cooking smells out of a boat with curtains is very difficult. It ages a boat very quickly,” he says. “Then there’s the time it takes to get food on board and waste off. And however good your chef is, after two weeks on board, you become pretty bored with what they do.” It is too comprehensive an argument not to have been well rehearsed with other sceptics. The point is that it works for Gibbs and his family.

I open one of the ovens to confirm that the crew doesn’t occasionally sneak a cheese toastie past the boss, but it contains only the original instructions, still in plastic. “Ask most of my family what the dishwasher’s for, and they’ll say ‘To store the crisps.’” This strategy also has the benefit of freeing up the neighbouring dumb waiter area for use as a laundry room. The other big area of change is around the transom, where skipper Chris Averis leads me next. A small 4.3-metre Ribeye tender lies lengthwise on chocks in the garage, alongside two Sea-Doo personal watercraft, Seabobs, inflatable kayaks and two inflatable Nautibuoy platforms. In short: lots of toys, but not a boat capable of getting guests from the boat to dinner ashore dry and unruffled.

That’s because Gibbs had the transom of the boat re-engineered to accommodate the largest tender possible – a 6.8-metre Ribeye with a 200hp engine – out on the bathing platform, rather than under cover. “Garages are always too small even on 40-metre to 50-metre yachts – plus there’s the height restriction for deep-V hulls,” he explains. “I like to get the biggest tender possible into the water – we lower it down on a full-beam hydraulic platform. You need a decent tender to get people aboard in rough seas.” Sunseeker once again had to build a new mould and beef up the structural members of the transom to support it. “We had to redesign the bathing platform so it would take the full beam,” says Gibbs. “This required a whole new mechanism.”

The skipper estimates that he can have the tender deployed in 90 seconds. “Plus we gain an entire extra RIB.” He admits that when entering a busy port, they may choose to first remove the tender before jostling into a berth. And using a bigger tender means they had to beef up certain stanchions to support the weight of a boarding ladder. The extra weight could have been a problem, but in fact it is very nicely offset by an extra tonne and a half of chain and anchor at the bow. “She balances up nicely on her lines,” Gibbs says.

This leaves the bow free of the rescue tender and davit that it would otherwise house, and this extra real estate has been put to good use. Gibbs has planted a plunge pool module here, with sunbeds and half a dozen big speakers. In the event of a sale, it can just as easily be returned to its standard use for storing a rescue boat in order to meet classification rules. “There were a lot of the standard ‘hidden’ components installed, such as crane sockets, wiring, plumbing and deck plates to make retrofit a lot easier,” says Chinery.

There are steps down to the bow, where the vast Lewmar capstans gleam like sculptures. In one of Gibbs’s final tweaks, the tip of the bow has been filled in and upholstered, with a lug for rigging a parasol. “This is one of my favourite places,” he says. “Sitting on the edge of the foredeck, out of the wind.” Here, then, is the man’s true Elysium – his paradise within a paradise.

More… and bigger

Quite early in our conversation over lunch, Elysium owner Ron Gibbs casually mentions that he’s negotiating over three new 50-metre yachts. We were here to discuss how much of his own vision he’d poured into the Sunseeker 131, so I’m surprised, to put it mildly, to hear that he’s already thinking about the next project. “I’m looking at hull No 2 of the Sunseeker 161, being built by Icon,” he explains. “Also a 52-metre Heesen and a custom Mercedes yacht.” The Sunseeker he likes because the yard already knows how he thinks, making the build process less fraught. The Heesen speaks for itself, and the Mercedes would be a custom project with Gibbs’s own Silver Arrows Marine business, which builds the striking 14-metre Arrow 460 to Mercedes-Benz styling. Elysium is on the market with Burgess for just shy of £18 million, although Gibbs intends to sail her intensively over the next few years, unless a good offer comes in. And why does he want a bigger boat? Well, I get a sense that he really enjoys the design experience, hard work as it is. But he explains it differently. “I’d get a slightly larger tender and a pool on the bow with jets to swim against,” he says. “Then I wouldn’t need to go off the boat any more.”

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The Raised pilot house yacht Sunseeker 131 Yacht Elysium luxury interior sleeps up to 12 guests in 5 staterooms. She is also capable of carrying up to 9 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience. Timeless styling, beautiful furnishings and sumptuous seating feature throughout to create an elegant and comfortable atmosphere.

Sunseeker 131 Yacht Elysium impressive leisure and entertainment facilities make her the ideal yacht for socialising and entertaining with family and friends.

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Sunseeker 131 Yacht Elysium features a Semi-displacement GRP hull and GRP superstructure. She was built to RINA Commercial Rules & MCA LY3 classification society rules.

Sunseeker 131 Yacht Elysium is equipped with a Zero speed and underway stabilisation system which reduces roll motion effect and results in a smoother more enjoyable cruising experience underway.

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Powered by 2 x MTU 12V 4000 M93 2 x 3181 HP engines and driven by Shaft drive Raised pilot house yacht Sunseeker 131 Yacht Elysium is capable of a top speed of 25 knots, and comfortably cruises at 12 knots. With her 21650-26700 litres fuel tanks she has a maximum range of 1600 nautical miles economic cruising speed. Her water tanks carry 4950 litres of fresh water.

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Delivered in 2018, this highly customised Sunseeker 131 presents as an excellent opportunity to acquire a meticulous yacht in like new condition designed for a highly experienced yacht owner. Proof of her exceptional quality, ELYSIUM was shortlisted as a finalist in the ‘Semi-Displacement or Planing Motor Yachts – 40m and above’ category at the 2019 World Superyacht Awards. Significantly customised by the owner, ELYSIUM boasts some unique features, including a wet bar on the upper deck and a custom second plunge pool located forward of the wheelhouse. A large aft deck has al fresco dining amenities and comfortable sun pads. ELYSIUM boasts an interior in upgraded ‘Quarter Sawn Oak’ in lieu of the standard ‘Wenge’. Floor-to-ceiling windows in the main saloon allow for a true connection to the outside world with a bright, naturally illuminated interior and there is a state of the art entertainment centre featuring a 55 inch Samsung television screen and a Bose Lifestyle stereo surround sound system. A custom gym is located on the upper deck.

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• Rare opportunity to purchase a yacht in like new condition built to the highest of standards from an experienced repeated SUNSEEKER owner
• Under original ownership and one of the most custom-built SUNSEEKER yachts launched to this day
• Finalist in the 'Semi-displacement or planing motor yachts - 40M and above' category at the 2019 world superyacht awards
• Excellent deck spaces and unique features including jaccuzi, a second plunge pool, full beam owner suite with private deck and gym
• Full beam hydraulic platform capable of lifting a 7 meter tender of up to 1,500KG
• Additional helm station located on the sun deck
• The galley has never been used and is in brand new condition
• The yacht has the benefit of an MTU warranty on the engines until may 2023

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