CARMEN is a 37 metre explorer delivered in 2025, designed and built by Riza Tansu at Aegean Yachts, and she wears her purpose plainly. The exterior is angular and military in feel, a steel hull and aluminium superstructure shaped for range rather than show, with a profile that reads more expedition ship than production flybridge. She carries the tanks and the systems to cover 3,500 nautical miles at an economical pace, which is what separates a real explorer from a yacht that only looks the part. This is a boat built to go somewhere and stay there.
The contrast is inside. Behind that hard exterior the interior is warm and relaxed, closer to a beach house than a superyacht salon, with low soft seating, pale rugs, timber and framed photography carried through the guest spaces. Ten guests sleep in five cabins, the owner in a full beam suite with the sea sitting just past the glass, and the remaining doubles and a twin finished to the same calm standard. A crew of seven runs her, and the volume of a 272 ton explorer means the service spaces never crowd the guest areas.
The main deck living space is built for time spent together rather than on display. The salon gathers around low sofas on a soft rug with glass down both sides, the coast and the light coming straight in, and a separate dining area sits forward with a banquette and warm accent tones under large side windows. A quieter second seating area gives the group a corner to break away to, and the flow between the inside rooms and the shaded aft deck is easy, so the yacht opens up when she is at anchor.
Outside is where an explorer earns her keep, and CARMEN layers her deck space well. The aft deck carries deep sofas under the overhang, shaded and close to the water, while the upper deck opens out with a shaded dining table and casual lounge seating and a long view over the coastline. A swim platform aft drops guests to sea level with the tenders and toys close by, the natural base for a day spent swimming, diving and running the watersports gear rather than sitting in the sun.
Her range and her sea keeping open up a wider map than most charter yachts of her size can reach comfortably. She is at home working her way down the Adriatic from Croatia into Montenegro, crossing to the Greek islands, or tracing the Italian coast, and she has the legs to reach the quieter anchorages the fleet tends to skip. For a group that wants to keep moving and explore rather than circle the same few bays, that reach is the whole argument for a yacht like this one.
What makes CARMEN worth a look is the combination. Genuine long range capability is rare in a 37 metre charter yacht, and rarer still paired with an interior this warm and this easy to live in. She is a current 2025 delivery with the systems, the finish and the crew a recent build brings, and she offers a charter that can be as active or as calm as the group wants, from a full day in the water off the beach club to a long, quiet passage to the next island.
