AURA I is a 24.6 metre Sanlorenzo SL78, an Italian flybridge motor yacht delivered in 2022 by a yard whose name has become a byword for quiet, considered design. The SL line is Sanlorenzo’s sporting flybridge range, a quick planing hull dressed in clean, timeless lines, and she pairs that pace with a warm, modern interior by Officina Italiana Design and a generous flybridge. For a couple or a family who want to cover ground between the islands and still anchor somewhere quiet by early afternoon, with eight guests across four cabins, she is a well judged and good looking size.
Her point of difference is the balance she strikes. She is quick enough to treat a long run between anchorages as a short one, yet she carries the space, the shade and the calm of a larger yacht, so a week aboard never feels rushed or cramped. The flybridge gives a second full deck for the day, the main deck opens wide to the sea, and the whole boat is arranged so that guests can drift easily between sun and shelter through a hot Mediterranean afternoon.
She is built to move. A quick planing hull lets her cruise comfortably in the low twenties and reach close to thirty when asked, yet she stays level and quiet enough for the group to talk on the flybridge underway. That turn of speed is the point of her: a swim before lunch in one bay and dinner in the next becomes an easy plan rather than a long day at sea, so a single week can take in far more of the coast without ever feeling hurried.
Inside, the mood is warm and current. The main salon carries a long sofa under wide windows that keep the sea close on both sides, and glass doors aft open the living space straight out to the cockpit at anchor. A dining table sits forward on the same open level, and a sideboard and bar run along the salon for the quiet end of the evening. The finish throughout is warm timber and pale upholstery, the calm, tailored hand for which the yard and its designers are known.
Accommodation is for eight guests across four cabins, all with their own bathrooms. The full beam master sits low in the hull with long windows at the waterline, the VIP takes a comfortable double under a pair of windows, and two twin cabins complete the layout with single berths for children or friends sharing. The mix suits a family travelling together as easily as two or three couples, with the master and VIP giving the two lead cabins real space of their own.
Her home water is the Balearics, and she is well matched to it. From the calas and clear water of Mallorca across to Menorca and the anchorages of Ibiza and Formentera, the islands sit close together, the water is a clean turquoise and the harbours come alive after dark, while her speed makes the crossings easy. She carries a generous spread of water toys, launched off the stern the moment the anchor is down, and with her large flybridge, her warm Italian interior and a genuine turn of pace, AURA I offers a stylish and easy way to cruise one of the finest grounds in the western Mediterranean.
