FRIEND’S BOAT is a Custom Line 97 from the Ferretti Group, a 26.2 metre flybridge motor yacht built in 2008 and given a thorough refit in 2025. She is a proper three-deck cruiser at a size that still fits into the small harbours and hidden bays of the Croatian coast, which is exactly where she spends her summers. The recent refit has kept her interiors current while her generous volume and classic Custom Line proportions do the rest.
She accommodates eight guests across four cabins: a full-beam master, a double, a further double and a twin, each with its own bathroom. The cabins are warm and traditional in the best sense, wrapped in pale oak with soft neutral fabrics and long hull windows that keep them bright. Below deck she feels solid and calm, a yacht built for comfortable passages and long lazy days rather than for show.
Life aboard happens outside. The Adriatic is made for it, and FRIEND’S BOAT answers with a large shaded aft deck that works as an open-air saloon for dining and lounging, a flybridge for sun and sundowners, and an aft-deck spa pool for cooling off between swims. The hydraulic swim platform brings the sea to the transom, and the tender and toys, paddleboards, a kayak, a seabob and snorkelling gear, are always ready for the next cove. A crew of four looks after the cooking, the deck and the water sports.
Her semi-displacement hull gives her an easy, relaxed cruising manner. She is happy at a gentle pace between the islands off Split and the Kornati, stable and quiet underway, with the range and sea manners to move on when the group wants a change of scene. This is not a yacht chasing speed. It is a yacht built to arrive comfortably and then stay a while.
Inside, the main salon is a bright, sociable room in pale timber, with a lounge aft and forward seating that catches the light through wide windows. It is the natural gathering point on cooler evenings, while the shaded aft deck takes over the moment the sun is out. The whole yacht is designed around that easy movement between inside and out that defines a good Mediterranean charter.
The Croatian coast rewards a yacht like this. Split, Hvar, Vis and the scattered Kornati islands sit within short, sheltered hops, so mornings can start with a swim at anchor and end with dinner in a stone harbour town. FRIEND’S BOAT is comfortable enough to make those days feel unhurried, with a stable hull, quiet air conditioning throughout and shaded space for everyone whether the group wants sun, shade or a cool cabin in the middle of the afternoon.
FRIEND’S BOAT suits families and groups who want a genuine motor yacht for the Croatian islands: comfortable cabins, plenty of shaded deck, a spa pool and swim platform for the water, and a recent refit that keeps everything fresh. She is roomy, well kept and quietly capable, a dependable base for a slow, sun-filled week along one of the Mediterranean’s most beautiful coastlines.
