DALIA is a twenty-three metre Dominator, an Italian motor yacht that carries her pedigree lightly. She blends the clean, low profile of a modern flybridge yacht with interiors that feel considered rather than flashy, and at her size she hits a useful sweet spot: big enough for eight guests to travel in real comfort, small enough to slip into the harbours and hidden bays that define a Croatian cruise. A 2020 refit kept her fresh, and she wears her Italian design with the kind of quiet confidence that does not need to announce itself.
She sleeps eight across four cabins, three doubles and a twin, each with its own bathroom. The interior is contemporary and warm, finished in dark timber, mirrored surfaces and soft ambient lighting that gives the cabins a calm, hotel-like feel after a day in the sun. A full-beam master takes the best of the volume, while the guest cabins are bright and private, each designed around comfort for a longer stay rather than a single night aboard.
Life happens across her decks. The foredeck carries a spa pool set among sun pads, a private lounge forward with the best view at anchor, and it is the natural place to watch the coast slide by on passage. Aft, a shaded deck works as an open-air saloon for dining and lounging, a step from the salon and the sea. The flybridge adds another full social deck with seating and sun, and a swim platform drops straight to the water for the toys. The whole yacht is built around that easy movement between shade, sun and sea.
Inside, the main salon runs open plan, a comfortable lounge flowing through to a formal dining area against large windows, with the lower helm forward. Original touches and warm materials lift it above the ordinary, and it stays cool and quiet as a retreat on hot afternoons or a gathering point on cooler evenings. The aft deck takes over the moment the sun is out, and the two spaces work together across the day.
Her hull gives her a lively, capable manner along the coast. She is happy at a relaxed cruising pace between the islands, stable underway, and she has the legs to move on when the group wants a change of scene rather than sitting in one bay all week. Croatia rewards a yacht like this, with short, sheltered hops between Split, Hvar, Vis and the scattered Kornati islands, so mornings can start with a swim at anchor and end with dinner in a stone harbour town.
Service is personal and unforced. A crew of three runs the cooking, the deck and the water sports, and the galley is set up for the easy, generous cooking a family charter asks for. The seabob, water skis, towable toys and snorkelling gear come out through the day, and the tender keeps the coastline within reach for a run ashore in the evening, so the days shape themselves around the group rather than a fixed programme.
DALIA suits families and small groups who want a genuine, well-kept motor yacht for the Adriatic: comfortable ensuite cabins, a foredeck spa pool, a real flybridge and Italian design that has aged well. She is roomy, capable and quietly elegant, a dependable base for a slow, sun-filled week along the Croatian coast.
