ALEIN is a Sanlorenzo built for pace as much as poise. Where many yachts of her size settle for a relaxed cruise, this 29-metre planing motor yacht will lift onto the plane and run at close to thirty knots, turning a long passage between Greek islands into an afternoon rather than a day. A full 2024 refit has brought her interior and systems up to date, so the speed now comes wrapped in a thoroughly current yacht.
The appeal starts on the water. ALEIN carries her social life outside, across a sequence of open decks that each frame the sea differently. The flybridge is the high seat of the yacht, a place for the run between anchorages and for sundowners once the hook is down. The aft deck curves around a generous sofa, shaded and open to the water on three sides. Forward, sun pads stretch across the foredeck for the quiet hours. A sundeck dining table sits under the sky, set against whichever island the crew has chosen for lunch.
Inside, the mood shifts from bright to intimate. The main deck holds a dining area and a separate salon lounge, finished after the refit in a calm, contemporary palette of pale surfaces and deep blue accents. Light pours through large windows on both sides, and the spaces flow into one another without feeling exposed. It is a main deck designed for the way charter guests actually move, between a long lunch, an easy afternoon and a slow evening, without ever feeling they are in each other’s way.
Below, ALEIN sleeps nine across four cabins. The master is the largest of them, with its own run of windows and a marble bathroom, while the guest cabins are bright, private and finished to the same standard. A crew of five looks after the yacht and her guests with the ease that a well-run Sanlorenzo makes look simple.
Her natural waters are Greek. ALEIN knows the Ionian and the Dodecanese, the approaches to Corfu, Rhodes and Kos, and the quiet bays that sit between the names everyone recognises. Her speed is the quiet advantage here: a fast yacht in an island-rich cruising ground covers more in a week, which means more coves, more tavernas reached by sea and more time at anchor rather than under way.
There is practicality behind the polish, too. The 2024 refit touched the spaces guests notice and the systems they do not, from refreshed finishes to updated comfort on board, so nothing about ALEIN feels tied to her build year. She reads as current, and she runs as if she were new.
ALEIN is, in the end, a yacht of useful contradictions. She is quick but comfortable, social but private, Italian in her design yet entirely at home in the Greek light. For a charter party that wants the reach of a fast motor yacht and the finish of a recently refreshed Sanlorenzo, without stepping up to a larger and less nimble vessel, she is a sharp and rewarding choice.
