SATORI is a 32.95 metre wooden motor yacht, hand built by Cantieri Navali Santa Margherita Ligure in 2002 and comprehensively refitted in 2023. In an age of white glass and gloss, she is a genuine classic, a timber hull drawn by the naval architect Aldo Chichero and finished with the kind of craftsmanship that newer yachts rarely attempt. She carries twelve guests across five cabins and is run by a crew of six.
Her character shows first in the way she sits in the water. A wooden displacement hull gives her a solid, reassuring presence at anchor and a quiet motion underway, and yet she is quick for a classic, holding a fast cruise and lifting toward twenty six knots when the day asks for it. That combination of old world build and genuine pace is unusual, and it widens the cruising she can realistically cover in a week.
The interior is where her provenance comes alive. Polished timber runs through the main salon and the formal dining area, warm and hand finished, with a softer lounge corner for quieter evenings. The 2023 refit refreshed the upholstery and the systems without stripping away the warmth, so she reads as a cared for classic rather than a tired one. Much of the joinery and detailing is original to a yard that built hulls the traditional way.
The accommodation sleeps twelve across five cabins, with the master set on the main deck, a step from the salon and close to the light and the view. The guest cabins carry one of SATORI’s most distinctive touches: hand painted chart and celestial ceilings, a detail that turns each room into something particular rather than a repeat of the one next door. Each cabin has its own ensuite, and the layout keeps crew movement discreet.
Life aboard moves between the decks. A shaded aft deck seats the full party for long lunches a step from the sea, the flybridge gathers sun lounging and open views over the anchorage, and the foredeck gives a quieter space forward. The broad swim platform and a locker of water toys turn every stop into an afternoon on the water.
SATORI cruises Greece, from the Ionian across to the Cyclades and the wider East Mediterranean, with the Sporades and the quieter eastern islands within comfortable reach. Her pace and her draft suit a cruising ground where the pleasure lies in the long lunch, the empty bay and the slow approach to a harbour town at dusk, and her classic profile draws a second look in every port she enters.
For a charter party drawn to craftsmanship, character and a yacht with a real story, SATORI offers something the modern fleet cannot: a hand built wooden classic, recently refreshed, with the pace to keep a full itinerary and the warmth to make the week feel personal. She rewards guests who value provenance and detail, and a crew who know how to show a classic at her best.
There is a quiet confidence to chartering a yacht like this. SATORI does not compete with the newest hulls on volume or gadgetry, and she does not need to. Her appeal is the grain of real wood underfoot, a painted ceiling above the bed, and a profile that belongs to a older and more considered era of yacht building, carried into the present by a careful refit.
