The Sunreef 40M Explorer is a stunning example of maritime engineering, designed to redefine your seafaring experience. This extraordinary solar catamaran is crafted to cater to the needs of intrepid explorers who seek luxury and adventure on the open seas. With a length of 40 meters, the Sunreef 40M Explorer combines robust design with opulent interiors, setting new standards in the explorer yacht category. Its spacious layout allows for multiple customizations, ensuring that each journey is as unique as its owner. The yacht features expansive deck spaces, including a flybridge with panoramic views, a luxurious main deck saloon, and a fully equipped kitchen. The accommodation is designed to provide the utmost comfort, hosting up to 10 guests across 5 luxurious cabins. The Sunreef 40M Explorer is powered by twin engines, ensuring a smooth and efficient journey with a cruising speed of 10 knots and a maximum speed of 14 knots. The yacht’s solar panels makes it ideal for long-distance voyages without frequent refueling stops. Built with a steel hull and aluminum superstructure, the Sunreef 40M Explorer boasts durability and stability, even in challenging sea conditions. The yacht’s design team, led by Sunreef’s in-house experts, has meticulously crafted every detail, from the naval architecture to the interior design. This vessel is not just a means of transportation but a luxurious sanctuary at sea, offering an unparalleled level of comfort and style. Whether you’re navigating calm waters or exploring remote coastlines, the Sunreef 40M Explorer ensures every journey is an unforgettable adventure.
Length
40M
Beam
11.2M
Draft
2.4M
Volume
295GT
Day Guests
20
Sleeping
10
Cabin
5
Crew
7
Cruise Speed
10KT
Max Speed
14KT
Fuel
25000L
Engine
2x 540 kW
Naval
Sunreef Yachts Design Team
Exterior
Sunreef Yachts Design Team
Interior
Sunreef Yachts Design Team
New Starting From
€17,000,000
High Price Brokerage
€16,000,000
Low Price Brokerage
€14,000,000
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Life aboard the 40M Explorer is built around self sufficiency, not spectacle.
A steel hull and aluminium superstructure, a construction choice distinct from the composite builds common elsewhere in the Sunreef range, give her the strength expedition cruising demands, while solar panels across the upper decks cut the yacht’s reliance on frequent refuelling. Twin 540kW engines deliver a cruising speed of 10 knots and a maximum of 14, figures set for efficient distance covering rather than sprinting between anchorages. A 2.4 metre draught keeps shallow anchorages and less charted coastlines within reach, fitting for a yacht carrying the Explorer name, and 25,000 litres of fuel round out a specification built to stay out for longer than most yachts her size would consider comfortable.
She looks built for a purpose, because she is.
The flybridge offers panoramic views across three decks of living space, positioned to keep watch over open water rather than a marina, and the aluminium superstructure keeps weight high on the yacht low, a genuine advantage for stability on longer, more exposed passages. Deck space favours function: generous side decks, secure handholds and sightlines built for navigation rather than display. Sunreef’s in-house design team has drawn a profile that reads as capable first and handsome second, a deliberate ordering for a yacht whose brief is distance and resilience rather than marina presence.
Ten guests, five cabins, and a layout built to feel settled on a long passage, not just at anchor.
The main deck saloon anchors the accommodation, with a fully equipped galley close enough to serve both the saloon and the aft deck without friction. Five cabins host up to ten guests, with seven crew accommodated separately to keep a working vessel properly staffed on extended trips. Interior finishes are the work of Sunreef’s own design team, consistent with the rest of the range, but the detailing throughout favours durability and ease of upkeep over anything purely decorative, in keeping with a yacht built to spend real time away from a shipyard’s reach.
Three decks of living space give the 40M Explorer room most 40 metre yachts cannot claim.
The layout spreads guest and crew areas across the main deck, flybridge and lower deck without compressing any of them, a benefit of the catamaran’s wide 11.2 metre beam. Day capacity reaches twenty guests, double the ten who sleep aboard, making her equally capable as a long range cruiser for a small group or an entertaining platform when at anchor near other yachts. Circulation between indoor and outdoor space is direct, with the aft deck, flybridge and saloon connected by short, uncomplicated runs rather than enclosed corridors.
Solar panels and a steel hull put the Explorer name to practical use.
Twin 540kW engines form the standard propulsion, driving the 40M Explorer to a cruising speed of 10 knots and a maximum of 14, modest figures chosen deliberately in favour of range and efficiency over speed. Solar panels fitted across the upper decks supplement the yacht’s power needs, extending time between refuelling stops on longer voyages, while the steel hull and aluminium superstructure, a construction choice overseen by Sunreef’s Engineering Department that departs from the composite builds used elsewhere in the range, is built specifically for the loads and abrasion of expedition style cruising. Twenty five thousand litres of fuel capacity round out a specification built around self sufficiency rather than outright performance.
Length
40M
Beam
11.2M
Draft
2.4M
Guests
10
Cabins
5
Cruise Speed
10Kt
Max Speed
14Kt
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