Surina was built in Tampa in 2000, and she is one of the few American-built superyachts of her generation still working the Caribbean charter market at this level. Two major refits, in 2020 and 2022, took her back to bare metal for a full repaint and added at-anchor stabilisers, which is the upgrade that matters most on a yacht of this vintage. She rides quietly now, and she looks a decade younger than she is.
What distinguishes her is not a single headline feature but the way she is set up for people who actually want to be in the water. There is a dive instructor in the crew of eight and full scuba provision for certified divers, which very few yachts in this size band carry as standard rather than as a bolt-on. A 42-foot Intrepid centre console with three 400-horsepower outboards is towed as a chase boat, deliberately left unrigged for fishing so it can be used all day for diving, exploring and getting a group ashore quickly. A second ZAR tender and two three-person Yamaha waverunners cover everything else.
The floating beach club is the other reason repeat guests come back. A nine-metre by seven-and-a-half-metre inflatable platform with an enclosed swimming pool deploys off the stern and turns an anchorage into a private island for the day, with a Lift eFoil, two Seabobs, four inflatable paddleboards, two kayaks, water skis and wakeboards staged off it.
Inside, she is warm rather than fashionable, and that is a deliberate choice. Honey-toned cherry joinery runs throughout, offset by soft neutrals and navy, with contemporary art hung with real intent: a large colour portrait of a woman crowned in fruit and flowers presiding over the formal dining table, a yellow face in the skylounge. The main salon sits aft on the main deck with sofas on three sides and windows to the waterline. Forward of it, the formal dining salon seats ten under a coffered ceiling. Up a curved staircase, the skylounge has its own bar, a curved settee and a second dining table by the windows, and it opens aft onto a shaded deck.
The count of dining areas is four, which sounds like brochure arithmetic until you charter her: formal dining forward, main salon aft, the main deck aft under the overhang, and the skylounge deck. A group of ten never eats in the same place twice.
Accommodation is five en-suite cabins, all on the lower deck for comfort underway, and the primary runs the full width of the hull with a writing desk, generous hanging space and a marble bathroom. Two further doubles sit either side, mirrored, each with oval ports at eye level from the bed, and two twins complete the layout.
On deck she is properly equipped for long days at anchor: a jacuzzi forward on the sundeck with a table and stools alongside, a full bar and grill under the awning aft of it, and Starlink throughout for guests who cannot quite switch off. She cruises the Caribbean summer and winter, which means she is available year-round in the same waters, with crew who know the anchorages properly.
