Speed is the point of a Heesen 4400, and TALIA makes the case plainly. Forty-four metres of aluminium, semi-displacement below the waterline, cruising at nineteen knots: the practical effect is that a Cycladic island-hop stops feeling like a passage and starts feeling like a short drive. Breakfast off Mykonos, anchor down at Paros before lunch. Few yachts of this size and comfort move this easily.
A comprehensive refit completed in 2025 has left her effectively new. Interiors have been reworked, the entertainment and communications systems replaced with current-generation equipment, and the toy inventory bought this decade rather than last – a 39-foot Ribco Venom chase boat on twin 400hp outboards, two Yamaha WaveRunners, a pair of Seabob F9S, an Awake Ravik 3 electric board and a Flite foil among them. Two more Seabobs, paddleboards, wakeboards, a monoski, towable toys and an inflatable platform for the jet skis fill out the rest, with a Castoldi 21ft jet tender for the shorter runs ashore. A crew of ten runs all of it.
Her exterior is the work of Omega Architects and it shows in the proportions: a dark hull carried low and long, superstructure pulled aft, no wasted mass. The sundeck is the yacht’s social centre – a circular jacuzzi set into the teak, deep sunpads either side, a bar under the hardtop and shade where you want it. Forward on the same level a second seating group catches the breeze at anchor. Aft, shaded lounges step down deck by deck toward the swim platform and the toys.
Inside, the mood softens. Light oak underfoot, pale upholstery, warm teak joinery, and a band of glazing that keeps the salon bright without exposing it. The main salon runs to a long sofa and a low table, then opens forward to a formal dining table in a darker, quieter register. Up on the bridge deck the sky lounge is the room guests actually settle in: a bar, a large screen, curved glass on three sides and a door straight out to the deck.
Six cabins sleep twelve. The master sits forward on the main deck with a private study attached – an unusual and genuinely useful piece of layout at this length, giving the principal somewhere to work that is not the bedroom. A second double occupies the upper deck, wrapped in the angled window band of the superstructure and quieter than anything below. Four further cabins on the lower deck take the remaining guests as doubles and twins, each with its own bathroom in marble and teak.
She works the Mediterranean year-round and knows the eastern end of it well – Greece, Turkey and the Croatian coast through the summer, the western basin when the season shifts. A draft of 2.5 metres opens up anchorages that deeper yachts read about and pass by.
What TALIA offers is a specific proposition executed to a current standard: a fast, well-proportioned, properly crewed motor yacht that has just had a great deal of money spent on her, chartering at a rate that reflects her 2007 delivery rather than her 2025 condition. For charterers who would rather cover ground than sit still, that is a straightforward argument.
