Perseverance looks like a pilot cutter and behaves like a modern superyacht, which is exactly the brief. Dykstra Naval Architects drew a 117 foot sloop with a straight stem, bowsprit, counter stern and deep bulwarks, then set a tall bermudan rig above it and had the whole thing built in advanced composite.
What sits underneath the traditional profile is the interesting part. Electric propulsion runs from a lithium-ion battery bank, so she can move in silence for long stretches, and hydrogeneration puts charge back while she sails. Smart cabins cut power draw automatically when nobody is in them. Waste heat from the air conditioning goes into the hot water. None of this is visible from the dock, which is rather the point of the exercise.
Accommodation is arranged around an owner suite forward with three double guest cabins, and crew quarters for six aft. deVosdeVries design handled the interior in grey white stained oak, with dark maple soles, bog oak trim and what the studio calls industrial chic hardware. Horizontal shadow gaps in the white upper bulkheads pull the eye outward and make the volume read larger than it measures.
A lifting keel takes draft from six metres to four. There is a side boarding platform, an adjustable solid bimini and a 5.2 metre tender. She was built to DNV GL unlimited worldwide charter code and delivered in 2021.
