Very few twenty-five-year-old yachts read as contemporary. NOEMA does, and the reason is a rebuild rather than a refresh. Cantieri di Pisa launched her in 2000 as an Akhir; the 2020-21 programme took her back to the steel and extended the main deck by two and a half metres, adding a 55-square-metre hardtop sea deck aft that the original design never had. What came out is closer to the yard’s later 110 model than to the hull she started as.
The visual result is unusual and worth pointing out. Her hull is finished in a dark bronze-grey rather than white, with a fine gold sheerline and a black glass superstructure raked hard aft. At anchor she looks like a yacht drawn in the last five years. Under way she still moves like a Cantieri di Pisa: 24 knots flat out from twin MTUs, 19 in a hurry, which on a Greek itinerary is the difference between two islands in a day and one.
Donald Starkey shaped the interior and worked to a restrained palette – smoked oak, pale linen, brushed steel, and a single recurring note of soft yellow across the cushions. The main deck runs as one long volume, saloon aft flowing forward into the dining table without a bulkhead between them, so twelve guests can eat and then move eight feet to the sofas without leaving the room. It is a layout that suits large groups and reads generously for a 33-metre hull.
Accommodation is her strongest practical argument. Twelve guests in five en-suite cabins is a high count at this length, and the distribution avoids the usual compromise: the VIP sits on the main deck with its own walk-in wardrobe, so the second couple aboard is not sent below. Lower down, a full-beam master and two further doubles are joined by two twins that suit children or a sixth and seventh pair of guests. Bathrooms are finished in dark stone with wide vessel basins and walk-in showers rather than the tub-and-curtain arrangements common to her build year.
The rebuild is most obvious outside. The new sea deck aft carries a long table under the hardtop with the sea on three sides, and its electric retractable cover means the space works in August heat and in a September breeze equally well. Forward and above, the sundeck holds a jacuzzi, a second dining table and a lounge, and the beach club at water level opens directly onto the swim platform where the toys live. Zero-speed stabilisers hold her steady at anchor, which on a yacht that spends its charter weeks in the Cyclades matters more than the top-speed figure.
The toy list is built for a family week rather than a photograph: an AB jet tender, a two-seat Sea-Doo, a Radinn jet surfboard, SeaBob F5S units, inflatable paddleboards, two sets of water skis sized for adults and for children, towables, and snorkelling and fishing gear. Six permanent crew run her, and the yard’s own charter record suggests they stay – a detail that separates a well-run programme from a well-photographed one.
