My Eden was built for one sea in particular, and it shows in every decision the yard made.
Golden Yachts delivered her in 2017 from Athens, and she draws 2.3 metres. That number is the design brief. The Aegean is a cruising ground of shallow sand bays, small harbours and island channels where a metre of draft decides whether you anchor in the bay or off it, and a 45-metre yacht that can sit in 2.3 metres of water has access that most of her size class does not. She takes twelve guests into Cycladic anchorages that a deeper hull has to watch from outside, and into Ionian and Adriatic harbours where berthing rather than tendering is the difference between a good day and a long one.
Her exterior follows from that. She is wide and low rather than tall, with three decks and a long window line that gives the main deck the feel of a glass pavilion. The superstructure is white with dark glazing; the effect at anchor is light, and from inside it means the sea is always present. Nothing is fussy. A 2026 refit took her through inside and out, so the finishes are current rather than nine years old.
The main deck is where she spends her volume. Full-height glass runs both sides of a saloon that opens through to a dining area at one end and a lounge at the other, all on one level, all sharing the same view. It is a single continuous space rather than a sequence of rooms, and on a family charter that is the right call — children and adults occupy the same deck without either group being sent away. Behind the dining table, a staircase in dark stone and bronze rises through the yacht, set against textured gold-toned panels.
Forward on the same level, a cinema lounge sits behind a deep red sofa, with a screen and dark walls — the one room on board built to be closed off. Above, the upper deck carries a bar in pale timber with stools facing the water, and beyond it shaded dining and a lounge that runs to the stern.
The sundeck is given over to a jacuzzi set into teak with the islands on three sides, sunpads either side and a canopy over the seating aft. At the transom, the aft section drops to a bathing platform, with the tenders brought alongside and jet skis, paddleboards and an inflatable put in the water rather than left racked.
Accommodation is six cabins for twelve guests. The master takes the forward main deck with windows on three sides; a VIP sits below, with two doubles and two convertible double-twins alongside. The finishes run to pale timber, textured stone panels and large-format photographic art — warmer than the exterior suggests. Eleven crew serve the yacht.
She cruises at 10 knots and tops out at 12. That is unhurried, and correct for the work she does: the distances between Greek islands are short, and the point of a yacht like this is where she can stop rather than how fast she gets there. My Eden charters Greece, the Adriatic and the wider eastern Mediterranean.
