Some yachts are built to impress from the dock. JUBILEE is built for the fortnight after you board.
Pendennis delivered her in 1999 to a Dubois Naval Architects exterior, and the Cornish yard’s habit of building for owners who actually use their yachts shows everywhere. She carries 12 guests across seven cabins with a crew of 13 – a ratio that reads as generous until you see how much of her she asks that crew to run. A 2026 refit brought new soft furnishings throughout and left her interior clean, bright and current rather than reworked into something she is not.
Her defining feature is also her least photogenic: an elevator that serves every deck. On a 46-metre yacht that is unusual, and it changes how a charter feels. Grandparents move between the beach club and the sun deck without negotiating stairs. Children come up from the water without tracking through the saloon. The layout stops being a sequence of levels and becomes one connected space.
The main deck runs as a single open volume, saloon flowing forward into a dining table that seats twelve under a soft cove light, with deep blue carpet and pale joinery holding it together. It is a room designed for a full boat rather than a formal one. Above it, the skylounge is the yacht’s quieter room – an oval games table at one end, a library and bar wall at the other, and low sofas facing the sea. Forward of that sits a properly equipped gym, cardio and free weights against a run of windows, with an onboard masseuse to follow.
Outside, the aft deck is shaded and furnished for long lunches and longer afternoons. The sun deck carries a spa set into teak steps, a shaded dining table down its length and sunbathing space both forward and aft. Nothing is squeezed.
Then there is the water. JUBILEE runs two chase boats – a 56′ Riva for the Mediterranean season and a 56′ HCB, rigged to fish, for the Caribbean – and behind them an inventory that borders on excessive in the best way: four jet skis, two Seabobs, three dive scooters, an e-foil, a jet surf, kayaks, paddleboards, wakeboards and water skis. The inflatable park alone carries a jet-ski dock, a swimming pool with a jelly net, a mega lounger and a slide. Families with teenagers rarely need to look for something to do.
Accommodation is arranged for real groups rather than a brochure. The master takes wide windows and a calm neutral palette; guest doubles carry warm orange accents and original artwork; twins and a Pullman cabin absorb children and staff without anyone feeling relegated. Seven cabins across five doubles, a triple and a single is a rare configuration at this length.
She cruises at 11 knots, tops out at 13, and holds stabilisers at anchor and underway. Summers run the West Mediterranean; winters she is based out of Fort Lauderdale. Her crew are family-oriented by reputation and by design, and that – more than any specification – is what a fortnight aboard JUBILEE actually turns on.
