Some yachts are built to be looked at. BEACHFRONT is built to be used.
She is a 32.92-metre Hargrave, delivered in 2006 and taken through a substantial
refit in 2022, and she has spent her working life doing exactly what her name
suggests: running shallow, warm, island water where the day is organised around
what happens off the back of the boat. The Exumas in summer, the Caribbean in
winter. She reads as a proper, unhurried motor yacht – a long white sheer, a
deep covered aft deck, and none of the visual noise that dates a hull.
What sets her apart sits on the sun deck. Alongside the spa and the shaded
lounge is a full-height inflatable slide that deploys over the side and drops
guests straight into the sea, and it changes the character of a charter day
completely. Below it, the swim platform stages a 32ft Intrepid chase tender,
seabobs, e-foils and Sea-Doos. This is a yacht that treats the water as the
destination rather than the view.
Inside, she is warm and conventional in the best sense. The main deck runs as a
single open volume: a pale sectional and low tables aft, the dining table set
forward against the windows, and cherry joinery carrying the whole length. It is
a room that works for ten people without feeling crowded, and the light through
the wraparound glazing does most of the decorating.
Forward of it, and unusually for a yacht of this size, the galley is a genuine
room – a full island in marble, professional refrigeration, and its own crew
banquette. It means the service side of a charter runs on its own circuit
instead of cutting through the saloon, and guests feel the difference without
ever quite identifying why.
Accommodation is five cabins for ten guests. The master takes the full beam
below, quietly finished in cherry and cream with a marble en suite. A VIP queen
sits forward under a curved headboard, and there is a bunk stateroom aboard –
the detail that makes her genuinely straightforward for families rather than
theoretically suitable for them. Two further queens and their en suites complete
the layout, all with the same joinery and the same soft blue palette.
Five crew run her. Stabilisers work underway, Starlink keeps the connection
live, and the covered aft deck gives a shaded outdoor dining space that stays
usable through the middle of the day.
She is not a new yacht and she does not pretend to be. What she offers is a
well-sorted, thoroughly refitted platform with a serious toy inventory, a layout
that suits families, and a crew who know the Bahamas well. For a charter built
around swimming, diving and moving between sandbars, that is a more useful
proposition than another metre of length.
Her cruising pattern is worth understanding before booking. Summers run the
Exuma chain, where the water is shallow enough that a yacht drawing under two
metres can anchor where deeper boats cannot, and the itinerary becomes a string
of sandbars, blue holes and cays reached in twenty-minute hops. Winters move her
south into the Caribbean. Both grounds suit the way she is equipped: short
passages, long anchorages, and a tender that does the real travelling.
The 2022 refit was not cosmetic. Fabrics, finishes and systems were all
addressed, and the result is a yacht whose 2006 build date tells you very little
about what you actually step aboard. The joinery has been kept, the soft goods
replaced, and the technology brought current – Starlink included, which matters
more in the Bahamas than almost anywhere else on a charter map.
Available from $64,900 per week.
