The Sunseeker 34 Metre has aged better than most of its generation, and Arago
makes the case. A 2009 hull given a comprehensive refit in 2024, she runs the
Croatian and Montenegrin coast for ten guests at a weekly rate that sits well
below what a comparable 34-metre commands, and she does it without the tired
interior that usually explains the number.
Her defining space is the main-deck master. Sunseeker put it forward on the main
deck rather than below, full beam, with a king berth angled to the windows, a
walk-in wardrobe and a seating area. The en-suite is the part that surprises: a
jacuzzi bath set under a hull window, twin vanities, and a separate steam shower
room alongside. On a 34-metre yacht, a private steam room is not a feature you
expect to find, and it makes the master feel like a deck of its own rather than
the best cabin on a shared level.
The rest of the accommodation runs below: two VIP doubles with queen berths, his
and hers basins and showers with seating, plus two twins, all en-suite, all in
the warm figured walnut that runs through the yacht. Ten guests, five cabins, six
crew. The joinery is the giveaway on refit quality, book-matched, tight, and
without the lifting veneer that betrays a boat run hard for fifteen years.
The main saloon sits aft on the main deck, opening through sliding doors to the
covered aft deck. Two white sectionals face each other across twin glass-and-
chrome games tables, one inlaid for chess, the other for backgammon, and a
television drops at the forward bulkhead. Forward of it, a dining area seats
eight against a mirrored panel, dressed for service with the galley immediately
adjacent. It is a conventional layout, executed carefully, and it works.
On deck, Arago is arranged around the sundeck. A spa pool sits forward of a full
run of daybeds and a bar, shaded by a hardtop and open to the wind aft. The
flybridge below carries an alfresco dining table with bar stools and a wide
outlook. The foredeck holds a further sunpad. A bathing platform opens aft for
the tender fleet, which is unusually serious for the size: a Marlin 790 chase
boat with a 250hp Honda outboard, two Sea-Doo GTX 130 Pro jet skis, two Seabob
F5S, paddleboards, wakeboards, water skis and a towable.
Twin MTU diesels give 18 knots of cruise and 24 flat out on a semi-displacement
hull that handles the Adriatic chop without argument. Stabilisers work underway
and at anchor. Her summer programme covers Croatia and Montenegro, Hvar, Vis,
the Kornati islands and the Bay of Kotor, where a 34-metre draws far less
attention in a small harbour than something twice her length.
Her rate deserves a word, because it is why most charter parties will look at
her at all. In the low season she undercuts newer 34-metre yachts by a wide
margin, and the saving is not being taken out of the crew, six of whom run her
for ten guests, nor out of the toys, where the chase boat alone outclasses what
boats at this price normally carry. The saving is on age. The 2024 refit is what
makes that trade sensible rather than risky, and it is why she reads as a
bargain rather than a compromise.
Arago is a value proposition made without cutting the things that matter. The
refit is real, the master is genuinely unusual, the toy list is deep, and the
rate leaves room in the budget for the week you actually wanted.
