Few charter yachts wear two identities as convincingly as Forty Love. On paper she reads as a 42-metre Westport, yet her hull was originally laid down by Deep Sea Marine and completed in 2004 on a Westport platform, a provenance that gave her builder the freedom to engineer a five-deck layout rarely seen at this length. A comprehensive 2023 refit brought her mechanical systems, electronics and interiors into the present, while her unmistakable sport-fisher profile, a low, raked superstructure above a flared bow, remains the first thing guests notice from the dock.
The main-deck salon is arranged for both conversation and cinema-scale viewing, with panoramic windows that wrap around a generous lounge and a formal dining table for twelve. Step forward and the day head, galley pass-through and crew quarters disappear behind service doors, leaving the guest spaces clean and uninterrupted. One deck up, a sky lounge doubles as a second entertaining room, opening to a covered aft terrace where evenings start with cocktails and end under the stars.
On the bridge deck a jacuzzi sits to port with sun pads fanning out around it, while forward of the helm a second open-air lounge creates a quiet retreat entirely separate from the social spaces below. A plunge pool on the aft sun deck adds a second water feature, and the foredeck, broad, flat and fitted with oversized cushions, is the kind of private bow space that makes an early anchorage feel like your own island.
Below decks, six en-suite cabins sleep twelve guests in a layout that gives the master suite true privacy on its own level. A full-beam owner’s stateroom forward offers a king berth, walk-in wardrobe and a head finished in stone, while the VIP and four guest cabins, doubles and twins, are clustered aft and served by a separate companionway. With ten crew aboard, the ratio is close to one-to-one, and the galley team works from a commercial-grade kitchen that supplies both the formal dining room and the al-fresco stations on every deck.
Powered by twin Caterpillar engines, Forty Love cruises at 12.5 knots with a range that reaches 2,500 nautical miles, enough to cross from the Balearics to the Greek islands without a fuel stop. Her sport-fisher DNA means she tracks well in a following sea, and the stabiliser system keeps her steady at anchor while guests are sleeping or dining. A top speed of 18 knots gives her enough pace to reposition between ports over lunch, opening up itineraries that slower displacement hulls cannot match.
She charters the western and eastern Mediterranean through the summer season, moving between the French Riviera, the Italian coast, the Balearics and Greece. A gym, tender garage housing two 6-metre Yamaha tenders, and a full suite of water toys round out the offering. What sets her apart is not one feature but the combination: genuine passage-making range, five decks of outdoor space, a one-to-one crew ratio, and a hull shape that turns heads before anyone steps aboard. For guests who want both the rugged independence of a long-range cruiser and the service standards of a larger superyacht, Forty Love sits in a category of her own.
