Loana is a 34 metre Baglietto that has aged into the kind of yacht charter guests keep coming back to. Built in 2006 and given a full refit in 2022, she carries the warmth of a timber interior with the manners of a boat that has been kept properly: stabilisers that run underway, a quiet engine room, and a crew of seven for twelve guests who never feel far from a hand.
She reads as three distinct zones stacked over the water. The flybridge is the daytime deck, laid out with a shaded dining table for lunch on the move and a run of loungers aft that face open water and hold the afternoon light. A deck below, the main aft cockpit is set for meals in the open air, a step above the swim platform, close enough to the sea that dinner and a late swim happen in the same hour. Forward of the house the bow opens up for the quiet part of the day.
Inside, the salon is where the boat shows its character. Pale timber runs across the ceiling and down the joinery, cream seating gathers around low tables, and glass down both sides keeps the anchorage in view from every seat. The room is long enough to carry a second lounge forward, a calmer corner with its own sofas for a book or a conversation away from the group. A separate formal dining room sits further forward under the same timber, a full table framed by windows for the evenings that call for something more composed than the cockpit.
Accommodation is unusually complete for the length. The master runs wide and low with the sea close on both sides, a large bed against a padded headboard and its own bathroom. A VIP carries a mirrored dressing wall that opens the room up, and there is a double, a further guest cabin and a twin below, so a family or two couples travelling together each find a proper room rather than a compromise berth. All five have their own bathrooms.
Her toy locker matches the way she is chartered. A Novurania tender runs the beach trips and the wakeboarders, a smaller tender handles the shore runs, and Sea Bobs and a full watersports kit come off the swim platform directly. The stabilisers mean the passages between islands are comfortable rather than something to endure, which is what lets the crew keep the day moving from one anchorage to the next without anyone feeling the miles. A boat that rolls at anchor spends its charter apologising for itself, and Loana does not.
Loana works the Greek islands through the summer, the cruising ground she is set up for: short hops between anchorages, long lunches at the flybridge table, and evenings that run from the cockpit to the water and back. She is not the newest boat in the fleet and does not try to be. What she offers is space, warmth and a crew who know her, in a 34 metre package that charters for a good deal less than a yacht of her volume usually asks.
