The 32.4-metre (106’4″) motor yacht 50 FIFTY was delivered by the American shipyard Ocean Alexander in 2024, and she is one of the most complete family charter yachts to appear in her size bracket in recent years. Built as a 32L with interior styling by Evan K Marshall, she accommodates ten guests across five cabins with a crew of five, and she charters the Bahamas year-round. What sets her apart is not any single feature but the way the whole yacht has been thought through for people travelling with children.
Her defining space is the full-beam master, and unusually it sits forward on the main deck rather than below. Windows run the length of both sides, so the room takes in an uninterrupted panorama from the bed, and a private seating area and vanity make it a genuine retreat rather than somewhere simply to sleep. Waking to the sunrise over a Bahamian bank is part of the appeal, and it is a layout that yachts ten metres longer often cannot offer.
Four further cabins sit on the lower deck: two full queens, each with its own en-suite and hull windows at eye level from the bed, a twin that converts easily to a queen, and a fifth bunk cabin that suits younger guests or a travelling nanny. Safety gates and netting can be rigged throughout, which is the sort of detail that only matters if you have actually chartered with small children, and it is rarer than it should be.
The main salon runs the full beam and is glazed floor to ceiling on both sides, giving the interior a lightness and volume that is unusual at this length. Pale timber, soft neutral upholstery and a plush built-in settee keep the space calm, while a formal dining table forward seats all ten guests beneath a recessed, illuminated ceiling detail. One deck up, the sky lounge offers deep sofas and glass on three sides, with the fully enclosed flybridge forward of it, so passage-making stays sociable and comfortable whatever the weather is doing outside.
Outside, the open flybridge is the heart of life aboard. A jacuzzi is set into the teak, flanked by a pair of loungers and served by a wet bar, with a shaded lounge aft of it. On the main deck, the aft deck is wrapped in teak and shaded, curved settees facing the water on three sides for breakfast at anchor or dinner as the light goes. Aft, a full-width submersible swim platform lowers into the sea to make a beach for the day, with easy access to the towed tender, the jet ski and the rest of her toy collection.
Stabilised both underway and at anchor, capable of 24 knots and cruising comfortably at 14, 50 FIFTY pairs genuine performance with a shallow draft that opens up the cays and bays deeper yachts must pass by. Her toy locker runs to a 21ft Edgewater towed tender, a Yamaha WaveRunner, a SeaScooter, paddleboards, waterskis, towables and snorkelling gear in both adult and children’s sizes. She is a yacht built to be used rather than admired, and the Bahamas suit her exactly.
