Alcor is a Heesen built for the Balearics, and after more than two decades she still does that job better than most. Designed inside and out by Aldo Cichero and comprehensively refitted in 2020, she offers the volume and the deck space of a larger yacht, carrying twelve guests across six cabins with a crew of six who know these waters as well as anyone.
At 36 metres she is unusually generous below and above deck. The whole yacht is arranged around easy outdoor living, from a broad sundeck laid with deep blue sun pads to a shaded aft deck set for long lunches and dinners at anchor. Steps lead down to a swim platform and a full complement of toys, and the flow between sea, deck and interior is effortless, which is exactly what a week in the islands should feel like.
Inside, the design by Cichero has aged gracefully. The main salon is warm and light, panelled in honey timber with pale seating, a formal dining table at one end and a comfortable lounge at the other, wrapped in windows that keep the coastline in view. A separate lounge and bar gives guests a second, more relaxed space to gather, ideal for a drink before dinner or a quiet corner during the day. The mood is classic without feeling dated, the work of a designer who understood proportion and light.
Accommodation is one of the real strengths of Alcor. Six cabins is a lot at this size, and the layout absorbs families and mixed groups with ease. The master is calm and full of light, finished in warm wood with generous storage, while the guest cabins mix a double and a run of twins, several convertible, each individually presented and served by its own bathroom. Few yachts of this length sleep twelve so comfortably.
Alcor is set up for an active charter. Her toy inventory keeps the watersports going through the day, and her steady displacement hull makes her a calm, comfortable platform at anchor in the coves that ring the Balearic coast. She cruises at eleven knots with real range, so linking Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera across a week is straightforward, and the crew of six run the yacht with the quiet efficiency that a repeat charter clientele expects.
Her home waters are the Balearics, where she has a long and proven charter record, but she has cruised far beyond them over the years and remains a capable, well travelled yacht. She is equally at home tucked into a quiet anchorage off Cabrera as she is stepping guests ashore into Palma for the evening.
What makes Alcor stand out is value. She offers the space, the cabin count and the crew of a considerably more expensive yacht, in a well kept, thoughtfully designed package with a genuine sense of place. For a family or a group who want room to spread out, a serious toy box and a crew who know the islands intimately, she is one of the easier recommendations in her class. A week aboard tends to settle into an unhurried rhythm of morning swims, long island lunches and slow evenings on deck, and it is that ease, as much as the space, that keeps her guests coming back to her year after year.
