Most 37-metre yachts put the master below deck. ALLORA puts hers on the main deck, forward, with the salon a few steps aft. That one decision is what makes her work for the families who charter her, and it is the first thing to know about her.
Benetti delivered her in 2011 as Domani and she came out of a 2022 refit under her current name. She measures 36.9 metres on an 8.18-metre beam, built in GRP, and she is a displacement-minded yacht rather than a fast one: 12 knots is her working pace, 18 is the top end. Zero-speed stabilisers hold her steady at anchor, which in the Bahamas – where the good spots are shallow, open and exposed to a running swell – matters far more than the four knots she gives away to a planing hull.
The on-deck master is the layout’s whole argument. Grandparents are not sent down a companionway at the end of the night. Parents are one deck from the children. Anyone who wakes early can reach the coffee without crossing anyone else’s cabin. Four further cabins sit below, doubles and twins, each finished in the same deep figured mahogany and each with its own en-suite. Ten guests, seven crew.
Her interior is warm rather than white – high-gloss mahogany across every bulkhead, cream upholstery, and enough glass that the timber reads rich instead of heavy. The main salon runs into a formal dining table on the same deck, and a bar in the same figured timber anchors the room. It is a 2011 interior maintained to look like a 2022 one, which is the honest description.
Outside is where she earns the Bahamas. The sundeck carries a jacuzzi, a wet bar and loungers, with shade where you want it and sun where you do not. The aft deck and the bridge deck aft both seat the full party for lunch, so nobody eats indoors unless they choose to. The swim platform opens into a full beach set-up.
Her toys are unusually well judged. A 34-foot Chris Craft, rigged for fishing and shaded forward, is a proper day boat rather than a shuttle – she will take the whole party out for the day and bring them back. Alongside it: two 2024 wave runners, two jet skis, a Seabob F5, an eFoil, a water slide, NautiBuoy floating docks, inflatable paddleboards, a tow tube, new fishing gear, and snorkel kit sized for adults and children both.
That last detail says the most about her. Someone thought about the children specifically, and then bought the gear.
The Bahamas suit her. Seven hundred islands strung across shallow water, most of the best anchorages sitting in a few metres of it, and a chain short enough that 12 knots costs nothing worth counting. A yacht that holds flat at anchor and carries a serious day boat is reading that ground correctly. ALLORA does not need to be quick here. She needs to be steady, shallow and properly equipped, and she is all three.
She charters the Bahamas through the summer. Weekly rates run from 110,000 US dollars.
