Most yachts quote a cruising speed well below their maximum. AMICI PER SEMPRE cruises at 23.5 knots and tops out at 26. Two and a half knots between the two means the number in the brochure is the number you actually travel at, all day, without anyone easing the throttles to save the schedule.
Baglietto built her in aluminium in 2004, and the shape explains the speed: 33.4 metres on a 7.2-metre beam is narrow by any modern measure, and the hull underneath is cut to plane rather than to push. She is a fast yacht that behaves like one. Stabilisers work underway, which is what you want on a hull this slim once the afternoon meltemi fills in across the Aegean.
The speed changes what a week looks like. Islands that sit three hours apart on a displacement yacht sit ninety minutes apart on this one. That is the difference between choosing one anchorage and choosing two, and it is the reason her guests tend to cover more ground than the length of the yacht would suggest.
Francesco Paszkowski drew the interior, and it has aged better than most of what was being built in 2004. Pale oak runs across every surface, set against cream upholstery and a horizontal band of glass that pulls the sea into the room at eye level. There is no burl, no gold, no gloss – just light timber, clean lines and restraint. Twenty years on it reads as current rather than dated, which is the whole test of a Paszkowski room.
The main salon runs into a dining table on the same level. Five cabins sleep eleven below: a master, doubles and twins, each panelled in the same oak, each with its own en-suite. A 2023 refit went through her without redecorating her.
On deck she is set up for shade, which matters more in the East Med than sun does. The flybridge carries electric awnings that extend when the day turns hard, with lounging and a table beneath. The aft deck seats the full party for lunch a few steps from the salon. Forward, sunpads fill the bow. A hydraulic swim platform drops to the water for sea access without anyone negotiating a ladder.
Her toys are modest by current standards and honest about it: a four-metre Highfield tender, a Seabob F5S, two paddleboards, an inflatable platform, a wakeboard, three towables, two sets of water skis, snorkelling and fishing gear.
What IYC rates highest about her is not the hardware. Seven crew run her under Captain Nikos, and they have stayed aboard together for years rather than rotating out each season. On a 33-metre yacht carrying eleven guests, that shows up in the week more plainly than any specification does.
Her name means friends forever, and Baglietto has been building at Varazze since 1854 – long enough that the yard spent a century making fast boats before it made luxurious ones. That order matters. AMICI PER SEMPRE was drawn as a fast hull first and furnished second, and everything about the way she carries eleven guests at 23.5 knots follows from that sequence rather than fighting it.
She works the East Mediterranean and Adriatic in both seasons. Weekly rates run from 65,000 to 75,000 euros.
