ANTHEYA III won her class at the World Superyacht Awards in 2016, the year after she launched, and a decade on it is easy to see what the judges rewarded. Princess had spent years building excellent 30-metre boats; the 35M was the first time the yard’s flagship felt genuinely composed rather than simply large. Bernard Olesinski drew both the hull and the exterior, and the proportions still look current.
She is 35.15 metres with a 7.5-metre beam, delivered in 2015 and given a substantial refit in 2023. Two Caterpillar diesels take her to 24 knots and hold 20 all day, which on a semi-displacement GRP hull of this size is properly quick. In practice that means Athens to Mykonos before lunch, or three islands in a day when the group wants to move.
The main deck reads as one long, bright room. Aft, a lounge of white sofas and slate-blue armchairs sits around a circular burl table; forward, in the same volume, a dark lacquered dining table for ten stands under a run of windows with orchids at either end. Sliding doors open to a shaded aft terrace with a teak table for eight. Two balconies fold down from the main saloon, which is a feature normally reserved for boats considerably longer.
Where ANTHEYA III separates herself from her peer group is the raised pilothouse. Rather than a working space guests are kept out of, it is finished as a room in its own right: a leather settee and a round table set behind the helm chairs, a full navigation suite in front, and a wall of glass across the front of the boat. Guests sit up here with the captain on passage, which changes the character of a delivery leg entirely. Behind it, the galley is a serious professional room in white lacquer and black stone.
Accommodation is five cabins for ten. The full-beam master sits amidships on the lower deck with a king bed, a textured shoal-of-fish panel behind it, a desk and vanity along the outboard wall and a bathroom with a full tub in cream marble and walnut. The VIP is genuinely full-beam too and can be partitioned to make a separate cabin, with an L-shaped sofa that sleeps two more. Two convertible cabins take twins or doubles, mirrored port and starboard and distinguished only by their cushions.
Outside she is well organised for ten guests. The flybridge carries a bar, a barbecue, a round dining table under the hardtop and a long stretch of sunpads aft. The bow lounge is a full second seating area with two low tables. A hydraulic swim platform drops to sea level for the toys – a chase tender, jet ski, e-foil, Seabobs, a sea pool, wakeboard, waterskis and fishing gear.
She works the eastern Mediterranean, based in Athens for the summer and Beirut for the winter, with a crew of six. Priced from 115,000 a week, she sits in the busiest part of the Greek charter market – and the combination of an award-winning hull, a full refit and a pilothouse guests are actually welcome in makes her stand out in it.
