Six cabins on a 35-metre yacht is not the usual arithmetic. Most yachts this size settle for four, occasionally five, and cap out at ten guests. ARTEMY carries twelve across six, and that single decision reshapes who she suits: two families travelling together, or a group that would otherwise be forced onto a yacht ten metres longer and half as quick.
Azimut delivered her in 2008 to a Carlo Galeazzi design, 35.4 metres on a 7.65-metre beam, built in GRP and coming in at 248 gross tons. She is light for her length and she planes: 21 knots is her working pace and 24 is the top of it. Across the Adriatic, where the islands sit close and the good anchorages fill by early afternoon, that pace is the difference between arriving and settling for second choice.
Her flybridge is the reason to look at her twice. IYC calls it one of the largest in her class, and standing on it the claim holds up – it runs most of her length, carrying a jacuzzi set into the teak, a bar, shaded seating and a dining table, all on one level with clear water on three sides. On most 35-metre yachts the flybridge is an afterthought bolted above the wheelhouse. On ARTEMY it is the main event, and it is where a charter week actually happens.
Inside she is dark, Italian and deliberate. Macassar ebony runs across every bulkhead, figured and high-gloss, set against cream upholstery and pale carpet so the timber reads as depth rather than weight. A 2023 refit went through the interior and left the palette alone, which was the right call – this is a room that has aged into itself.
The main salon runs forward into a dining table on the same deck. Below, six cabins: a full-beam master, doubles and twins, each panelled in the same ebony, each with a marble en-suite. Six crew run her for twelve guests.
On the water she is properly equipped rather than fashionably so. A seven-metre Cantieri Capelli chase tender with a 200hp Evinrude, a Yamaha WaveRunner, a Sea-Doo Spark, two Seabob F5s, three wakeboards, three paddleboards, two sets of water skis, a doughnut and snorkelling gear for four. There is gym equipment aboard too – light weights and yoga mats rather than a dedicated room, which is the honest version of a gym on a yacht this size.
Azimut is a production yard, and that is usually meant as a criticism. At 35 metres it stops being one. Building in numbers is why she carries six cabins where a custom yard would have sold four larger ones, and why her price sits where it does against a comparable one-off. Whether that trade reads as a compromise or as good sense depends entirely on how many people are coming.
She splits her year across the Mediterranean, working the western basin and the Adriatic through summer and staying east through winter. The range suits her: she is quick enough to make the passages count and shallow enough to use the anchorages once she arrives.
ARTEMY is not the largest yacht at her price, and she does not pretend to be. She is the one that sleeps twelve, moves at 21 knots and puts the best room on the roof. Weekly rates run from 100,000 to 119,000 euros.
