AWAY carries a 32-foot Pursuit chase tender that does 42 knots. AWAY herself does 15. The tender is nearly three times faster than the yacht towing it, and once you notice that, the whole logic of her falls into place.
She is a Sanlorenzo SD122, delivered in 2009 and refitted in 2023: 37.4 metres on a 7.6-metre beam, 308 gross tons, built in GRP on a semi-displacement hull that has no interest in going quickly. Twelve knots is her cruise. Fifteen is as far as she goes. Zero-speed stabilisers hold her flat at anchor, and that is the number that actually matters, because AWAY is not built to cover distance. She is built to arrive somewhere good and stay there.
The Pursuit does the rest. With a 25-knot cruise and roughly 270 nautical miles of range, it is not a shuttle to the beach club – it is a day boat that will take the whole party sixty miles and back before dinner. The mothership stays put and stays level. The tender goes and gets the day. On the Bahamas bank, where the distances between good water are real but the yacht drafts too much to chase them, that division of labour is the correct one.
Her bow is the best thing about her. Sanlorenzo gave the SD122 Portuguese-style seating forward – a proper enclosed lounge set into the foredeck rather than a pair of sunpads bolted onto it – and AWAY adds a jacuzzi alongside. It faces forward, away from the crew, away from the tender, away from everyone. Most yachts put their best seat aft. Hers is at the sharp end.
Inside she is bright and modern rather than reverent. Pale limed oak runs across the bulkheads, offset by navy upholstery, and the owners hung real artwork throughout with genuine pops of colour against the timber. It is a warm room rather than a showpiece, and the 2023 refit kept it that way.
The main salon runs forward into a formal dining table. Above, a sky lounge. Five cabins sleep ten below, doubles and twins in the same oak, each with its own en-suite. Seven crew for ten guests.
Deck furniture is Paola Lenti – which sounds like a detail and is not. It is the difference between a deck you sit on and a deck you stay on, and it explains why her large exterior spaces get used rather than photographed.
Beyond the Pursuit: two Seabobs with a fast charger, a PWR-Foil eFoil with a carbon wing, two inflatable paddleboards, two inflatable canoes, an eight-person inflatable island, and snorkelling gear and fins sized for adults and children both.
Sanlorenzo launched the SD line to sell displacement volume to owners who had grown out of planing boats, and the compromise it makes is deliberate: give up the speed, keep the interior space, add the range. AWAY is that argument built in fibreglass. She gives away nine knots against a comparable planing 37-metre and takes back a foredeck lounge, a sky lounge and a hull that does not slam. Whether that is the right trade depends on whether you actually intend to go anywhere, and her tender settles the question.
She charters the Bahamas year-round. Weekly rates run from 120,000 to 145,000 US dollars.
AWAY is a slow yacht with a fast boat, and she is entirely honest about which one is which.
