ELIS ET MAR has worn three names since Trinity Yachts delivered her in 2012, and a comprehensive 2024-2025 refit gave her a fourth reason to be noticed: the American builder’s raised-pilothouse construction, refreshed inside and out, still carries the old-world materials palette that set her apart at launch, Italian marble, Lalique glass, and burl and vavona woods worked into nearly every surface.
The full-beam master suite occupies the main deck, reached through a private office rather than straight off a corridor. Inside, a king bed sits beneath a sculpted mirrored canopy, flanked by a sitting area and his-and-hers bathrooms with a soaking tub and separate rain shower. The bridge deck VIP repeats the trick at a smaller scale, its own king bed and elevated sea views set apart from the four remaining guest cabins on the lower deck. Each of those runs a different palette, burgundy and cream in one, gold and burl in another, so a week of charter guests could plausibly never sleep in the same room twice.
The bridge deck itself does double duty as a sky lounge, plush seating and a full bar backing onto alfresco dining for the full party. Below, the main deck runs to a formal dining room set under a barrel ceiling and a burgundy-walled study that reads more like a private members room than a yacht office. Nearby, a separate bar area and a second lounge give the group somewhere to split off without leaving the same deck. An enclosed, air-conditioned gym handles daily training regardless of weather, and a portable ice bath is available on request for guests who want the full recovery routine.
Outside, the sundeck carries a full-size jacuzzi, sunpads and a stocked bar, with an aft deck that closes in behind glass when the weather calls for it and opens fully when it does not, an unusually flexible answer to the Caribbean’s mix of sun and squalls. A 12.8-metre HCB Lujo tender with triple 450hp outboards handles the fast runs ashore, backed by a full Sea-Doo and e-foil program for guests who want the afternoon to move faster than the yacht, and a rescue tender rounds out the fleet for anything more sedate.
Twin Caterpillar engines give her a 20-knot top speed and genuine range between anchorages, and thirteen crew keep a ratio built for a fully booked charter rather than a light one. ELIS ET MAR splits her year between the western Mediterranean, France and Italy through the summer, and the Caribbean and Bahamas from October, a genuinely dual-season program rather than a single home port with occasional relocations.
She suits a group drawn to old-world materials and craftsmanship over a purely modern palette, six distinctly finished staterooms, an enclosed gym, and a sky lounge built for evenings that run long. Few charter yachts still carry this much hand-worked wood and stone without feeling dated, and the recent refit means none of it comes at the expense of the systems and finishes guests now expect as standard.
