Twelve guests in six cabins is a difficult thing to do at 41 metres. Most yachts this size sleep ten, and the ones that sleep twelve usually do it by turning a study into a cabin and calling the result a layout. IRAMA does it properly.
Concept Marine delivered her in 2009 as ELISEA NOVA; she took her present name with a change of ownership and was substantially refitted in 2021. The refit is what makes her interesting now. Her original architecture – a full-displacement hull with a deep blue topside, a wood-built structure and the low, long proportions of a yacht designed for the Riviera rather than the Atlantic – has been kept intact. What changed is everything you touch.
The main saloon reads contemporary in a way that yachts of her vintage rarely manage: a pale timber sole, an ochre-and-grey palette, a sculpted feather-form chandelier and low seating arranged around a glass table. Windows run down both sides. It is a bright, unfussy room, and it does not look like a 2009 interior that has been freshened – it looks like a 2021 interior in a 2009 hull, which is the harder and better outcome.
Forward and through a bulkhead, the dining room is genuinely separate: a light oval table for ten under a shaped deckhead, white moulded chairs and warm walnut panelling on every side. Off the same deck sits a panelled study with a working desk, a leather chair and an oval porthole mirror – a proper room with a door, and one of the more characterful spaces aboard.
Accommodation runs to six cabins. The master takes a full-beam position with a tan leather sofa, a swivel chair, a wide berth against a tufted headboard and daylight from both sides. Guest doubles are individually dressed rather than mirrored – one with red accents and a tufted headboard, another lighter with framed photography – and the twin cabins forward carry two full berths apiece under warm walnut. Each has its own ensuite, most in grey marble with walk-in showers.
Outside, the aft deck carries a dining table for twelve under the overhang, with the Monaco skyline in most of her photography. The sun deck above holds the spa – a moulded shell with contoured seats, headrests and visible jets – wrapped by a semicircle of blue sunpads and low tables. It is the best space aboard, and it is where an IRAMA charter mostly happens.
She cruises at 12 knots and tops out at 18, with eight crew for twelve guests and a toy platform that runs jet skis, wakeboards, inflatables and a tender at sea level. Her season is unusually settled: Cannes Old Port through the summer, Sanremo through the winter. There are no repositioning weeks, no long deliveries, and no ambiguity about where she will be.
For a group of twelve who want the Riviera done properly, from a yacht that has been brought fully up to date without being scrubbed of character, IRAMA is a genuinely strong answer at her price.
One last note on how she is run. Eight crew for twelve guests is a full complement at this length, and it shows in the small things: the tender is in the water before anyone asks, the spa is warm by the time the sun drops behind the Esterel, and the aft deck is reset between every service. That is the difference between a yacht that is available and a yacht that is ready.
