Sunrise Yachts built a reputation in Antalya for steel displacement hulls that behave like yachts twenty metres longer, and MAXIMILIAN MMIV is a good example of why the reputation stuck. What makes her interesting now, though, is not 2009. It is 2024.
She came out of a full rebuild that year: exterior repaint, new deck layouts, and an interior taken back and reworked room by room. Refits at this scale often leave a yacht looking like two different decades arguing with each other. This one did not. The dark walnut and mahogany joinery from the original build was kept and lightened around – pale carpets, white and slate fabrics, blues and soft greens, coral accents – so the wood now reads as warmth rather than weight. It is a more confident approach than stripping her back to grey, and it gives her a character that new yachts spend years acquiring.
The main deck is arranged as two rooms rather than one long one. Aft, the main saloon holds facing sofas and a media wall, opening through glass to a shaded aft deck. Forward, a formal dining room with a walnut table for ten sits between illuminated glass panels – a proper room with a door, which is increasingly rare and much better for a large group who want to eat without the television in the background. Up a deck, a skylounge in sage green and coral looks out over oval windows, and it is the room the yacht’s guests tend to claim after dinner.
Accommodation is five cabins for eleven guests. The master takes the full beam forward on the main deck, bright and generous, with a chaise at the foot of the bed and green accents against the dark joinery. Below, four guest cabins – doubles and twins – are finished in the same wood with pale, cool fabrics, and all of them have real hull windows rather than portholes as an afterthought.
Her outside spaces are the strongest part of the package. The sundeck carries a teak-clad spa tub under twin parasols, wrapped in striped cushions and low seating, with a dining table and bar aft of it. The main aft deck is set for lounging under cover; the foredeck opens up for anchoring and for sun. And the transom folds into a beach club with the garage behind, holding jet skis, an inflatable platform, towables and diving gear that gets used properly on a Mediterranean week.
Nine crew for eleven guests is a serious ratio, and the crew is the part of this yacht that repeat charterers talk about. She runs a conventional Mediterranean season – the western Med and the Tyrrhenian in high summer, the Riviera and Liguria in the shoulders – and she wintered in Genoa.
Twin MTUs push her steel hull to 14 knots and settle her at 12, which is exactly what a displacement yacht of this vintage should do: cross overnight without drama, arrive without having burned a fortune, and lie still at anchor. For 180,000 per week, with a 2024 rebuild behind her and a crew of nine, she represents one of the more sensible propositions in the 45-metre bracket.
