The Princess Y85 is the epitome of luxury and innovation in the world of motor yachts. Crafted by the renowned Princess shipyard, this yacht is designed to offer unmatched comfort and style on the open seas. With a length of 26.2 meters, the Y85 boasts a stunning exterior crafted by Princess’s own design team, ensuring sleek lines and an aerodynamic profile. The interior, thoughtfully designed by the same team, is a manifestation of elegance, featuring exquisite materials and meticulous attention to detail. The yacht comfortably accommodates up to eight sleeping guests across four well-appointed cabins, each offering an oasis of tranquility. The master suite is particularly noteworthy, providing a large en-suite bathroom and generous storage. For performance, the Y85 is powered by twin MAN V12 engines, each delivering 1900 hp, allowing for a cruising speed of 25 knots and a maximum speed of 31 knots. This power is seamlessly integrated with a planning hull configuration, ensuring a smooth and efficient voyage. The yacht’s range of approximately 400 nautical miles makes it perfect for extended journeys. With a dedicated crew space for four, the Y85 ensures that guests receive impeccable service throughout their journey. Built with a GRP hull, the yacht combines strength and lightness, further enhancing its performance credentials. Priced at around 6.5 million euros for a new model, the Princess Y85 represents an exceptional investment in luxury and style, while pre-owned options range from 4.8 to 5.5 million euros, offering potential owners a variety of entry points into the world of luxury yachting.
Length
26.2M
Beam
6.3M
Draft
1.9M
Volume
82GT
Day Guests
12
Sleeping
8
Cabin
4
Crew
4
Cruise Speed
25KT
Max Speed
31KT
Fuel
11000L
Range
400NM
Engine
Twin MAN V12 1900 hp
Option 1
Twin MAN V12 2000 hp
Naval
Princess Design Studio
Exterior
Princess Design Studio
Interior
Princess Design Studio
New Starting From
€6,500,000
High Price Brokerage
€5,500,000
Low Price Brokerage
€4,800,000
Thirty one knots is not a figure every 26 metre yacht can claim.
Twin 1,900 horsepower MAN V12 diesels are the Y85’s standard engines, with a 2,000 horsepower pairing available for owners who want a wider margin at the top end. Naval architect Bernard Olesinski shaped the hull beneath them, carrying nearly 70 tonnes of displacement at a cruising speed of 25 knots without the heaviness that figure suggests. A fuel capacity of 11,000 litres gives her a range of around 400 nautical miles, enough for a proper coastal passage without a fuel stop. On sea trial she settled quickly into her stride, the sort of composure that comes from a hull tuned rather than merely powered.
The flybridge is where the Y85 spends her afternoons.
An integrated hardtop in oyster grey, its louvred panels opening to daylight and closing against the sun, shelters a wet bar fitted with a fridge and ice maker, and an optional spa pool stretches nearly six metres from rail to seating for owners who want to add one. Down on the boat deck, an Opacmare crane rated to 545 kilograms handles a tender of up to 4.5 metres without fuss. Recessed sliding glass doors pull the saloon and aft deck into a single space at anchor, removing the usual step between indoors and out. It is a yacht built for guests who move between decks all day rather than settle on one.
Her profile reads clean rather than aggressive, restraint built into every line.
A low sheerline and a broad saloon window, nearly three metres across, keep the topsides uncluttered and let light run the length of the interior. Teak decking runs aft to a transom nosing milled on a five axis machine for a continuous, seamless edge, the kind of detail that only shows up when you look for it. The integrated hardtop carries through in the same tone as the hull, avoiding the visual break that spoils many flybridge yachts of this size. Princess’s own design studio drew the exterior, working from the naval architecture Olesinski developed beneath it, so the shape above the waterline answers directly to the hull performing below it.
Four cabins, all en suite, built around a full beam master that never feels like a compromise.
The master suite spans the full beam amidships, with a centreline king berth, a desk and vanity, and a pair of love seats for a private sitting area rarely found at this length. A VIP cabin sits forward with its own walk in wardrobe, and two further guest cabins, one double and one convertible to twins, complete a layout built for eight sleeping guests. A day head on the main deck keeps guest traffic away from the private cabins below. High gloss walnut joinery and V grooved walnut flooring run throughout, with ebony lacquered accents adding depth without weight, a materials palette chosen for warmth rather than shine.
She is built to be run properly, not just admired.
A crew of four, with dedicated quarters kept separate from the guest cabins, gives owners a genuinely turnkey yacht rather than one that demands outside charter crew to function. The galley, fitted with a Wolf cooktop, an induction oven, a Sub-Zero refrigerator and multiple ice makers and wine chillers, sits behind a motorised partition that opens onto the dining area for service or closes for a formal dinner. Bernard Olesinski’s naval architecture underpins the whole platform, engineered by Princess’s own team to carry twin 1,900 or 2,000 horsepower MAN V12s without compromise. For an owner who wants a fast yacht that still runs like a proper household at sea, the Y85 is a considered answer.
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