K2

What is K2, and why does she matter for Columbus Yachts?

Construction started in mid-2018, K2 launched in February 2021 and she was delivered the following month, then debuted publicly at the Monaco Yacht Show that September, the same stage Anjelif would use for her own reveal in 2023. Columbus's own fleet page lists her at 49.9 metres LOA, 499 GT, with a 9.05 metre beam and a 2.2 metre draft, figures matched almost exactly by YachtCharterFleet and Northrop and Johnson's own charter listings (Boat International's directory rounds her to 49.5 metres, a small enough gap to be a rounding difference rather than a real disagreement).

The naval architecture came from Hydro Tec working with Palumbo Superyachts' own engineering team, the identical pairing credited on Anjelif, which is why Columbus and outlets covering both boats treat them as sister hulls off one Sport 50 platform rather than two unrelated designs. What sits on top of that shared platform is where the two yachts diverge completely: K2 carries a conventional twin-diesel powertrain and an interior by Luca Dini Design and Architecture, built to an owner's representative's brief rather than an owner's own detailed wellness programme, and there is no hybrid system fitted anywhere in her published specification.

What did the owner actually ask Columbus to build?

Lo Conte is quoted asking for a boat that was 'fast, suitable for shallow waters and extremely comfortable, and by comfortable we also meant quiet during navigation' - a brief that reads as an operating spec as much as a style note, and one that shows up directly in the finished hull: a shallow 2.2 metre draft engineered through a wider beam and deep propeller tunnels rather than a shorter waterline, and a hull optimised with navigation interceptors and four Naiad fin stabilisers for both speed and low noise and vibration at sea. Palumbo Superyachts' own COO, Gianpaolo Lapenna, described the resulting project as 'a complex recipe' where 'you have to be careful with the ingredients,' language that points to a build juggling several competing requirements rather than a straightforward repeat of an existing design.

Hydro Tec's Sergio Cutolo, the naval architect behind both K2 and Anjelif, said the boat needed 'very sharp hull lines' to achieve rapid acceleration despite the shallow-draft compromise, calling the underlying engineering 'quite complex' in the same feature. That combination of named, specific quotes from the owner's representative, the builder's COO and the naval architect is unusually well documented for a Columbus hull that predates Anjelif's own heavier press coverage, and it is the main reason K2 stands up as a subject in her own right rather than a footnote to the newer boat.

K2 and Anjelif are the same 499 GT hull, the same Hydro Tec naval architecture and the same twin MTU engines, delivered three years apart with completely different interiors, one owner never named and one owner quoted at length. That is what Columbus actually means by semi-custom.

What is she like inside, and who designed her?

Dini described the brief as one where 'we wanted to preserve a masculine feel, especially in the selection of colours, thus maintaining a contemporary, decisive and, at the same time, relaxing style,' and separately framed his overall approach to the yacht around 'fluidity of the spaces, to light, but above all to the liveability of the outdoor spaces.' Megayacht News, reporting from the same launch material, described the finished interior as combining rich woods including ziricote and tanganyika frise with geometric patterned marbles, stainless steel and lacquer detailing, plus Italian furniture including Fendi pieces, deliberately mixing masculine structure against softer materials rather than defaulting to one register throughout.

The layout runs a professional gym on the main deck, a central galley with an island and a large pantry, plus an upper saloon built for entertaining, with the upper deck carrying a forward Jacuzzi and aft dining for twelve. Fraser's own charter manager, Daniela De Marco, called the result 'one of the best I have seen on any yacht, full of light and extremely stylish' when the boat came onto Fraser's books - a working charter manager's assessment rather than a builder's press quote, and one made after she had actually shown the boat to clients rather than at launch.

How does she perform, and what do the sea-trial numbers actually say?

Those figures come from Columbus's own official fleet page and are independently matched by Megayacht News's 2021 launch coverage, which separately reported the identical top speed, cruising speed and eco-speed fuel burn - a clean two-source match on every hard performance number, unusual for a Columbus hull given how thin some of the brand's other published figures are. Boat International's directory listing rounds the top speed up slightly to 22 knots and gives an 18-knot cruise, both close enough to the builder's own figures to read as rounding rather than a real disagreement, and its range figure of 3,000 nautical miles at 12 knots matches Columbus's own number exactly.

The twin MTU 16V 2000 M96L engines are rated at 1,939kW each, the same engine model fitted to Anjelif three years later, which is a further point of evidence that the two hulls share a genuinely common engineering base rather than a marketing claim of a shared platform. Where K2 differs from her sister ship is that nothing in any source consulted, including Columbus's own page, mentions a hybrid or electric-only running mode on K2: she is a conventional diesel boat, and Anjelif's Siemens-developed hybrid layer appears to be a feature Columbus added to the platform for the later hull rather than something retrofitted or optional on K2.

What does K2 cost to charter, and could a buyer actually purchase her?

YachtCharterFleet lists her low-season rate at EUR 270,000 a week rising to EUR 290,000 in high season, both plus expenses, and Boat International's own directory separately confirms a rate starting at EUR 270,000 a week - two independent sources agreeing on the low-season figure. Northrop and Johnson lists her without a published number at all, marking the rate 'on request,' which is common for a yacht a broker is actively marketing to a narrower client list rather than publishing openly. As with every other Columbus hull, no outlet consulted, including Columbus's own site, has ever published a build cost for K2.

She has never appeared on a brokerage resale listing in any of the sources checked for this page, and Fraser's own materials describe her purely as a charter yacht. SuperyachtFan separately puts a rough estimated value on her of around USD 25 million, but that figure is explicitly the site's own estimate rather than a broker's asking price or a confirmed sale figure, and we are naming it here only as an estimate, not as a real number a buyer could act on. A prospective buyer with genuine interest in a Sport 50 platform hull would currently have to approach Columbus directly about a new build, since neither of the two delivered examples covered on this site is actually on the market.

How does K2 compare to her sister hull Anjelif?

The two boats are the clearest working proof available anywhere of what Columbus means when it says its Sport line is semi-custom: identical 499 GT hulls, the same 49.9 metre LOA and 9.05 metre beam, the same Hydro Tec and Palumbo Superyachts naval architecture, plus the same twin MTU 16V 2000 M96L engines rated at 1,939kW each, yet two completely different finished yachts. K2's owner, never named in any source consulted, worked through a representative and got a masculine, gym-and-galley-forward interior from Luca Dini with no hybrid system; Anjelif's owner, Maria Francesca Angelini, is named, quoted at length and got a wellness-first interior from Marco Casali with a Siemens-developed hybrid layer built on the same hull three years later.

For a buyer, the practical read is that the Sport 50 platform itself is a known quantity by 2026, five years and two very different finished yachts deep, which lowers the engineering risk of a third commission even though neither existing hull is for sale to inspect in person. For anyone comparing the brand's own coverage, K2 is also the more affordable point of entry into that comparison: her charter rate runs roughly 15 to 20 percent below Anjelif's EUR 330,000 to 370,000 range, for a boat built on the same platform without the hybrid system and the design-award attention.

Who it is for: A charterer or prospective buyer who wants proof the Sport 50 platform works as a conventional diesel yacht before considering a hybrid commission like Anjelif, and who values a quieter, shallow-draft sea boat with a straightforward Luca Dini interior over a heavily personalised design brief.