Solandge
| LOA | 85.1 m (279'2"), beam 13.8 m, draft 3.9 m, gross tonnage 2,899 GT |
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| Steel hull, aluminium superstructure; twin Caterpillar diesels (exact model and output not consistently published) | |
| 17.5-18 knots top speed, 15 knots cruise, 6,000 nm range at 12 knots | |
| Fuel 222,000 litres, fresh water 50,000 litres | |
| 12 guests; cabin count reported inconsistently as 6, 7 or 8 across current brokers | |
| Crew of 29 across 15 cabins; elevator connects decks, capacity up to 9 people | |
| Quantum QC 2400 XT fin stabilizers with at-anchor capability; Brunvoll 240 kW bow thruster | |
| Current charter rate approx. EUR 1.15m/week (Fraser) or $1m/week (other brokers); 2017 brokerage sale asked EUR 155m | |
Built on a proven 80-metre platform, with two years to refine the brief
Lurssen delivered Solandge in November 2013, sharing her 80-metre hull and engineering platform with the yard's Ace and Quattroelle, including folding stern stairs adapted directly from Quattroelle's 2012 design rather than drawn from scratch. The contract was signed in 2007 for an original 2010 build slot, and the owners, who had previously run a smaller 63-metre Lurssen and transferred 11 of that yacht's crew across to the new build, used the extra years to refine the design rather than rush it, according to Boat International's own feature on the project.
Moran Yacht & Ship managed the build, exterior lines came from Espen Oeino, and the interior was designed by Rodriguez Interiors, whose own Aileen Rodriguez told Boat International that the owners wanted every inch of the vessel to be special and have a meaning, and that designing 85 metres of special is difficult but that she believed the team had accomplished it. Solandge won the La Belle Classe Superyachts award from the Yacht Club de Monaco after launch and took Best Exterior Design at the 2014 Monaco Yacht Show Awards.
An owner who is not who most articles say he is
Solandge's ownership history is genuinely unclear from published sources: Boat International reported an arm's-length brokerage sale in March 2017, listed by Moran Yacht & Ship at a 155 million euro asking price and bought through broker SSH Maritime, calling it the biggest brokerage deal of that year so far. Separate, less rigorously sourced reporting claims she was gifted by Saudi Arabia's King Salman to his son Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz around 2015, a claim this page cannot reconcile with the documented 2017 sale, and readers should treat the gift story as unconfirmed rather than settled fact.
What is well documented is that she remains active on the open charter market today, listed through Fraser Yachts, Northrop & Johnson and Edmiston among others, which is itself informative: a yacht held privately and rarely chartered tends to disappear from broker rosters, and Solandge has not. She underwent a winter 2018 to 2019 refit that added a new limousine tender, jet skis with a floating launch deck, a resurfaced jelly-style inflatable pool feature, sound system upgrades and cinema improvements, and broker material references a further refit in 2022, though no source found details what that later work covered.
Rodriguez Interiors had to engineer Solandge's amethyst-and-rose-quartz Schonbek chandeliers specifically so 85 metres of gemstone would not rattle at sea, one detail behind designer Aileen Rodriguez's own claim that the owners wanted every inch of the yacht to mean something.
The interior a chandelier engineer had to make silent
The 172-square-metre main salon centres on floor-to-ceiling LED-backlit amethyst quartz panelling, a Bechstein piano, and Schonbek chandeliers set with amethyst and rose quartz crystals that had to be engineered specifically so they would not rattle underway, alongside a bar finished in amethyst and honey onyx and a fireplace hiding a television behind a musician's painting. A central illuminated sculpture, reported as either 15 or 16 metres tall depending on the source, rises from the tank deck and is ringed by a floating staircase with a stainless steel and leather banister, built from roughly 1,200 to 1,423 individual points of light, sources differ on the exact count.
The entire upper deck is the owner's private apartment: separate his-and-hers dressing rooms and bathrooms, a master cabin with 180-degree bow views, a private outdoor spa pool, and a sitting room with hand-painted, backlit window mullions depicting Garden of Eden scenes. Rodriguez Interiors sourced roughly 49 to 50 different marbles and granites and 33 species of wood, including Murano glasswork brought in from Venice, and exterior designer Espen Oeino told Boat International the large exterior living spaces were drawn to mirror every interior function outdoors, reflecting what he called the trend toward decks that do everything a room inside the yacht can do.
The specification a broker will actually give a charterer
Solandge sleeps 12 guests, though brokers currently disagree on the cabin count, some listing 6, others 7 or 8, a discrepancy this page reports rather than resolves since no single broker's current sheet can be treated as more authoritative than another. She carries a crew of 29 across 15 crew cabins, cruises at 15 knots with a top speed of 17.5 to 18 knots depending on the listing, and has a 6,000 nautical mile range at 12 knots, all figures consistent across the charter brokers checked.
The toy and amenity list is extensive: four tenders, a helipad, six paddleboards, five wakeboards, three Yamaha WaveRunners, three Seabobs, surfboards, kayaks, fishing and scuba gear including a dive compressor and PADI certification centre, a jet-stream contra-flow swimming pool, two hot tubs, one convertible into a dance floor, a chromatherapy spa with hammam, sauna and steam room, a beauty salon, a gym, a movie theatre and a beach club with its own DJ station. An elevator connecting the decks accommodates up to nine people, and Boat International's own feature quoted project manager Richard Masters saying the owners cared about service, but cared even more about the wellbeing of their crew.
Chartering Solandge: the Succession connection, and what nobody has said on the record
Solandge stood in for the Roy family's yacht in the season two finale of HBO's Succession, filmed in the Mediterranean, and today charters for around 1.15 million euros a week through Fraser Yachts, though other brokers currently list a lower 1 million euro rate for the same boat, a gap worth asking a broker to explain rather than assuming one figure is wrong. During the 2019 press coverage of the Succession filming, her rate was reported at 1 million dollars a week plus expenses, and a 2015-2016 winter special once discounted a Caribbean charter to 750,000 dollars a week from a standard 910,000, evidence that rates move with season and demand rather than sitting fixed.
No named charter guest, journalist who sailed aboard, or on-record broker soundbite describing the actual experience of chartering Solandge turned up anywhere in this research, and one broker's own review page explicitly notes the absence of guest testimonials for this yacht, a real gap this page is not going to paper over with an invented quote. Current broker material places her in the Mediterranean for summer, from Spain to Turkey with peak demand around the Cannes Film Festival and the Monaco Grand Prix, while winter grounds are given inconsistently as either the Caribbean, which she is documented to have visited in 2015-2016, or the Gulf, depending on which broker's current sheet is checked.
Engines and systems
| Main engines | Twin Caterpillar diesels, reported by one source as the 3516 model with combined output cited elsewhere as approximately 2,000 kW; exact per-engine horsepower not consistently published across sources checked |
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| Gearboxes and generators | No gearbox or generator make, model or output is published on any source found for this yacht; a genuine information gap rather than an oversight in this research |
| Stabilizer | Quantum QC 2400 XT fin stabilizers with at-anchor stabilization capability (Superyachts.com specification listing) |
| Bow thruster | Brunvoll bow thruster, 240 kW (Superyachts.com specification listing); stern thruster not separately confirmed |
| Fuel tankage | 222,000 litres (one source cites 220,000 litres, a minor rounding difference rather than a real conflict) |
| Fresh water tankage | 50,000 litres (Superyachts.com specification listing) |
| What to check on a resale or long charter | Cabin count is reported inconsistently across current brokers (6, 7 or 8), and the yacht's flag state (Malta, per AIS tracking) and the George Town, Cayman Islands home port cited by several charter brokers have not been confirmed together on one source, so a serious buyer or long-term charterer should ask for the current registration and deck plan directly rather than rely on a broker sheet |
What owners and crew report
Every inch was meant to have a meaning
Interior designer Aileen Rodriguez said the owners wanted every inch of the 85-metre yacht to be special and have a meaning, and that achieving that at this scale was difficult but that her team believed they had managed it.
Aileen Rodriguez, Rodriguez Interiors, quoted by Boat InternationalExterior decks built to mirror every interior function
Exterior designer Espen Oeino said Solandge's large exterior living spaces reflect the trend for outdoor decks that mirror all of a yacht's interior functions for guest living, rather than treating outdoor space as secondary.
Espen Oeino, quoted by Boat InternationalThe owners cared about crew wellbeing as much as service
Project manager Richard Masters said the owners cared about service, but cared even more about the wellbeing of their crew, and that the owner respected the crew's own input into how the boat was run.
Richard Masters, project manager, quoted by Boat InternationalThe biggest brokerage deal of its year, and a thank-you on the record
Boat International reported Solandge's 2017 sale, at a 155 million euro asking price, as the biggest brokerage deal of that year so far, and quoted the buyer's broker SSH Maritime thanking the seller for entrusting them with the sale.
SSH Maritime, quoted by Boat InternationalNo independently posted guest account exists
No named charter guest, journalist, or on-record broker description of actually being aboard Solandge turned up in this research, and one broker's own review page explicitly notes the absence of guest testimonials, worth knowing before treating any charter description as first-hand.
Yotters research desk, based on YachtCharterFleet's own review page
What is good, and what to watch
Strong points
- An interior built without compromise on materialsRoughly 49 to 50 named marbles and granites, 33 wood species, Murano glasswork, and chandeliers specifically re-engineered so their crystals would not rattle at sea are the kind of detail a charterer can verify by simply walking the boat, not just reading a brochure.
- A proven 80-metre platform with a decade of in-service historySharing her hull and engineering with Lurssen's Ace and Quattroelle, and having chartered continuously and remained listed with major brokers for over a decade since her 2013 delivery, Solandge carries less mechanical uncertainty than a first-of-type design.
What to watch
- Ownership history does not add up cleanlyA documented 2017 arm's-length brokerage sale at a 155 million euro asking price sits alongside a separately reported, less rigorously sourced claim that she was a 2015 royal gift, and this page could not reconcile the two into one timeline.
- Current brokers cannot agree on her own cabin countPublished cabin counts vary between 6, 7 and 8 across brokers actively marketing the yacht today, a basic fact that should not be in dispute on a chartered vessel and is worth confirming directly before booking.
- No independent review of her actual charter experience existsEvery available description of Solandge comes from builder or broker material; no journalist or guest account of a stay aboard was found anywhere, so a prospective charterer is relying entirely on marketing copy rather than independent testimony.
Practical detail
| Charter rate | Approx. EUR 1,150,000/week per Fraser Yachts; other brokers including YachtCharterFleet and YachtHunter currently list $1,000,000/week for the same yacht, a discrepancy worth raising with a broker directly |
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| Historical rates | $1,000,000/week plus expenses during 2019 press coverage of the Succession filming; a discounted $750,000/week Caribbean winter special was offered in 2015-2016, down from a standard $910,000/week |
| 2017 sale | Asking price EUR 155,000,000, reported by Boat International as the biggest brokerage deal of that year so far; the actual closing price was not disclosed |
| Not publicly disclosed | Annual running/ownership costs, main engine horsepower and generator specification, the exact current cabin count, the 2022 refit's scope, and a fully reconciled ownership history since the 2017 sale |
Questions owners ask
How big is the Lurssen Solandge?
LOA: 85.1 m (279'2"), beam 13.8 m, draft 3.9 m, gross tonnage 2,899 GT. Steel hull, aluminium superstructure; twin Caterpillar diesels (exact model and output not consistently published).
Who is the Lurssen Solandge for?
A charterer or buyer drawn to an 85-metre Lurssen with an unusually rich, gemstone-heavy interior and a proven engineering platform shared with Ace and Quattroelle, who is comfortable that her ownership history since a documented 2017 sale is not fully reconciled in public sources and that current brokers do not even agree on her exact cabin count.
What is the Lurssen Solandge good at?
An interior built without compromise on materials. Roughly 49 to 50 named marbles and granites, 33 wood species, Murano glasswork, and chandeliers specifically re-engineered so their crystals would not rattle at sea are the kind of detail a charterer can verify by simply walking the boat, not just reading a brochure.
What are the drawbacks of the Lurssen Solandge?
Ownership history does not add up cleanly. A documented 2017 arm's-length brokerage sale at a 155 million euro asking price sits alongside a separately reported, less rigorously sourced claim that she was a 2015 royal gift, and this page could not reconcile the two into one timeline.
What do owners and crew report about the Lurssen Solandge?
Interior designer Aileen Rodriguez said the owners wanted every inch of the 85-metre yacht to be special and have a meaning, and that achieving that at this scale was difficult but that her team believed they had managed it. (Aileen Rodriguez, Rodriguez Interiors, quoted by Boat International)
Who it is for: A charterer or buyer drawn to an 85-metre Lurssen with an unusually rich, gemstone-heavy interior and a proven engineering platform shared with Ace and Quattroelle, who is comfortable that her ownership history since a documented 2017 sale is not fully reconciled in public sources and that current brokers do not even agree on her exact cabin count.