Bold

A Flagship Born From a Pirate-Era Design Study

Silver Yachts drew the design that became Bold in 2012 under the concept name Silver Loft, at a time when Gulf of Aden piracy was pushing serious cruising owners toward hulls that could carry a helicopter, extra fuel and real speed if a passage needed it. Espen Oeino International led the exterior and naval architecture, working alongside the yard's own design office, and the brief came from a repeat Silver Yachts owner who wanted a boat that felt like a New York loft apartment rather than a conventional superyacht saloon. The concept sat on the drawing board for several years before the owner committed to building it, with construction proceeding at the yard's Henderson facility near Fremantle, Western Australia.

Bold launched in May 2019 and was delivered to her owner in July 2019 as Silver Yachts' fifth hull and, at 85.3 metres, by far the yard's largest at the time, overtaking the 77 metre Silver Fast delivered four years earlier. BOAT International's directory lists her as the flagship of a two-boat Silver Loft series; a near-identical second hull followed in 2021, later appearing in industry listings under the name Globalfast, evidence the yard considered the concept proven enough to repeat rather than a one-off experiment.

A Manhattan Loft Dropped Into an 85-Metre Hull

The main deck saloon runs under a 2.75 metre ceiling, unusually tall for a yacht this size, with a custom geometrically printed carpet and 2.5 millimetre oak parquet laid over a honeycomb subfloor. The winter garden, glazed floor to ceiling on three sides with tinted safety glass, can be closed for air-conditioned comfort in cold water or opened fully to turn the space into a covered terrace, a detail the owner asked for specifically after finding earlier Silver Yachts models short on flexible, weatherproof lounging space. Eight cabins, an owner's suite with a concealed entrance and automated blinds, three VIP cabins and four doubles, sleep up to sixteen guests, though brokers marketing her for charter and sale generally quote a certified capacity of twelve.

Where Bold departs furthest from a conventional explorer is her deck plan. The aft main deck, roughly 34 metres long, converts between a helicopter hangar, a cinema and a nightclub, and the bridge deck above can take a second helicopter with its railings removed, a legacy of the Silver Loft brief's piracy-era origins. A certified helideck rated for an AgustaWestland AW109S sits over roughly 400 square metres of open working deck, served by a 12-tonne crane that loads a 15-metre custom tender and a Rupert R6 RIB, plus, according to captain Todd Leech, a toy inventory large enough that he describes the whole yacht as 'the toy'. Five months of provisions storage and a commercial-grade galley reflect a boat built to leave port for a long time, not just for a weekend in the Mediterranean.

Twin MTU Engines and a Hull Built to Cross Oceans, Not Just Look Fast

Power comes from two commercially rated MTU 16V 4000 M73L diesels, each delivering around 3,860 hp for a combined 7,700 hp or so, turning twin screws through a semi-displacement aluminium hull that Espen Oeino designed to extend her waterline and cut wave-making resistance rather than chase raw top speed. BOAT International's own feature reporting recorded fuel consumption of 500 to 600 litres an hour at 16.5 knots, with the owner finding his best economy closer to 14 to 15 knots, numbers that broadly support the 7,000 nm range claimed at that speed. Two independent sale listings, Northrop and Johnson and Ocean Independence, both give the same split of 7,000 nm at 14 knots and 4,000 nm at 18 knots, which is more internally consistent than most brochure range figures on a boat this size.

Fuel tankage is reported at close to 150,000 litres and fresh water at about 41,500 litres by both BOAT International's directory and itBoat's spec sheet, though a more recent sale listing gives a larger fuel figure of 176,000 litres that may reflect tank work done during her 2024 refit rather than an error. Zero-speed stabilizers are fitted, confirmed independently by itBoat and Ocean Independence though neither names the manufacturer, alongside bow and stern thrusters and a Kongsberg alarm and monitoring system itBoat describes as tracking more than 2,000 channels across the boat. What is not published anywhere in the available spec sheets is a generator rating, unusual for an 85 metre yacht and worth asking about directly at a viewing; a buyer or charterer evaluating a used Silver Yachts hull should also weigh that Bold logged something like 90,000 to 120,000 nautical miles in her first several years, so engine and running-gear hours matter more here than on a yacht that mostly sat at the dock.

A Genuine 120,000-Mile Sea Record, Not a Brochure Claim

Captain Todd Leech ran that delivery passage and later told BOAT International the boat handled the Indian Ocean swell within days of leaving the builder's yard, an unusually blunt real-world test for a yacht normally shown off first at a boat show. By 2021 SuperYacht Times reported Bold had already cruised the Bahamas, the Exumas and the Mediterranean, and Leech's own account of favourite cruising grounds, the Exumas for water colour and Sardinia for consistent wind, reads like an owner's itinerary rather than marketing copy. SuperYacht Times separately reported over 90,000 nautical miles logged in her first three years, a figure current sale listings have since extended to more than 120,000 nautical miles and a full five-year circumnavigation touching the South Pacific, the Mediterranean, Indonesia and the Caribbean.

That mileage came with a cost the listings are candid about: Bold completed her five-year class survey around 2024 and came out of it with a new white hull, replacing the darker grey livery she wore when delivered and photographed underway for BOAT International's directory. She has been marketed for sale through Northrop and Johnson and Ocean Independence at the same time she remains available for charter through Y.CO, an unusual double listing that most brokers reserve for yachts whose owners are genuinely open to either outcome rather than committed sellers. Ownership itself is the one fact none of the major brokerage sites will confirm: BOAT International's editorial refers only to 'a European industrialist' who worked with Espen Oeino on five projects, while SuperYachtFan names Silver Yachts founder Guido Krass as the owner, a claim no other source corroborates and that this page treats as reported, not established.

What Bold Actually Costs, to Charter or to Buy

The EUR 875,000 weekly rate appears identically across Y.CO, Northrop and Johnson, Fraser and several other charter brokers, which is a genuine point of agreement rather than one broker copying another's number, since charter rates on a bespoke one-off like this are otherwise set by negotiation. SuperYacht Times recorded an original EUR 89,000,000 asking price when Silver Yachts itself first listed the boat for sale, a figure itBoat and Moana Yachting both still carry, but Northrop and Johnson's and Ocean Independence's current listings both show price on application, which usually means the number has moved and the seller does not want it public. SuperYachtFan's independent estimate of USD 100 million and an annual running cost of USD 5 to 10 million both track the standard industry rule of thumb of roughly 10 percent of value a year rather than any confirmed account and should be read as an estimate only.

Against her closest rivals, aluminium long-range yachts from Heesen and the occasional Sunreef power catamaran in the 50 to 60 metre bracket, Bold competes less on size, she is considerably larger than most, than on the combination of genuine range and helicopter operations few builders offer below 100 metres. Silver Yachts has since repeated the formula twice more, with a near-identical second Silver Loft hull in 2021 and, in a further departure, a run of 35.9 metre SilverCat aluminium power catamarans starting with Infinite Cat in 2022, suggesting the yard sees Bold's combination of range, deck space and speed as a template rather than a one-off. For a buyer, the honest summary is that the boat has done exactly what she was built for, verified by named crew and independent trade press rather than yard marketing alone, but the two numbers that matter most for a purchase decision, the real current asking price and the identity of the seller, are not publicly available from either listing broker.

Design

Who it is for: An owner who wants genuine range and helicopter operations on an aluminium hull built to actually cross oceans, not just look capable at a boat show, and who does not mind an interior that reads as a minimalist apartment rather than a conventional gilded superyacht saloon.

Guide price: No confirmed current asking price. The EUR 89,000,000 figure circulating on aggregator sites dates to Silver Yachts' original sale listing; both current brokers, Northrop and Johnson and Ocean Independence, quote price on application, and the USD 100 million estimate from SuperYachtFan is unconfirmed.