Roe

• LOA 73.6 m, beam 14.2 m, draft 4.05 m
• 1,684 GT, launched June 2021 as hull NB66
• Exterior by Andrea Vallicelli, interior by Ken Freivokh
• 100 sq m owner's suite with private forward terrace and jacuzzi
• Helipad on the owner's private foredeck
• Pool on the main deck aft, beach club with fold-down terraces
• Twin Caterpillar 3516C, 17 knots, 7,000 nm at 12 knots
• Lloyd's Register class, Cayman Islands flag

The speculation that paid off

Roe began life without an owner. Turquoise laid her down on speculation, a decision that takes conviction at 73.6 metres, and the bet resolved in 2018 when she sold while still in build. Spec construction at this scale is how confident yards compress delivery times for buyers who will not wait four years, and Roe is the modern yard's proof that it can carry that risk and find the client before the paint shop does.

She launched in June 2021 and entered service as the first yacht in the yard's Vallicelli line, the hull family that Infinite Jest continued two years later. The launch press reached for the phrase classical elegance, and the boat supports it: a restrained profile, long foredeck and balanced superstructure in steel and aluminium, with naval architecture done in house at Turquoise, as it is across the modern fleet.

More beam than the flagship

Roe carries 14.2 metres of beam on 73.6 metres of length, a full metre more than the yard's 87.7 metre flagship Angelique. Width at this ratio changes the arithmetic of the whole boat: 1,684 gross tonnes of volume, full-beam rooms drawn to the proportions of a house ashore, and the steadier motion at anchor that beam delivers before a stabiliser fin ever moves. It also set the template Infinite Jest inherited.

The accommodation was drawn for up to fourteen guests in seven en suite cabins, with a separate captain's cabin on the bridge deck and crew quarters listed for up to nineteen. Range is 7,000 nautical miles at 12 knots, which puts a Caribbean season, a transatlantic and a Mediterranean summer inside one fuel plan. These are the numbers of a yacht built to be lived aboard for months, not shown at anchor for weekends.

Roe carries a full metre more beam than the yard's 87.7 metre flagship.

A hundred square metres, and a private foredeck

The owner's suite measures around 100 square metres and comes with an office, a private forward terrace and a jacuzzi of its own on that terrace. The helipad sits on the same private foredeck, which produces a rare arrival sequence: the owner can land, step down and be in the suite without crossing a guest space. On most yachts of this length the helicopter and the privacy are a trade. Here they share an address.

The rest of the water programme spreads across the decks: a swimming pool on the main deck aft, a second jacuzzi on the bridge deck for guests, and a beach club at the stern with fold-down terraces that open the lower deck to the sea. The tender garage and toy stowage sit amidships, so the stern platform stays clear for swimmers, and stabilisers work at anchor, where a wide-beamed yacht spends most of her season.

Freivokh below decks

The interior is by Ken Freivokh Design, the British studio whose portfolio includes the interior and styling of the sailing yacht Maltese Falcon, one of the most recognised yachts afloat. At Roe's scale the studio had room to work: a cinema, a steam room, a beauty salon and a gym sit alongside the guest accommodation, and an elevator links the decks so the yacht remains effortless for every generation of a family aboard.

Freivokh is a designer owners tend to hire directly and repeatedly, and his presence on a Turkish spec build in the late 2010s said something about where the yard was heading. Turquoise was assembling the same calibre of creative roster as the northern European yards, Vallicelli outside, Freivokh inside, and putting it on a hull the yard had priced and started itself. The finished boat carried that argument to the Mediterranean, where the market could inspect it.

Conventional power, institutional paper

The engine room holds twin Caterpillar 3516C diesels of 2,575 horsepower each, the same proven units the yard fitted to GO, for a top speed of 17 knots and an easy cruise around 14. Class is Lloyd's Register with the 100 A1 SSC Yacht Mono G6 notation, the flag is Cayman Islands, and the build is steel below, aluminium above and teak underfoot. Every part of that sentence is serviceable in any major refit yard in Europe.

For a buyer studying Turquoise today, Roe is the pivot boat. She proved the yard could start a 73 metre on its own account, attract a first-rank design team, sell the boat before launch and deliver a hull family strong enough that the next owner ordered a sistership. GO announced the modern yard, but Roe demonstrated its business model, and the Vallicelli line she opened remains one of the widest-beamed ways to own 75 metres.

Who it is for: The owner who values width, privacy and a helicopter arrival that ends at the suite door, on a hull family proven twice over.