Burgess Lists Wally's Casa With Her Own Purpose-Built Support Yacht

What are Casa and Playa, and why are they being sold together?

Casa, a 2016 Wally 27.3m, and Playa, a 2018 Lynx YXT 27 support yacht built for the same owner, are both listed with Burgess broker Samuel Artmann at reduced asking prices of EUR 5,950,000 and EUR 4,950,000, and can be bought together or separately.

Casa came first, bought as the owner's primary yacht and built around Wally's open-air, indoor-outdoor living concept. Playa followed two years later, commissioned specifically to extend what Casa could offer: extra storage, more toy-carrying capacity and operational flexibility that a 27-metre primary yacht cannot fit without giving up guest space. That is a deliberate two-boat programme, not two separate owners' yachts that happen to share a broker, and it is unusual enough that Burgess and BOAT International are both marketing the pair as a single proposition rather than two unrelated listings.

Both yachts will be shown at the Cannes Yachting Festival, with Playa on display in the show marina and Casa available at anchor nearby for viewings - a practical detail that matters to a buyer trying to picture how the pair would actually work together on the water, rather than judging each hull in isolation from a brochure. Reduced pricing on both boats at the same time, ahead of the same show, reads as a broker pushing to close the pairing as a unit before Cannes rather than waiting out two separate sales processes.

What is the Wally Casa, and what does she offer as a standalone yacht?

Casa is a 2016-built, 27.33m Wally motor yacht designed by Luca Bassani, with accommodation for eight guests in three cabins, twin Caterpillar engines, a 12-knot top speed and a 3,800-nautical-mile range at 10 knots.

Wally's Italian yard built her around the brand's minimalist open-air design language: expansive glazing runs the full length of both main decks, giving 360-degree sea views from the interior, while a forward jacuzzi and large sunpads anchor the foredeck. The owner's suite opens directly onto Wally's signature sea terrace through sliding doors, which is the kind of detail that only works if the yacht is designed around outdoor living from the start rather than having a terrace bolted onto a conventional layout afterward.

None of that leaves much room for the equipment a more adventurous cruising programme needs - tenders beyond a small day boat, watersports toys, dive gear, or a car for shore excursions - and that gap is exactly what the owner built Playa to close two years later. Twin Caterpillar engines are modest for a 27-metre yacht at a 12-knot top speed, which fits a boat designed for at-anchor living rather than fast point-to-point passages, and the 3,800nm range at 10 knots suggests long-legged cruising was part of the original brief even before Playa existed to support it.

What is the Lynx Playa, and what does a support yacht actually carry?

Playa is a Lynx YXT 27 support yacht delivered in 2018 by Lynx Yachts in the Netherlands, with naval architecture by Diana Yacht Design and exterior styling by Bernd Weel, built around an expansive aft deck for tenders, toys and vehicles plus a gym, sauna, steam room and hyperbaric wellness chamber.

BOAT International's report on the sale gives a delivery year of 2019. Burgess's own listing for the support yacht - the actual selling broker, and the primary source for a build record - states 2018 twice instead, once in the specification summary and again in the description, and that is the figure used here as the live number; the discrepancy is recorded so it does not resurface uncorrected in a later story.

Where Casa is built for living, Playa is built for capacity: her aft deck and beach-club-style arrangement can swallow tenders, water toys, adventure equipment and a vehicle, while accommodation is limited to three guests in a single VIP cabin - enough for the crew running the equipment, not for hosting. The gym, sauna, steam room and hyperbaric chamber are an unusual specification for a support vessel this size, and point to a boat meant to be lived aboard for stretches during an expedition-style itinerary rather than simply shuttled behind the primary yacht and ignored between uses.

Why would an owner buy two 27-metre yachts instead of one larger one?

Splitting a cruising programme across a primary yacht and a dedicated support vessel lets each boat specialise - Casa for guest living, Playa for equipment and crew-run activity - rather than compromising a single hull to do both jobs at once.

A single yacht large enough to carry Casa's living spaces and Playa's toy garage, dive compressor, extra tender storage and vehicle deck would likely need to be considerably longer than 27 metres, with all the extra crew, running costs, marina fees and permitting that length brings. Two 27-metre yachts, by contrast, each sit in a size bracket with lighter costs, shorter waiting lists at most marinas, and a wider pool of qualified crew and secondhand buyers if the owner later sells - the same liquidity argument that applies to any well-established model, doubled.

The trade-off is operational complexity: two yachts mean two sets of crew, two maintenance schedules, two sets of insurance and berthing arrangements, and the logistics of keeping both boats in the same place when the owner wants to use them together. That complexity is presumably worth it to this owner, since the programme was built deliberately rather than assembled by accident - Playa was commissioned two years after Casa specifically to solve a gap Casa's design could not close without giving up what made her work as a primary yacht in the first place.

What should a buyer weigh before buying Casa and Playa together?

At a combined EUR 10.9m for two nine- and eight-year-old 27-metre yachts, the pairing is a documented, real-world example of the primary-and-support strategy - genuinely useful for an owner deciding whether to copy it, and genuinely limited by how much is still not public about either boat's condition.

In favour of the pair: both yachts come from name-brand studios with clear design credits (Luca Bassani for Casa, Diana Yacht Design and Bernd Weel for Playa), both are sold through a single broker who can coordinate a combined viewing at Cannes, and the reduced asking prices suggest a seller motivated to close rather than a speculative overpriced listing. Buying both also removes the biggest risk in copying this strategy from scratch - the multi-year wait and cost overrun risk of commissioning a new-build support yacht - since Playa already exists, is already fitted out, and can be inspected today rather than promised for 2028.

Against it: neither listing discloses engine hours, refit history, or independent survey findings for either hull, so a buyer's real diligence starts well past what the brokerage material can tell them, exactly as with any nine- and eight-year-old yacht. The pairing also only works as a unit if a buyer actually wants Casa's specific open-air layout and Playa's specific equipment-and-wellness spec; a buyer who wants a different primary yacht cannot use this deal to skip commissioning their own support vessel, and would be buying Playa on her own merits alone.