Solandge

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.

Para quién es: 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.