Feadship delivers 89.6m Milky Way, its biggest pool yet

A full-custom flagship arrives in England, not the Netherlands

Feadship's 89.6-metre Project 828 has departed the shipyard and arrived in Poole, the UK, according to BOAT International, which named the delivery on 5 August 2026. The yacht, known to her owner and the yard as Milky Way, was launched at Feadship's outfitting facility in Amsterdam in June and was spotted on sea trials shortly afterwards, before this handover closed out the build. Feadship has described the client as seeking a "highly flexible, multi-use onboard environment that supports active living and relaxation," and beyond that brief the yard has disclosed almost nothing about who commissioned her.

The handover lands inside a genuinely busy stretch for the yard: Feadship has 16 superyacht projects under construction according to BOATPro, and an 80-metre sister project, Project 826, known as Thalassa, is in its final build stages, including sea trials, with delivery also expected this month. For anyone pricing a full-custom order of their own, that order book is the more useful number than any single spec sheet - it is a rough guide to how long a build slot at this yard now takes to reach the water.

The one thing Feadship chose to talk about: a 50 square metre pool

The design Feadship did discuss centres on a main-deck swimming pool measuring 16.7 metres long by three metres wide - a little over 50 square metres of water - which the builder has called a "true centrepiece" of the layout. Studio De Voogt drew the exterior around a vertical, long bow and greater volume aft, with straight, trim lines intended to free up deck space for exactly that kind of amenity. Matt Bacon, Studio De Voogt's lead designer on the project, said: "We refined the language with a very strong vertical bow and an emphasis on the long structural lines of the decks. The mast has a very strong character to balance the volumes of the superstructure."

That combination, a long vertical bow paired with a wide, uninterrupted main-deck pool, is a design choice with a real cost: it pushes guest lounging space up and aft rather than spreading it across multiple smaller platforms, which suits an owner who wants one big statement space rather than several intimate ones. It is a legitimate brief, and Feadship has built its reputation on following a client's brief precisely rather than pushing its own house style - but a buyer copying the idea should know it is a specific trade-off, not a universal upgrade.

RWD's interior, and a sales pitch that says almost nothing about the boat itself

British studio RWD handled the interior guest and owner spaces, working in what Feadship describes as soft, flowing lines and a generous, free-flowing circulation throughout. David Waite-Wright, RWD's senior associate designer on the project, said: "From the earliest concept sketches to the very last detail, bringing this project together has been a genuine pleasure. Our partnership with Feadship is rooted in experience, expertise and deep trust, a foundation that allows us to refine and evolve each project further with every collaboration." BOAT International's own reporting notes that details, features and amenities of Project 828 otherwise remain undisclosed.

Feadship's sales director, Maarten Jansen, added: "This project reflects an intimately close collaboration between the private client and the unified project team. The client had a precise vision for a unique, full custom Feadship, and we are extremely proud of the result." Read plainly, that is a statement about the working relationship between the yard and its client, not a claim about how the finished yacht performs or lives aboard - useful context for the deal, but not a substitute for an independent account of the boat itself.

What Feadship published, and everything it did not

The confirmed specification is short: a full-displacement steel hull, a volume of 2,623 GT, a beam of 13.6 metres and a loaded draught of 3.7 metres, with Feadship De Voogt Naval Architects responsible for the naval architecture. Set against her 89.6-metre length, that tonnage and beam put Milky Way in a fairly conventional full-displacement envelope for a yacht her size, rather than an unusually voluminous or unusually slender one - a useful anchor point given how little else has been confirmed.

What has not been published is longer than what has: no engine make or power, no top speed, no range or fuel capacity, no guest or crew count, and no owner name. Feadship, like most full-custom builders, does not release contract prices either; the entertainment site Luxurylaunches has floated a build cost near USD 300 million, a figure Feadship has not confirmed and Yotters cannot verify. No independent sea trial data exists for this yacht at any speed - every number on this page traces back to the yard's own release.

Why an owner shopping at this level should care

For a buyer weighing a full-custom Feadship against a semi-custom range boat from a rival yard, Milky Way is a clean illustration of what that extra privacy actually buys and what it costs. It buys total design control - a bow shape, a pool size and an interior language built around one client's brief rather than a catalogue of options - and a design pairing, Studio De Voogt with RWD, that both firms describe as a trusted, repeat collaboration rather than a one-off commission. It also buys a build slot inside a yard currently running 16 projects at once, which is itself a signal that full-custom demand at this level has not slowed.

What it costs a prospective buyer is comparability: with no engines, speed, range, guest capacity or price confirmed, there is nothing here to set against a competing yard's brochure figures, and no independent owner or crew account exists yet to test the yard's own description against. Milky Way was delivered on 5 August 2026; every quote in this story comes from Feadship or its own design partners, not from anyone who has spent a night aboard. That is normal for a yacht days into her ownership, and it is exactly the gap Yotters will revisit if a genuine owner or crew account ever surfaces.