Amalya

Project Blue Marlin surfaces

Amalya went through the sheds as Project Blue Marlin, launched at Marina di Carrara in January 2025 and delivered that July. She runs to 77.7 metres with over 2,000 GT of volume on a 12.8 metre beam and a 3.5 metre draft, built in steel with an aluminium superstructure and teak decks, and her hull wears a two-tone metallic finish of white over a deep aqua blue that photographs like open water.

The timing mattered as much as the boat. Handing over a second 78 metre flagship within a year of Platinum put Admiral in territory very few builders anywhere occupy, delivering above 2,000 GT on a repeating basis, and it turned a single celebrated flagship into a programme. The client side was supervised by Imperial Yachts as project manager, a firm that oversees builds at the most demanding end of the market and accepts nothing on trust.

One studio, outside and in

Sinot Yacht Architecture and Design drew both the exterior and the interior, a single-studio arrangement that is rarer than it sounds at this size. On Platinum the Dutch office handled the interior alone, with Lobanov outside. Here the whole object belongs to one hand, and it shows in the continuity of line from the profile down to the joinery, with naval engineering carried in-house by The Italian Sea Group.

The exterior language is calm and resolved, long horizontal glazing, softly radiused deck edges and that saturated blue hull doing the work a louder superstructure would otherwise attempt. In a marina full of white wedding cakes she reads immediately as a designed object, and the effect was intentional from the first rendering. For an owner who wants coherence over spectacle, a one-studio flagship is the cleanest way to get it.

Five generators, two pods and a battery bank keep a 78 metre silent at anchor.

Kensho's drivetrain at flagship scale

Under the waterline Amalya runs the architecture Kensho proved, grown to flagship size. Propulsion is diesel-electric, with five variable-speed generators feeding a pair of two megawatt azimuthing pods, so the yacht generates exactly the power the moment requires and the pods steer thrust in any direction for close-quarters handling that a 78 metre shaft-drive boat cannot approach. Top speed is 17 knots and she cruises at 15.

A lithium polymer battery bank completes the package, letting Amalya sit at anchor in silence with no generator running and no local emissions. Variable-speed generation, pod drive and stored energy together cut vibration to levels owners describe only after living with them, and they future-proof the yacht against the harbour and emissions rules tightening across the Mediterranean. This is the drivetrain the top of the market is moving toward, delivered and working, not promised.

Twelve guests, a crew of twenty one

Accommodation follows the classic flagship formula, twelve guests in six staterooms led by an owner's suite and a VIP, with four further guest cabins, looked after by a crew of twenty one. That ratio of nearly two crew per guest is what separates a megayacht that looks the part from one that runs like a great house, with service present when wanted and invisible when not.

The amenity list covers the full flagship deck of cards, a six metre swimming pool, a spa, a gym, a dedicated dive area, a beach club at the waterline, a touch-and-go helipad and a lift connecting the decks. It is a specification written for long family seasons on board, and the quiet drivetrain beneath it is what makes every one of those spaces better in use than on paper.

The buyer's read

For a prospective Admiral client, Amalya completes a proof that no brochure could. Kensho showed the yard could engineer a novel diesel-electric flagship and win the industry's top awards with it. Platinum showed it could deliver even greater volume with total discretion. Amalya shows the clean-propulsion package repeating at 2,000 GT plus, on schedule, under the eye of the most exacting owner's representatives in the business.

She is also simply current, delivered in July 2025 with the newest systems in the fleet, and her existence means an owner commissioning the next Admiral flagship negotiates with a yard holding three recent references above 75 metres. Builders win these commissions on evidence, and evidence is what the aqua-blue hull represents. The next 78 metre conversation at Marina di Carrara starts from a delivered, working example, and that is worth more than any rendering.

Pour qui: The owner who wants flagship volume with the quietest, cleanest running in the Admiral fleet, a single-studio design from Sinot, and the reassurance of a build supervised by top-tier owner's representatives.