Gulf Craft's Ninth Majesty 120, Yoto, Splashes for Q3 Delivery

A Ninth Hull, and a Line That Has Not Stopped Since 2020

Yoto touched water at Gulf Craft's Umm Al Quwain yard in the second week of August, the ninth Majesty 120 to be built since the model's debut at the 2019 Monaco Yacht Show. Delivery to her owner is scheduled for the third quarter of 2026. A tenth hull is already under construction at the same yard, with a summer 2027 handover, according to production data tracked by BOATPro and confirmed in Gulf Craft's own launch materials.

Nine boats in six years without a break in the order book is the number that matters here more than any single spec. The Majesty 120 sits in the most contested size band in the market, 35 to 40 metres, where Sanlorenzo, Ferretti, Benetti and a dozen smaller Italian and Turkish yards all compete for the same buyer. A production line that keeps moving through that crowd is Gulf Craft's clearest evidence that the model has found a genuine repeat clientele rather than a single good year.

What Yoto Actually Is: Engines, Speed and the Range Question

The Majesty 120 is 37.5 metres length overall on a 8.1 to 8.44 metre beam, depending on which of Gulf Craft's own published figures you take, with a 2-metre draught and roughly 290 gross tons. Twin MTU 16V 2000 diesels, rated at 2,600hp each, are the standard powertrain. Gulf Craft's own materials cite a 22-knot top speed and a 16-knot cruise; the only independent trial data available, a YachtBuyer sea test of an earlier hull, put real-world performance closer to 20 knots flat out and 12 knots cruising, and estimated the engines nearer 2,500hp rather than the catalogue 2,600hp.

That gap between brochure and trial numbers is not unusual for a semi-custom yard without a large independent test fleet, but it is worth an owner's attention before he signs. Fuel capacity is another figure that will not settle cleanly: two independent sources, a specification aggregator and the YachtBuyer review, both put the tank at 20,869 litres, while Gulf Craft's own newsroom cites 29,700 litres, a 42 percent difference that likely reflects two different build configurations rather than an error on either side. At the lower figure and a 16-knot cruise, range comes out close to the 1,500 nautical miles Gulf Craft advertises; nobody has published a fuel burn curve to check it against.

The Semi-Custom Pitch: What an Owner Can Actually Change

Gulf Craft builds the Majesty 120 to order rather than off a fixed spec sheet, and the completed hulls show it. Past owners have specified a metallic silver hull finish in place of the standard gloss white, reworked the galley from the catalogue layout into an open, guest-facing arrangement, and altered the guest cabin count: Gulf Craft's own current materials list six cabins for twelve guests, while BOAT International's superyacht directory lists an earlier delivered hull at five cabins for ten, which is the semi-custom system working as intended rather than a contradiction to resolve. Naval architecture is by Soyaslan Marine, with interiors by the Italian studio Cristiano Gatto Design, a pairing that has stayed consistent across all nine hulls.

The yacht's defining engineering choice is electrical rather than cosmetic: apart from the main engines and generators, the Majesty 120 runs without hydraulic systems, a first for the Majesty range. Stabilisers, thrusters, deck doors and the transom garage are all electrically driven. Gulf Craft's stated case is lower long-term maintenance and less noise at anchor, both of which are plausible engineering outcomes of removing a hydraulic circuit, though no independent reliability data exists yet across a fleet this size to confirm it in service.

Where Majesty 120 Sits Against the European Yards

Gulf Craft has never published a base price for the Majesty 120, semi-custom builds rarely carry one, and Yoto's price to her owner was not disclosed. The nearest public data point is a resale: a Majesty 120/05 was listed this year at 18,000,000 US dollars, though an asking price on a used semi-custom yacht says little about a new-build quote with a different owner's options list. BOATPro's brokerage tracking puts the model's average time on the market at 473 days with an average price reduction of 11.7 percent from first asking, both close to the norm for a 37-metre yacht and neither a standout in either direction.

That positions the Majesty 120 as a value argument against the Italian yards rather than a prestige one. A buyer choosing between a Gulf Craft and a similarly sized Sanlorenzo or Azimut is typically trading a lower purchase price and genuine layout flexibility against the resale premium and brand cachet the Italian names still command in the Mediterranean charter and brokerage market. Nine repeat sales in six years suggests that trade works for a specific kind of buyer, most often first-time superyacht owners moving up from a 100-footer rather than owners trading within the established fleet.

The Owner's Brief: What to Check Before You Sign

Nick Burnham, reviewing an earlier Majesty 120 for YachtBuyer, called the engine room "clean and well-specced" with careful attention to access, and praised the beach club as "shaded, protected, and ideal for relaxing at anchor." He noted the galley, when reworked into an open layout, felt "warm, sociable, and part of the guest experience" rather than a service space, and flagged that the standard tender garage is a garage first: stow a tender in it and any furniture normally kept there has to go somewhere else, a trade-off worth walking through with the yard before finalising the aft deck layout.

No independent report exists yet on Yoto specifically; she is days from her first sea time and every figure attached to her so far is Gulf Craft's own. For a buyer this late in the production run, the practical questions are less about the boat's basic soundness, nine hulls have already answered that, and more about which of the two published tank figures, which of the two published cabin counts, and which of the two published performance sets actually apply to the specific hull on offer. Gulf Craft's semi-custom model makes every one of those a configuration question rather than a fixed answer, which is exactly why they belong in the contract discussion rather than the brochure.