Majesty 62M

Purpose-built for the atolls

The 62M was designed around one place and one pattern of use. Gulf Craft developed her for the island-hopping rhythm of Maldivian and tropical resort ownership, short fast passages between anchorages, long days on the water, guests who arrive by seaplane in pairs, and weather that makes shade and airflow the true luxuries. It is a pattern the builder knows intimately through its own Maldives yard, which has served the islands' boating trade for years.

The M in the name is a mission statement. Where the standard 62 packs four cabins for extended family cruising, the 62M clears the plan out to two suites and spends the recovered volume on living space, light and stowage for water gear. It is the rare production boat drawn from an actual usage pattern instead of a segment chart.

Two suites, four guests, zero compromise inside them

The owner takes a full master with en suite, guests a VIP double, and that is the entire manifest, four people sleeping aboard in comfort that a four cabin boat of this length cannot offer any of them. A crew cabin with its own head keeps a captain or couple aboard without touching guest space.

Enlarged windows and openable elliptical portholes flood both suites with the light the tropics provide free of charge, a detail the yard enlarged deliberately for this variant. The result reads closer to a resort villa's sleeping wing than to a conventional boat interior, which is precisely what her owners cross-shop her against. Guests notice the difference the first morning, when the light arrives across the water and the cabin feels like part of the lagoon.

Two suites, an enclosed hardtop and 30 knots on a 1.2 metre draft, a yacht drawn for the atolls it lives in.

Thirty knots across the lagoon

Twin Caterpillar C18 diesels of 1,136 hp each drive the planing hull to 30 knots, turning the spread-out geography of an atoll nation into a neighbourhood. The morning dive site, the lunch sandbank and the dinner resort can sit forty miles apart and still belong to the same day. Speed in this geography is a hospitality feature, it decides how much of the day belongs to the guests.

Draft is the other tropical number, 1.2 metres at full load, shallow enough to anchor inside lagoons that turn larger yachts away. With 3,796 litres of fuel aboard, the fast island-hopping pattern runs for days between top-ups, and the Caterpillar dealer network across the Indian Ocean keeps the machinery argument practical.

The hardtop is the headline deck

The signature feature above the waterline is the extended enclosed hardtop flybridge, a shaded, ventilated upper room that works through the equatorial midday when open flybridges empty. Helm, lounge and dining live up there with the horizon on three sides, and the enclosure turns the space into a second salon after dark.

The main deck follows tropical logic, L-shaped seating indoors and out, wide walkways, and a cockpit-to-platform flow built around swimmers, snorkellers and the constant traffic of a boat that lives at anchor. Every surface specification assumes sun, salt and bare feet, which is the honest brief for where these boats actually work.

A niche the market forgot to build

Resort-world owners have long been forced to choose between day boats with no accommodation worth the name and family yachts hauling four cabins of dead weight for two people. The 62M answers that gap from a production line, at production cost, with Gulf Craft's Maldives yard sitting inside the boat's home waters for service and refit.

She launched in 2022 and remains in production, quietly finding the buyers she was drawn for, resort operators, second-home owners in the islands, and Gulf owners who winter in the Indian Ocean. For anyone whose yachting is genuinely tropical, she is the rare boat designed off their actual calendar. In a market that mostly clones its own bestsellers, a boat this specific is unusual, and her owners tend to know exactly why they bought her.

What the badge does not tell you

Gulf Craft sells at least three distinct boats under the 62 name on the same 18.8 metre hull, and the naming does not separate them cleanly in the secondary market. The original Majesty 62 sleeps seven guests across four cabins behind twin MAN i6-800 diesels, cruising at 20 knots for a stated 450 nautical mile range. The 2021 Majesty 62 Maldives kept a similar cabin count but moved to a single helm station on the flybridge, dropping the lower dual-helm arrangement for a simpler, resort-focused layout. The 62M that followed in 2022 went further still, clearing the accommodation plan to two suites for four guests and fitting the heavier Caterpillar engines that define this page. A buyer scanning brokerage listings for a used 62 needs to check the year and the engine spec line by line, because the name alone will not tell them which boat they are looking at.

None of the three variants has a published new-build price, and none has attracted an independent sea trial that Yotters could find, so a buyer is working from Gulf Craft's own figures whichever version they choose. What is confirmed is the regional support behind all of them: Gulf Craft's Umm Al Quwain yard and its Farfalla Marine dealer network sit inside the same tropical waters the 62 family is built to serve, from the Maldives to Southeast Asia. For an owner who cross-shops European flybridge yachts shipped in for the same market, that local service and parts chain is a real, checkable advantage, even where the headline specification sheet is not. The one commercial data point found sits away from all three: a Dubai day-charter operator, Aqua Experiences, markets a 62-foot Majesty for sightseeing runs past Palm Jumeirah and the Burj Al Arab at up to 25 day guests, a figure built for excursion capacity rather than any of the three overnight configurations above.

A chi si rivolge: An owner living the tropical resort pattern, two couples at most aboard, who wants speed, shade and shallow draft ahead of cabin count.