Nympheas
- LOA 78.9 m, beam 13.2 m, draft 3.75 m
- 2,130 GT, delivered January 2025, built as Project Toro
- Exterior and interior by Harrison Eidsgaard, their first Turquoise
- Semi-submerged Neptune lounge with underwater views
- 8.5 m pool with waterfall, hammam, indoor and outdoor cinemas
- 14 guests in 7 staterooms, crew of around 21
- Twin Caterpillar 3516E, 17 knots, Naiad stabilisation
- Lloyd's Register class, Cayman Islands flag
The yacht that opened the 80 metre era
When Nympheas left Pendik in January 2025 she was the largest yacht Turquoise had ever delivered, moving the yard's ceiling from the 77 metre GO to just under 79 metres and 2,130 gross tonnes. She is the first of the five custom yachts the yard derives from its 80 metre platform, which makes her the boat that proved the engineering every later sister now stands on, including the record-setting Angelique.
Being first of a series has a quiet benefit for her long-term value: the platform will stay in production and in the press for years, and every new delivery renews attention on the hulls that came before it. She carries the full institutional package, a steel hull with aluminium superstructure, Lloyd's Register class notation, Cayman Islands flag and naval architecture done in house at Turquoise, the arrangement the yard has refined across its recent fleet.
Harrison Eidsgaard, outside and in
Nympheas brought a new studio into the yard. Harrison Eidsgaard, the London office behind some of northern Europe's most admired custom yachts, shaped both the exterior and the interior in its first Turquoise project. The superstructure styling was developed through long iterations with the owner, arriving at a low-profile silhouette in which the curve of the arch flows into the hardtop and the mass never overwhelms the length.
The detailing rewards a second look. Glass bulwarks keep sightlines open from the deck furniture to the sea, lighting is recessed, and deck fittings sit flush so nothing interrupts the surfaces. The swim platform extends with fold-down sections into a wide waterside terrace, and the beach club and tender garage behind it were drawn as one composition. It is restrained, confident work, and it photographs the way it feels aboard.
A semi-submerged Neptune lounge and an 8.5 metre pool on a 79 metre yacht, from Harrison Eidsgaard's first Turquoise.
The Neptune lounge and an 8.5 metre pool
Two features set Nympheas apart from other yachts of her length. The first is the Neptune lounge, a semi-submerged saloon with windows below the waterline, a room genuinely few yachts at any size can offer. The second is the 8.5 metre swimming pool with waterfall, exceptional length for a sub-80 metre yacht and the centrepiece of her main aft deck.
Around those anchors the entertaining spaces stack up: two saloons, indoor and outdoor dining with bars, an indoor cinema and a second one in the open air, and an observation area forward set around a fire pit for evenings on passage. The programme reads as a yacht designed by an owner who knew exactly how his days aboard would run, then built with the volume to hold all of it.
An owner's suite with its own deck
The owner's suite comes with a lounge, an office, a private deck and its own jacuzzi, a genuine apartment with no shared circulation. Six further guest cabins take total accommodation to fourteen guests, and the wellness deck backs them with a massage room, a hammam and a gym. A crew of around 21, led from a dedicated captain's cabin and supported by a hospital cabin, keeps service ratios high.
The tender garage holds a 9.6 metre limousine tender and an 8.6 metre beachlander, with a 5.1 metre rescue tender, three jet skis and Seabobs besides, so the yacht never queues for shore services. This is the operational depth that separates a serious 79 metre from a stretched 60: every guest function has its own space, and every space has its own crew route behind it.
Engineering you can verify
The machinery is proven and openly specified. Twin Caterpillar 3516E diesels rated at 2,575 horsepower each give a top speed of 17 knots, with three Caterpillar C9.3 generator sets of 250 ekW carrying the hotel load. Naiad stabilisers work both at rest and at speed, which matters more than headline speed for how the yacht actually feels through a season at anchor.
The class notation is Lloyd's +100 A1 SSC Yacht Mono G6 with LMC and UMS, the same technical standard the yard applied to Angelique after her. Beam is 13.2 metres and draft 3.75 metres, dimensions that fit the useful harbours of the Mediterranean. For an owner reading the fleet as a market, Nympheas is the platform proof with the rarest feature set, delivered and debugged.
A chi si rivolge: The owner who wants features no charter guest has seen before, on a platform whose engineering a later flagship has already validated.