Just Perfect's Y95 Price Falls $805,000 Inside Its First Year

How much did the price on Just Perfect fall, and why does the timing matter?

Just Perfect's asking price fell from $11.8 million to $10.995 million on 1 September 2026, an $805,000 cut equal to 6.8 percent, on a Princess Y95 delivered new in 2025. A discount that size inside a boat's first year on the water is unusual and worth an owner's attention, not just a buyer's.

Just Perfect is the seventh hull in Princess Yachts' Y95 series, a 29-metre (95-foot) flybridge motor yacht built at the Plymouth yard with naval architecture and exterior styling by Bernard Olesinski. She measures 6.77 metres in beam and 1.96 metres draft, displaces at 155 gross tons, and carries five en-suite staterooms for up to 10 guests, including a full-beam owner's suite forward on the main deck. Power comes from twin MAN V12-2000 diesels at 2,000hp each, 4,000hp combined, driving twin screws. The listing, tracked by YachtBuyer on 1 September 2026, is carried across the Denison Yacht Sales and Worth Avenue Yachts networks and centrally listed through HMY Yacht Sales' Waterway Marina office, which is standard practice for a US brokerage sale rather than a sign of anything unusual about this particular boat.

Neither broker's listing states why the price moved, how many hours the twin MANs have run, or whether any of the other six Y95 hulls delivered so far have changed hands at list price or below it, all of which a serious buyer should ask for directly rather than assume from the spec sheet. The cut did not happen in isolation: the same YachtBuyer digest that flagged Just Perfect on 1 September also listed a $305,000 reduction on a 27-metre Sunseeker 88, a EUR 600,000 cut on a 38-metre Sanlorenzo SD126, and a EUR 850,000 cut on a 38-metre Azimut Grande Trideck, all inside the same week. One price cut is a seller's decision. Four brands cutting in the same size bracket in the same week is closer to a read on where demand sits heading into the September show season.

What do independent reviewers say the Y95 is actually like at sea?

Two independent sea-trial reviews, three years apart, agree the Y95 handles flat and quiet at any speed thanks to zero-speed stabilisers, but they disagree by two knots on top speed, and neither reviewer's headline range figure survives contact with the boat's own fuel-burn numbers at a realistic cruise.

Darko Sipuk, editor in chief of Yachts Croatia, sea-trialled the Y95 for a review published 24 July 2026 and reported a 23-knot top speed against fuel burn of 800 litres an hour, a comfortable 18-to-20-knot cruise at 500 litres an hour, and an economy speed of 10 knots at just 70 litres an hour, drawing on a 13,818-litre tank. He wrote that the boat "behaves flawlessly at sea, gliding calmly regardless of the sailing speed," and credited the zero-speed stabilisers and hydraulic thrusters for motion so smooth that "it is hard to say precisely how fast you are going, because 6, 10 or 18 knots, it all feels the same." An earlier review of the model by Nick Burnham for YachtBuyer, published under his Aquaholic byline and last updated 11 December 2023, put top speed at 25 knots and range at 2,000 nautical miles, and called the boat "stunning" with "excellent features and luxurious finishes," without recording a single criticism.

The two knots of difference between 23 and 25 is ordinary trial-to-trial variance from load, fuel state and sea condition, and not worth reading into. The range figure is worth reading into. Burnham's 2,000-nautical-mile number holds only at the 10-knot economy speed and its 70-litre-an-hour burn; run Sipuk's own numbers at his stated 18-to-20-knot cruise and the 13,818-litre tank empties in roughly 27 to 28 hours, which is closer to 500 nautical miles, a quarter of the headline figure. Neither review states this plainly, because neither was written to compare the two speeds against each other. A buyer reading "2,000nm range" on a brochure or a listing sheet should ask which speed it assumes before planning a passage around it.

Is $10.995 million a fair price for a nearly-new Y95, and where does it fall short?

At $10.995 million, Just Perfect buys a near-new, well-reviewed hull with genuine handling praise from two independent sources, but the price still sits above what a tight crew complement and a real-world cruising range a quarter of the brochure figure would suggest for a boat competing against faster and better-crewed yachts in the same size class.

What the price buys: a hull not yet a year old rather than a used boat several owners deep, twin 2,000hp MANs with headroom over the smaller Y-range boats, a full-beam owner's suite and five staterooms sleeping 10, a retractable transom beach club, and handling that two independent, three-years-apart reviewers both singled out for praise without prompting from Princess or a broker. The interior finish, walnut joinery against pale upholstery with floor-to-ceiling glazing on both sides of the saloon, is consistent across the yard's own press photography and both written reviews, which is a level of agreement across independent sources that a buyer does not always get.

What it does not fully answer: a 29-metre, 155-gross-ton yacht carrying 10 guests on 3 to 4 crew is a tight ratio next to a true superyacht of similar length, where the crew complement is usually built around round-the-clock five-star service rather than a production flybridge layout. The advertised 2,000-nautical-mile range, as shown above, only applies at a 10-knot economy speed few owners actually cruise at. And a price cut this size, this early, on a boat still under most of its original builder's warranty, is itself informal evidence that the seller expects softer demand ahead rather than a quick sale at list, which is consistent with the concurrent cuts YachtBuyer logged on the Sunseeker, Sanlorenzo and Azimut listings the same week.

What should a buyer check before making an offer on Just Perfect?

Before offering, a buyer should get engine hours, remaining builder warranty terms, and comparable Y95 sale prices in writing from the broker, none of which the public listings disclose, and should treat the brochure range figure as an economy-speed number rather than a cruising one.

None of the public listings for Just Perfect disclose engine hours, service history, or the reason for the reduction, and a broker asked directly should be able to supply all three along with confirmation of how much of Princess's original new-build warranty remains on a 2025 delivery. A buyer should also ask what, if anything, the other six Y95 hulls delivered to date have sold for against their original list prices, since that is the real comparable for whether $10.995 million is now roughly in line with the market or still a premium over it.

The broader pattern is worth tracking rather than acting on alone: one boat's price cut is routine, but four production-range yachts between 27 and 38 metres marked down in the same trade-press week, heading into the Cannes and Monaco shows later in September 2026, points toward softer near-term demand in that bracket specifically. An owner deciding whether to list a similarly sized yacht this autumn, or a buyer deciding whether to wait for a further cut, both have reason to watch what happens to these four listings, and others like them, through the show season rather than treat Just Perfect's reduction as an isolated data point.