Lurssen's 102m Nixie Enters Charter at EUR 2.4m a Week

How much does it cost to charter Nixie, and how rare is that rate?

Nixie charters at EUR 2.4 million a week, a rate Boat International ranks as the fourth-highest of any charter yacht afloat.

Lurssen delivered Nixie in June 2026 and the yacht went straight onto the charter books with Edmiston rather than sitting in private use first. At EUR 2.4 million a week she sits behind only three other yachts in the world on price, a ranking that says more about scarcity at the very top of the market than about Nixie's specification alone: there are only a handful of yachts over 100 metres available to charter at all, and fewer still with a delivery this recent.

The owner bought the project through Moran Yacht & Ship in 2021, five years before delivery, and the yacht was sold under construction rather than bought off a completed hull. Putting a yacht this size into charter immediately is itself a signal: it offsets running costs that scale hard past 3,000 gross tons, and it puts Nixie in front of the small pool of clients who can afford her, which is its own form of market research before any resale.

What makes Nixie's beach club unusual among 100-metre-plus yachts?

Nixie's beach club is 270 square metres across four sea terraces, sitting directly beneath a six-metre glass pool, which Lurssen describes as one of the largest it has built.

The beach club and fitness area sit on the lower deck, flush with teak decking that opens via a transom hatch to create a single 270 square metre space directly over the water. Four sea terraces extend the usable area beyond what the hull's beam alone would allow, and the space includes a gym and a cryochamber, amenities more associated with a wellness retreat than a yacht's lower deck.

Above it, a six-metre-wide semi-suspended glass pool on the main deck lets light through to the deck below, a detail RWD designed specifically to tie the two levels together rather than treating the pool as a separate feature. For a charter guest paying by the week, the beach club is the space that gets used hardest in a Mediterranean or Caribbean itinerary, and it is the feature most charter brokers will lead with when they pitch Nixie against her three higher-priced rivals.

How big is Nixie and how does she compare to Monaco's other 2026 premieres?

At 102.4 metres, Nixie is the largest yacht Boat International lists as confirmed to attend the Monaco Yacht Show 2026, a status distinct from simply being the longest hull named for a world premiere there.

Nixie runs 102.4 metres in length on a 15-metre beam with a 3.9-metre draft, dimensions that keep her out of some smaller Mediterranean marinas but well within range of Monaco, Port Hercules and the larger Caribbean ports an owner chartering at this level would target. Lurssen has not published a gross tonnage figure through its own press materials, though Boat International cites a volume of roughly 3,420 GT, generous for the length and consistent with the beach club's footprint. That distinction between confirmed attendance and a merely announced premiere matters this year specifically: trade press previewing the September show has named around 45 newly delivered yachts as expected world premieres, including Oceanco's 111-metre Leviathan, which would outrun Nixie on length alone if she in fact turns up delivered and berthed. Nixie's advantage is that she already has, with sea trials and a full delivery behind her months before the show opens, while several of the yachts on preview lists are still working toward that milestone.

She is Lurssen's sixth delivery of 2026, a pace the yard has kept up through a year that has also produced smaller custom projects, and it places Nixie inside a wave of large-yacht deliveries timed to reach owners and charter books before September's show. Twenty guests across ten suites is the accommodation figure most widely reported, though neither Lurssen nor Edmiston has published crew numbers, an unusual gap for a charter yacht where guests often ask directly. For an owner benchmarking a new build against this year's field, the more useful number is not length at all but how early in its life a yacht reaches the charter market: Nixie did it within weeks of delivery, and a rival still finishing sea trials in September cannot make the same claim regardless of how long her hull runs on paper.

Who designed Nixie and what does she add to Lurssen's 2026 output?

RWD handled both exterior and interior design, finishing the hull in a bespoke warm grey with individually shaped, gradient-tinted glazing meant to blur the line between glass and steel.

RWD's brief covered the full design, inside and out, which is less common than splitting exterior and interior between two studios and usually produces a more consistent read from the pool deck down to the beach club. The gradient-tinted structural glazing is a specific technical choice: standard flat glazing on a hull this size tends to read as a hard line between superstructure and water, and Lurssen's own materials describe the graduated tint as designed to soften exactly that transition.

Propulsion is diesel-electric with an energy storage system, a configuration Lurssen has used on recent large projects to cut vibration and running noise at anchor, both of which matter more on a charter yacht where guests spend long hours at anchor in the beach club than on one built mainly for point-to-point cruising. Neither top speed nor range has been published, an omission that leaves buyers comparing Nixie to rivals like Leviathan or Turquoise's 76-metre N2H without a full performance picture.

What does Nixie's launch tell an owner deciding whether to build large and charter?

Nixie confirms that a 100-metre-plus yacht can go straight into full-time charter at a top-four rate without a private-use period first, provided the amenity mix, above all the beach club, gives charter brokers something distinct to sell.

The pattern that matters for an owner weighing a similar build is the sequence: sold under construction in 2021, delivered in 2026, chartering within weeks, with no private season in between. That is a different economics from an owner who buys to keep a yacht and charters occasionally to offset costs; Nixie reads as a charter asset from day one, priced and marketed as one, and her owner is betting that four sea terraces and a wellness deck justify a rate three other yachts still beat.

No independent charter reviews exist yet: Nixie has been on the water only since June and has not completed a season, so any account of how the beach club or the pool actually perform with guests aboard is still to come. Owners and brokers watching the ultra-large charter segment will get their first real read on that at Monaco in September, when Nixie appears alongside Leviathan, Turquoise's N2H and the rest of this year's show fleet and the market gets its first direct look at all of them side by side.