Lurssen's 102m Nixie lists for charter at EUR 2.4m a week
Handover, then Gibraltar
Lurssen delivered the full-displacement Nixie on 26 June and sent her out on a maiden voyage with a first stop in Gibraltar. Known as Project Jassj through the build, the steel-and-aluminium yacht measures 102.4 metres with a 15-metre beam and 3,420 GT. RWD of Britain drew both the warm grey exterior and the interior, while Lurssen handled the naval architecture in-house. She was floated out of the covered halls in February this year.
Aboard, Nixie sleeps 12 guests across 10 cabins and carries a crew of 37. The main deck holds a six-metre glass pool set part-way over the side, and the beach club runs to 270 square metres, among the largest Lurssen has built. The owners' area includes a spa with a salon, massage room, steam room and sauna. Propulsion is diesel-electric with battery storage for quieter running at anchor.
A EUR 2.4m weekly rate through Edmiston
Edmiston has taken Nixie for charter management and listed her from EUR 2.4 million per week, before the fuel, food, dockage and taxes a charter party covers on top. That places her at the very top of the current market, alongside the handful of new 100-metre-plus yachts that reach paying guests each season. She is booked to make her public debut at the Monaco Yacht Show in September.
For a buyer, the rate is a reference point for what a brand-new Lurssen of this size commands when it reaches the open market rather than staying private. For the owner, putting a fresh flagship into charter offsets part of the running cost, which on a yacht of this tonnage is measured in tens of millions a year. The decision to charter also puts the yacht in front of the audience most likely to commission the next one.
What it says about the order book
Nixie is Lurssen's sixth handover of 2026, a pace the German yard has rarely matched, and she follows the 114-metre Nausicaa and other large deliveries out of the same group of yards this year. The volume points to an order book that filled during the strong buying of the past few years and is now reaching the water.
For an owner considering a build, that backlog is the real signal. Slots at the top yards for 100-metre-plus steel are scarce and dated well out, so a delivery like Nixie is both proof the queue is moving and a measure of how long it remains. Buyers who want length sooner go to the brokerage and charter markets instead, and that is the demand yachts like Nixie are built to meet.