Moonen's Lollipop Delivers, the Eighth Hull Since 2018

What exactly did Moonen deliver, and when?

Moonen delivered Lollipop - hull YN206 in its 122 Martinique series, 37.40 metres and 345 GT - to her American owner in June 2026, after sea trials in the North Sea earlier in the year.

Lollipop left Moonen's yard at Hellevoetsluis, in the Netherlands, threading a canal lock and a lifting road bridge on her way to open water - the same inland route every hull in the series takes out to sea. She carries five guest cabins across an owner's stateroom, two VIP staterooms and two further guest cabins, sleeping ten guests plus two, with a further seven crew in a captain's cabin and three crew cabins. Twin Caterpillar C32 ACERT diesels, rated at 1,900hp each, take her to 17 knots flat out and a cruising speed in the mid-teens, with a quoted range of 4,000 nautical miles at an economical 10 knots - enough for an Atlantic crossing without refuelling, which is the series' standing sales pitch.

The naval architecture is Diana Yacht Design's, unchanged across all eight hulls delivered so far. Moonen's own managing director, Nicky van Zon, called the sea trials successful and said Lollipop "represents everything Moonen stands for - quality, reliability and understated elegance." That's a yard talking about its own boat, not an independent verdict, and no third-party sea-trial report or owner interview has been published yet - Lollipop only left the water this summer, and her first European cruising season is barely under way. Moonen's own fleet page rounds the date differently, saying simply that she was "delivered in May 2026" - a minor inconsistency against the press release and BOAT International's reporting, both dated to mid-June, and a reminder that even a yard's own account of its own boat is not always internally consistent.

Why does hull eight look and feel different from its seven sisters?

The 122 Martinique is a semi-custom series - the hull, naval architecture and exterior lines are fixed, but Moonen lets each owner choose an interior designer and decor scheme, and hull eight is the first to hand that job to Vripack.

Every hull in the series, including Lollipop, carries an exterior by Rene van der Velden Yacht Design and naval architecture by Diana Yacht Design - the two constants that let Moonen build a proven hull repeatedly rather than re-engineer one from scratch for every client. What changes hull to hull is everything inside the shell. The series began in 2018 with Brigadoon, which won a World Superyacht Award and set the template; hull seven, Ad Astra, was delivered before Lollipop; hull eight is where Moonen first gave interior design in full to Vripack, the Dutch studio better known for full custom projects. Vripack's co-creative directors, Bart Bouwhuis and Marnix Hoekstra, described the brief as turning "a unique vision and a touch of Dutch pride" into the interior - marketing language rather than a specification, but the outcome is concrete: hull eight is the only Martinique with a Vripack interior throughout, and it doesn't resemble hulls one through seven.

That structure is the actual argument for buying into a series like this rather than commissioning a one-off: an owner gets a hull whose behaviour at sea Moonen has already proven eight times over, while still getting to pick the one part of the boat - the interior - that determines how it feels to live aboard. The trade is that the owner inherits somebody else's naval architecture and exterior silhouette, full stop; nobody buying a Martinique gets a different hull shape, whatever they specify inside it.

What did personalisation actually buy this particular owner?

Lollipop's owners spent their customisation budget on a sundeck Jacuzzi behind curved, candy-coloured glass and a cocktail bar with real lollipops and sweets embedded in a transparent countertop, on top of a metallic hull finish blending white, silver and blue-grey.

The glass is the harder engineering problem of the two: Moonen and its suppliers had to bend thick glass panels into a curved, candy-inspired shape for the sundeck Jacuzzi surround without introducing the optical distortion that ruins a view - a version of the same bent-glass problem Lurssen solved for Project Cosmos's owner's-study dome, just at a different scale and for a very different aesthetic. The cocktail bar is more straightforwardly theatrical: a transparent countertop with lollipops and candy suspended inside it, lit from below with soft pastel tubing so it glows after dark. Both details are visible only on this hull; hulls one through seven carry none of it.

None of this comes with a published price tag - Moonen hasn't broken out what the bespoke glasswork or the bar cost against a standard-specification Martinique, and no supplier has been named for either piece. It's also, by any normal read of the yacht market, a highly personal bet. A themed sundeck bar reads as delightful to the owner who commissioned it and as a fixture the next owner has to either love or rip out; Moonen's own chosen language for the series - "understated elegance" - isn't really what a lollipop-studded countertop delivers, and the yard hasn't claimed otherwise.

What does a hull like this cost, and what happens to Lollipop next?

No confirmed price exists for Lollipop specifically; brokerage listings put a new 122 Martinique's base price near EUR 25.5m, well below the roughly EUR 30-50m a fully custom 37-metre explorer typically costs, and Lollipop's next public appearance is the Monaco Yacht Show in September.

Moonen hasn't disclosed what Lollipop's owners paid, for the base yacht or for her customisation. Third-party brokerage figures put a new-build 122 Martinique's base price at roughly EUR 25.5m, though that number comes from listing aggregators rather than the yard, and a used Martinique hull was separately advertised for resale at EUR 27m - a different, already-delivered boat, not a like-for-like comparison with a new order. Buyers weighing a semi-custom hull like this against a fully bespoke 37-metre explorer are typically looking at a premium of 30 to 50 percent for the custom route, which is the whole commercial case for a series: Moonen spreads its engineering cost across eight-plus hulls and passes some of the saving on, while the owner gives up the freedom to change the naval architecture.

Lollipop's near-term future is already set. After her first Mediterranean season, she goes to the Monaco Yacht Show in September 2026 as Moonen's demonstration yacht - visitors will be invited aboard her at the same show where Moonen is marketing YN208, a further hull the yard's own release calls its tenth 122 Martinique, currently under construction at Talsma Shipyards for delivery in 2027 with the interior brief still open. For a buyer who wants this hull shape without somebody else's lollipop bar, that open slot is the real opportunity - not Lollipop herself, who isn't for sale.