Renegade Charters at EUR 175,000 a Week, Lists for EUR 8.95m Too

What is Renegade and why is her 2026 Cannes appearance her first-ever boat show debut?

Renegade is a 49.85-metre, 499 GT motor yacht built in Brisbane in 1992 by Lloyds Ships Holdings under the project name Fiesta 23 and delivered as the 43-metre Robusto, and despite three and a half decades in the water she is appearing at a boat show for the first time this week at the Cannes Yachting Festival, 8 to 13 September 2026.

YachtCharterFleet, which covers the festival's charter fleet every year, names her as the largest charter yacht making her show debut at Cannes in 2026 - a notable claim for a hull old enough to have been sold, chartered privately and refitted for over thirty years without ever once sitting on public display at a major show. The original naval architecture was drawn by Bernie Cohen Design working with Alan Dowd, with Rainsford Mann Design (credited elsewhere as Ricky Smith) responsible for the interior, according to YachtBuyer's fleet listing - a wholly Australian design and build team, which was unusual for a yacht of this size delivered into what was then a market dominated by European and American yards.

The reason a 1992 delivery can credibly appear at Cannes for the first time in 2026 is that the yacht in the water today is not really the yacht that was delivered. A 2016 rebuild added seven metres at the stern, and a full exterior repaint carried out in 2025 and 2026 - the specific contractor for which is not named in any press material this desk has found - means the hull now presents as current a shape as many yachts a decade younger. She sails under a Cayman Islands flag, and YachtCharterFleet places her berth for the show inside the Vieux Port, the festival's most central and highest-traffic mooring area, rather than at one of the outer pontoons where older or less prominent charter yachts are more typically placed.

What did Renegade's 2016 stretch from 43 to 50 metres actually add?

The 2016 rebuild took Renegade from 43 metres to her current 49.85 metres by extending the aft end of the hull, and the new length went into a broader aft deck with fold-down side balconies, twin staircases and a substantially larger swim platform at the water, according to YachtBuyer's fleet record.

That is a deliberate choice and it matters to anyone weighing the same move on their own yacht: an owner extending a hull can add volume anywhere, and Renegade's rebuild put nearly all of it into guest-facing social space at the stern rather than, for instance, a larger owner's suite or additional cabins - she still carries five cabins and accommodates ten guests (eight comfortably, per YachtCharterFleet) exactly as a yacht of her original size might. The fold-down balconies and twin staircases are features associated with newer-build 50-metre yachts, not 1990s tonnage, which is precisely the point of the exercise: the stretch was bought to make an older hull read and function like a current one at the waterline, where charter guests and show visitors actually look.

What the rebuild did not change is the platform underneath it. Renegade runs on twin MTU 396 TB94 16V diesels rated at roughly 3,000hp each (6,000hp combined) per YachtBuyer's listing, giving a top speed of 17 knots and a cruising speed given as 12 knots by BOAT International's own charter listing and 11.5 knots by YachtCharterFleet - a discrepancy this desk has not been able to resolve from public material, though both figures describe a genuinely modest yacht by the standards of new-build 50-metre tonnage, which more often cruises at 14 to 16 knots. Range is given consistently at 3,500 nautical miles, and both listings note stabilisers that work both underway and at anchor - a fit that was standard on very few 43-metre yachts when she was originally delivered in 1992, and was likely added or upgraded as part of the 2016 work even though neither source states that explicitly.

Why is Renegade listed for both charter and sale at the same time?

Renegade is simultaneously marketed for charter at EUR 155,000 a week outside high season and EUR 175,000 a week in high season, per BOAT International's listing, and for sale at an asking price of EUR 8,950,000, per YachtBuyer - a dual listing that is common for older charter yachts nearing a change of hands but one that puts a hard number on what her rebuild and refresh are worth to a buyer today.

The arithmetic is straightforward for anyone comparing her to a new-build alternative: at a EUR 8.95m asking price, Renegade costs a fraction of a new 50-metre yacht from a European yard, which would typically run well into the EUR 30m-plus range before options, and her charter income at EUR 155,000 to 175,000 a week gives a buyer who intends to charter her a income stream against that price that a brand-new hull, still working off a longer build queue and a higher basis, cannot match in the short term. That is the specific trade a stretched-and-refitted older hull offers over a new build: lower capital outlay and immediate charter income, against a top speed, cruising speed and range that a modern hull of the same length will beat comfortably.

The dual listing also carries a real risk for anyone chartering her this coming season: a change of ownership mid-charter-year can mean a change of management company, crew or onboard policy with little warning, and prospective charter guests booking now have no public information on whether a sale, if one happens, would interrupt her charter calendar. Neither BOAT International nor YachtCharterFleet's coverage addresses what happens to existing charter bookings if she sells, and this desk found no statement from a broker or management company on the point.

What does chartering Renegade actually get a guest that a newer superyacht might not?

Renegade's case to a charter guest is proportional space and a current-generation toy inventory on an older hull, not speed or range: at 499 GT for ten guests she is roomier per head than several narrower-beam competitors near her length, and her water toy list - a Sea-Doo GTX Limited 300, a LIFT eFoil, two Seabob F5S units and a Sublue Seabow, carried aboard a Magazzu MX-12 Gran Sport tender and a 2017 Williams 385 - is refreshed to a standard that matches yachts built well after 1992.

No independent owner or captain commentary on Renegade specifically is publicly available - this desk searched BOAT International, YachtCharterFleet, YachtBuyer and the wider trade press and found none, which is worth stating plainly rather than dressing up a broker's own description as a guest's experience. What is verifiable is the specification itself: 11 crew for 10 guests is a generous ratio at this size, the full-beam master suite dates from the 2016 rebuild rather than the 1992 original, and stabilisers operate both underway and at anchor, which matters more to a charter guest's actual week aboard than either of the disputed speed figures above.

The honest comparison for a buyer or a charter guest is against a yacht built specifically for the water toy and beach-club-led charter market that has grown up since 2015 - Renegade was not designed for it and was adapted to it, and the adaptation shows most clearly in the stern rebuild rather than anywhere else on board. A prospective charter guest paying EUR 175,000 for high-season week is buying a large, roomy, well-equipped yacht with a genuinely current stern and a 1990s foredeck and powertrain behind it, at a rate broadly in line with newer 45 to 50-metre tonnage - the trade is proportional space and toys against top-end speed and the reassurance of a fully modern build.