RMK Splits Its Livia Concept Into Three Owner Lifestyles

Three Versions, One Hull Philosophy

RMK Yachts unveiled three new interpretations of its Livia concept on 20 August 2026: Aura, Core and Infinite. All three keep the platform's shared design language, drawn up with the Istanbul studio Red Yacht Design, of expansive indoor-outdoor living, panoramic glazing and a restrained exterior profile. What changes between them is the brief each was built to answer. Aura is arranged around entertaining, with social terraces running unbroken from bow to stern and a large aft pool as the centrepiece of the lower deck. Core turns the same hull toward family life, trading some of that open social space for calmer, more private arrangements and interiors built on proportion rather than detailing. Infinite is the exploration version, with a more robust exterior architecture, hybrid propulsion readiness and deck areas laid out for extended voyages rather than at-anchor entertaining.

RMK and Red Yacht Design have not said which hull size each lifestyle version is built on, or whether an owner can mix elements across them. That matters because Livia is not one yacht: since the concept's Monaco Yacht Show debut in 2025, the platform has grown into two disclosed sizes, a 72 metre flagship at roughly 1,700 GT and a 50 metre variant under 500 GT, each with its own build timeline. Whether Aura, Core and Infinite are three finishes of the same hull or three separate silhouettes across those sizes is a question RMK has left for buyers to raise directly with the yard.

A Turkish Yard Betting on the Semi-Custom Middle Market

RMK Marine was founded in Istanbul's Halic district in 1978 to build yachts in steel, aluminium and composite, and joined Turkey's Koc Group in 1997, when it took the RMK Marine name and moved to its current 70,000 square metre yard in Tuzla. The facility can build steel and aluminium superyachts up to 80 metres and composite yachts to 40 metres, with design, engineering, fabrication and outfitting under one roof. Historically the yard's superyacht output has been modest next to its naval and commercial shipbuilding, with deliveries such as the yacht Sarafin standing out more for scale than volume. Livia is RMK's attempt to build a repeatable semi-custom line in the crowded 50 to 80 metre bracket, alongside a second concept, the Polar Class expedition yacht Petra by Hot Lab, and a third platform the yard says will debut at September's Monaco Yacht Show.

On 7 August 2026, RMK named Fraser Yachts and Moravia Yachting as joint central agents for the Livia series, with Sotiris Konstantakis at Fraser and Robert Lander at Moravia named as the lead brokers. Appointing two brokerages of that standing to sell a design that exists only on paper is itself a signal: it puts Livia's distribution in front of the same buyer networks that sell finished yachts from Feadship or Sanlorenzo, rather than leaving the concept to sell itself through boat show foot traffic. For an owner, that also means the first real test of demand comes not from RMK's own marketing but from what Fraser's and Moravia's client books do with it over the next year.

What Each Version Costs an Owner in Time

The build timelines disclosed for the two known Livia sizes are steep by the standard of an established yard: 24 months for the 50 metre and 36 months for the 72 metre flagship, measured from contract rather than from keel-laying. Those figures predate the three-lifestyle announcement, and RMK has not said whether choosing Aura, Core or Infinite changes the schedule, though a more customised interior specification typically adds rather than subtracts time in semi-custom builds. The 72 metre's disclosed 1,700 GT and twelve guest cabins, alongside a spa, a bow tender and toy garage, a helideck and a fold-out aft beach club, describe a yacht built for a large group and heavy toy loadout rather than a small family cruising light.

None of the three lifestyle versions has a published price, and RMK has not confirmed an order for any of them. That is normal for a concept at this stage, but it leaves a buyer with a real gap between the renderings and a contract: no sea trial exists because no hull has been laid, no independent surveyor has assessed the yard's semi-custom build quality at this size, and the two brokerages now representing Livia have, as of this writing, not confirmed a signed buyer for any version. An owner drawn to the design is buying RMK's Tuzla facility and Red Yacht Design's studio as much as the renderings themselves.

Where Livia Sits Against the Established Yards

The 50 to 80 metre semi-custom bracket Livia is entering already carries established names running production-line economics against custom-yard finish: Sanlorenzo's 500 EXP and larger platforms, Heesen's aluminium fast-displacement range, and Italian Sea Group's Admiral line all compete for the same buyer who wants a shorter build slot than a full-custom Feadship or Lurssen without giving up the sense of a tailored interior. RMK's answer is to push the tailoring further than most, offering not one interior scheme per hull but three distinct lifestyle briefs, betting that a buyer choosing between Aura, Core and Infinite will feel closer to a full-custom commission than a catalogue order, even on a platform built to a repeatable schedule.

For Turkey's wider shipbuilding industry the stakes are broader than one yard. RMK's Tuzla neighbours have spent the past decade moving up from motor yachts into the superyacht bracket, and a 72 metre semi-custom line sold through Fraser and Moravia would be among the largest results of that push if it converts to a signed contract. RMK has said a third Livia-adjacent platform will debut at the Monaco Yacht Show in September, alongside its Polar Class Petra concept, which will be the next point at which the yard's ambitions in this bracket are tested in front of the brokers and owners who actually attend that show, rather than in a press release.