SpaceCat Sells After a Season of The White Lotus Fame

What sold, and for how much did SpaceCat actually go for?

SpaceCat sold on 8 April 2026 for an undisclosed price, against a final asking figure of USD 15 million that had already been cut twice from her original listing.

Burgess, IYC and Camper & Nicholsons confirmed the sale of SpaceCat, the 35.9-metre aluminium catamaran built by the Australian yard SilverYachts and delivered in 2022. Mark Woodmansey of Burgess and Michel Chryssicopoulos of IYC represented the seller, while Della Pearce of Camper & Nicholsons introduced the buyer - a three-firm structure that is itself a sign of how a single listing now gets worked from more than one desk to find a buyer. Burgess's own announcement, published on the company's site, does not state a sale price, and no other outlet has published one either. The only figure on the public record is the last asking price of USD 15 million.

That final ask was itself the product of two reductions reported by BOAT International: an initial USD 1.3 million cut brought the price to USD 17.5 million, and a further USD 2.5 million cut brought it to the USD 15 million she ultimately sold against. Two markdowns totalling roughly USD 3.8 million off the original listing is not a distressed sale, but it is not a boat that sold at first asking either - and for an owner benchmarking a similar yacht, the lesson is that even a famous one moves at a negotiated number, not a headline one.

How much did The White Lotus actually change SpaceCat's market position?

The show gave SpaceCat more public recognition than any yacht in her class normally gets, but that exposure changed her visibility, not her final price - she still sold off a twice-reduced ask.

SpaceCat took a starring role in the third season of HBO's The White Lotus, and the exposure was real: BOAT International, SuperYacht Times, Yacht Style and general entertainment outlets all covered her afterward, several running features on her design specifically because viewers recognised the boat from the show. BOAT International's own feature on her, published after the show aired, was headlined 'Inside SilverYachts' true villa on the water' - the kind of framing a catamaran with no prior public profile does not usually earn. For a builder or a charter operator, that is close to unpaid marketing at a scale no brokerage listing photo ever reaches - a catamaran with an unusual profile going from a niche design case study to a yacht millions of viewers could name.

What the sale shows is where that recognition stops mattering. A famous silhouette did not stop the asking price falling by more than USD 3.5 million across two cuts, and it did not produce a disclosed premium sale price either. Fame moved awareness, not necessarily the number a buyer was willing to sign at - useful context for any owner who assumes a media placement converts directly into resale value rather than into a longer list of interested calls.

What does SpaceCat's specification actually deliver for 481 GT?

SpaceCat trades conventional monohull volume for beam and deck space, at 481 GT delivering an 8-guest, four-cabin layout with more open living area than most single-hull yachts near her length.

SpaceCat's catamaran hull gives her a 13.3-metre beam against a 35.9-metre length - a wide, shallow-draft platform (1.8 metres) more associated with expedition and dive-support catamarans than with a design-led superyacht. Espen Oeino drew the exterior, and Pulina Exclusive Interiors did the interior fit-out; the result is a three-deck, 481 GT yacht with more than 534 square metres of interior and deck living space, an 8-guest, 4-cabin layout, and a 5.5-metre, 10,000-litre pool aft. Four 920hp Volvo Penta engines drive her to a 23-knot top speed, with a 3,000-nautical-mile range at an 11-knot cruise.

Those numbers put her in an unusual bracket: faster and shorter-legged than a typical explorer, but with far more usable open deck and pool area than a monohull of comparable tonnage. Oeino himself has described her as a 'bold undertaking', and the specification bears that out - she was designed to be looked at and lived on outdoors, which is exactly the profile a production crew building beach-club-adjacent scenes around a cast would want. It is also, for an owner, a legitimately different asset class from a standard 36-metre motor yacht, and worth pricing and comparing as one. SpaceCat is also the first hull of what SilverYachts calls its SilverCat series, built at the yard's facility in Guangdong, China, with Oeino signed on as the range's strategic design partner rather than a one-off consultant. Reporting from her 2022 launch noted that SpaceCat found a buyer quickly, and that early commercial success is what pushed SilverYachts to develop smaller 22-metre and 24-metre SilverCat hulls alongside the original 36-metre platform - context worth knowing for an owner weighing a first-of-series hull against a later, more proven one.

Should an owner chase television or film placement to raise a yacht's resale value?

Media placement builds recognition and can widen the pool of interested buyers, but this sale shows it does not by itself protect an asking price - SpaceCat still needed two markdowns to sell.

SpaceCat ran an established charter programme out of Phuket through Northrop & Johnson's Asia-Pacific desk before and during the sale process, cruising the limestone islands and secluded bays of Phang Nga Bay, and her television exposure ran alongside that commercial activity rather than replacing it - she was working, chartering and generating revenue while also becoming recognisable. Her published charter rates ranged from USD 160,000 a week in low season to USD 200,000 in the Christmas-New Year peak, plus 35 percent APA and 7 percent Thai VAT, for up to 8 guests and a crew of 9. For an owner or a charter manager, that combination is the realistic version of a media windfall: it can fill a charter calendar and shorten a listing's time on the brokerage boards, but the sale record here shows it did not stop two rounds of price cuts totalling close to USD 3.8 million.

No independent report discloses the final sale figure, so nobody outside the three brokerages and the two parties can say whether the eventual price beat, matched, or fell further below the USD 15 million ask - that gap is itself worth noting for anyone using this as a comparable. The honest takeaway for an owner is to treat a high-profile placement as a marketing asset that adds buyer interest, not as a floor under the price a yacht will actually clear.