Trinity's Carpe Diem is for sale for the first time in 15 years

Fifteen years, one owner, first time for sale

Carpe Diem, the 58.2-metre aluminium motor yacht Trinity Yachts delivered in 2011, has come onto the brokerage market for the first time. Boat International reported the listing on 4 August 2026, with Burgess brokers Crispin Baynes and Matt Emerson naming an asking price of $32,500,000; Fraser's Lon McCloskey and Stuart Larsen are marketing her too, a common arrangement when a yacht is offered through more than one house. She has had a single owner since delivery, and the brokers are treating that as the headline fact: fifteen years without a change of hands is unusual at this size, where a resale every four or five years is closer to the pattern.

Trinity Yachts built her in aluminium, one of a small number of American yards working at true superyacht length, at the Gulfport, Mississippi facility it moved production to after Hurricane Katrina damaged its original New Orleans site. The yard was founded in 1988 by the Olympic sailor John Dane III. Carpe Diem is classed by ABS, runs 749 gross tons on a 10.2-metre beam and a 2.6-metre draft, and her exterior lines and naval architecture are credited to Geoff Van Aller, Trinity's longtime in-house designer.

The Art Deco interior that earned her a nomination

Her interior is the work of Carol Williamson, who set out to build a genuine Art Deco yacht rather than a generic contemporary one dressed up with a few period details. Black lacquer panelling runs through the main saloon and the corridors, set against pale upholstery and polished stone, and the bar and the passageways carry black-and-white photographic prints of Marilyn Monroe among other period portraits. The formal dining room seats twelve under the same dark joinery, and the effect is deliberately theatrical rather than restrained, closer to a 1930s ocean liner's smoking room than to the pale, beach-house look that dominates most yachts her size.

That interior was good enough to be named a finalist for both the World Superyacht Awards and the ShowBoats Design Awards in 2012, the year after her delivery. A nomination is not a win, but it is an independent, juried acknowledgement from the two award programmes the industry itself treats as credible, and it means Carpe Diem's design has already been tested against her contemporaries once rather than only being described by the brokers selling her now.

What fifteen years and a rebuild bought back

The single biggest fact for a buyer weighing a 2011 hull against a new build is what has already been renewed. Carpe Diem's twin Caterpillar engines were rebuilt in 2024 under a five-year manufacturer warranty, her generators were replaced in 2023, and her stabilisers were upgraded to a zero-speed Quantum system. None of that is cosmetic: engines, generators and stabilisers are the three systems most likely to cost a new owner a bad first year if they are neglected, and all three have now been dealt with inside the last two years rather than left for the next owner to discover.

She also completed her 15-year ABS survey in 2026, the classification society's own independent structural and safety review rather than a broker's description. Passing that survey at 15 years old is a genuine data point on the hull and machinery's condition, distinct from and more useful than the sales copy, and it is the kind of check a buyer would otherwise have to commission and pay for themselves before making an offer.

Twin Cats, 5,000 miles and a full toy locker

Power comes from two Caterpillar diesels rated at 3,384hp apiece, giving a top speed of 21 knots and a cruising speed of 17 knots. Fuel capacity is 87,774 litres, which the brokers quote as good for roughly 5,000 nautical miles at a slower 10-knot setting, enough for an Atlantic crossing or a full Mediterranean-to-Caribbean season without hunting for a fuel dock along the way. The sundeck carries a forward jacuzzi, a midships wet bar and a gym aft, spread across a deck plan built for guests to move between sun and shade rather than sit in one spot.

Her tender and toy inventory is built for a working charter programme rather than a single quiet cruise: a 7-metre Novurania Chase tender with triple engines, a 6.7-metre Nautica landing tender at 197hp, four WaveRunners, waterskis and wakeboards, and six sets of scuba gear with its own compressor. A 15-year-old yacht with that depth of water toys, kept current, tells a buyer the previous owner used her hard rather than let her sit at a dock, which is exactly the kind of detail a class survey does not capture.

One asking price, two brokerage desks

At $32,500,000, Carpe Diem is priced as a used 58-metre with recent capital work already done rather than as a fresh delivery, and Fort Lauderdale, where she currently lies, puts her within reach of both the US charter market and a straightforward Atlantic crossing to the Mediterranean. Listing her through both Burgess and Fraser at once widens her exposure to each house's own client list, though it also means a serious buyer should confirm with either desk which one is actually leading any offer before going further.

What is not public is any independent sea-trial figure taken since the 2024 engine rebuild; every performance number in this piece is the brokers' own listing data, not a surveyor's or a class society's beyond the 2026 ABS structural review. YachtCharterFleet also markets her for charter at the same time she is listed for sale, which is common but means a genuinely interested buyer may need to work around existing charter bookings to view or survey her, something worth raising with the brokers before booking a trip to see her in person.