Turquoise's 88m Angelique, Turkey's Largest Yacht, Opens for Charter

Turkey's biggest yacht answers to a Monaco calendar now

Turquoise Yachts put Angelique in the water in January 2026 and announced her handover on 27 May, from the yard's Pendik facility on the Istanbul waterfront. Multiple trade titles, including Boat International, Robb Report and SuperyachtNews, independently describe her as the largest yacht ever built in Turkey by length and by gross tonnage, a record that stood unchallenged as of this run. She was previously known during construction as Project Vento, the name under which naval architecture and early renderings first circulated.

The next milestone is not another delivery number but a public one: Angelique makes her first appearance before showgoers at the Monaco Yacht Show, running 23 to 26 September 2026, according to YachtCharterFleet's announcement that she has officially joined the show's attending fleet. For a yacht that has so far only been seen by her builder, her designer and prospective charter guests on paper, Monaco is the first chance for the wider market to walk her decks and judge the finish in person.

The numbers behind an 87.7-metre flagship

Angelique runs 87.7 metres overall on a 13.2-metre beam and a 3.9-metre draft, built in steel with an aluminium superstructure over five decks and finished in teak on the outer decks. Boat International's delivery report puts her at 2,646 GT, a figure repeated by Robb Report and YachtCharterFleet. Twin MTU 12V4000 M65L diesels, rated by Robb Report at 2,574 bhp, give her a 17-knot top speed and a 14-knot cruise, modest numbers for her length that trade the outright pace of a lighter-displacement hull for volume and range.

She carries up to 12 guests across seven flexible cabins with a crew of 27, figures confirmed identically by Boat International and YachtCharterFleet. Turquoise CEO Burak Akgul framed her not as a one-off but as "the second, and largest, of five custom yachts derived from our 80-metre platform," which matters to anyone shopping a Turkish build slot: a buyer commissioning the next hull in that series is paying for a hull form and systems layout the yard has already built and tested twice, not a first-of-type prototype.

H2 Yacht Design turns five decks into a resort

H2 Yacht Design did both the exterior and interior, a relationship its founder Jonny Horsfield says runs more than 20 years deep with Turquoise; he called the finished interior craftsmanship "the finest I have ever seen from any shipyard," a maker-side quote the desk treats as promotion rather than independent review. The signature interior gesture is a central atrium built around a suspended Dale Chihuly glass sculpture, with a full private owner's deck carrying its own lounge, office, dressing rooms and a terrace Jacuzzi set apart from the guest decks below.

The guest amenity list is unusually deep for an 87-metre hull: a 6.5-metre glass-sided pool with a contra-flow current on the main deck, a beach club with drive-in tender docking and fold-down terraces, a full spa with hammam, sauna and treatment room, a panoramic bridge-deck gym, a golf simulator and DJ booth, and a foredeck helipad that converts to a multi-sport court. The sundeck adds teppanyaki and barbecue grills, an outdoor cinema screen and a bar, while the main saloon seats 16 for formal dining, the kind of spec sheet built for charter turnover rather than one owner's private routine.

The price and the season: Mediterranean now, Caribbean by winter

Edmiston's own listing for Angelique currently quotes EUR 1,300,000 a week; Boat International's delivery coverage in May reported EUR 1,200,000, a gap of roughly EUR 100,000 that most likely reflects the rate card moving between the delivery announcement and the boat actually going on the water for charter. Both figures are given here rather than picked silently, since the desk could not confirm which one, if either, is stale. She is booked for the Mediterranean through summer 2026 and repositions to the Caribbean for winter 2026-27, the standard dual-season pattern for a yacht her size chasing charter revenue on both sides of the Atlantic.

Occam Marine acted as owner's representative through the build, and its co-founder Giles Frankal called the project "exceptionally well planned and supported," the only first-hand account of the build process the desk could find. Turquoise has not named a private buyer, and no owner has spoken publicly about Angelique in any trade coverage the desk reviewed; every quote so far comes from the builder, the designer or the owner's representative firm, not from the person who is actually paying for her. That is worth flagging plainly: a flagship this size normally draws at least one interview with the owner or their captain within months of delivery, and none has surfaced yet.

What Angelique tells an owner considering a Turkish build slot

The case for Turquoise's platform is now easier to make with a second built hull to point to: a repeatable 80-metre base, a design house with two decades of continuity on the account, and a named owner's-representative firm willing to vouch for how the project ran. For a buyer weighing an Istanbul yard against the longer queues at Italian or Dutch builders, Angelique is evidence the yard can deliver a near-90-metre flagship on a platform it already understands, rather than a first attempt at scale.

The weaknesses are just as concrete. A 17-knot top speed sits below what several MTU-powered rivals near 90 metres now post, so a buyer prioritising outright pace over volume should look elsewhere. No independent sea trial report, fuel-burn table or running-cost figure has been published beyond the builder's own numbers, and the purchase price itself remains undisclosed, with only the charter rate in the public record. And because Angelique is the second application of a five-hull platform rather than a bespoke one-off, a buyer paying for full exclusivity is not getting it here; the next three hulls off the same base are already implied by Turquoise's own description of the series.