Yacht Queen Tati Rules a Brazilian Family’s World

Nearly a year following delivery, the big, happy family who wanted to cruise together on both sides of the Atlantic have fulfilled their dream. More accurately, part of their dream. The yacht Queen Tati so far has taken them from their home waters of Brazil to the Caribbean, on to the Med, and back to Brazil. More lies ahead on the horizon, too.

The 123-footer (37-meter) is a big step up from their prior yacht, a 75-footer (23-meter). She’s also fully custom, with a design and engineering brief based on 14 years’ experience aboard the 75-footer. The patriarch of the family enjoyed island hopping off South America, including to remote isles. He chose Brazil-based MCP Yachts and Netherlands-based Vripack to fulfill the brief, which the design studio says was quite detailed.

Listening to the list of requirements from the patriarch proves it, too. “I needed a yacht that can accommodate my entire extended family,” he says. The six staterooms, two with Pullmans, just scratch the surface in terms of how Queen Tati delivers this. “I wanted a rooftop that gifts views all around with enough room for us all to camp out under the stars at night if we wanted,” he continues. Vripack therefore designed an observation deck (above) atop the flying bridge. There’s wide-open space fore to aft aboard the flying bridge (below), too. The yacht, whose launch took place in Brazil in late 2022, simultaneously accommodates the father’s desire to take the wheel himself with a second helm station on the flying bridge.

the yacht Queen Tati by MCP Yachts and Vripack

Other areas aboard needed to accommodate the full multi-generational family, too. Several seating areas, ranging from cozy to large, spread out amid the decks. Naturally, the yacht Queen Tati has a beach club (below), leading out to the toy-free swim platform. There’s no step down to the beach club, either, an important must for the family. Tucking the beach club to starboard freed up the opposite side to stow two double-seater PWCs. The 23-foot (7-meter) tender, Mini Queen, stows there as well and accommodates lots of family at once.

With an abundance of wood throughout the interior and even overhead outside, the yacht Queen Tati had more musts. “My wife wanted all the doors flush to the floor,” the patriarch explains, “and we like to use the aft deck for both eating and relaxing.” They’re all little things, essentially, but carrying a lot of weight. “Small details like that were important to us, which Vripack understood from the start,” he points out.

Equally important, as much as he wanted long range for the big cruising goals, flexible use was part of the brief. On the rare occasions they desired or needed speed, Vripack engineered the megayacht for a top end around 21 knots. She further has a wave-piercing bow. Part of the flexible use comes in being able to anchor in small bays, too, even if seas aren’t so smooth. (Brazil doesn’t have the marina infrastructure of major yachting destinations, despite a culture of boating.)

What’s next? More cruising, of course. “Queen Tati gives us a big-boat experience on a yacht where we feel close to one another,” the patriarch says. “It’s the dream.”

MCP Yachts mcpyachts.com.br

Vripack vripack.com