Yacht One Heading for Palm Beach: Sunday Superyacht Video

American owners enjoyed a treat in The Netherlands on the launch day for their yacht. The team at Van der Valk Shipyard flew the Stars and Stripes to honor them and their yacht One. It was an even bigger treat for the owners and the yard staff collectively because the launch, on May 30, was ahead of schedule.

With delivery now expected in July, the megayacht previously went by the code name Project 111.11, which hints at her 111-foot (34-meter) length. A full-displacement design, the yacht is also entirely custom. The owners chose Van der Valk Shipyard for its ability to custom build in a size that rarely is fully tailored. Given their three decades of cruising experience, they had strong insight into what suited their lifestyle. Initially, they wanted a 121-footer (37-meter) with four decks. But, after some detailed discussions with the yard team, they requested the yard propose a size and design with their must-haves. Specifically, their list for the yacht One included five staterooms, a main saloon, a skylounge, and a transformable tender garage/beach club.

Van der Valk recommended the full-displacement engineering platform from its yacht Lady Lene. Notably, the owners still got four decks with the 111-foot LOA. “The layout we ultimately developed revolves around entertaining large groups of people in style on a 34-meter vessel with a genuinely impressive degree of volume,” shares Yoeri Bijker, head of sales and marketing.

Multiple conversations ultimately led to the final interior design with Carla Guilhem Design, too. She suggested a cozier alternative to the owners’ original wishes for hard lines. They like the idea so much, in fact, that they gave Guilhelm free reign for colors, textures, shapes, and more. The only stipulation was to share some sketches first—which took her just 72 hours to create.

What she created for the yacht One is pretty creative, too. Guilhem describes it as having “a futuristic feel,” featuring lots of round shapes echoing the moon and Mars. Furniture, overhead details, and windows specifically reflect these shapes. Furthermore, there’s an asymmetrical skylounge.

None of these unusual design elements mean that the yacht One ignores practical needs, though. Instead, abundant helpful features are throughout. For instance, a laundry chute is in the master suite’s walk-in wardrobe, leading to the laundry room below decks. The laundry is in proximity to the watertight door between the crew area and the guest foyer as well. And, thanks to the skylounge’s asymmetry, the crew have a side deck adjacent to it, for direct access from the bridge to the aft deck. Ultimately, every aesthetic and functional touch supports the long-range cruising that the yacht One is now starting to do.

Carla Guilhem Design carlaguilhem.com

Van der Valk Shipyard vandervalkshipyard.com