There is good news for those who love chartering splendid superyachts every summer. The 336-foot Nixie, a Lürssen beauty, has been delivered to her owner and is already primed for the charter market. The 3,420 GT vessel is built in steel and aluminum, with exterior and interior design by RWD, and in-house naval architecture and engineering by Lürssen. Sleek is the first impression, followed by subtle and striking. Her immense volume makes room for luxury amenities centered around recovery, with a rich spa culture, plentiful natural light, and serene silence.
According to BOATPro, motor yacht Nixie has embarked on her maiden voyage, with Gibraltar as her first stop, and is available through Edmiston from about $2.74 million per week. Before she makes waves with her global debut at the Monaco Yacht Show this September, let’s have a dekko at what makes Nixie so novel.
Nixie, the novel one-
Almost every other yacht, especially a superyacht, looks beautiful largely because of sheer stature. In Nixie’s case, however, it is essential to take a closer look at the details to fully appreciate her and give her an A+. What first catches the eye is the bespoke warm-grey hull and superstructure. The gradient-tinted glazing, which visually dissolves into the metalwork, is another particularly refined touch. According to some sources, the exterior glistens with a pearlescent finish, giving Nixie a chameleon-like quality that changes her character with the light.
Inside, she offers an array of comforts, including a semi-suspended architectural glass pool that hangs over the swim platform on the main deck aft. Surpassing even the pool is the beach club, which in Nixie’s case is one of the largest beach clubs Lürssen has built to date. The vessel boasts 270 square meters of lower-deck waterside living space when the terraces are opened, a commodious 144-square-meter gym, a cryotherapy chamber, a spa placed not on the lower deck, as seen on most yachts, but on the sundeck, a helideck, indoor and outdoor cinemas, a hospital room, and much more. According to Boat International, 12 guests can sleep in 10 cabins, serviced by a crew of 37. As for the well-heeled owner, the large owner’s suite takes pride of place forward on the private owner’s deck, complete with a dedicated study, two dressing rooms, and his-and-hers en suites with twin bathtubs and steam showers. There is also teppanyaki dining on the owner’s deck.
Overall, Nixie is not trying too hard to prove that being aboard is fun; instead, she embodies a newer sense of luxury rooted in calm, composure, and wellness, the true mantra of modern living. That calm extends beyond subtle interiors and neutral hues to the way the yacht moves. With diesel-electric propulsion and advanced energy storage, the yard has achieved high levels of onboard comfort through reduced noise and vibration.
At her December 2023 technical launch, Nixie slid down the ways flying German and Canadian flags side by side at the bow, a tantalizing hint that a lucky Canadian billionaire may soon be flaunting this striking Lürssen. And at nearly $3 million a week, Nixie promises yachting enthusiasts the kind of spectacle they once expected from behemoths like Flying Fox, now private and called Hadar, Feadship’s Breakthrough, and the rest of that rarefied league.
