102 Arcadia 2017 Yacht for Sale

The first Arcadia 100 was produced with an eye-catching owner’s suite forward on the main deck, its bed surrounded on three sides by huge windows—there’s a glass roof as well, laminated with photovoltaic panels—and a substantial head and shower, as well as an open-plan dressing area. It is a sleeping cabin of rare distinction, but in the standard layout this forward area is intended as a private family sitting room, with sofas and a big TV. Alternatively, if you prefer, it can be furnished as the yacht’s main dining room. In all cases a door leads out onto the foredeck, where there is a small private dinette. Set amidships on the port side, a bright, spacious, and professional-looking galley has a door onto the side deck, and can serve the bow as easily as the cockpit.

There are also options down below. Our 100 was fitted out amidships with an impressive double en suite to starboard, which lay opposite a comfortable sitting room with a sofa bed, a bulkhead-mounted television, and its own impressive head and shower compartment. Sliding partitions along the centerline can be used to separate these areas and create two private en suite cabins.

About the only areas of the yacht that conform to the standard layout are the two twin-berth guest cabins on either side of the main companionway, which feel unusually spacious for secondary guest accommodation, with their efficient, square layouts, roomy head compartments and 6 feet 9 inches of headroom. Forward, five crew berths in three cabins are complemented by an uncommonly spacious crew mess and pantry, in an area which could otherwise be occupied, if you wish, by a VIP en suite. At the other end of the hull, an enormous tender garage can accommodate a substantial RIB—there was a 14-foot 10-inch Williams 445 on board during our sea trial—along with a couple of personal watercraft.

This yacht is full of surprises, but perhaps nothing is quite as surprising as the upper deck, where the sole helm station is to be found, along with a seating area and a bar. On all sides, sliding windows can be raised to create a sheltered, upper saloon. Most ingenious, it’s the sort of feature you expect to find on a 100-meter superyacht, not a 100-footer.

This custom yard shows its sensitivity to the human scale with a saloon that is both spacious and intimate.

Arcadia’s new motoryacht promises to be as comfortable under way as at anchor. Stunning design and quality finish combine to create a vessel with real depth and character, one that will be a pleasure to be aboard, even on an extended cruise.

Setting up a new shipyard is never easy, and perhaps especially not in the Bay of Naples. But Arcadia seems content to brush off the difficulties it can’t control and focus on those it can—building utterly distinctive motoryachts that deliver.