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The commanding facade of the tri-deck 40M is quite breath taking. Her elegant powerful lines flow around sublime architecture. Secluded sunbathing retreats, a spa bath, beautifully proportioned dining areas, and a walk-in beach club are just some of her luxurious features. Everything to ensure that getting away from it all and spending time with friends is a true pleasure. Her interior has been sculpted to exude expansive space and light throughout. Across every deck is a world that’s shaped by your personal tastes and lifestyle. This remarkable place of bespoke refinement is then finished with meticulous precision.

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If you’re considering chartering a yacht for your next vacation and are thinking, “What makes a yacht a superyacht?” then our choice of 40m yachts is a good place to start. 40m is often considered the yardstick for when a yacht becomes a superyacht, with 60m + being a mega yacht.  

Superyachts of 40 meters will often be a tri-deck design, offer accommodation for ten or more guests, and be packed with luxury features: jacuzzis, garages full of water toys and highly professional crew members.

M/Y TC | Sunseeker | 2020 | 10 guests

Motor yacht TC

This eye-catching Sunseeker motor yacht presents an angular profile across her tri-deck design. She offers all the exciting features charter guests could wish for including a sun deck jacuzzi, and a master suite with a fold-down private terrace. A choice of al fresco entertainment spaces has options for relaxing in the sun, dining or drinks plus her collection of water toys is incredible – the inflatable water park being a highlight.

Available for charter in the Caribbean

M/Y AQUA LIBRA | Sunseeker | 2018 | 11 guests

Superyacht AQUA LIBRA

Another head turner from Sunseeker, this luxury yacht offers accommodation for 11 guests and three exterior deck levels furnished with dining settings, lounge sofas and sun beds. The sun deck is a particular highlight and offers guests far-reaching views from a fabulous circular jacuzzi surrounded by sun pads.

Available for charter across the Mediterranean

M/Y RULE NO. 1 | Westport | 2011 | 12 guests

Superyacht RULE NO. 1

Having benefitted from a full refit in 2023, she boasts beautiful deck furnishings and elegant interiors with a warm and welcoming atmosphere. Created for adventure she carries a host of fishing and diving equipment ideal for exploring the delights of life on the ocean. She has a deck jacuzzi and gym equipment to keep guests on their toes plus stabilisers at anchor and underway to ensure a comfortable cruise.

Available for charter in Mexico in Winter 2023/23 and Alaska in Summer 2024.

M/Y MAVERICK | Admiral Tecnomar | 2013 | 11 guests

Superyacht MAVERICK

This award-winning yacht has the largest volume in the 40m class at 475 GT and has a range of 1,500 nautical miles. She showcases a solid profile with a plum bow and runs very quietly for a motor yacht. The elegant exterior and interiors make the perfect host for charter for family or friends and her features include a social sun deck with a jacuzzi, an eye-catching interior and a main deck master suite.

Available for charter in the Caribbean in the winter and the Mediterranean in the summer

M/Y BRAZIL | Heesen | 1993 | 10 guests

Motor yacht BRAZIL

This classic Heesen yacht was refitted in 2022 and now presents in immaculate condition while maintaining her timeless design. There is a lovely sun deck jacuzzi, al fresco dining on deck and formal dining in the main salon which features a beautiful classic décor. Accommodation is for up to 10 guests and the main deck master suite creates a private haven for primary charter guests.

Available for charter across the East and West Mediterranean and Iceland and Norway

M/Y LOHANKA | Hakvoort | 2001 | 8 guests

Motor yacht LOHANKA

Tri-deck superyacht featuring all the luxuries guests are looking for including a sun deck jacuzzi, semi-circular sit-up bar and sun pads. Her interiors have an elegant, classic aesthetic from designer Felix Buytendijk and have been beautifully maintained with refits over the years. The spacious accommodation is pure luxury and even boasts an elevator between deck levels.

S/Y QUEEN OF SALMAKIS | Custom | 2019 | 18 guests

Sailing yacht QUEEN OF SALMAKIS

A beautiful sailing yacht, perfect for large groups with accommodation for 18 guests and fabulous on-deck features. The foredeck area is filled with individual sun pads which can be covered by a bimini shad for all-day outdoor use while a jacuzzi sits resplendent on the forward area. The classic wood-panelled interior is extremely elegant and filled with contemporary comforts.

Available for charter in Turkey and Greece

S/Y STATE OF GRACE | Perini Navi | 2013 | 9 guests

Sailing yacht STATE OF GRACE

An exceptional performance sailing yacht with high quality and light-filled designer interiors. The aft cockpit is tucked into the deck and offers a lovely arrangement of sofas and dining which feels much larger than it is. The area is also covered by a soft bimini shade making it usable whatever the weather. There is a great selection of water toys including wakeboards and towables plus a fishing chair with full deep-sea equipment. Her four cabins are versatile and include a full beam master adding next-level luxury for primary charter guests.

Available for charter in select locations in the Mediterranean

S/Y ATLANTIKA | Hydro Tec | 2013 | 10 guests

Sailing yacht ATLANTIKA

Her spacious design by Silverio Della Rosa sets her apart by offering extraordinary space both indoors and outdoors on the main deck and additional sun deck, plus there is a beach area on the swim platform created when the transom door is opened. The interior is superbly contemporary with a blend of light wood finishes, a neutral colour palette and luxury furnishings.

Available for charter in Greece and Turkey

M/Y ILLUSION II | Lloyds Ship | 1991 | 12 guests

Motor yacht SKY

Originally built in the early 90s, she has benefitted from a full refit in 2023 and is characterised by her huge beach area at the stern which adds a water’s edge area to the three other levels which are all very spacious. Beautifully furnished inside and out, guests can expect a high-end charter with loads of water toys, exceptional service and wonderful accommodations.

This truly fabulous collection of superyachts represents some of our favourite 40m motor and sailing yachts available in popular charter locations like the Mediterranean and the Caribbean and more unusual and extreme parts of the world like Alaska .

Our experienced charter brokers can help you plan your next yacht charter vacation on yachts of all shapes and sizes, but superyachts of 40m (and more) make exceptional hosts.

Please contact CharterWorld - the luxury yacht charter specialist - for more on superyacht news item "What makes a superyacht: our choice of 40m charter yachts".

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The 40M Sunreef Explorer is a versatile multihull craft dedicated to discovering new horizons. Her propulsion options allow for transoceanic range and solid performance in rough seas. Blending elegance and modern technology, this luxury power catamaran can be heavily customized to match ambitious navigation plans.

The extended aft deck houses a launching crane, a 7m tender, two jet skis, and storage for a variety of water toys. With the hydraulic aft platform lowered, guests can enjoy a full-beam private beach on the luxury catamaran. The 40m superyachts’ 13.34m beam provides for immense living areas, totaling 654m² with accommodation spreading across three decks.

Custom features available for the interiors of the electric catamaran include a playroom with a self-leveling pool table, a steam room, or a master suite with a private fold-out balcony. Alfresco relaxation areas include a large sun lounge with a spa pool surrounded by oversized sunpads and a bar as well as a vast bow terrace. Contact us now to inquiries about 40m Sunreef Explorer.

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British tech magnate Mike Lynch, 5 others missing after luxury superyacht sinks off Sicily

ROME -- British tech magnate Mike Lynch and five other people were missing after their luxury superyacht sank during a freak storm off Sicily early Monday, Italy's civil protection and authorities said. Lynch's wife and 14 other people survived.

Lynch, who was acquitted in June in a big U.S. fraud trial, was among six people who remain unaccounted for after their chartered sailboat sank off Porticello, near Palermo, sometime after 4 a.m. A tornado over the water known as a waterspout had struck the area overnight, said Salvo Cocina of Sicily's civil protection agency.

One body was recovered, and police divers spent the day trying to reach the hull of the ship, which was resting at a depth of 50 meters (163 feet) off Porticello where it had been anchored, rescue authorities said. They returned to the site after 10 p.m. to see if it would be possible to search through the night, when weather conditions were expected to worsen, said Luca Cari, spokesman of the fire rescue service.

The ship had a crew of 10 people and 12 passengers, the Italian coast guard said. A sudden fierce storm had battered the area overnight, and a waterspout struck precisely where the 56-meter (184-foot) British-flagged Bayesian had been moored.

"They were in the wrong place at the wrong time," said Cocina, noting that another big ship nearby, the Sir Robert Baden Powell, wasn't as badly damaged and helped rescue the 15 survivors - including Lynch's wife, Angela Bacares.

The Bayesian was notable for its single 75-meter (246-feet) mast - one of the world's tallest made of aluminum and which was lit up at night, just hours before it sank. Online charter sites listed it for rent for up to 195,000 euros (about $215,000) a week.

One of the survivors, identified as Charlotte Golunski, said she momentarily lost hold of her 1-year-old daughter Sofia in the water, but then managed to hold her up over the waves until a lifeboat inflated and they were both pulled to safety, Italian news agency ANSA reported. The father, identified by ANSA as James Emslie, also survived, said Cocina.

Karsten Borner, the captain of the Sir Robert Baden Powell, said he had noticed the Bayesian nearby during the storm but after it calmed he saw a red flare and realized the ship had simply disappeared, ANSA and the Giornale di Sicilia newspaper reported. Borner said he and a crew member boarded their tender and found a lifeboat with 15 people, some of them injured, who they then took aboard and alerted the coast guard.

Eight of those rescued were hospitalized while the others were taken to a hotel. One body believed to be the cook was found near the wreck, but six others were unaccounted for and believed inside the hull, said Cari, the fire rescue spokesperson.

The rescue operations, which were visible from shore, involved helicopters and rescue boats from the coast guard, fire rescue and civil protection service.

Fisherman Fabio Cefal ù said he had seen a flare from shore at around 4:30 a.m. and immediately set out to the site but by the time he got there, the Bayesian had already sunk, with only cushions, wood and other items from the superyacht floating in the water.

"But for the rest, we didn't find anyone," he said from the port hours later. He said that he immediately alerted the coast guard and stayed on-site for three hours, but didn't find any survivors. "I think they are inside, all the missing people."

He said he had been up early to check the weather to see if he could go fishing, and surmised that a sudden waterspout had struck the yacht.

"It could be that the mast broke, or the anchor at the prow pulled it, I don't know," he said.

Cocina said the crew and passengers hailed from a variety of countries: In addition to Britain and the United States, passengers and crew were from Antigua, France, Germany, Ireland, Myanmar, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Spain, he said.

The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch is deploying a team of four inspectors to Italy to conduct a preliminary assessment. The Foreign Commonwealth and Development office said it was "providing consular support to a number of British nationals and their families."

Dutch foreign ministry spokesperson Casper Soetekouw said the lone Dutch citizen on board, a man, had been rescued and was not in life-threatening condition.

Lynch, once hailed as Britain's king of technology, was cleared in June of fraud and conspiracy charges related to Hewlett Packard's $11 billion takeover of his company, Autonomy Corp.

The not guilty verdicts followed an 11-week criminal trial in San Francisco that delved into the history of HP's 2011 acquisition of Autonomy, a business software firm founded by Lynch.

The fraud accusations represented a dramatic turn in the fortunes of an entrepreneur once described as the Bill Gates of Britain - a title he seemed to live up to when he netted an $800 million from the Autonomy sale.

The acquittal vindicated Lynch, who had vehemently denied wrong doing and portrayed HP as a technological train wreck.

"I'm looking forward to returning the UK and getting back to what I love most: my family and innovating in my field," Lynch said in a statement released after the verdict.

The yacht, built in 2008 by the Italian firm Perini Navi, can accommodate 12 passengers in four double cabins, a triple and the master suite, plus crew accommodations, according to Charter World and Yacht Charters.

The vessel, which previously was named Salute when it flew under a Dutch flag, featured a sleek, minimalist interior of light wood with Japanese accents designed by the French designer Remi Tessier, according to descriptions and photos on the charter sites.

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A tornado sank a luxury sailing boat off the coast of Sicily. Here’s what we know

Emergency workers in southern Italy are still hunting for at least one person who remains missing after a tornado sank a luxury yacht early Monday – prompting an air and naval operation off the coast of Sicily .

Twenty-two people are thought to have been on the yacht when the tragedy struck. Fifteen people were rescued from the wreckage, according to Italy’s Coast Guard. One body was recovered on Monday and five more were found on Wednesday, after divers struggled to reach deep inside the yacht around 50 meters underwater (approximately 150 feet).

Two Americans and four Britons were among the six initially reported missing – including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International, and Chris Morvillo, a prominent lawyer. The five bodies found Wednesday have not been identified, while the body recovered Monday is thought to be that of the onboard chef Ricardo Thomas.

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A small waterspout – a type of tornado – spun over the Mediterranean island early Monday, likely capsizing the sailing boat amid lashings of rain and strong thunderstorms.

The British-flagged yacht, called the “Bayesian,” was anchored about a half a mile from the port of Porticello, on Sicily’s northern coast. The vessel sank after its mast broke in half in the storm, Salvatore Cocina, head of Sicily’s Civil Protection, told CNN on Tuesday.

Eyewitnesses described furious gales and hurricane-like winds that left an avalanche of debris near the pier.

More than a dozen survivors were spotted in the area hanging onto life rafts, according to the captain of a nearby boat, who steadied his ship to avoid colliding with the Bayesian.

“We got this strong hurricane gust and we had to start the engine to keep the ship in an angled position,” Karsten Bower told reporters in Palermo on Monday. “After the storm was over, we noticed that the ship behind us was gone.”

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Bower and his crew rescued four injured people, he said, before calling Italy’s Coast Guard – who later rescued the remaining survivors.

One of those rescued – a child – was airlifted to the children’s hospital in Palermo. Eight people were hospitalized in total, according to the mayor’s office.

The girl’s mother, Charlotte, described how she battled to hold onto Sofia, her 1-year-old daughter, as reported by Italian news agency ANSA.

“In two seconds I lost the baby in the sea, then I immediately hugged her again amidst the fury of the waves. I held her tightly, close to me, while the sea was stormy,” she told journalists. “Many were screaming.”

The mother and daughter were later reunited with the father, James, according to a doctor at the local children’s hospital in Palermo.

“The survivors are very tired and are constantly asking about the missing people,” the doctor, Domenico Cipolla, said Monday. “They are talking and crying all the time because they have realized that there is little hope of finding their friends alive.”

Italy’s fire brigade dispatched helicopters to aid in the search, officials said Monday. After an unsuccessful attempt on Monday, the brigade sent divers to try and enter the sunken ship Tuesday, recommencing the operation on Wednesday.

The depth of the wreck means divers can only work there for limited periods of time, according to Marco Tilotta, an inspector for the diving unit of Palermo’s local fire brigade. The Italian fire brigade said Monday its divers had reached the yacht’s hull 49 meters (160 feet) below sea level.

The United Kingdom’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) said it has deployed a team of four inspectors to Palermo which is conducting a preliminary assessment of the scene.

Who was on board?

Twenty-two people were on board the Bayesian, which was flying under a British flag and had mostly British passengers and crew, in addition to two Anglo-French, one Irish and one Sri Lankan person, a spokesperson for Italy’s Coast Guard told CNN.

A troupe of high-profile guests are among those missing, including Lynch, the 59-year-old British tech investor who fought a fraud case earlier this year in the United States – which spiraled from the disastrous $11 billion sale of his company to tech firm Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2011.

His 18-year-old daughter was also named missing. Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, survived the accident. Bacares told Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica that she woke up at 4 a.m. local time, as the boat tilted. She and her husband were not initially concerned, she said, but became worried when the windows of the yacht shattered and chaos erupted.

Bacares spoke to the newspaper while sitting in a wheelchair, at a hospital in the Sicilian town of Termini Imerese. She had abrasions on her feet and bandages on other parts of her body, it reported.

Bloomer, the finance tycoon, and Morvillo, a prominent lawyer – and both their wives – are also among the missing, according to Salvatore Cocina, head of Sicily’s Civil Protection.

Morvillo, an American partner at Clifford Chance, was involved in successfully defeating the US fraud case against Lynch in June. Another employee of the firm, Ayla Ronald, and her partner, survived the incident, according to a spokesperson for Clifford Chance.

The body that was recovered from the vessel on Monday was identified as the onboard chef Ricardo Thomas, an Antiguan citizen, Reuters reported.

What do we know about the boat?

Built in 2008, the 56-meter (184-foot) yacht was manufactured by Italian company Perini Navi, Reuters reported. According to the Associated Press, the boat has been available for charter for $215,000 (€195,000) per week.

Lynch’s wife is linked to the yacht. The Bayesian is held by the company Revtom Limited, according to records from the maritime information service Equasis. The company’s latest annual return from April lists Bacares as the proprietor.

“Bayesian,” the name given to the vessel, is linked to the statistical theory on which Lynch built his fortune, according to Reuters.

The yacht’s mast stood 72.27 meters (237 feet) high above the designated water line, just short of the world’s tallest mast which is 75.2 meters, according to Guinness World Records. It was the tallest aluminium mast in the world, the Perini Navi website said.

Perini Navi is known for making “good quality boats,” according to Caroline White, deputy editor of BOAT International, a media group serving the superyacht industry.

White told CNN that if the Bayesian dismasted, “it should theoretically become more stable.” “But it might be a different story if you are in the middle of a violent storm with incredibly strong winds pinning you to the water,” she added.

Dangerous weather conditions

Strong storms across Sicily brought torrential rainfall late Sunday. Initial reports suggest a small  waterspout , which developed over the area Monday morning, could have been behind the yacht’s sinking.

Waterspouts – one of several types of tornadoes – are spinning columns of air that form over water, or move from land out to water. They are often accompanied by  high winds, high seas, hail and dangerous lightning . While they are most common over tropical oceans, they can form almost anywhere.

Matthew Schanck, chair of the Maritime Search and Rescue Council, told CNN that while waterspouts in Sicily are rare, “there is a risk” they can happen – just not every day.

Waterspouts rely on warm waters to gain energy and the Mediterranean Sea has been very hot, reaching a record  daily median of 28.9 degrees Celsius  (84 Fahrenheit) last week, according to preliminary data from researchers at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Spain.

Local temperatures have been even higher, with waters around Sicily reaching almost 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit), almost 3 degrees more than normal, Italian climatologist Luca Mercalli told CNN.

“Warmer oceans have more energy and more humidity to transfer to the atmosphere, the most important fuels for storms,” he said.

CNN’s Laura Paddison, Louis Mian, Benjamin Brown, Catherine Nicholls, Sabrina Souza, Niamh Kennedy and Eve Brennan contributed reporting.