Adventure

Seen from a tender, Adventure is a textbook Feadship of her era: Terence Disdale's balanced profile, big oval windows, nothing added for effect. The surprise is inside. When new owners bought her in December 2021, while she was still called Hanikon, they handed the interior to Tino Zervudachi of Mlinaric, Henry & Zervudachi, a decorator better known for museums and grand houses than for boats. He kept the honey-coloured oak floors and panelling and layered over them reds, pinks and blues in fabrics, prints and commissioned art. The work was finished in 2022, and in 2024 the whole hull and superstructure were repainted.

The result feels like a well-loved country house rather than a showroom. Televisions are hidden, there is an upright piano, and the lighting is kept warm. The yard built her to run with very little noise or vibration, which matters more at three in the morning than any finish.

Social life happens upstairs. The sky lounge opens onto an upper aft deck where a round table extends to seat twenty, useful for a birthday or an anniversary, and glass windbreaks keep dinner going when the breeze gets up. The sun deck carries the bar, barbecue and a Jacuzzi ringed by pads that fold into a sofa, and at night a screen comes down for films under the stars; the first officer is a film enthusiast with recommendations for every age. A slide runs from the bridge deck straight into the sea.

The cabin plan explains why she is a family boat. Next to the main-deck principal suite is a massage room that turns into a small cabin with a Pullman and its own shower, so young children can sleep beside their parents. The long-serving crew is known for beach evenings with a theme and for filming each day's outings.

She is not quick, topping out at 14 knots, so she suits a week of short hops rather than long runs. And if your group is twelve adults who all want a proper double, that sixth cabin will feel like a compromise.