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Published
01/28/2025 by

Making her debut at the 2024 Monaco Yacht Show, Royal Huisman’s Special One showed the world just how special she is. Her list of superlatives is long, but to take it from the top, at 52 meters / 171 feet, she’s the world’s largest true sportfisherman and powers out to fishing grounds at 30+ knots. She’s also a superyacht in every sense of the word with five staterooms for the owner’s party, including two stretching full beam. 

Beautiful walnut joinery, exotic stonework, and bespoke furnishings dominate the interior. She features a unique, three-person pneumatic glass-enclosed elevator, and showcases the first yacht installation of a commercial grade 3D sonar fish finder. Designed for multi-generational living, Special One has indoor social spaces on three decks including formal dining, and exterior living spaces on six. She sets a new benchmark in the world of big game fishing boats, and she does all this while staying below 500GT.

 

Meeting the owner’s brief

The owner’s goal for this yacht – his first custom order – was for the ultimate luxury sportfishing yacht. He is a passionate fisherman who loves spending family time on the water. Now that his son and grandsons were taking fishing holidays with him, he had outgrown his US-built Viking 92 sportfish. While giving up nothing in terms of fishability or the speed at which he could access fishing grounds, he wanted to be able to accommodate the entire family on long expeditions, offering them a superyacht environment. 

His goal was to entertain larger numbers of people in comfort, especially for time aboard while the fishermen are not actually reeling in their catch. Because the yacht might be operating in remote locations while chasing large ocean-going fish, reliability was a top concern.  He assembled…

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