Bold is an 85m all-aluminium yacht launched in 2019 by SilverYachts in Henderson, Western Australia, with naval architecture and exterior design by Espen Øino, an interior brief that pulled the SilverYachts platform into a more refined contemporary register, and a top speed that puts her behind her 77m predecessor Silver Fast on speed but ahead of any conventional steel 85m on range. As of May 2026 she is largely an owner-use yacht, with charter availability irregular and route history dominated by the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia. The asking price if she ever returns to market is not currently disclosed.
Bold is the SilverYachts platform at its current scale ceiling. She is what Silver Fast wanted to be when Silver Fast grew up: more guest volume, more refined finish, longer endurance, and a deck flow that finally puts the social heart of the yacht where guests want to spend a week, rather than where the hull form would prefer to put it. If you are reading this because you saw her at anchor and asked the question, the next step is to understand that she is a different proposition to the conventional 85m steel displacement yacht and to charter her, you charter her on her own terms.
What Bold actually is
The SilverYachts thesis is the same on Bold as it was on Silver Fast: aluminium hull, fine-entry passage-maker geometry, four-engine MTU propulsion, range that matches a steel passage-maker at speeds a steel passage-maker cannot match, draft shallower than a comparable steel yacht of the same LOA. What changed at 85m versus 77m is the volume budget. The extra 8 metres of LOA and the additional beam unlock guest accommodation, crew accommodation, and tender garage that the 77m platform could not.
The verifiable spec, with markers where data is not publicly confirmed in May 2026:
| Spec | Value |
|---|---|
| LOA | 85.3m |
| Beam | |
| Draft | |
| GT | |
| Year built | 2019 |
| Builder | SilverYachts (Hanseatic Marine), Henderson, WA |
| Naval architecture | Espen Øino |
| Exterior design | Espen Øino |
| Interior design | Vain Interiors |
| Engines | 4 x MTU [VERIFY series] |
| Top speed | 24 knots |
| Range | 5,500 nm at 16 knots |
| Cruising speed | 18 knots |
| Guest cabins | 8 |
| Guests | 16 |
| Crew | 21 to 24 |
| Tender garage | Yes, internal |
| Beach club | Yes |
| Helideck |
The 3.8m draft on an 85m yacht is meaningful. It opens up anchorages in the Maldives, the inner Seychelles, the shallow Indonesian channels, and the East African coast that an 85m steel displacement yacht with 4.8m+ draft cannot reach. If your itinerary includes Komodo's protected bays, Ari Atoll, or the inner Bazaruto channels, this is the spec that earns its premium.
Where she has cruised
Bold's published itinerary has been weighted toward the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia, which is consistent with the SilverYachts platform thesis. Maldives in the November-to-April window. Seychelles in the same window. Andaman Sea (Phuket, Mergui Archipelago) in the November-to-March window. Indonesia (Komodo, Raja Ampat) in their respective windows.
She has done Mediterranean seasons, but the Med is not where the platform earns its advantage. The Med rewards displacement-yacht silence and short-passage island hopping. Bold's range advantage is wasted there, and her aluminium-yacht aesthetic competes against an 85m steel-yacht charter market that has 30 yachts of similar capacity at lower or equivalent rates with the more conventional luxe interior.
The owner-use weighting matters for charter intent. Bold is not a yacht that has done 18 charter weeks per year over her life. She has done a small number of weeks per year when the owner has opened the calendar. The implication for a charter client is straightforward: assume the central agent will quote a rate at the upper end of the 85m band, and assume the rate is take-it-or-leave-it.
What a week aboard actually looks like
16 guests in 8 cabins (in the maximum charter configuration. Owner layout has historically been). The interior brief is contemporary, with light timbers, large window areas, and a beach club that opens both transom and side hatches. This is not a panelled-mahogany Lürssen aesthetic. If your guests are reading Wallpaper, this is the yacht. If your guests want the panelled dining room with chandeliers, look elsewhere.
The deck flow on Bold is where SilverYachts learned from Silver Fast. The aft cockpit is more generous, the upper-deck dining area is the social heart in a way it was not on Silver Fast, and the flybridge has the kind of unobstructed view-line that the long-and-narrow platform makes possible. The beach club at the transom is the standout: it converts to a swimming-and-water-toy zone with side platforms that extend the beam at deck level, a layout that has become a SilverYachts signature.
Toys are extensive. Past brochure-level disclosure suggests: 9m custom limousine tender, 7.5m secondary, 4 jet skis, 4 SeaBobs, paddleboards, kayaks, full snorkelling gear, dive locker for persons certified, and tender garage capacity for the chase RIB. Helicopter operations are touch-and-go, not a certified pad. The submarine question (not standard) is no.
What the platform actually buys you
The case for Bold over a conventional steel 85m has three components.
The first is range and speed at the same time. A steel displacement 85m gets you 5,500 nm at 13 knots. Bold gets you the same range at 16 knots. Across an Indian Ocean season that compounds: you can move guest cohorts faster, you can recover from weather windows faster, and you can run an itinerary that a steel platform cannot match. For a 7-day week-charter the difference is marginal. For a 21-day three-cohort owner-and-guest run, the difference is two extra days of anchor time.
The second is draft and access. The 3.8m draft on an 85m opens up anchorages that 4.8m steel cannot. In the Maldives this matters. In the Mediterranean it does not.
The third is the SilverYachts crew culture. SilverYachts boats run with crew teams that have stayed unusually consistent across seasons [VERIFY current crew tenure]. The captain who has been on a SilverYachts platform for five years knows the hull form, the engine spec, and the platform quirks in a way a captain who joins for a single charter season does not. This is a real factor in delivered charter quality.
The case against Bold for a Mediterranean charter is the inverse of the case for her in the Indian Ocean. In the Med, her range and speed are wasted, and the conventional 85m steel yacht market will deliver a more conventional finish at equivalent or lower rate.
The friction before signing
The route. Charter Bold for the itinerary she was built for. Indian Ocean. Southeast Asia. The trans-Pacific. Do not charter her for a 7-day Cap d'Antibes loop. The platform mismatch will be visible in the delivered week and the value will not be there.
The galley brief and the chef. SilverYachts platforms have galleys that perform competently for the size but the layout is tighter than a steel 85m. Brief the menu around what the galley can deliver. Ask the broker for the chef's CV before signing. A good chef makes the SilverYachts platform sing. A chef trying to impose a French restaurant menu on a galley that does not have the bench space will deliver an uneven week.
The communications package. On a yacht built for long-passage Indian Ocean and Southeast Asian charter, the difference between adequate and good communications matters more than on a Med charter. Confirm the satellite communications spec, the VSAT bandwidth allocation per guest cabin, and what is and is not included in the rate. A guest on a 21-day Indian Ocean week who cannot run a video call on day 12 has a complaint. Build the communications spec into the contract.
The APA and the fuel pass-through. At 18-knot cruise on a four-MTU platform the fuel cost is non-trivial. APA can come in over on a Bold charter run hard. Build a 40 percent contingency on the headline rate, ask the central agent for line-item APA on the most recent comparable charter, and write the cruising-speed expectation into the briefing document for the captain.
What does not make the cut
We would pass on Bold for a Med charter unless the rate is at the very bottom of the 85m band and the owner is doing it as a positioning week. The Med is not her best version of herself.
We would pass on her for a guest list expecting the panelled-Lürssen interior aesthetic. She is contemporary and she is going to feel sparse to that guest list.
We would pass on her at any rate that does not include a clear answer on current refit status, current crew, and central-agent commitment to honour the rate (rather than a "subject to owner approval" disclaimer that lets the owner refuse on contract day).
How she compares
Inside the 80m to 90m motor-yacht charter market, Bold's closest substitutes are not other SilverYachts. They are conventional steel displacement yachts: refitted Lürssens, recent Feadships, ex-Oceanco platforms in the same range. Inside the long-range fast-yacht class her substitutes are Silver Fast (smaller, older, faster top speed) and a small handful of one-off explorer platforms.
Comparable inventory worth considering against Bold:
- Silver Fast (77m, 2015, SilverYachts). Read our Silver Fast profile.
- Cloudbreak (73m, 2016, Abeking & Rasmussen). Steel explorer with ski-charter winter use. Cloudbreak profile.
- Ulysses (116m, 2018, Kleven). Larger explorer-yacht class. Ulysses profile.
- Yersin (77m, 2015, Piriou). Expedition yacht, different brief. Yersin profile.
If the budget is open and the itinerary is Indian Ocean or Southeast Asia, Bold is in the top three. If the budget is tight and the itinerary is Mediterranean, look at the conventional steel options first.
How to enquire
Bold's central agency has not been consistent across her life. She has moved between SilverYachts in-house management and external broker representation [VERIFY current arrangement]. The right enquiry path is a broker with current SilverYachts contact and a recent track record of placing charter weeks on the platform. The four brokers most likely to have current information are. Ask any broker who quotes a rate to confirm current availability with the current central agent before quoting. A rate quoted from a stale brochure is worthless.
Three diligence questions worth asking, before discussing rate:
- Is Bold open for charter in the requested season, or is the owner using the calendar?
- What is the most recent refit (year, scope, completed where)?
- Who is the current captain, chief officer, chief stew, and head chef, and how long have they been aboard?
A central agent who can answer those three questions inside the first call is a central agent worth with. One who cannot is selling you the platform, not the yacht.