Boat International US Edition – June 2019

Gibbs’s view is that you only need one

interior lounging area since you spend

most of the time outside. There may be

another strand to his thinking, though.

Uniquely, Elysium is run without cooking

on board. Oh, it’s got a galley (with two

ovens and four fridges) – you wouldn’t

build a 131ft yacht without one unless you

had no thought for its resale value. But

Gibbs organizes life on board so that hot

meals are always taken ashore – for crew

and guests alike. The galley is just used for

preparing occasional snacks, breakfasts,

sandwiches and so on.

“Trying to get cooking smells out of a

boat with curtains is very difficult. It ages

a boat very quickly,” he says. “Then there’s

the time it takes to get food on board and

Sunseeker’s 131 remains

a semi-production

yacht, so the core of

Elysium is the same as

a standard 131’s, such

as Zozo’s (left). The

structural bulkheads, key

systems and engineering

remain unchanged

STANDARD 131 SUNDECK

Tenderstowage
Acradleonthe
bathingplatform
allowsforrapid
deploymentof
a22fttender
muchbigger
thanthegarage
accommodates

Bathingplatform

Completely

reengineered

intoafullbeam

hydraulically

loweringunit

Custom masts

Themainmastisin

gleamingstainless

steel,notpowder

coatedaluminum.The

forwardmastishigher

forbetternightvision

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