The must-see sailing yachts at the Monaco Yacht Show 2025

6 August 2025 • Written by Holly Margerrison

As anticipation builds for the Monaco Yacht Show 2025, the spotlight turns to the world's most spectacular sailing yachts. From groundbreaking debuts and carbon-fibre speed machines to record-breaking racers and icons of modern design, BOAT explores the standout sailing yachts listed for sale and superyachts making their debuts...

Simena

Courtesy of Ares Yachts

Builder: Ares Yachts
Year: 2025
Length: 62m

The largest sailing yacht making her world debut at the Monaco Yacht Show 2025 is Simena, Turkish yard Ares Yachts' new flagship, built to RINA Class C in steel-carbon composite. With lines owed to Taka Yacht Design, the 62-metre ketch has been inspired by a "gentler age of sail"; the bow, with its full-rigged bowsprit and trail board, best resembles a clipper ship, and her name is a nod to the centuries of maritime heritage located within the ancient Turkish city. Design Unlimited penned a contrasting contemporary interior made up of "clean, relaxed geometry", according to the studio's creative director Mark Tucker. Notable features include a separate owner's cabin located forward on the main deck with a dressing room, lounge sofa and a Jacuzzi on the bow.

Simena will be exhibited by Ares Yachts.

Maximus

Maximus is listed for sale

Courtesy of Edmiston

Builder: Vitters
Year: 2023
Length: 59m

Maximus joined the market with Edmiston in June 2025 for the first time since her 2023 delivery. As the third-largest sailing yacht ever built by Dutch shipyard Vitters, the 395GT yacht for sale was "built without compromise in any area", according to her brokers. The 59-metre was commissioned for a highly experienced owner with a "focus on performance, comfort and precision", resulting in the yard's second collaboration with Germán Frers, who is responsible for the yacht's exterior. The interior, meanwhile, is the work of Spencer-Churchill Designs Ltd, characterised by an extensive use of "golden-hued" anigre wood, cream furniture, natural textiles and bronze details. Seldom found on sailing yachts, Maximus boasts a full-beam owner's suite with a private deckhouse leading directly to a secluded aft cockpit.

Maximus will be exhibited by Vitters and her central agency, Edmiston.

BeCool

Courtesy of Nautor Swan

Builder: Nautor Swan
Year: 2025
Length: 39m

In a full-circle moment, the official debut of BeCool will be at this year's Monaco Yacht Show, with the model first introduced at the show three years ago. The Finnish yard's 39-metre belongs to the Swan 128 series and is the second-largest Swan in the history of the yard, shadowed only by the launch of the Swan 131 Aristarchos in 2006. Longtime collaborator of the yard Germán Frers is responsible for naval architecture, while Italian architect Misa Poggi has designed the interior; she also offers a sportier appeal than her fellow cruisers and a slender profile, which is defined by a sculpted deckhouse. Meanwhile, Lucio Micheletti at Micheletti + Partners can be credited for the lightness and functionality at the core of the model's design.

BeCool will be exhibited by Nautor Swan.

Wallywind110

Courtesy of Wally

Builder: Wally
Year: 2025
Length: 33.4m

Italian yard Wally, a brand of Ferretti Group, shares the advanced carbon construction and high-performance hull seen on her sistership, Galma, the first unit in the yard's wallywind110 series, which made its debut at the Monaco Yacht Show 2024. While certain hallmark features have been kept – including the dedicated helm and manoeuvring zone and the integrated beach platform – differences include a sand-grey hull that is complemented by a lighter palette indoors, as well as a customised interior layout. This includes a sliding bed in the VIP cabin that can transform into a double and a multi-purpose workspace, replacing the bar area in the lower saloon. German studio Judel/Vrolijk & Co and Italian designer Santa Maria Magnolfi are responsible for naval architecture and exterior design.

The wallywind110 will be exhibited by Wally.

Nomad IV

Builder: Maxi Dolphin
Year: 2013 (2024)
Length: 30.5m

Built in Italy by Dolphin Yachts, French naval architecture studio Finot-Conq provided both the interior and exterior styling for Nomad IV. Notably, in the RORC Transatlantic Race 2015 – skippered by Jean-Paul Rivière – the yacht finished in first place in the monohull rank and set a new monohull record for the RORC Transatlantic Race. She is now listed for sale.

Nomad IV will be exhibited by her central agent, Bernard Gallay Yacht Brokerage.

Ephemere

Courtesy of YYachts

Builder: YYachts
Year: 2025
Length: 27.4m

Ephemere – the fourth unit in German yard YYachts' flagship Y9 sailing yacht series – hit the water for the first time in May 2025, unveiling her custom teal blue hull colour. The 27.4-metre yacht's clean and slender profile is the work of Bill Tripp of Tripp Design, who is also responsible for her naval architecture, while her interior design is by award-winning Copenhagen-based studio Norm Architects. When it comes to things to look out for on the series, the beach club with a hydraulic swim platform is a notable feature, as is its office space integrated into the saloon, complete with a half-height room divider to allow for privacy.

Ephemere is being exhibited by YYachts.