Sea Force One – ‘Fantasy Superyacht’ Lair of the Pirate King

If ever a superyacht deserved the description ‘unique’, it has to be Sea Force One. Eat your hearts out, Roman Abramovich and Aristotle Onassis – size doesn’t matter, it’s style that counts, and SF1 has it in spades!

It’s a floating art gallery, a ‘state-of-the-art’ fantasy extravaganza, product of the wild imagination of its eccentric genius owner Captain Magic, who gives Johnny Depp a run for his money as self-styled ‘Last King of the Pirates’. Sea Force One simply has to be seen to be believed… and even then, it’s incredible.

With its attention to detail and astonishing level of luxury, Sea Force One has reduced more than one hard-bitten yachting journalist to a drooling mess of amazed incredulity, grasping for superlatives to convey the sheer ‘other-worldliness’ of this concept album of a fun-palace, with its 12-foot home cinema, three-tiered waterfall plunge pool, gym with padded leather floor, sundeck sushi-bar and metallic parrot (who’s a pretty boy then?) Captain Magic certainly qualifies, in his ‘yin-yang’ Phantom of the Opera skull-mask,  leather and chainmail ‘pirate ’ chic, complete with flowing cloak and swashbuckling polished  Samurai sword.

“It’s a creative explosion so out of this world that it’s hard to find a word which adequately describes what he has created - entertainment on a size and scale you simply wouldn’t believe possible.” Hugo Andreae, Superyacht World

“To call it eclectic would be putting it mildly. With styling by Luca Dini, its shiny Boero Supernavi black hull must have been murder to fair and paint to such a highly polished state of perfection” - Justin Ratcliffe, The Yacht Report

“If someone’s got spare gazillions to lavish on a superyacht, I want to be bowled over! My first impressions of the interior were inextricably combined with memories of bars and clubs in Shanghai and Dubai. There are several remarkable pieces, including ones from American sculptress Kiki Smith and Latin American painter José Garcia Cordero, who both takes skulls as their theme. Italian artist Fabrizio Plessi was commissioned to create a sound and vision installation to divide the main deck, a wall of circular watery videos splashing as their light undulates.”   Suellen Grealy, Luxure Magazine

And check this out… two of the Master Suite’s ‘windows’ double up as hydraulically lowered, glass-bottomed balconies on either side of the vessel, allowing you to sprawl languorously across the gigantic bed with its white seabed sculpture backdrop beneath the quadruple skylights, and gaze out across the open ocean. Talk about a room with a view!

By Melacina Clarinda