ALMAJU

ALMAJU — Absolute 60 Fly Cruising area: South of France, Corsica and Sardinia. There is a particular kind of boat that doesn't ask to be noticed from the dock, and Almaju belongs to that family. The Absolute 60 Fly is a well-judged design: generous volume for its length, wide glazing that keeps the interior in touch with the water, and a flybridge that quickly becomes the natural centre of life on board. The days settle into their own rhythm. Coffee taken with nothing but the horizon in front of you. Late mornings at anchor in a Corsican cove. A long lunch on the flybridge that drifts into the afternoon without anyone checking the time. Evenings that stretch out on deck once the anchor light is on and the coast has turned to scattered points of gold. Her cruising ground suits her well. From the Riviera the run down to Corsica and across to the Sardinian coast opens up a remarkable variety of anchorages — the Maddalena archipelago, the granite inlets of the south, the quieter bays of the Corsican west coast — all within comfortable reach for a yacht of this size. The crew handle the logistics, the provisioning and the itinerary so that none of it reaches you. That discretion is the real luxury here: everything arranged, nothing announced. Almaju is a straightforward proposition, and that is precisely her appeal. A yacht made for slowing down.