WONDERFUL

WONDERFUL — 22m Gunboat, 2023 Twenty-two metres of beam-rich catamaran that carries eight guests without ever feeling crowded — WONDERFUL came out of the Gunboat yard in 2023, and the numbers tell you what kind of yacht she is: 12 knots at cruise, 20 knots flat out. That is not a figure most 72-footers can quote. It changes the way a week is planned. Bonifacio for lunch and the Costa Smeralda by evening stops being ambitious and becomes simply the itinerary. Accommodation is arranged across four cabins for eight guests. The owner's cabin anchors the layout, and three further cabins each offer a queen-size bed with en-suite facilities — a rare, genuinely egalitarian configuration where no couple aboard draws the short straw. Detailed bed configuration is available on request. Multihull living does the rest. The width gives you deck space that a monohull of the same length can only envy: room to spread out, to eat outside, to sit apart from the group without going below. Sightlines are low and long, close to the water. A crew of three runs the yacht — enough hands to keep the service attentive and the days unhurried, few enough that the atmosphere stays private rather than staffed. Her summer season is spent in the Western Mediterranean: the French Riviera, Corsica, Sardinia and the Italian coast — cruising grounds where the ability to move quickly between anchorages is worth more than any specification sheet suggests.