CL Yachts' CLC115 brings full-time living to luxury catamarans
The CLC115 is CL Yachts’ first catamaran, built as a liveaboard tri-deck powercat with a full-beam owner’s suite, hybrid options, and real commercial pedigree.
CL Yachts is not treating the CLC115 like a pretty party platform. This 35-meter tri-deck powercat is being positioned as a place to live, work, and cruise for real stretches, with a layout that favors circulation, calm, and usable space over the usual superyacht theatrics. The pitch is simple: if you want a luxury catamaran that behaves more like a floating home than a weekend toy, this is the one to watch.
A catamaran built around full-time living
The liveaboard case starts with the basics: the CLC115 is CL Yachts’ first-ever catamaran and the first model in its new C-Series. That matters because the boat is not an afterthought or a one-off styling exercise. It is the brand’s opening statement on what a modern luxury powercat can be when the brief is long-range residence rather than occasional entertainment.
The most obvious clue is the beam. At 34 feet, 5 inches across, the CLC115 has the kind of footprint that gives catamaran owners the room they actually buy a multihull for. Wide side decks, open circulation, and a tri-deck layout create the sense of volume monohulls of similar length simply cannot match. CL Yachts says the open-plan arrangement connects interior and exterior living areas and keeps panoramic ocean views in play throughout the yacht.
Why the layout works for real life aboard
The main-deck owner’s suite is the center of gravity here. It spans the full beam, which gives it proper separation from the rest of the boat and makes it feel like a private apartment rather than a token master cabin. CL Yachts also gives it the details that matter in daily use: a desk, a vanity area, and substantial stowage.
Just as important, the room adjacent to the owner’s suite is not locked into a single use. It can be configured as a guest cabin, office, gym, nursery, massage room, or wellness and meditation room. That flexibility is the whole point of the CLC115’s liveaboard argument. A boat that is meant to stay in the family for weeks or months needs spaces that can shift with the rhythm of real life, not just charter daydreams.
Accommodation is reported to stretch to 12 guests and eight crew, with four ensuite guest cabins on the mid deck and below-deck crew quarters. That is a serious onboard-living setup, and it shows CL Yachts is designing around privacy, service flow, and the practical separation of owner, guests, and crew.
Stability, speed, and the catamaran advantage
The CLC115 is a 35-meter tri-deck powercat with a stated cruise speed of 10 knots and a top speed of 18 knots. Those numbers are not headline-chasing in the way some performance cats are, but they suit the brief. A long-stay yacht needs enough pace to cover distance without turning every passage into a fuel-burn flex.
The twin-hull platform also delivers the steadiness people keep paying for in this segment. Stability is not just a comfort talking point on a multihull of this scale. It is what makes the interior feel usable when the boat is underway, what keeps movement through the yacht easy, and what helps the whole platform feel less theatrical and more habitable. CL Yachts’ own framing leans into that reality, describing the CLC115 as a long-range residence where space, stability, and ease of movement define the onboard experience.
Propulsion and onboard systems with a practical edge
Under the skin, the standard setup is twin MAN V8-1300 diesel engines. CL Yachts also offers an optional hybrid propulsion system, aimed at quieter operation and lower emissions underway. That option is not just a green checkbox. On a catamaran being sold as a long-stay platform, quieter running changes the quality of life on board, especially when the owner is spending extended time aboard rather than just entertaining at anchor.
The builder also specifies a resin-infused GRP hull and RINA Yacht Class standards, both of which point toward a more serious engineering posture than a pure styling-led launch. Add provisions for solar panels and a smart-home module, and the CLC115 starts to look like a yacht designed around load management, comfort, and modern systems integration, not just looks.
That smart-home module is part of the same logic. It manages climate control, lighting, and other onboard systems, which is exactly the sort of practical detail that starts to matter when a yacht stops being a temporary escape and becomes a place where people actually live.
Commercial shipbuilding DNA, translated into luxury
The reason CL Yachts seems confident about this formula is in the company’s background. Cheoy Lee Shipyards traces its roots to a family shipyard in Shanghai in the late 1800s, relocated to Hong Kong in 1936, and now operates with a North America office in Fort Lauderdale and construction facilities in Zhuhai, China. That history gives the CLC115 a different pedigree from a typical boutique luxury launch.
Martin Lo has said the commercial catamaran program validated the shipyard’s capabilities and laid the groundwork for the CLC115. In 2025, he said Cheoy Lee delivered eight high-speed carbon-fiber catamaran ferries, each carrying 400 to 450 passengers, plus an aluminum vessel and two hybrid models. Cheoy Lee’s ferry product pages also describe 35-meter to 40-meter Incat Crowther-designed platforms that are hybrid-ready and used on Hong Kong routes. That is not decorative background. It is the reason the yard is comfortable talking about structural robustness, efficiency, and low-weight hull forms in the same breath as luxury interiors.
Lo has also described the hull forms as “very efficient,” exceptionally low-weight, and easy to operate. That sounds like commercial shipyard language because it is. On the CLC115, that language has been repurposed for owners who want the comfort of a residence without giving up the seakeeping and efficiency that make a catamaran worth buying in the first place.
What the industry is seeing in the CLC115
The CLC115 is already being noticed beyond the launch chatter. Supertomato Studio says it was shortlisted for the 2026 International Yacht & Aviation Awards, and trade coverage has also pointed to a Platinum Muse Design Award and a Hainan International Yacht Design Bronze Award. Those honors matter less as trophies than as proof that the design is landing with the market as something more than another glossy concept.
That is the real takeaway here. The CLC115 is part of a bigger shift in catamaran yachting, where builders are increasingly blending commercial multihull know-how, hybrid systems, and long-range planning into yachts that can genuinely support full-time living. CL Yachts has not just launched a new model. It has drawn a line between the old idea of a luxury cat and the newer idea of a boat that can serve as a home without giving up the calm, space, and efficiency that make the multihull platform so compelling in the first place.
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