HBO's White Lotus Star Catamaran SpaceCat Sells in Brokerage Deal

SpaceCat closed a brokerage deal as decisively as she commanded the screen in HBO's The White Lotus. The 35.9-metre aluminum tri-deck catamaran built by SilverYachts has been sold, with Michel Chryssicopoulos, IYC's Global Managing Partner, representing the seller and Della Pearce of Camper & Nicholsons bringing the buyer to the table.

The spec sheet explains why a 36-metre multihull draws the kind of interest that accelerates a sale. SpaceCat carries a 13.3-metre beam across three full decks, delivering more than 534 square metres of living space from a hull that fits the mid-range superyacht bracket by length but vastly outpaces it by volume. Designer Espen Øino, who called the project a "bold undertaking" during development with SilverYachts owner Guido Krass, used that beam to create zones no same-length monohull can replicate: an 18-foot aft pool with shaded lounges and a bar, a beach club with direct sea access, and a main-deck owner's suite with its own private terrace. Pulina Exclusive Interiors dressed the interior in creams, grays, and blues, with floor-to-ceiling windows that blur the line between saloon and sea.

The four Volvo Penta IPS 1050 engines deliver a 21-knot top speed and 3,000 nautical miles of range at 11 knots, while a draft of under two metres made SpaceCat a natural fit for the limestone coves and shallow bays of Thailand's Phang Nga Bay, where she had been operating as a charter vessel out of Phuket at weekly rates of $160,000 to $175,000.

SilverYachts delivered SpaceCat in 2022 as the first hull in the yard's SpaceCat 36m series, marking the Australian builder's first venture into multihull design. Season three of The White Lotus, filmed on Koh Samui, turned a well-specced brokerage listing into one of the most recognizable hulls in superyacht media. The vessel had listed at $18.8 million before two successive price reductions brought the asking figure to $15 million ahead of the completed transaction.

The beam is also the number buyers have to reckon with operationally. At 13.3 metres, SpaceCat exceeds the width of most European marina berths sized for monohulls, where beam-based berthing fees can make traditional port stops punishing. The trade-off that closed this deal is the same one drawing high-net-worth buyers to large cats more broadly: a cruising program centered on Asia-Pacific or Caribbean destinations, where shallow-draft volume and deck space for charter parties outweighs any marina penalty.

For IYC and Camper & Nicholsons, the transaction is one more confirmation that the superyacht multihull segment has outgrown its niche status. SpaceCat's combination of screen recognition, SilverYachts' build quality, and Øino's exterior profile created a sales narrative that needed little embellishment. A tri-deck aluminum catamaran that starred in one of HBO's highest-profile recent series, available for charter at up to $175,000 a week and now absorbed into private ownership, is precisely the kind of deal the growing big-cat market was built for.