Palm Pleasure 2 delivers to Aruba,?

Palm Pleasure 2 did not arrive in Aruba as a showpiece. The 21-meter Punch 21.10 DC left Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal, on Friday, April 24, 2026, crossed the Atlantic, and reached Aruba on Monday, June 1, 2026, then stepped directly into day-charter work for De Palm Tours.

That matters because this boat is part of a much longer family story. Palm Pleasure 2 has reunited with Palm Pleasure 1, a catamaran built 25 years earlier by Multicap Caraïbes in Martinique, and both yards trace back to Christian Hernandez, who founded Multicap Caraïbes and Multicat Algarve. The result is more than a replacement or an upgrade. It is a working link between two shipyards, two generations of boatbuilding, and a customer relationship that has lasted long enough to become its own line of history.

For Aurore Hernandez, the passage carried the weight of memory as well as delivery logistics. She first crossed the Atlantic with her father as a child, and 30 years later she made the same trip again aboard Palm Pleasure 2. The voyage became a test of offshore discipline as much as endurance: seasickness, long days when the body did not cooperate, and the reality of being out of reach of shore life even while Starlink kept the boat connected mid-ocean. It also showed the other side of a modern charter cat’s offshore life, with spectacular sunsets, stars, moonlight and repeated dolphin sightings woven into the routine of passage-making.

The commercial logic is just as sharp as the family angle. Multicat Algarve’s Punch 21.10 Day Charter concept is aimed squarely at tourism, and a French-language launch report says the platform can carry up to 100 passengers. De Palm Tours markets Palm Pleasure as a 70-foot-long, 40-foot-wide catamaran offering snorkeling trips, sunset sails and private charters from Oranjestad, with snorkel stops at Antilla Shipwreck, Boca Catalina and Malmok. The company’s sunset sail runs two hours, with snacks and an open bar, and its Tripadvisor listing shows roughly 26,480 reviews and a 4.8 rating, proof of how central this kind of boat is to Aruba’s visitor economy.

Antilla gives that itinerary an extra layer of meaning. VisitAruba describes it as the largest wreck in the Caribbean, a German freighter scuttled on May 10, 1940, about 400 feet long and lying near Malmok Beach in roughly 60 feet of water. That means Palm Pleasure is not just selling a cruise, it is carrying guests to one of the island’s signature underwater landmarks. Palm Pleasure 2’s Atlantic delivery, then, was not a detour from the business. It was the first real-world test of a charter catamaran that now has to prove itself every day in Aruba.