Courtesy PONANT: April 9, 2024 | PONANT declares the newest addition to its fleet: the 24-meter Spirit of Ponant, whose intimate dimension and seafaring spirit nod to the model’s roots in small-ship crusing. Inbuilt France, the six-stateroom catamaran will set sail in Corsica in July 2024 earlier than heading to the Seychelles for winter 2024. The intimate vessel might be accessible as a personal constitution for week-long voyages in addition to on a per-cabin foundation on choose itineraries — a rarity for crusing yachts of this scale. Charges begin at $8,250 (€7,500) per particular person primarily based on double occupancy for a single cabin reserving in Corsica.

The Spirit of Ponant will sleep as much as 12 visitors and 4 crew and can provide all of the refinements and customized service that function hallmarks of the model, together with a private chef, spacious staterooms, and nautical actions similar to paddleboarding, wakeboarding, and snorkeling.

First setting sail in Corsica, crusing roundtrip from Bonifacio, the seven-night lengthy voyages are utterly customizable primarily based on the traveler’s pursuits and every journey is co-created with the Captain’s suggestions. The vessel will then enterprise to the Seychelles for the winter 2024 season, providing circumnavigations of Mahé, the biggest island within the Seychelles archipelago.

The Spirit of Ponant is steeped within the firm’s expertise of crusing the excessive seas, of being as near the weather as potential. This spirit is a spine of the model’s DNA: based in 1988 by officers of the French Service provider Navy, PONANT is rooted in offering among the most modern itineraries globally, due to the ships’ reasonable dimension, design, and groundbreaking know-how. The vessel joins PONANT’s fleet of 13 small-size ships, together with the corporate’s first ship, a three-masted crusing yacht Le Ponant that includes simply 16 staterooms, and the world’s solely luxurious icebreaker Le Commandant Charcot.

“The Spirit of Ponant is a brand new expression of our pioneering spirit, because the journey format is a primary within the luxurious cruise sector,” explains Hervé Gastinel, CEO of PONANT. “Our visitors will expertise what it’s actually prefer to be a sailor, together with interacting with the captain to create a voyage that meets their needs and expectations. They are going to profit from hidden away anchorages in magical locations, whereas having fun with the high-end companies for which PONANT is famend.”

“The idea and design of this Lagoon Seventy 7 yacht has been praised by everybody within the trade, received over by the spacious inside and exterior areas,” explains Guillaume Le Brec, the skilled skipper accountable for this challenge at PONANT. “Visitors will actually respect the high-end finishings as a lot as her distinctive crusing qualities.”

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