She belongs to a generation shaped by war, and ultimately, people who knew how to win.
Firstly, let’s get you upto speed with how it all started
Her elegance on the water now hides the sacrifice and unreasonable effort it took to put her there. In March 2024, Silvio was scarcely a sailing yacht at all. Her engine was seized, her deck rotten, her sails devastated, hull pitted; almost every component that made her capable of going to sea had deteriorated beyond what most would have considered worth saving. Yet her charming character remained entirely intact. This was, after all, a yacht that had already taken on the Fastnet, one of offshore sailing’s most unforgiving races. 8 years ashore had knocked her off her feet yet it had done remarkably little to her winning spirit.
“You’ll need nerve”
It was clear very quickly that money alone would not restore Silvio. Her hull twists and sweeps in almost every conceivable direction, immensely strong, exceptionally elegant at sea, and thoroughly vindictive to anyone asked to repair it. The compound curves that give her such grace also make replacing steel an exercise in patience, judgement and nerve. There remains a certain dockyard conviction that only the Dutch ever truly understood how to build shapes like these. Unfortunately, Silvio was in no condition to return to Holland and find out.
“You’ll never finish it, not in the time you have.”
Restored in one year
launched
3rd March 2025
