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Guests
10
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Cabins
5
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Crew
8
| Length | GT | Built (REFIT) |
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40.5m
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926 GT | 2008 (2024) |
| Beam | Draft | Top Speed |
| 17.78m | 4.1m | 15 Kts |
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8th - 13th Sep 2026
Cannes, FranceNurja is an award winning 40.5m catamaran yacht for sale delivered by German shipyard Abeking & Rasmussen in 2008. Her naval architecture and exterior design comes from the drawing boards of Abeking & Rasmussen, while Kirschstein Designs Ltd is responsible for her interior design.
Key Features
- Private deck conning station forward
- 3,900nm range at 10 knots
- Gyro-stabilised active fin control
- Certified helideck for 2.8t aircraft
Design & Construction
Designed around a swath steel hull and an aluminium superstructure she features a 17.78m beam and a 4.1m draft. The yacht is built over 3 decks with an internal volume of 926 GT (Gross Tonnes). The design also incorporates a heli-pad.
Exterior Design
Nurja is unusual because almost every part of her exterior follows from the SWATH hull beneath it. Most of the yacht’s displacement therefore sits below the surface in two submerged cylindrical hulls, connected to the platform above by narrow struts. Waves have relatively little hull area to act upon at the surface, which greatly reduces pitching, heaving and roll.
That architecture explains Nurja’s extraordinary 18m (59.1ft) beam and the almost square footprint visible from above. From ahead, the two bows sit a long way apart beneath a broad central platform, and the superstructure occupies only part of the available width. The payoff is space. At 40.5m (132.9ft) and 926GT following her rebuild, she has deck areas and internal volume more readily associated with a much longer yacht. The original account compared her usable area with that of a conventional 50m (164ft) motor yacht.
Her present grey hull and superstructure suit the industrial architecture well, and the photographs show how little attempt has been made to disguise the twin hull form. Broad decks run around the accommodation, the upper levels are pushed forward and the aft half of the yacht is left remarkably open. It gives Nurja more in common visually with an offshore research or commercial vessel than a conventional 40m superyacht, but here the form is doing real work.
The upper deck aft is now taken up by the helideck installed during the 2021 to 2024 rebuild at Abeking & Rasmussen. Nurja had helicopter capability before the rebuild, but the current installation belongs to the later refit and sits across an area large enough to accommodate aircraft operations without swallowing the rest of the yacht’s outdoor space. The original configuration was certified for helicopters up to 2.8 tonnes.
Tender handling also takes advantage of the space between the hulls. The original yacht carried her main tender in a compartment beneath the aft deck, launching it into the water between the two hulls, which kept the broad upper deck available for guests and aircraft operations.
The downside of SWATH is draft. Nurja originally drew 4.1m (13.5ft) in operating trim, reducible to about 3.5m (11.5ft) in harbour by adjusting ballast, so shallow anchorages and many marinas were never going to be her natural territory. That is the price paid for putting so much buoyancy below the surface. At anchor, however, the same geometry continues to suppress the rhythmic rolling common to conventional displacement yachts.
Interior Design
Nurja’s current interior dates from the three year Abeking & Rasmussen rebuild that began in 2021, when Focus Yacht Design redesigned the accommodation and the yard renewed every onboard system. That distinction matters because the yacht now seen for sale is substantially different inside from the simple original Silver Cloud interior.
The main saloon still makes full use of the vast beam created by the SWATH platform. It is wider than the proportions of a conventional yacht saloon and is arranged with a large lounge, sit up bar and dining area forward, with glazing running around much of the room. Sliding doors connect directly with the aft deck, so the interior uses the yacht’s breadth without becoming a collection of enclosed rooms.
Accommodation
Nurja now accommodates up to 12 guests in five en suite cabins and eight crew. The owner’s suite occupies the forward part of the upper deck, one of the most distinctive positions on the yacht.
Its curved forward wall follows the shape of the superstructure and gives the bedroom close to 180º views through large windows. This was designed to keep the horizon in sight even while sitting in bed, a part of the original effort to reduce the effects of motion sickness. Behind the bedroom were separate bathrooms and a private study, while a door opened onto a forward private deck with its own conning station.
The remaining guest cabins are on the main deck, where the exceptional beam allows rooms of a scale rarely found on a yacht of this length. The original arrangement comprised two doubles and two twins with large square windows, and the current five cabin layout continues to benefit from those unusually broad proportions.
Crew areas occupy the forward main deck, with the captain housed close to the wheelhouse above. It is another example of Nurja using her surplus footprint differently from a conventional 40m yacht, because valuable main deck space could be given to working accommodation without squeezing the guest areas.
Performance & Capabilities
Twin 1,100hp Caterpillar C32 engines give Nurja a top speed of 15 knots, while 10 knots brings a quoted range of around 4,000nm.
The more interesting performance story lies underneath. Each submerged hull contains machinery, tanks and watertight subdivisions, while active fins work with the SWATH form to control vertical acceleration as well as roll. During the original trials, Nurja recorded vertical acceleration of just 0.035g rms in a 2m (6.6ft) head sea, with roll measured at 1.2 degrees rms. By comparison, the original development team cited 0.2g rms as the maximum accepted for NATO naval vessels.
The two hulls also provide an unusual degree of redundancy. The original design allowed the yacht to remain afloat and proceed slowly on one engine if one submerged hull were flooded, with watertight compartments protecting the machinery spaces fore and aft.
Amenities
The yacht features a well-equipped gym, allowing her guests to keep up their fitness regimes at sea. Air conditioning offers increased on-board comfort. Nurja also features deck jacuzzi which provides excellent views.
Nurja Yacht is For Sale
Nurja is currently on the market for sale with an asking price of €38,000,000 EUR.
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