M/Y MARY

The Yacht in Detail

M/Y MARY — The Fastest Yacht Under €20K

M/Y Mary is not just another Ferretti 68 on the charter market; she’s the boat you book when you want to turn a week in the Dodecanese into something that feels like a mini–grand tour.

Most yachts in this price range ask you to choose: Do you want to see more places, or do you want to relax? Mary quietly refuses that trade-off. With 2 x 1200HP engines, she cruises at 24 knots and can sprint up to 33 knots. That’s not “respectable for a charter yacht” — that’s fast, period.

What that speed really buys you is time. On a typical 12–18 knot charter, the Dodecanese are a game of compromise: Rhodes and Symi, or Kos and Patmos? On Mary, the map opens up.

• Rhodes to Symi becomes a morning hop, not half a day.
• A lazy breakfast at anchor off Lindos, a swim, and you can still be in Kos for a late lunch.
• Patmos and Leros stop being either/or and become both, with time left over to swim in a turquoise bay you didn’t even know existed.

Mary turns distance into a detail instead of a constraint. You don’t have to plan your days around passages; you plan them around what you feel like doing, and the boat quietly makes it possible.

Ferretti DNA You Can Feel

Ferretti has a particular kind of magic: their boats feel solid, intuitive, and human. Mary, built in 2000 and refitted in 2016, carries that DNA in every line and every door latch.

Step into the full-beam master suite amidships and you immediately understand why people care about layout. This is where the motion is softest, the noise is lowest, and the sleep is deepest. You don’t feel like you’re in a cabin; you feel like you’re in a bedroom that happens to move from island to island while you dream.

Forward, the VIP cabin is a genuine second master, not an afterthought. Two twin cabins — one convertible to a double — mean you can bring family or friends without anyone feeling like they drew the short straw. In total: 8 guests in 4 cabins, each with real space to unpack, breathe, and feel at home.

This is where Mary’s character shows: she’s not a floating hotel corridor; she’s a compact, well-thought-out home that just happens to wake up in a different postcard every morning.

Where Life Actually Happens

On Mary, life naturally gravitates upward, to the flybridge. It’s the social heart of the yacht — the place where days stretch and evenings linger.

A generous C-shaped lounge wraps around a table that always seems to be doing something: breakfast with the first coffee, a casual mezze spread at noon, cards and cocktails after sunset. Sunpads invite you to stretch out and forget what time it is. The BBQ grill turns lunch into a small event — the smell of grilled fish or souvlaki drifting on the breeze as someone climbs back aboard from the jet ski.

You don’t have to go inside, change, and “sit down to lunch.” You step from the water, wrap in a towel, and lunch simply appears where you already are. That’s Mary’s rhythm: effortless, unforced, and always outside.

A level down, the aft deck offers shaded, al fresco dining with the sea as a constant backdrop. It’s where you linger over long dinners while the boat rocks gently and the conversation drifts as lazily as the current.

Forward, the foredeck sunbeds are your private escape. It’s where you go with a book, a partner, or just your thoughts, watching the bow carve a path toward the next island. No noise, no crowd — just the sound of water and the feeling that, for this week at least, the horizon is yours.

The Crew: The Difference Between a Trip and a Memory

Hardware gets you on the boat. Crew is what stays with you years later.

Captain Vangelis has been at Mary’s helm since 2020, and he knows the Dodecanese the way a seasoned local knows their own neighborhood. Not just the famous anchorages, but:

• The tiny taverna on a back street where the owner still cooks from her grandmother’s recipes.
• The quiet bay where the water turns that impossible shade of turquoise and the afternoon wind never quite reaches.
• The timing to arrive in Symi just as the harbor lights come on and the hillside glows.

He doesn’t just move the yacht; he curates your route. If you say, “We want one wild night and three quiet ones,” he knows exactly where to go. If you say, “We want to swim with no one else in sight,” he has a mental list of places that feel like they exist only for you.

In the galley and on deck, Cook/Hostess Dimitra keeps the atmosphere warm and unpretentious. Her food is all about simple Greek flavors done exceptionally well: tomatoes that taste like sunshine, olive oil from just up the road, grilled fish that was still swimming that morning. It’s not fussy; it’s comforting, generous, and real.

But what guests talk about most isn’t the menu — it’s the care. The heart-shaped chocolates left for newlyweds. The custom playlist waiting on the speakers when she realizes you love a certain kind of music. The surprise shore excursion to a tiny chapel at sunset, or a last-night beach picnic you didn’t know was being planned.

Over and over, reviews say the same thing: on Mary, you don’t feel like a booking; you feel like friends being hosted. The crew remembers your coffee order, your kids’ favorite snacks, the bay you loved most on day one — and they quietly weave those details into the rest of your week.

What Makes Mary Special

There are many yachts with similar lengths, similar cabins, similar glossy brochures. What sets M/Y Mary apart is the way all her elements combine into a very specific kind of experience:

• Speed that turns a scattered island chain into your personal playground.
• Ferretti comfort and layout that make the boat feel like a home, not a compromise.
• Outdoor living spaces that keep you close to the sea from sunrise swim to midnight stargazing.
• A crew that treats your charter as a story they’re helping you write, not a schedule they’re obligated to keep.

Under €20K, Mary isn’t just a good deal on paper; she’s a rare chance to experience the Dodecanese at a pace and depth that most yachts in this bracket simply can’t offer.

If you want a week where you stop counting miles and start collecting moments — waking up in Rhodes, swimming in Symi, lunching off Leros, dining in Patmos — M/Y Mary is the yacht that quietly makes that possible.