Project Metaverse

A yacht still on the drawing board leaves the biggest decisions to the buyer who commits to her, and that is the position on offer with Project Metaverse. Gregory C Marshall Design has drawn a 63-metre displacement yacht for Delta Marine to build, with her interior finish and final specification still open to the eventual owner's brief. Delta Marine is the Seattle yard named to build her, with 2028 set as the delivery year.

Build and provenance

Project Metaverse is a full custom design, a motor yacht with a monohull and a full displacement hull, matched to a steel hull and a composite superstructure. At 207ft (63 metres) overall, with a beam of 3.7 metres and a draft of 3.4 metres, she is sized for open water rather than tight marinas. Because she is still a project rather than a delivered yacht, a buyer joins at the stage where the interior finish and the final specification are still theirs to choose.

Layout and accommodation

Fourteen guests are accommodated across seven cabins, a ratio that leaves each suite generously sized on a boat of this length. The owner's suite is full beam, with private balconies on both sides, one holding its own spa pool. Guest cabins are split between the main deck and the deck below, each with direct access to the crew stairs and lift, so service reaches every room without crossing the owner's or guests' own spaces.

Performance and engineering

Two 1,600hp Caterpillar engines, the specific model still to be confirmed, give Project Metaverse a 12-knot cruise and a 16-knot top speed, choices suited to a displacement hull built for range rather than for a sprint. Her tanks hold 2,000 gallons of fuel, enough for the kind of ocean crossings a full-displacement design of this size is built to make.

Where she lies and how to see her

Delta Marine's yard in Seattle, USA, is where Project Metaverse is taking shape, and it is where a prospective buyer would see her progress in person. Boatcrowd sets up the visit and is there with you on the day, and once an offer on a project at this stage is accepted, a survey and sea trial follow as she nears completion.