GRAND DAME
Whatever Lady Moura ’s been taking, I’d like some. She may be 30 years old this year, a respectable age for a yacht, but the palatial interior of this seven-deck, 105 metre looks as pristine as the day Blohm+Voss launched her to international fanfare in 1990. With exteriors and interiors by Luigi Sturchio, she was then the ninth largest yacht ever built – and the most expensive. Three decades of ultra-private family use followed, but this year she’s for sale with Camper & Nicholsons and, for the very first time, outsiders have been allowed to venture inside.
Her (original) carpets are still soft, pure cream; flowers tumble from vases on to freshly polished dressers. “One of the things that we’re most proud of, actually,” says relief captain Sebastian Rauber, “is that most of the interior is still original.” One beauty secret here is constant maintenance by an army of crew who know every corner of the boat. “The average time
