“Well, you can't just buy a piece of the moon,” says Paul Costerus, senior yacht designer and partner at Sinot Yacht Architecture & Design, matter of factly. “The pieces brought back by the Apollo missions are owned by federal governments. What you can buy are moon meteors…” You might not expect a conversation about a Heesen to begin with buying pieces of the moon to decorate a coffee table, but this is a yacht with plenty of eccentricities, a staggering level of customisation, and a design and build team who achieved it all with the same unflappable pragmatism that Costerus displays.
Aside from its successful range of five 50-metre-plus series platforms, Heesen offers two custom approaches: clients can start from a blank sheet of paper, or they can start from one of the Dutch yard's concept designs. Ceres is one such design – a new steel 60 metre with a Van Oossanen
