Most owners start with small, semicustom boats or form their ideas after years of chartering. The UK-based owner of Arrow, by contrast, simply took his wish list to his builder of choice. Having accomplished many of life's business goals, he was undaunted by the idea of a steep learning curve with his first yacht.
Arrow was launched in 2020 yet her coming out party was delayed, first by Covid-19 and then by the yacht's busy schedule of owner and charter use. At the launch party, Feadship director Flenk de Vries called Arrow, “the perfect way for Feadship to launch into a new decade with a cutting-edge design that is very much the face of this period of the 21st century”. Nearly three years on, it is clear how prophetic he was. Her size – in the middle of the Dutch builder's range – and her owner's demand for freedom front noise and vibration set Arrow as a benchmark. Her lifestyle features, notably a large upper deck gym and a beach club that opens on three sides and becomes a nightclub after dark, are very much au courant. But also exactly what the owner wanted.
The team at De Voogt Naval Architects developed a concept based on a sharply raked bow and a low profile encompassing tender garages forward. The wish list included a 10-metre
