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NERO YACHT CHARTER

90.1m  /  295'7   corsair yachts   2007 / 2021.

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Cabin Configuration

  • 2 Convertible

Special Features:

  • Beautiful classic styled yacht offering a fantastic array of generous interior and exterior socialising areas
  • Large Owner's duplex, including his and hers bathrooms, private study, office and lounge
  • Approved RYA water sports centre
  • Sundeck Jacuzzi and gym
  • Outdoor cinema
  • Impressive array of water sports toys and tenders
Nero is spacious and packed with things to do making her fully primed for guests seeking a luxury charter at sea.

The award winning 90.1m/295'7" classic yacht 'Nero' by shipyard Corsair Yachts offers flexible accommodation for up to 12 guests in 6 cabins and features interior styling by Neil Taylor.

For refined luxury and elegance, look no further than classic yacht Nero. Offering an array of sumptuous living areas coupled with superb amenities, you'll feel like Hollywood royalty aboard this spectacular vessel. Her features include a movie theatre and gym.

Guest Accommodation

Built in 2007, Nero offers guest accommodation for up to 12 guests in 6 suites comprising a master suite located on the main deck, one VIP cabin, two double cabins and two twin cabins. The supremely spacious full beam master suite incorporates its own study benefits from a his and her bathroom. There are 8 beds in total, including 2 king, 2 queen, 1 double, 4 singles and 2 convertible. Excellent service is guaranteed, with twenty crew members on board to look after your every need.

Onboard Comfort & Entertainment

You and your guests can enjoy a variety of experiences on Nero including a state-of-the-art movie theatre for movie nights. Take a plunge in the pool under the sun and maintain your fitness routine and work out in the well-equipped gym. Soak up the bubbles in style in the deck jacuzzi.

Nero benefits from some excellent features to improve your charter including satellite communications, keeping you connected on any voyage. Take advantage of the on board Wi-Fi and stay connected at all times and guests will experience complete comfort while chartering thanks to air conditioning.

Performance & Range

Built with a steel hull and steel superstructure, she offers greater on-board space and is more stable when at anchor thanks to her full-displacement hull. Powered by twin MAK engines, she comfortably cruises at 14 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 17 knots with a range of up to 3,800 nautical miles from her 176,000 litre fuel tanks at 12 knots. An advanced stabilisation system on board reduces the side-to-side roll of the yacht and promises guests exceptional comfort levels at anchor or when underway.

Onboard Nero has a large selection of toys and accessories to keep you and your guests entertained on the water throughout your stay. Principle among these are waterslides letting guests speed from the sun deck to the water in seconds. Take to the sea on the Jet Skis offering you power and control on the water. Guests can experience the thrill and adventure of riding one of the two Yamaha GP1300R WaveRunners. If that isn't enough Nero also features towable toys, waterskis, a seabob, canoes, fishing equipment and much more. When it comes to Tenders, Nero has you covered - with three tenders, including a 9.5m/31'2" Cabin Cruiser Tender.

Nero and her crew are available for charter this winter for cruising within the Caribbean. She is already accepting bookings this summer for cruising in the Mediterranean.

With a highly experienced and talented crew of 20, you can be sure that each and every need will be met and exceeded while on board this prestigious classic yacht.

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Stand Out Features

Vast master suite on Nero

Vast master suite

A home away from home. Complete with private office, cinema lounge and an exclusive dining area.

Expansive deck space on Nero

Expansive deck space

Entertain up to 36 guests on the vast deck layout which features a Jacuzzi, sunloungers, and a sunpad quad.

Extensive water toy collection on Nero

Extensive water toy collection

Adrenaline pumping fun is catered for with jet skis, canoes, paddleboards, inflatables, and wave runners.

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Amenities & Entertainment

For your relaxation and entertainment Nero has the following facilities, for more details please speak to your yacht charter broker.

Rendez-vous diving only.

Nero is reported to be available to Charter with the following recreation facilities:

  • 1 x 9.5m  /  31'2 Custom Cabin Cruiser Tender
  • 1 x 7.39m  /  24'3 Zeta Elle rigid inflatable
  • 1 x 5.2m  /  17'1 Nautica RIB

For a full list of all available amenities & entertainment facilities, or price to hire additional equipment please contact your broker.

Nero Awards & Nominations

  • The World Superyacht Awards 2009 Best Displacement Motor Yacht of 1,300GT to 2,999GT (approximately 60m – 84m) Finalist
  • International Superyacht Society Awards 2017 Best Refit Finalist
  • The International Yacht & Aviation Awards 2017 Master Cabin Winner
  • The World Superyacht Awards 2022 Best Refitted Yacht Nomination
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For a full list of all available amenities & entertainment facilities, or price to hire additional equipment please contact your broker.

APPROVED RYA WATER SPORTS CENTRE

Your family and friends could learn to use the water toys on your charter vacation onboard this luxury charter yacht. Motor Yacht Nero is a certified RYA Training Centre yacht.

'Nero' Charter Rates & Destinations

Mediterranean Summer Cruising Region

Summer Season

May - September

€497,000 p/week + expenses Approx $540,000

High Season

€525,000 p/week + expenses Approx $570,500

Cruising Regions

Mediterranean Croatia, France, Italy, Monaco, Montenegro, Turkey

HOT SPOTS:   Amalfi Coast, Corsica, French Riviera, Ibiza, Sardinia, The Balearics

Caribbean Winter Cruising Region

Winter Season

October - April

$497,000 p/week + expenses

$595,000 p/week + expenses

Caribbean Antigua, Saint Martin, St Barts

HOT SPOTS:   Virgin Islands

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On Board Review

Invited on board at the Antigua Charter Yacht Show, the team at YachtCharterFleet discovers what makes the award-winning 90m/295ft classic motor yacht NERO such an icon.

Classic elegance and modern luxury fuse harmoniously aboard NERO

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Nero: The 90m new build with an old-world soul and neo-classic styling

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the classically styled 90.1-metre Nero has been sailing the seas for centuries. Dig a little deeper and you'll find she is an architectural confection of old and new, as Holly Margerrison discovers.

Nero is a yacht of many secrets. For years, she was home to a plump, ginger stowaway from the Chinese shipyard she was built in. Named Nelson, the cat stayed with the owner on board, only going ashore if guests were not fond of the feline, and he even had his own chair in the wheelhouse that he scratched to pieces. Everyone gave up trying to replace the armchair and eventually threw a blanket over it.

Frederica Findlater of Burgess recounts a beautiful photo of the yacht taken from the stern. You’d be mistaken for thinking Nero was the subject of the image. Instead, sat on the capping rail, tail straight down, is Nelson, lapping up dusk’s soft light. Oh, to be the stowaway on Nero and to know the stories she holds.

Several years and two substantial refits later, these nostalgic traces can still be found throughout – if you know where to look. On a bright day off the coast of Monaco, I tour the modern-classic build, witnessing the wealth of details that make her such a revered yacht.

For example: Tucked behind the door in the owner’s suite is the epitome of British naval power. Poised high on the top shelf is a bust of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson (from which the cat borrowed its name) – a charismatic legend who led the British fleet to victory against the much larger French and Spanish fleets in the Battle of Trafalgar.

Follow the compass-embossed marquetry a little further along the deck and you uncover the next jewel in Nero 's trove. Here lies another bust, this time of Lord Byron, a figure heavily connected to the Greek War of Independence and the author behind the 1814 poem The Corsair . The poem tells the story of a wild and ruthless pirate, and served as inspiration for the name of one of the largest privately owned vessels in the 1930s, a 103-metre classic named Corsair IV that was itself the inspiration for Nero .

These treasures, along with model yachts that evoke the spirit of sea battles in their golden age, imbue Nero with a maritime history that goes much deeper than her clipper bow, black hull and iconic yellow funnel. It was British entrepreneur Neil Taylor who commissioned and designed Nero, initially setting out to restore a true classic. But when a suitable donor yacht wasn't available, he built a replica design of Corsair IV, owned by finance and industry icon JP Morgan in the 1930s.

Taylor inserted himself in the traditions of early 20th-century yachting and created something which both looked and felt like a time-honoured yacht. He pays his respects to JP Morgan across Nero with ubiquitous intertextual links. For a start, Corsair Yachts , the yard that Taylor created specifically for his build, is a nod to Morgan’s Corsair series of yachts. The bust of Nelson also honours the financier's fascination with the naval figure, who spent his life collecting ephemera and memorabilia. 

John Leonida, consulting superyacht industry advisor from LP Squared Ltd, shared much of his extensive research into Nero . He said: “The level of detail is extraordinary. It’s the bringing together of so many nautical themes that makes this such a spectacular boat.” Speaking of the figurehead of Byron, he added: “It’s an easter egg. If you don’t know it’s there, you don’t know that’s Byron. It adds another dimension.”

Her exterior is equally as captivating. As Captain Paul Bell explains, her sheer line “[rises] up as if it were an old-fashioned yacht. It’s taken from the time, so it’s architecturally correct. It’s the only boat I’ve worked on that has one of those, apart from an old-fashioned sailing yacht. She feels like a mix of a motor yacht and a sailing yacht because of her full-length keel. When she’s sitting at anchor like this, she feels like a sailing yacht.” He adds: “It’s quite relaxed, it’s not like a modern-day superyacht.”

It wasn’t always so relaxed inside and, for this, interior designer Laura Pomponi is to thank. As she puts it, she “transformed the yacht from a gentleman’s club to a lady of the seas”. Pomponi was tasked with the 2016 refit in MB92 in Barcelona, under a new owner whose brief was “contemporary, classic elegance”. Pomponi explains the biggest challenge of this refit was balancing a fresh aesthetic while “keeping the soul of the vessel”. To accomplish this, she introduced considerable light, cream interiors that are anything but clinical, and an amalgamation of cosy textures throughout.

Light in colour yet springy underfoot, the handmade bouclé carpet on the main deck invites guests to take their time as they walk across it. When it came to sourcing the fabric (of which there was 3.2km in the first refit), she explains “we pick up a little bit here, a little bit there. We don’t like well-known brands, we look for something special”.

Prior to the refit, purple, black and gold tones were a common theme on board, and they have since been replaced with nautical-hued furnishings, while dark high-gloss woods have been substituted for lime-washed oak and brass fittings have been stripped and dipped in chrome to resemble silver.

The mix of old and new artwork, chosen in collaboration with the owner and sourced predominantly from Italy and America, heightens the maritime theme with a contrast between tall ships and steamships.

The result of the first refit? A tactile, retro yacht where guests are encouraged to enjoy the space. Not cavernous yet also not claustrophobic, Nero encapsulates all that is to evoke “quiet luxury” – not defined by the amount it cost to build her, nor her refit costs.

Fast forward to 2021, when Pomponi’s expertise was called on once again. This time, the brief was more technical and focused on a wellness boat that would appeal to charter clients, aligning with an upgraded programme.

With this in mind, the snug was converted into a self-serving gym on the top deck and the previous gym was converted into a beauty saloon-come-massage room. They also changed the loose furniture and the owner opted for new colours, allowing Pomponi to weave in greens and yellows amongst the teal and blue. The sofas, designed and upholstered by the studio, demand to be sat on – the level of formality stripped in favour of ergonomic design. The floor surrounding the skylounge bar was also changed to wood to be more universally appealing.

The gym was Pomponi’s challenge for the 2021 refit, not least due to the technical constraints of the camber and the sheer of the floor. To make the ultra-modern kinesis fit, her team removed the floor and replaced it with technical cork panels, which are also easier to maintain. She then harmonised the contemporary and classic ambience with glass mirrors produced by an Italian company, Sicis, that specialises in glass mosaics. The mirrored cabinets are coated to give an antique effect.

In a testament to how the boat flows, this “quiet luxury” extends to the service provided by the unobtrusive yet attentive crew. They refute the formality of a silver service associated with a yacht of this size in favour of a more personable approach.

While little is known about the name behind Nero , there are certainly some characters who tell her multifaceted story. Nelson – both the feline and the naval figure – certainly have a part to play in this. For now, Nero will play host to charter guests – next stop Tarragona, before the Antigua Yacht Show.

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Boat of the Week: The 295-Foot ‘Nero’ Was Inspired by a Classic Superyacht From 1930

The new interior and gym on 295-ft. nero, built to resemble jp morgan's corsair iv, show how a classic-looking yacht can stay thoroughly modern., julia zaltzman, julia zaltzman's most recent stories.

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Nero is a modern yacht with a classic look that just had a major refit

Superyacht fans around the world will instantly recognize Nero , the one-of-a-kind 295-footer that defines the term “modern classic.” First launched from Corsair Yachts in 2007, Nero was commissioned as a replica of the famed 300-foot Corsair IV owned by J.P. Morgan, which, when launched in 1930, was the world’s largest yacht.

British entrepreneur Neil Taylor loved the look of Corsair IV , but didn’t want the expense of restoring a vintage yacht—which would’ve been impossible with Corsair , since it had transitioned into a high-end cruise ship in Asia and eventually sank off the coast of Mexico. Instead, Taylor set about building a beautiful replica with a modern hull and interior.

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Taylor actually established the Yantai Raffles Shipyard in China and hired 400 workers to build the yacht, which took nearly four years to complete. Two years after her delivery, she took Best Motor Yacht over 246 feet in the ShowBoats International Design Awards. The 1930s lookalike has since undergone two major refits, the latest just completed at San Giorgio del Porto in Genoa, Italy, to become an even more modern version of the original classic.

Nero is a modern yacht with a classic look that just had a major refit

Nero’s new gym was installed to make the yacht more relevant in today’s superyacht world. 

“ Nero ’s original build was fairly complex, so this refit was a great opportunity to technically upgrade her to the latest regulations,” Capt. Marcel Busse told Robb Report . “I’ve overseen numerous large refits on other boats, but this one takes the cake on many levels.”

The icing on that cake is the sundeck gym filled with Technogym equipment, including a Kinesis, treadmill, cross trainer and cardio bike. The area also has loose weights, yoga and Pilates equipment and, naturally, a certified physical trainer is part of the crew. A large Jacuzzi just steps away on the sundeck makes a perfect post-workout de-stressor.

“It used to be a ‘snug’ salon, but was underused,” says Busse. “Now it’s a fully-fledged gym with mirror-fronted storage lockers, fridge and TV. We’ve got a lot of space on the sun deck, which is monstrous compared to other boats of her size.” An 18.7-foot-long resistance pool is also located on the foredeck. The original gym has become a beauty salon and massage area.

Nero is a modern yacht with a classic look that just had a major refit

The interior was also updated with lighter-colored woods and decor for a Hampton’s beach-cottage look. 

Nero ’s owners have been careful to preserve its inimitable historical look, including the long bowsprit and yellow funnel in the center. The sleek exterior lines that herald the golden age of yachting haven’t been touched, though her striking black hull and superstructure have received a fresh coat of paint. One key area that has been rehabbed: The air-conditioning system, which could spell the difference between heaven and misery on such a large yacht. “It’s key for a black-hulled boat like Nero ,” says Busse.

Nero underwent a nine-month refit five years ago that included an updated interior by designer Laura Pomponi. “The owners spent a lot of time and money in 2016 upgrading the interior from dark wood to lime-washed wood with light-colored carpets,” says Busse. “We’ve maintained the lime wash and given the interior a Hamptons beach-house vibe.”

Pomponi was brought back for Nero ’s most recent refit, giving the interior turquoise hues with blue and red accents. Handmade carpets run throughout, including the owner’s duplex suite with separate lounge, study and his-and-hers bathrooms. Most soft furnishings, fabrics and sofas have been replaced. In the sky lounge bar, a new maple-and-oak hardwood floor delivers a wow factor in what looks like a classic yacht.

Nero is a modern yacht with a classic look that just had a major refit

The yellow funnel and outer dining areas retain the original owner’s intent of creating a yacht with 1930s ambiance.  Courtesy Burgess Yachts

For onboard entertainment, a newly installed and upgraded Icon Connect AV/IT system delivers the latest technology. A collection of water toys, including an inflatable slide, keep everyone happy in the water.

As part of the refit, Nero ’s original custom 31-ft. limousine tender also got a makeover, with new paint and varnish, upholstery and interior lights to update her classic beauty.

Despite the classic look, Busse says the yacht has a modern hull that cruises well at 14 knots, while consuming the same amount of fuel most yachts her size would use at 12 knots. “She has two sets of stabilizers, giving her four in total, so she’s quite stable,” he says.

Nero is a modern yacht with a classic look that just had a major refit

Nero and her tender are instantly recognizable anywhere in the world. 

Nero is available for charter in the Med through Burgess Yachts, with weekly charters starting at about $590,000.

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Design & Build Story

NERO was commissioned by British entrepreneur Neil Taylor.  A keen yachtsman and serial boat owner, with NERO Taylor saw an opportunity to combine his love for classic yachting lines with today’s mechanical ability and supreme standards of comfort.

Taylor founded Corsair Yachts specifically for the project’s undertaking, and in doing so thus laid the foundations to pay homage to the vessels owned by the famed American financier J. P. Morgan who had brought four Corsair to life. The fourth Corsair was 350ft long and was built by the Bath Iron Works in Maine. She was launched in 1930.

Whilst NERO is not a literal interpretation or replica of any one yacht, she undoubtedly embodies a classic grandeur and the spirit of each of the Corsairs vessels.

NERO’s design draws inspiration from many sources in many different ways, including Errol Flynn’s 1929 schooner, Zaca, which spurred the styling for the handcrafted teak skylight with integrated sofas on the deck.

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Another influence on NERO’s character was the 1912 steamship RMS Niagara, a transpacific ocean liner whose Edwardian staircase prompted the grand swirl of precision marquetry that now unites NERO’s interior decks.

NERO was built in 2007 by Corsair Yachts at the Yantai Raffles Shipyard.  A team of 30 international experts, with references from Lurssen, Benetti, and some of the superyacht industry’s most well-known names, was assembled to ensure this construction was nothing short of world leading.

Every aspect of NERO’s build was planned with meticulous care and attention to detail.

NERO underwent an extensive refit in 2021 that included a newly appointed beauty room, dedicated gym with upgraded equipment on the sun deck, an additional 7th cabin with king-sized sofa bed that doubles up as a massage room, an overhaul of the AV/IT systems, and updates to the soft furnishing throughout.

NERO’s interior is all about tasteful opulence. Renowned Italian designer Laura Pomponi has created a joyful, light-filled interior that features cream and neutral tones with blue accents inspired by the hues of the sea, complemented by limed oak and marble.  The overall effect is relaxed refinement. 

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    Special Features: Beautiful classic styled yacht offering a fantastic array of generous interior and exterior socialising areas. Large Owner's duplex, including his and hers bathrooms, private study, office and lounge. Approved RYA water sports centre. Sundeck Jacuzzi and gym. Outdoor cinema. Impressive array of water sports toys and tenders.

  2. Nero: The 90m new build with an old-world soul and neo-classic

    The mix of old and new artwork, chosen in collaboration with the owner and sourced predominantly from Italy and America, heightens the maritime theme with a contrast between tall ships and steamships. Above, the main saloon before the refit. Below, the fresh interior created by Laura Pomponi and her team.

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    Boat of the Week: The 295-Foot ‘Nero’ Was Inspired by a Classic Superyacht From 1930. The new interior and gym on 295-ft. Nero, built to resemble JP Morgan's Corsair IV, show how a...

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    Interior Lounges. With exquisite lounges connected by a sweeping main staircase, a choice of formal and casual dining locations and even an Art Deco cocktail bar, the light-filled interior of NERO is unparalleled. Unwind and relax while the crew tends to you and your guests’ every wish.

  5. Design & Build

    NERO’s interior is all about tasteful opulence. Renowned Italian designer Laura Pomponi has created a joyful, light-filled interior that features cream and neutral tones with blue accents inspired by the hues of the sea, complemented by limed oak and marble.