Golden Yachts delivered O’Madeleine on 15 July 2025. She is a 60-metre motor yacht, built at the group’s own yard at Perama, on the western edge of Piraeus. She was ordered in 2022, and construction began the following year. Studio Vafiadis designed her exterior. Two studios shared her interiors: Massari Design Studio set the tone in the main and upper saloons, and Studio Vafiadis drew the guest cabins and the bridge. She carries 12 guests in 7 staterooms, with a crew of 15, and she is 11 metres in the beam. She made her public debut at the Monaco Yacht Show in September 2025.
The yard at Perama
Paris Dragnis founded Golden Yachts in 1996 as an offshoot of a Greek shipping house, which is now in its second generation of owners. O’Madeleine is the smallest yacht the Perama yard has built. Its larger yachts include the 95-metre O’Pari of 2020 and the 88-metre Project X of 2022.
Beside those, 60 metres looks almost modest. A yard is better measured by the consistency of what it delivers than by the length of its largest hull. Perama is a working shipbuilding coast, a stretch of slipways and cranes on the far side of the port that most visitors to Athens never see. The news is that a yacht of this size was designed, welded, joined and finished there, instead of being ordered from northern Europe and only flagged in Greece.
The order
The brief asked for freedom, wellness and versatility, and for rooms that could serve more than one purpose. The owner came to the yard wanting 55 metres and was persuaded to build larger. He is a friend of the founding family and younger than the yard’s usual client. He brought a liking for northern climates, which met the Mediterranean instincts of the people designing her. That is why a yacht built a few kilometres from the Saronic Gulf looks, below decks, as if it had been fitted out much further north.
Aboard
The interiors have a Nordic feel, in natural oak, cured stone, Carrara marble, leather, silk and stingray. Alessandro Massari’s hand shows in the dining table. A single sculpted leg carries a top of agate lit from within, which an Italian craftsman cut and joined with resin. A staircase of cantilevered steps wraps around a glass lift, and it does the work that a grand staircase does in a house on land.
The upper deck has a marble-clad bar designed as a stone cave. Below it, the owner’s cabin runs the full width of the main deck and combines a private lounge and a workspace behind panoramic windows. The pool has glass sides and glass windbreaks around it, so the water lines up with the horizon instead of sitting sunk in the deck.
Behind the folding transom, the flat back of the hull, the beach club opens to the sea with a hammam (a steam bath), a bar and a lounge. The garage is finished to the same standard, and a wooden screen unfolds there to make a massage room. The top deck converts between a gym, a cinema and a room for company, depending on what the day brings.
Studio Vafiadis’s exterior makes the case for all of it. Long lines run the length of the hull and are opened up with glazing, so the eye breaks the volume into parts. From the water she looks lighter than 60 metres, and that is the harder thing to achieve.
What she shows about Greek yacht building
Greece has long been a maritime country in the commercial sense. Golden Yachts itself grew out of a shipping house, and its owners are still in that trade. Even so, that strength has not carried over easily into building yachts at the top of the market. O’Madeleine is part of the change. She is a Greek-built yacht that stands beside northern European work in engineering, finish and ideas, from a yard that has spent the years since 1996 growing into that ability without announcing it.
For a client planning a Greek summer, the yachts that lie off Mykonos and the Peloponnese now include some built half an hour’s drive from Athens.
Who is this for
O’Madeleine suits a family or a group of friends who want a calm yacht full of light, with room to spend whole days aboard. Golden Yachts says more than 250 finishes are used throughout, including precious stones. In one lounge, carved wall panels of fish and coral stand between potted trees. The open upper deck has white sofas and a circular sunpad facing the mountains across the water. At dusk her three decks are lit down to a teak swim platform, with lights glowing in the sea below.
