ZEPPELIN

A 38.5 metre steel superyacht, built by A&Z Marina in 2012 and given a new interior in a three-year refit.

Offered for sale in Marmaris, Turkey.

Price: €2,200,000

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Length: 38.5 m
Guests: 10
Cabins: 5
Crew: 6
Gross tonnage: 219 GT
Range: 1,100 nm

Launched as SMYRNA

2012.

A&Z Marina built her in Turkey to its own design and launched her in January, a 36 metre custom yacht with a steel hull and an aluminium superstructure. The wheelhouse sits on a level of its own, which leaves more of the main deck and the flybridge to the guests.

The charter years.

Under her first name she was offered for charter in Turkey, carrying ten guests with a crew of six. The flybridge was the main attraction from the start, and it still is.

ZEPPELIN.

She has a new name now and a long refit behind her. The hull and the two Scania engines are the ones she was launched with. Much of what you see on board is newer, and a longer aft platform has added two and a half metres to her length.

From the stern platform to the flybridge

You board at the stern. The platform lowers into the water, so at anchor it is both the swim deck and the landing for the tender. In port a hydraulic gangway reaches the quay.

A few steps up, the teak cockpit opens into the saloon and dining area. There are two day heads on this deck, so nobody coming in from a swim has to go below.

The master suite is on this deck as well, forward of the saloon. The other four cabins are below: two VIPs and two twins, each with its own bathroom. That makes five cabins for ten guests and nine bathrooms in all. The crew of up to six have three cabins of their own, forward on the lower deck.

One level up is the wheelhouse, and above it all is the flybridge. The jacuzzi is here, along with the bar, the dining table and the sun pads, and a hardtop shades the forward part of the deck.

The flybridge under its hardtop, with the jacuzzi and the dining table

A guest cabin on the lower deck with a double bed and four portholes

Deck plan

Four levels, from the flybridge down to the lower deck.
Choose a deck to see its layout.

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: Jacuzzi Bar Dining table Sun pads Hardtop
: Helm Navigation station
: Cockpit Saloon Dining area Galley Two day heads Master suite
: Two VIP cabins Two twin cabins Crew quarters Engine room

The master suite on the main deck, with a double bed, light oak floor and wide windows to the sea

In the master suite, the first thing you see in the morning is the water.

Dark hull, pale rooms

Outside.

A dark blue hull under a white superstructure. Dark glass runs in a band along the main deck, and the wheelhouse is set above it. A hardtop finishes the line of the flybridge, and the stern steps down to a broad platform at the water. The decks are teak.

Inside.

The rooms are Scandinavian in the plain sense of the word: pale surfaces, clean joinery and very little ornament. A long run of windows on each side keeps the saloon bright through the day. The floors are light oak and the cabinetry white. The bathrooms are finished in grey stone, with walk-in showers and, in the larger cabins, twin basins. None of these finishes were on board in 2012.

The saloon on the main deck: a long run of windows, light oak floor, pale sofas and white cabinetry

A bathroom with a walk-in shower and twin basins

2012 Today

The refit took around three years. The builder's original specification survives, so what changed can be set out line by line.

The saloon and dining area today: light oak floor, pale upholstery and a long run of windows

	As launched, 2012	Today
Length overall	36.0 m	38.5 m, aft platform extended
Flybridge	Open	Hardtop added
Interior	Oak veneer, leather-covered furniture	New throughout, Scandinavian in style
Lower deck cabins	Four doubles	Two VIPs, two twins
Generators	2 × Westerbeke 60 kW, 1 × 17 kW	All new
Navigation	Raymarine	New
Electrical equipment	Original	New
Jacuzzi	Original	New
Main engines	2 × Scania, 750 hp each	Same engines, fully serviced
Air conditioning	Coolmar chiller system, 300,000 BTU	Same system, fully serviced

Built to cruise at ten knots

She is not a fast yacht and was never meant to be. Two Scania diesels of 750 hp each drive the semi-displacement hull, and she settles at ten knots. Each engine has run 2,710 hours.

At that pace the 13,500 litres of fuel give a range of 1,100 nautical miles, about four and a half days of continuous running. She carries 8,388 litres of fresh water, and a watermaker adds 220 litres an hour.

In harbour a hydraulic bow thruster helps her on and off the berth. At anchor the generators and the inverter run the air conditioning and the rest of the ship without a shore connection, and a 500 kg crane puts the tender in the water.

The wheelhouse helm: navigation screens, wheel and throttles, with the sea beyond the windscreen

The engine room, with the two original Scania diesels either side of the walkway

ZEPPELIN from astern at dusk, lit up at anchor

ZEPPELIN on film

The decks, the cabins and the wheelhouse, filmed after the refit.

Specification

As offered

Name: ZEPPELIN
Former name: SMYRNA
Builder and year: A&Z Marina, Turkey, 2012
Refit: Around three years, completed [2025]
Flag: San Marino, pleasure yacht
Class: Previously Türk Loydu, can be reinstated
Engine hours: 2,710 on each engine
Location: Marmaris, Turkey
Central agent: Skippern Yachts, in cooperation with Contact Yachts
Listing reference: 30189
Asking price: €2,200,000 Excluding VAT

Build

Type: Motor yacht, semi-displacement
Design and naval architecture: A&Z Marina
Hull: Steel
Superstructure: Aluminium, 5083 H111 upper deck
Insulation: Rock wool, Mascoat
Gross tonnage: 219 GT

Dimensions

Length overall: 38.5 m
Waterline length: 33.62 m
Beam: 7.3 m
Draft: 2.2 m

Engines

Main engines: 2 × Scania DI16 43M, 2012
Power: 2 × 750 hp at 2,100 rpm, 1,500 hp total
Drive: Direct

Performance

Cruising speed: 10 knots
Maximum speed: 17 knots
Range: 1,100 nautical miles

Capacities

Fuel: 13,500 litres
Fresh water: 8,388 litres
Black and grey water: 10,418 litres

Accommodation

Guests: 10 in 5 cabins
Main deck: Master suite
Lower deck: 2 VIP cabins, 2 twin cabins, all en suite
Crew: Up to 6 in 3 cabins
Bathrooms: 9, including 2 day heads on the main deck

Systems

Generators: New in the refit
Electrical: Inverter, shore power, battery charger
Air conditioning: Coolmar chiller system, 300,000 BTU, fully serviced
Bow thruster: Hydraulic
Windlass: Hydraulic
Watermaker: 220 litres per hour
Waste water treatment: Tecnicomar Ecomar 8
Engine room fire system: FM-200

Navigation and communication

New in the refit: Radar, GPS, chart plotter, autopilot, compass, VHF, AIS, depth sounder, wind instruments

Deck equipment

Flybridge: Jacuzzi (new in the refit), hardtop
Stern: Extended hydraulic swim platform, hydraulic gangway
Crane: 500 kg, hydraulic
Cockpit: Teak
Liferafts: Capacity 20

Domestic

Dishwasher, washing machine, oven, refrigerator, deep freezer, flat-screen televisions

ZEPPELIN in photographs

Private
or charter

Kept private.

This is how she stands today: San Marino flag, registered as a pleasure yacht, offered excluding VAT. We estimate a year's running costs in the Mediterranean as follows.

Berth: €70,000 to €90,000
Insurance: €35,000 to €40,000
Crew: €80,000 to €120,000
Maintenance: €100,000 to €200,000
Per year: €285,000 to €450,000

Put to charter.

She has done it before, as SMYRNA. The operators we consulted give these figures for a Mediterranean season today.

Weekly rate: €60,000 to €80,000, before extras
Season: 8 to 10 weeks
Running costs covered: Between the fourth and the eighth week

These are estimates, not a record of past income.

Charter use would require commercial registration and a return to class. She was previously classed with Türk Loydu, and that class can be reinstated.

ZEPPELIN seen head-on, her bow towards the camera

See her in Marmaris

She is lying on the south-west coast of Turkey, about an hour and a half by road from Dalaman airport, and can be viewed by appointment. If you can't travel yet, we can walk you through her on a video call first.

A purchase follows the usual course: an offer, an independent survey, a sea trial, then contract and completion. We arrange the viewing, help you find a surveyor, draw up the purchase contract handle payment through our client account and advise on re-registration.