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Guests
12
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Cabins
6
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Crew
14
| Length | GT | Built |
|---|---|---|
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67m
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1,200 GT | 2024 |
| Beam | Draft | Top Speed |
| 11.5m | 3.3m | 16 Kts |
Sparta is a multi-award winning 67m motor yacht delivered by Dutch shipyard Heesen in 2024. Her interior design and exterior styling comes from the drawing boards of Winch Design, while Van Oossanen Naval Architects is responsible for her naval architecture.
Key Features
- Two full-beam owner’s suites
- Large aft-deck infinity pool
- Glass elevator, carved oak staircase
- 4,500 nautical mile range
- Themes: water, earth, air across decks
- Sundeck jacuzzi, bar
- Full-beam main saloon on main deck
- 1,200GT optimized enclosed volume
Design & Construction
Designed around a fast displacement steel hull and an aluminium superstructure she features a 11.5m beam and a 3.3m draft. The yacht has an internal volume of 1,200 GT (Gross Tonnes).
Construction started in late 2020 with the keel laid under the project name 'Avanti'. This was the first yacht built on the Custom design. The yacht was designed and constructed in compliance with the Lloyds Register technical standards. Launched in June 2023 this yacht undertook sea trials over the following months.
Exterior Design
Sparta’s reverse bow is the first clue that this is not a conventional 67m (219.8ft) Heesen. The stem runs almost straight down into a long, fine hull, while the superstructure stays relatively low and the dark glass is pulled into one continuous sweep along the side. The metallic Venetian red stripe follows that same line and gives the profile a bit of movement without needing extra shapes or fake vents.
There is a practical reason for the slender form. Sparta uses Van Oossanen’s Fast Displacement Hull Form, while the reverse bow was developed to reduce vertical acceleration in waves. Heesen also had to keep the yacht low enough to clear the bridges between Oss and the North Sea, which helps explain why so much of the volume is carried in length and beam rather than height. The yard quotes around 20% lower fuel use than a comparable round-bilge hull.
The deck plan is quite revealing. The main deck aft is almost entirely given over to the 6.5m x 2.4m (21.3ft x 7.9ft) pool and the terraces around it. Broad steps drop down either side towards the swim platform, while long built-in sofas sit outboard of the pool. There is no dining table squeezed into the middle just because there is space for one. This part of the yacht is for swimming, lounging and getting down to the water.
Higher up, the sundeck has a different job. The spa pool sits forward of the main lounge area, with a bar, sunpads and loose seating further aft under the hardtop. The owner’s deck below is more private again, with a foredeck terrace ahead of the forward suite and another deck aft outside the second owner’s cabin. The GA makes clear that these are separate spaces, not one long strip of teak being asked to do everything.
The big side doors amidships are another clue to the working layout. Tenders are carried inside the hull rather than being left on deck, and the custom 8m (26.2ft) Tenderworks boat was styled to pick up the same red sweep as Sparta herself. The heavily bevelled superstructure made bridge-wing visibility difficult, so the wing stations slide out when they are needed. That is the sort of detail you would never guess from the clean side profile.
Interior Design
Sparta’s interior is far less restrained than her outside. Winch Design used earth, water and air as loose themes through the decks, but the useful part is how that idea changes the materials rather than simply giving rooms names.
The central staircase does most of the linking. Carved oak from Hull Studio changes as it climbs, with patterns that begin as ripples in sand, turn into breaking water and become wind higher up. A circular glass lift sits inside the stair, so this is also the main vertical route through the yacht, not decoration hidden in a lobby.
The main saloon has lounge seating aft and dining for 12 forward, and there are almost no sharp corners. Chairs, cabinets, table edges and wall details are all softened. That came from a family brief, with the owners asking for details that would be safer around children, and Winch turned it into a theme rather than making the room look childproofed.
There is a lot of handwork here. The dining chairs use real palm leaves pressed into the backs, the table is figured sycamore, and the large coffee table was built from many smaller pieces of wood around a hollow centre so it could have the weight and grain of a tree trunk without actually being one. Green and copper-veined marble runs through the top and into the carpet pattern around it.
The colour is important too. Sparta does not default to beige. The guest rooms use flowers, butterfly wings, sea colours and layered carpets, while copper, vellum, mother-of-pearl and dark blue oak turn up elsewhere. Some of it is quite bold, and that is part of the point. This was clearly not designed to disappear politely into the background.
Accommodation
Sparta sleeps 12 guests in six cabins, with a separate staff cabin for two and accommodation for 15 crew including the captain.
The owner gets an entire deck and, unusually, two full-beam bedrooms rather than one suite stretched into a larger apartment.
The forward owner’s cabin measures 62m² (667ft²), with a king-size bed facing 180-degree views and a skylight overhead. The dark blue oak panel above the bed carries a real constellation map picked out in mother-of-pearl and gold, and sliding doors open onto the private foredeck terrace.
The second owner’s cabin sits aft on the same deck and measures 56m² (603ft²). A broad curved glass door opens onto another private terrace with dining for up to 10. This gives the owner two genuinely different places to sleep and spend time, one facing ahead and one opening aft, without using the shared guest decks.
Four guest cabins sit on the main deck. The two forward rooms were planned around children, although they are large enough to work as full guest suites. A vellum-covered wall slides away between them, turning the pair into one big playroom. Their Tai Ping carpets use 20 colours across five built-up layers, including a woven island in the middle of the floor.
The other cabins keep their own identity, with peony and butterfly themes worked through the headboards, lamps, embroidery and carpets rather than simply changing cushion colours.
Performance & Capabilities
Twin MTU 12V 4000 M65R diesels give Sparta a maximum speed of 17.7 knots, with cruising around 14.6 knots and a quoted range of 5,000 nautical miles.
The hull does the interesting work. The Van Oossanen Fast Displacement Hull Form was chosen to reduce drag across the yacht’s working speed range, while the reverse bow reduces the up-and-down acceleration felt as the yacht meets a head sea. Heesen quotes around 20% lower fuel use compared with a round-bilge hull.
Sparta carries 140,000 litres of fuel and has two watermakers rated at 20,000 litres per day each. Zero-speed Naiad fins deal with roll at anchor, while the steel hull and aluminium superstructure keep the yacht firmly in long-range cruising territory rather than chasing high speed.
Wellness
The only guest space on the lower deck is a 65m² (700ft²) gym and spa across the full beam, and the location makes sense. It has enough width for a proper gym without stealing space from the main saloons or guest cabins above.
The circular timber-lined spa pool is sunk slightly into the floor, so someone sitting in the water is closer to eye level with people on the surrounding loungers. It is a small planning detail, but a good one. The rest of the space includes a curved hemlock sauna, mosaic-lined steam room, experiential shower and an open gym with cardio kit, punch bag, wall trainer and massage table.
Hemlock was chosen for the sauna instead of the more usual cedar because Winch wanted less contrast between the light and dark grain. That sort of decision tells you quite a lot about the level of control in the interior.
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