The 35th Monaco Yacht Show closed on 26 September with fleet statistics to match the week: 117 superyachts in Port Hercule, 5.58 kilometres of total length, an average length of 47.66 metres, and an average age of 6.47 years, down from 7.28 in 2025. YachtBuyer MarketWatch counted 79 debuts and 46 yachts delivered in 2026 among the fleet, and put the 70 yachts listed for sale at a combined asking price of around $2.5 billion.
The headliners were the week’s debuts: the 111-metre Oceanco Leviathan, delivered in 2025 and appearing at the show for the first time, alongside the rebuilt 93-metre Draak; Lurssen’s 102.4-metre Nixie, making her global debut; and the world debut of the 80-metre Amels Pangea, the first Amels 80 ever presented at a show. Ferretti Group added three premieres of its own: the Riva 54Metri, the largest Riva ever built; the 67-metre CRN Amor a Vida, the yard’s first hybrid-propulsion superyacht; and the Custom Line Navetta 35, five units of which are already sold.
The week’s other official story was sustainability, given institutional weight. The 2026 Blue Wake Awards, the show’s official sustainability programme run with the Water Revolution Foundation, drew 71 applications, validated 60, and shortlisted 15. The winners: Bespoke Projects, for recycled-monomer cast acrylic for interiors; Termodinamica, for a marine HVAC inverter heat pump; Amico and Co., the Genoa refit yard, for a 1 MW photovoltaic installation, full-dock shore power, and 25-category waste recovery; Tykun, for aluminium tenders with a full cradle-to-grave life-cycle assessment; and Marina Ibiza, for Posidonia seagrass meadow restoration. The Special Jury Prize went to Ares Yachts’ 62-metre sailing yacht Simena, with parallel-hybrid propulsion and a YETI assessment 11 percent better than the fleet average. VPLP Design’s Wind Voyage OceanWings project earned a special mention, with a reported 1.3 tonnes of fuel saved per day per sail.
The Yacht Club de Monaco’s SEA Index added its own data point: Benetti’s 67-metre hybrid Dagger joined the index at the show, with HSH Prince Albert II touring the yacht. The index was expanded in 2026 with a dedicated Air Quality certification covering NOx and particulate matter, developed with AtmoSud; underwater radiated noise measurement is the planned next addition. The fully electric Sunreef 100 Eco held its world premiere at the show, with twin 360 kW electric motors and a 770 kWh battery bank, while GX Superyachts’ 42-metre hybrid GX42 claims 100 nautical miles of electric range at 6 knots.
Two numbers define the week. The fleet’s average age, 6.47 years and falling, is the order book of the early 2020s arriving at the docks: the new-build boom is now visible, walkable, and for sale. And sustainability has moved from brochure language to measured evidence: validated applications, certified air quality, assessed hulls. The industry spent a decade promising greener yachting; Monaco 2026 was the first show where the claims came with paperwork.
Photography: Mike is Michi via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).
