Off-grid superyacht catamaran Sitara for sale at EUR 4.9m

Shore power is optional on Sitara. At anchor the batteries run the boat and the watermakers keep the tanks full, so there’s no need to find a berth with a plug or run the generator around the clock.

VisionF Yachts in Turkey built her in 2024, and her owners fitted her out to their own spec, interior included. She has cruised the eastern Mediterranean, Italy and the South of France since, and spends winter in San Remo.

Paul MacDonald of McD Yachts is marketing her in New Zealand for the central agent, Flensburger Yacht Service in Palma, and he has a particular buyer in mind. “It would actually suit, you know, if a Kiwi wanted an apartment in Europe,” he says.

Power from the roof

The hardtop is one big solar array. Thirty 400 W panels cover 79 square metres of reinforced roof, with another four on the flybridge roof, and together they feed a 175 kWh battery bank housed in a ventilated compartment on the bridge deck.

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A Victron system manages the power, and it carries the full domestic load, from the air conditioning and galley to the watermakers and TVs. In July 2026 the 15 kW Fischer Panda generator had only around 300 hours on it.

There’s diesel too. Twin Volvo Penta IPS D13 1050s, 588 kW apiece, give her 14 knots flat out, but she cruises at 8 on about 30 litres an hour. At that pace her 14,570 litres is good for roughly 3,700 nm, and the broker reckons you’d only need to fill up once a year.

Two Schenker watermakers, each making 150 litres an hour, look after the 4,000 litre freshwater tanks, and there’s Starlink for staying in touch.

Big boat, small-boat rules

She measures 24.99 m overall, but her waterline is 23.9 m, which keeps her just under the 24 m mark. MacDonald calls her a superyacht anyway. “It’s so wide, I’m going to call it a superyacht because it’s such a big volume boat,” he says.

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He has a point. With 9.9 m of beam and 128 gross tonnes, she carries the sort of volume you’d expect on a much longer yacht, and the broker’s material compares her to a 35 to 40 metre boat. Staying under 24 m brings lower running costs and simpler compliance, and her 1.2 m draft gets her into bays the bigger boats can’t reach.

Hull and superstructure are aluminium, which is what allows the big window fronts in every cabin. She’s rated CE Category A for ocean use.

Over winter 2025/26 she got a new deck, 200 square metres of 12 mm teak in place of the original synthetic, along with Hempaguard antifouling and the yard’s final warranty work. The engines have about 930 hours on them, with the warranty extended to 2,000 hours.

Living on deck

The aft deck is set up for cooking outside. A 3 m galley holds a Kenyon electric grill, an induction cooktop and a big sink, and next to it is a pizza oven that will turn out a Neapolitan pizza in 90 seconds. Fresh herbs hang along the deck, and the Corian dining table extends to seat eight.

Between the hulls, a hydraulic platform lifts 700 kg and carries a 2024 Williams 345 Sport Jet with a 90 hp Rotax. There’s also a folding Portabote with an ePropulsion electric outboard, a Bauer dive compressor with filling stations on deck, and a Besenzoni hydraulic gangway.

Up forward, two sunbeds and an L-shaped sofa sit on open teak, with a 90 kg stainless anchor on 110 m of 14 mm chain. The two big storage compartments in the bows, one wet and one dry, are already plumbed and wired with their own air conditioning so they can be turned into crew cabins.

The flybridge has a second helm, four sunbeds and a small gym area. Its lounge, an L-shaped sofa with two armchairs, is known on board as the G&T spot, and the plumbing and power are already in for a wet bar.

Inside

Automatic sliding doors lead into a saloon with windows on every side. It’s done in cool greys over a herringbone floor, with a Catellani & Smith pendant hanging above the dining table for eight and a U-shaped sofa across from it.

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A 65-inch Samsung drops from the ceiling, and a coffee bar with a professional espresso machine sits by the door to the foredeck. The main helm and a leather-topped desk are in here as well.

The owner’s cabin runs along the starboard hull. It has a king bed with Tempur mattresses against a silver wave-pattern bedhead, long hull windows, and an ensuite with an Antonio Lupi basin, a 700 mm Axor rain shower and a separate toilet and bidet.

Two VIP cabins, one in each hull, also have king beds and their own ensuites. In the port hull, an office with a daybed and its own head and shower can become a fourth cabin, with room for a bunk if needed, and there’s a Miele washer and dryer opposite.

The galley is also in the port hull, with a row of windows over the bench. The appliances are all Miele, including an induction cooktop, steam oven, integrated fridge and freezer, XXL dishwasher and plate warmer, and there’s a Villeroy & Boch sink with a Dornbracht tap, Corian benchtops and 33 cupboards.

Easy to handle

Her owners, a husband and wife, have been running her themselves. At nearly 25 m by 10 m that’s a lot of boat to keep clean, and the bow compartments are there for anyone who’d rather bring crew. The handling, though, is about as simple as it gets on a boat this size.

There are three Volvo IPS control stations, in the saloon, on the flybridge and on the aft deck for berthing, and Volvo Penta Dynamic Positioning holds her in place while the lines go on.

The main helm is Volvo Penta’s Glass Cockpit, developed with Garmin, so engines, navigation and DP share the same screens. There’s an upgraded Garmin 1224 xHD radar, and a six-camera Garmin Surround View system shows a bird’s-eye view of the boat with distance markers for close-quarters work.

For night passages there’s SEA.AI Sentry, which combines thermal and optical cameras to spot boats, debris and people in the water, even in total darkness. It can lock onto a target, such as a crew member who has gone overboard, and keep it in view.

An ELNA lightning protection system bonds the whole hull, and her insurer, Pantaenius, has cut her lightning excess to zero on the strength of it. Safety gear includes a 12-person Viking liferaft and 10 smoke detectors linked to the main alarm.

Viewing and enquiries

Sitara is available for viewings in the South of France or Italy. Contact Paul MacDonald at McD Yachts on +64 27 513 3524 or paul@mcdyachts.com.

Full details on the yacht can be found here.

Sitara at a glance