The world’s largest yachts, and where they last reported.

Every hull below broadcasts its own position. We listen, match and publish.

0 under way

0 at rest · 221 dark, at the last fix on file

Hulls on file221

With a position report216

Photographed218

Owners identified175

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The masthead noteHow we track

celebyachts is a newsroom that runs on radio signals. Every large vessel broadcasts its own position, speed and heading over AIS, an open maritime protocol anyone can receive. We listen to that public feed, match each signal to a curated register of the world’s most notable pleasure craft, and report what the data shows.

We work from three things and no more: public AIS broadcasts, open corporate and class records, and our own reporting. Ownership that is reported but not documented is labelled exactly that. Where a figure is unknown we print a dash, not an estimate. The full method is on the masthead page.

Section AWhere the fleet isOpen the chart →

Counted by AIS sea area at each hull’s most recent position report. The Mediterranean holds the fleet through the northern summer; the pattern inverts by December.

	Waters	Hulls
1	Ligurean Sea	31
2	Tyrrhenian Sea	21
3	Balearic Sea	20
4	Aegean Sea	18
5	Adriatic Sea	16
6	US East Coast	11
7	North Sea	8

The register

221 hulls, 145 builders, 30 flags.

The collection is grouped by how these boats came to exist — tech fortunes, resource fortunes, royal households, and the seized fleet that followed 2022.

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Section BThe fleetAll 221 →

The longest hulls on file, each with a full dossier: specification, photography and last reported position.