Lonian + Hodor

☕ Superyacht With My Cuppa: LONIAN + HODOR

An 87-metre Feadship with a 66-metre support yacht, an Airbus H145, a three-person submarine, a 17-metre tender, a 240 km/h race boat, landing craft, quad bikes, motorbikes and a decompression chamber

Wednesday, 16 September 2026

I think today's yacht may contain one of the best answers yet to a problem I keep having with superyachts.

You build a beautiful enormous yacht.

Then you fill half of it with:

helicopter,

submarine,

Jet Skis,

landing craft,

motorbikes,

diving cylinders,

fuel,

workshops,

cranes,

and all the other stuff that makes an explorer actually interesting.

Eventually somebody looks around and says:

“Where have all the nice bits of my yacht gone?”

The owners of Lonian had a more ambitious solution.

Build another 66-metre yacht purely to carry the stuff.

😂

So today's feature is really a two-ship household.

The mothership is the magnificent 87-metre / 285 ft 5 in Feadship Lonian.

And following behind is Hodor, a 66.2-metre / 217 ft 2 in aluminium catamaran whose inventory includes a matching Airbus H145 helicopter, a SEAmagine submarine, a 17-metre speedboat, a 16-metre centre-console boat, a landing craft, a 240 km/h Skater race boat, nine Jet Skis, quad bikes, side-by-side ATVs, trail motorcycles, dive centre and decompression chamber.

The source article recorded Hodor in Positano on 25 June 2026 and a September AIS snapshot of Lonian at Port Vell, Barcelona. Those are dated sightings, not a live location report. BOAT International

This is absurd.

I am delighted.

At this point Hodor ceases to be a support boat and becomes an entire second superyacht whose principal interior-design brief was apparently “GARAGE”. 😂

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🛥️ LONIAN at a glance

Specialist yacht records give 2,691 GT; the earlier article rounded this to about 2,700 GT, while some marketing material says 3,000 GT. The precise specialist figure is used here rather than treating those numbers as interchangeable. SuperYacht Times

Accommodation numbers vary by source and date. The earlier article recorded 14 guests, seven staterooms and 29 crew; the 2026 charter listing gives 12 guests in seven staterooms with 27 crew. The reason for that difference is not established—no imaginary missing bedroom or certification explanation required. Northrop & Johnson

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🌊 The brief was basically: we don't particularly want marinas

I like these people already.

Feadship says Lonian's owners spent around 15 years considering what they wanted before committing to the project.

That is quite a long time to spend thinking:

"Hmm. Boat?"

But the result is interesting.

A key requirement was the ability to anchor in secluded places and experience the surroundings rather than spend life stern-to in fashionable marinas. Feadship

That philosophy produced one of Lonian's strangest design statistics:

22 separate openings

Hatches.

Doors.

Terraces.

Platforms.

Fold-down areas.

The idea was to make an 87-metre yacht feel connected to the water instead of like a luxury hotel that happens to be moving. Feadship

This is one of those engineering details I like much more than “Italian marble throughout”.

Her dark blue hull also gives her considerably more presence than yet another white wedding cake. I wouldn't call her an explorer aesthetically, but she has a wonderfully purposeful bow and considerably more attitude than many yachts in this class.

And that bow isn't just styling. Feadship says its extra volume was deliberately used to increase useful interior space. Feadship

Good.

If you're going to build 87 metres of boat, make all 87 metres do something.

And then, having designed the yacht to carry lots of tenders and toys...

they apparently decided:

Actually, no. Let's put most of that on an entirely different ship.

This is exactly the sort of escalation I admire.

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🏊 The swimming pool has a GLASS FLOOR

Lonian's main-deck swimming pool sits around half a metre above deck level.

Why?

Because the floor is translucent.

And directly underneath it is the beach club.

So sunlight passes through the swimming pool and becomes part of the ceiling below. Yahoo

I approve enormously.

Then somebody added a cinema screen into the edge of the pool.

So you can lie beside it, sit in it or watch a film from the surrounding cabanas. CharterWorld.com

Entirely unnecessary.

Therefore correct.

And the transom itself does a little piece of engineering theatre.

The teak hatch opens, the aft door lowers to become the swim platform, then the teak section closes again so the whole thing becomes a flush deck with almost no obvious threshold. Yahoo

Thunderbirds again.

I continue to approve.

And the rest is very, very Feadship: cinema, gym, spa-style facilities and enormous exterior spaces. The earlier accommodation account described seven suites and up to 14 guests; the current charter configuration is 12. Yacht Charter Fleet

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🥶 The owner's Jacuzzi can deliberately be made COLD

This may be more my sort of feature than another gold bath.

On the owner's forward deck is a large Jacuzzi/plunge pool whose water temperature can apparently be adjusted between approximately:

10°C and 38°C

The owners specifically wanted to be able to turn it into a cold plunge after using the gym. YachtArt

Now that is brilliant.

Hot day?

Cold pool.

Cold day?

Hot tub.

Children annoying you?

Possibly freeze it solid.

Versatile.

😂

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🚁 Lonian has a helipad...

The upper deck can handle helicopter operations, and historic build information described it as capable of accepting an AW169-class helicopter. YachtArt

But here's where this fleet becomes much more interesting.

Why dedicate a huge chunk of the beautiful main yacht to storing and maintaining an aircraft...

when Hodor can do it?

Exactly.

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⚡ Hybrid propulsion and dynamic positioning

Lonian isn't an expedition ship in the brutal ARCTIC or Nansen Explorer sense.

She's a proper luxury Feadship.

But the engineering underneath her is excellent.

Feadship describes a hybrid propulsion system derived from work first explored aboard Savannah. Technical descriptions refer to both conventional propulsion and full diesel-electric operation, with rim-drive bow and stern thrusters and dynamic positioning. Feadship

The machinery specification also lists three Caterpillar generating sets, alongside those twin MTUs. Feadship

Five thousand miles is respectable rather than Octopus-level ridiculous.

But that's where the whole two-ship arrangement gets interesting.

Because Lonian doesn't have to carry everything.

Hodor does.

That last bit is particularly useful.

Dynamic positioning means the yacht can hold position using propulsion rather than dropping an anchor.

Remote bay.

Sensitive seabed.

No need to drag thousands of kilograms of chain and anchor through whatever you've gone there to admire.

Good.

The official current range is:

5,000 nautical miles at 12 knots.

That is not ARCTIC insanity, but it's proper ocean-crossing range. Feadship

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🔧 The 2024 refit: more than a lick of paint

This is useful yard-record information rather than old launch-day waffle.

Lonian returned to Feadship for a substantial refit completed in 2024.

Feadship's own records list:

full repaint, interior repairs and renewals, technical upgrades and repairs. Feadship

Given how unforgiving an enormous dark-blue hull is to paint properly, the phrase full repaint is rather more significant on this boat than it sounds.

Dark paint shows everything.

An 87-metre dark-blue Feadship needs to look as though somebody has polished the entire Atlantic.

Which is useful when your boat contains more engineering than a respectable hotel.

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🛥️ And now we need to discuss HODOR

I genuinely think Hodor might be more fun than Lonian.

Not nicer.

Definitely not nicer.

But more fun.

Think of Lonian as the house.

Hodor is:

garage + workshop + airport + dive centre + petrol station + submarine base + motorcycle shed.

And the garage is 66 metres long.

She is a 66.2-metre / 217-foot catamaran support yacht built in Spain by Astilleros Armón and designed by Australian naval architects Incat Crowther.

And Incat Crowther still lists her as in service today. Incat Crowther

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⚙️ HODOR at a glance

Those core numbers come directly from Incat Crowther's current design record. Some yacht directories quote a draught closer to 3.1 m, but the actual designer specifies 2.3 m hull draught, so that's the figure I prefer. Incat Crowther

And remember:

Hodor is only 21 metres shorter than the mothership.

This is not a support boat.

This is another superyacht following your superyacht around because one superyacht was insufficient.

Notice something wonderful.

Hodor is faster than Lonian.

The support boat does 22.5 knots.

Which makes perfect sense when you think about it.

Lonian can leave.

Hodor finishes loading the motorbikes, submarine, helicopter and assorted billionaire nonsense, then catches her up. 😂

🏗️ A CATAMARAN was an inspired choice

This is the clever bit.

Hodor isn't shaped like a normal superyacht because her job isn't to provide 20 enormous guest suites.

Her catamaran hull gives her a 14-metre beam on only 66 metres of length, creating an absolutely gigantic working platform. Incat Crowther quotes 659 square metres of usable deck area. Incat Crowther

That broad, stable platform gives you room for large tenders, aircraft operations, cranes and toys while still allowing a relatively modest hull draught.

Basically, imagine taking an offshore service vessel, a ferry, a helicopter pad and Toys R Us.

Then painting it dark grey.

You have Hodor.

🤣

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🚁 Hodor carries the family's Airbus H145

And it matches the boat.

Dark grey.

Orange detailing.

Of course it does.

I adore this.

Not merely:

"We have a helicopter."

But:

"The helicopter CLASHED, so we had it repainted."

😂

And this isn't a little Robinson that somebody could almost squeeze into a garage.

The H145 is a proper twin-engine aircraft capable of carrying a substantial passenger load.

Guests can fly into remote locations, return to Hodor and then transfer to Lonian by tender.

That is exactly the sort of ridiculous logistical chain that only exists when wealth has ceased being an engineering constraint.

BOAT's fresh June 2026 feature confirms the Airbus H145 remains part of Hodor's equipment, operating from the dedicated certified flight deck. Boat International

This is a serious twin-engine helicopter with far greater utility than a little two-seat arrival machine.

People.

Gear.

Remote landings.

Supply runs.

Medical evacuation.

Exploration inland.

That is exactly what a support vessel helicopter should be for.

And unlike putting it on Lonian, the helicopter can make noise, leak things, require maintenance and generally behave like a helicopter without taking over the luxury yacht.

Genius.

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🤿 AND THERE IS OUR SUBMARINE

Finally.

No historic submarine.

No:

“submersible capable.”

No:

“believed once to have carried.”

BOAT's June 2026 equipment inventory still specifically lists Hodor's:

SEAmagine Aurora-3 submersible. Boat International

The three-person Aurora configuration is built around one pilot and two passengers. The earlier article compared it with an Aurora-3C catalogue depth of 460 metres / 1,509 ft—but that was never proof of Hodor’s own unit’s rating. Ocean Alliance’s Hodor listing, checked 30 October 2026, instead advertises an Aurora 3 rated to 1,000 metres, with two guests plus a pilot. Treat that as the broker’s stated specification, not a substitute for the individual submersible’s certification or permission to dive. Original catalogue comparison · Ocean Alliance

See the reference photographs below.

That's the actual thing sitting in the hangar.

Excellent.

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🏗️ And the submarine garage is properly engineered

This may be my favourite Hodor detail.

The submarine is housed centrally inside the vessel, and its launching arrangement uses air casters to move it from the garage towards the beam cranes. Boat International Stories

Air casters are basically industrial hover pads.

They allow a very heavy object to float fractionally above the deck on a film of air so it can be moved with dramatically less friction.

Which means Hodor effectively has:

a hovercraft system for moving the submarine around inside the garage.

This is precisely the sort of completely invisible engineering that makes me love support ships.

Nobody at Monaco Yacht Show is going to stand beside the champagne and say:

“You simply MUST see our air-caster submarine handling system.”

I would.

😂

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🚤 Now we need to empty Hodor's toy cupboard

I promised myself one list.

This is where I'm using it.

The two original articles reported the following source-era BOAT inventory. It is retained because the detail is half the fun—not because every item is guaranteed to be aboard or included in a charter now:

• SEAmagine Aurora-3 submarine

• Airbus H145 helicopter

• 17 m / 55 ft 9 in Nor-Tech 560 Sport

• 16 m / 52 ft 6 in Hydra-Sports 53 centre-console

• 9 m / 29 ft 6 in Metal Shark landing craft

• 7.3 m / 23 ft 11 in Novurania catamaran RIB

• 388 Skater race boat capable of about 240 km/h / 149 mph

• Ski Nautique

• nine Jet Skis

• four Yamaha quad bikes

• two side-by-side ATVs

• four Yamaha TW200 trail motorcycles

• two Laser sailing dinghies

• one Hobie Cat Boat International

I'm sorry.

THE RACE BOAT DOES 149 MPH.

On water.

And it is a toy carried by another boat.

What kind of sentence is that?

A useful current-inventory footnote, without confiscating the toy cupboard: Ocean Alliance’s listing checked on 30 October 2026 names a Nor-Tech 550 Sport, 438 Skater, 28-foot Metal Shark, Centurion Ri26.5 and Novurania 550 Deluxe, plus a different mix of bikes and watercraft. The original articles below describe the reported 560 Sport/388 Skater-era setup; those labels are not silently interchangeable. Ask the authorised operator for the actual dated inventory and operating conditions before booking or describing a particular charter package. Ocean Alliance’s Hodor inventory

🤣

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🚤 The 17-metre tender has its own ELEVATOR

The enormous Nor-Tech 560 Sport, roughly 17 metres long, is too big for ordinary davits.

So Hodor uses a bespoke hydraulic platform between the catamaran's two hulls to launch and recover it. Boat International

It's essentially a boat lift.

Inside a boat.

For another boat.

Attached to a yacht.

Following a different yacht.

I feel we may have found peak superyacht.

Seventeen metres.

56 feet.

As a tender.

This is the thing that always scrambles my brain about support yachts.

A 56-foot powerboat is a serious boat. Plenty of people would regard one as their dream yacht.

Hodor treats it as something you take with the yacht.

That is glorious engineering.

Not hidden.

Not elegant.

Not pretending not to exist.

Giant boat elevator.

More of this please.

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🏖️ And YES: landing craft

You knew I'd notice.

The 9-metre Metal Shark landing craft gives the fleet the ability to put people and equipment directly onto undeveloped shores. Boat International

This is the bit I keep coming back to.

Helicopter goes inland.

Submarine goes down.

Landing craft goes ashore.

Fast boat covers distance.

RIB does practical local work.

Motorcycles continue once you're on land.

This fleet isn't merely carrying lots of toys.

It carries different modes of transport for different environments.

That is genuinely excellent expedition thinking.

It means the mothership can sit safely offshore while Hodor handles the messy business of actually getting stuff onto land.

You could basically establish your own temporary expedition base.

Which, given the rest of the inventory, would apparently contain:

motorcycles,

quad bikes,

boats,

submarine,

helicopter,

and probably somebody wondering where they left the ninth Jet Ski.

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🤿 Proper dive centre, Nitrox AND decompression chamber

Hodor has a full dive room supplying:

compressed air,

oxygen,

Nitrox

and proper expedition diving support.

But crucially, she also has her own:

decompression chamber

plus a stretcher and medical triage area. Boat International

That takes the diving operation into a completely different league.

If you're hundreds of nautical miles from a hospital and something goes wrong after a dive, a decompression chamber is not a luxury.

It's a bloody good thing to have.

That is an important distinction.

A submarine can be a toy.

A decompression chamber is infrastructure.

Once you start carrying one of those, you have acknowledged that the vessel may be supporting genuinely serious diving in places where the nearest hospital isn't around the corner.

This is why I love support vessels.

They allow all the ugly useful things to be properly useful.

This is another example of why support yachts make sense.

Nobody wants to devote a huge chunk of their elegant Feadship to:

compressors,

wet dive kit,

oxygen cylinders,

medical equipment,

and a giant metal pressure tube.

Put it on Hodor.

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⛽ Even the TOYS have their own petrol station

The earlier detailed BOAT walkthrough records a dedicated petrol room carrying approximately:

7,500 litres of petrol

for the smaller craft. Boat International Stories

This is fantastic.

Lonian carries 167,500 litres of diesel.

Hodor carries 160,000 litres of diesel.

Then inside Hodor is another fuel store specifically because:

Jet Skis,

motorcycles,

ATVs,

race boats

also need feeding.

The imaginary fuel bill has now become an act of violence.

😂

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🛋️ Hodor even has a secret little luxury lounge

The support boat is deliberately not another guest yacht.

There are no rows of luxury suites.

Current descriptions say it principally houses crew and expedition specialists, with only very limited supernumerary accommodation. Incat Crowther

But guests coming aboard through a hull-side shell door enter a surprisingly lovely lounge by Oliver Design, with Corian wall panels, bar, TV and proper changing/bathroom facilities. Boat International

Which is sensible.

You've been out:

diving,

riding motorcycles,

landing on beaches,

doing 149 mph in something that should probably require counselling...

You come back to Hodor.

Clean yourself up.

Have a drink.

Then transfer back to Lonian where nobody has parked a quad bike in the corridor.

Perfect separation.

BOAT reports just two guest-facing interior areas, essentially a small lounge and bathrooms where people arriving aboard can change or freshen up. There is a bar, television and a nicely finished lounge by Oliver Design, but this is absolutely not another floating hotel. Boat International

The message is:

You sleep on Lonian.

Hodor exists because your toys have become a fleet.

Brilliant.

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🧭 Hodor is genuinely ocean-going in her own right

This is one thing I hadn't appreciated until looking at the actual Incat Crowther figures.

Hodor can do:

5,500 nautical miles at 14 knots

and around:

22.5 knots maximum. Incat Crowther

That means she isn't tethered to Lonian.

She can reposition independently.

Run ahead.

Collect equipment.

Go to another port.

Meet the mothership halfway across an ocean.

And because the catamaran hull gives enormous deck area without needing an 80-metre length, there are 659 square metres of working deck available. Incat Crowther

That's over 7,000 square feet of garage roof.

Quite useful.

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💶 The charter bill has entered the chat

And Lonian's current charter listing now prices her from:

€1,650,000 per week + expenses. Northrop & Johnson

One-point-six-five million euros.

For seven days.

Before expenses.

There is an entire house in that sentence.

😂

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💸 And Hodor can now be chartered separately too

This is a fascinating development.

A current 2026 charter listing says Hodor can be hired independently as a standalone support boat or paired with Lonian. Ocean Alliance

That actually opens up some very interesting possibilities.

Own a yacht with no helicopter deck?

Hire Hodor.

Want a submarine for three weeks?

Hire Hodor.

Need a landing craft and giant chase boat?

Hodor.

Want nine Jet Skis for reasons nobody can explain?

Hodor.

You essentially rent the adventure infrastructure independently of your hotel.

I can see this model becoming more common.

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👤 Who owns all this?

This is one of the comparatively well-reported yacht ownership stories.

Forbes has publicly identified Lonian's owner as Lorenzo Fertitta, with an estimated yacht value of around US$162 million in its survey of billionaire-owned superyachts. Hodor is widely and consistently reported as the associated support vessel, although as ever the legal registered owners are corporate entities. Forbes Australia

So I am comfortable saying:

Publicly reported owner: Lorenzo Fertitta.

Not:

“I have personally inspected the Cayman Islands share register.”

American businessman Lorenzo Fertitta has been repeatedly and publicly identified as the owner of Lonian and Hodor, including by local officials when both vessels visited Santa Barbara in 2021. I have not found a current 2026 beneficial-ownership filing that independently proves the same ownership today, so I would call him the publicly reported owner, not pretend the corporate structure is transparent. The Santa Barbara Independent

Important distinction.

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💰 Where did the money come from?

This is actually a cracking business story.

Lorenzo Fertitta and his brother Frank came from the Las Vegas casino business.

But the really enormous wealth creation came from:

UFC.

They bought the Ultimate Fighting Championship in 2001 for US$2 million.

At the time, mixed martial arts was still struggling for mainstream acceptance in the United States.

They built UFC into a global sports business.

Then in 2016, WME/IMG-led investors bought it for approximately:

US$4 billion.

The brothers sold their remaining holdings the following year at a reported US$5 billion valuation. Forbes

Forbes currently estimates Lorenzo Fertitta's fortune at about:

US$3.7 billion

as of 15 September 2026.

He also remains connected to Red Rock Resorts, the casino business descended from the company founded by his father. Forbes

So today's route to buying a Feadship plus a 66-metre submarine garage is:

buy struggling combat-sports promotion for $2m

→ turn it into UFC

→ sell it for billions

→ discover one superyacht doesn't have enough garage space

→ order second superyacht

Capitalism has reached its final form. 🤣

Completely normal.

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💰 What are the TWO ships worth?

We do not have documented original contract prices.

That matters.

So I'm not calling internet estimates build cost.

Lonian's construction price has never been officially published by Feadship. A 2021 report, while identifying Lorenzo Fertitta as the owner, quoted a US$160 million purchase/build figure, but I would treat that as a media-reported estimate rather than a documented transaction price. The Santa Barbara Independent

Forbes has estimated Lonian at approximately:

US$162 million. Forbes Australia

Hodor is commonly estimated at around:

US$30 million

but I have not found a yard-confirmed contract value, so treat that number as an industry/secondary estimate, not a documented purchase price. celebyachts.com

That produces an estimated fleet capital value of roughly:

US$190 million-plus

before:

helicopter,

submarine,

race boats,

motorbikes,

quads,

equipment,

refits,

or whatever horrifying pile of receipts is currently in somebody's office.

And as usual, owning the thing is merely the opening move.

And frankly I don't think normal price-per-metre comparisons work very well on a ship containing a helicopter deck, submarine systems, medical facilities and bespoke machinery for launching a 56-foot tender.

“How much is the garage?”

Yes.

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🧮 Two boats also means TWO operating budgets

This is the clever and ridiculous thing about the shadow-yacht concept.

You gain enormous flexibility.

But you're also running:

two bridges,

two engine rooms,

two hulls,

two crews,

two classification regimes,

two insurance programmes,

two maintenance schedules,

two lots of fuel,

plus:

helicopter,

submarine,

dive team,

medical gear,

and about seventeen separate machines whose owners' manuals probably begin with:

WARNING: THIS CAN KILL YOU.

😂

Hodor's ability to accommodate around 20 specialist personnel on top of Lonian's roughly 27-person crew means the combined operation can potentially involve close to fifty staff and specialists before guests have even turned up. Incat Crowther

That's no longer a yacht.

That's a company.

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🤔 Lonian + Hodor versus La Datcha

Now this is a good one.

Our previously featured La Datcha, in that source-era comparison, gets:

two helicopters,

submarine,

landing craft,

snowmobiles,

dive centre,

decompression chamber,

hospital,

all inside one 77-metre boat.

That's beautifully efficient.

Lonian + Hodor takes the opposite approach.

Lonian:

beautiful house.

Pool.

Cinema.

Spa.

Helipad.

5,000-mile range.

Feadship luxury.

Hodor:

GET YOUR DIRTY MOTORBIKE OUT OF MY HOUSE.

😂

Helicopter.

Submarine.

Landing craft.

Dive chamber.

Workshops.

Fuel.

ATVs.

Fast boats.

Crew.

Mess.

Everything separated.

I actually think the Lonian/Hodor philosophy is better if money genuinely does not matter.

The main yacht never has to compromise.

Want to replace today's submarine with a completely different one in five years?

Change Hodor.

Want four electric expedition trucks?

Reconfigure Hodor.

Want a laboratory?

Convert some work space.

Lonian stays Lonian.

That's very clever.

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🤔 And compared with Octopus?

Oh.

Now we're getting dangerous.

Octopus famously solves the same problem by simply being:

126 metres long.

🤣

Everything lives inside one enormous ship.

Helicopters.

Tenders.

Submarine historically.

Dock.

Expedition equipment.

Luxury accommodation.

It's wonderfully self-contained.

Lonian plus Hodor gives you about:

153 metres of yacht between two hulls

if we're doing completely meaningless arithmetic.

But Octopus remains the boat I would rather live aboard.

No question.

Address remains:

Millie, Octopus, The World.

But...

if the question is:

Which fleet would I most like to wake up to one morning and discover I somehow own?

Lonian + Hodor is getting dangerously close.

Because Hodor is essentially the answer to:

“What ridiculous thing would you like to bring?”

And the answer is apparently:

yes.

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☕ The Millie verdict

I LOVE this setup.

Possibly more than I expected to.

Lonian alone is magnificent.

Beautiful dark-blue Feadship.

Proper range.

Very clever hybrid engineering.

Glass-bottom pool.

Beach club.

Cold-plunge Jacuzzi.

Twenty-two openings.

Fresh 2024 refit.

Absolutely somewhere I could live.

But...

Hodor makes the whole thing.

Because this is exactly what I keep wanting explorer yachts to do.

Don't just travel somewhere.

Give me ways to continue exploring once the yacht arrives.

Underwater?

Submarine.

Shallow water?

RIB.

No marina?

Landing craft.

Need to travel fifty miles quickly?

Fast tender.

Need to go inland?

Helicopter.

Need to go farther inland?

Motorbike or ATV.

Want to dive?

Full dive centre.

Something goes wrong?

Decompression chamber and triage area.

Want to behave like an idiot?

149 mph race boat.

Everything has a job.

Even if some of those jobs are extremely silly.

Here's the funny thing.

I think I prefer Hodor.

Lonian is beautiful. She's hugely sophisticated, has Feadship engineering, 5,000-mile range, lovely accommodation and enough luxury to make a five-star hotel look a bit tired.

But Hodor?

Hodor is useful.

It's the same reason Octopus works so well.

There is machinery everywhere because the machinery allows you to do things.

And if the main yacht has nowhere to put all of this?

Don't compromise.

Buy another yacht.

I cannot defend the economics.

I can absolutely defend the engineering. 😂

⭐ The original five-star verdict

These were the first article's scores: five-star scales for the first three rows, with a deliberately excessive ten-star toy cupboard. They are preserved rather than silently converted into the later article's scoring style.

🏆 Cuppa scores

The later article's enthusiastic scorecard is retained below exactly as scored: mostly ten-star displays, but five displayed stars for range with no original denominator stated. These are playful personal verdicts, not standardised technical ratings.

And today's favourite thing?

It's not actually the submarine.

It's not the helicopter.

It's not even the 240 km/h race boat.

It's the philosophy.

Most yachts try to be simultaneously:

house,

hotel,

airport,

garage,

workshop,

dive centre,

toy shed,

tender dock,

expedition ship.

Lonian says:

No.

I shall be the house.

And then behind it arrives an enormous grey catamaran containing what appears to be the entire contents of Batman's garage.

That is outstanding problem solving.

And my favourite piece of hardware?

Best detail: The 56-foot Nor-Tech has its own boat lift inside your 217-foot boat that follows your 285-foot boat.

That sentence should not exist.

And yet here we are. ☕🛥️🚁🤿🏍️

Octopus is still queen. But Hodor has just made a very strong application for Minister of Mischief.

☕🛥️🛥️🚁🤿🏍️🏖️🌍

For the authoritative current Lonian specification and 2024 refit details, use Feadship's official Lonian page.

For the current €1.65m/week charter specification, including present guest, crew and tender information, see Northrop & Johnson's current Lonian charter page.

For the reported June 2026 equipment story, including the submarine, H145, race boat, ATVs, bikes, landing craft and decompression chamber, see BOAT International inside Hodor. For the different advertised charter inventory checked 30 October 2026, use Ocean Alliance.

For the proper engineering figures on Hodor, including 22.5-knot speed, 5,500-nautical-mile range, 160,000-litre fuel capacity and 659 m² working deck, use Incat Crowther's official 66m ShadowCat specification.

And for the owner and how the money happened, Forbes’ Lorenzo Fertitta profile was the source for the article’s US$3.7bn estimate dated 15 September 2026 and the extraordinary $2m-to-$4bn UFC story.