Revisiting The Classics

Available for charter in the Mediterranean, these legacy yachts embody a bygone era of grandeur.

- Tristan Rutherford

ALTHOUGH CHARTERING A modern yacht often provides the latest in contemporary trappings and technology, provenance is an intangible amenity that can only be earned. The 325ft Christina O, for example, was the first shock-and-awe superyacht when presented in 1954; its stature, beyond its size, was owed in part to a pool tiled with a mosaic of a Minoan bull, a wood-rich library, a marble-clad en suite in the primary stateroom, and exotic upholstery on the bar stools made from a whale's scrotum.