Owner The yacht ’s owner is Khalid Affara. He also owns the famous The Wellesley Hotel in London.
Purchased by Khalid Affara – the owner of one of London’s finest boutique hotels, The Wellesley – the Oceanco yacht was totally reimagined in the same chic style of the exclusive hotel.
Now listed for sale with TWW, BOAT steps on board 56.2 metre superyacht The Wellesley – also known as The Wellington in season five of Below Deck Mediterranean – with owner and hotelier Khalid Affara. “I have never chartered a boat in my life. The first night I spent on board was on the first boat we bought,” says the softly spoken Khalid Affara.
Built by Oceanco in 1993, The Wellesley is a modern charter yacht that features extended deck spaces and Donald Starkey -penned interiors that replicate the grandeur of the eponymous Knightsbridge hotel.
The yacht, which was renamed The Wellington for the hit yacht-based US reality show, is owned by property magnate and hotelier Khalid Affara and named after his luxury art deco London hotel, The Wellesley.
The Wellesley is currently for sale at an asking price of €14,500,000 with TWW Yachts. There are currently 2296 yachts for sale in the world. Motor yacht The Wellesley was last sold in 2015. According to data from our market intelligence system SYT iQ, she was one of the 538 yachts that were sold in 2015.
The award winning 56.2m/184’5″ motor yacht ‘The Wellesley’ by the Dutch shipyard Oceanco offers flexible accommodation for up to 12 guests in 6 cabins and features interior styling by Donald Starkey.
Do boat owners meet with boat agents?
The agents usually do not meet the owner of the boat, but it’s very important to have that rapport with the agents, and they get some comfort in that the boat is being run as a professional organisation. We try to hammer that home and let people know that we’re willing to accommodate their clients.
Chartering is secondary to owning. People buy a boat, some people try to charter, but the owner is always the owner. With us, it’s all about the customer. When we actually set up the idea of what the boat was going to be like, it’s always heavily connected with what we know charter clients want. ”.
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