Pearl Yachts for Sale

Pearl was founded in 1998 by Iain Smallridge, a former captain, and the businessman John Yarnold, and has built a hundred-odd boats in twenty-five years: deliberately small numbers. Bill Dixon has been the naval architect throughout, more than fifteen years of it, and since 2011 Kelly Hoppen has designed the interiors.

That pairing is the whole character of the brand: a well-mannered Dixon hull under an interior that looks like a London flat rather than a boat showroom, and a lot of natural light. Four models, 62 to 95 feet. Pearl offers a five-year warranty, which is unusual and tells you something about how the boats are put together. British-built, and less common in Florida than the Italian equivalents, which sometimes means a sharper price for a boat of the same quality.