Sea Prince (1953)
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Overview
Built in 1953 by Abeking and Rasmussen and designed by Philip L. Rhodes, Sea Prince is not a charter yacht in any conventional sense. It is a piece of nautical heritage that still sails. A vessel that has been on the water for over seventy years carries something no modern boat can replicate: a life. From the port of Anzio, it takes you out to the Pontine Islands, to Ponza with its volcanic harbour and pastel houses stacked above the water, and to Palmarola, which has no permanent inhabitants, no road, and coastline that has barely changed since antiquity. Your group has the vessel exclusively. The Chief Cook prepares Lazio delicacies aboard. A generational Ponza local accompanies the journey, opening coves and anchorages that remain entirely inaccessible by any other means.
Included Privileges
- Private charter of Sea Prince (1953): exclusive use for your group
- Full-day experience on the water
- Private transfer from your accommodation in central Rome to Anzio and return
- Professional crew aboard throughout
- Chief Cook aboard: Lazio Region delicacies, Franciacorta bubbles, and local wines
- Ponza port mooring fees
- Accompaniment by a generational Ponza Island local: access to private coves and anchorages
- Cleaning service
- Kosher, Halal, and Vegetarian options available on request
Itinerary
- Private pick-up at your accommodation in central Rome.
- Welcome at the port of Anzio by your dedicated crew aboard Sea Prince.
- Departure toward the Pontine Islands.
- Morning passage across the Tyrrhenian Sea to Ponza.
- Lazio delicacies and Franciacorta aboard.
- Anchoring at Ponza. Exploration of the harbour town and its pastel architecture.
- Your generational local guide opens locations inaccessible to standard visitors.
- Sailing to Palmarola, the wildest and least visited of the Pontine Islands.
- Anchoring in waters of extraordinary clarity.
- Private transfer back to central Rome.
The Experience
The private transfer collects you from your Roman accommodation before the city wakes. The drive to Anzio takes under an hour. Sea Prince is already there, rigged and crewed. You board at the gangway and immediately understand that this is a vessel with a life of its own: the wood, the rigging, the proportions of a hull designed seven decades ago w...
Why Guests Love It
“This felt like the Italy everyone speaks about but almost no one finds. Ponza and Palmarola were not on any list I had ever read” — Nabil & Family, USA
Meet the Expert
Vincenzo Simone Saitta
Vincenzo Simone Saitta has spent more than half his life at sea. After graduating from a nautical institute, he advanced to the rank of Merchant Navy Officer, navigating large oil tankers across the world's oceans. He has sailed routes that most people encounter only on maps, and carries that accumulation quietly: in the way he reads weather, in the authority with which he speaks about a vessel's behaviour in open water, in the knowledge of the Pontine Islands' hidden anchorages that can only be earned by returning to them over decades. Today, Vincenzo operates from his art gallery in Rome, surrounded by maritime antiques and specialist literature, chartering classic and vintage yachts with the discrimination of a collector. He is also the co-founder, with his brother Francesco, of Wisdomless Club, one of Rome's most singular private spaces, housed in the 16th-century Palazzo Boncompagni dei Duchi di Sora, where his passion for beauty, craft, and the recovery of forgotten traditions finds its other home.