NORTH WIND · 47 m Gulet

NORTH WIND is a 47-metre gulet based in Bodrum, cruising the Aegean and the Mediterranean. Her fibreglass hull is 9.5 metres in the beam, and twin 850 hp MAN engines give her a speed of 11 knots. She carries ten guests in five cabins — a master, three doubles and a twin — with a crew of eight, and was renewed in 2023.

Sitdesign produced the furniture for her restoration, in our own Istanbul workshop.

The main saloon runs almost the full length of the deckhouse. Two long sofas face each other across a low round table, and a pair of button-tufted swivel armchairs sits in front of the media wall at the far end. A second lounge, panelled in high-gloss wood, is warmer and softer: pale upholstery, rust velvet cushions and round black glass tables.

Outside, the furniture lives with sun and salt — cushioned sun loungers under the flybridge arch, shaded daybeds on the upper deck, and a long dining table under the awning that seats the whole party.

Furniture for a boat

A restoration is a different brief from a new build: the furniture has to fit a hull and a layout that already exist, and hold up to life at sea. Every piece came out of the same Istanbul workshop that makes every Sitdesign piece.