Lürssen Delivers the 102.4 Meter NIXIE, Designed by RWD, Its Sixth Delivery of a Record 2026

Lürssen has delivered NIXIE, a 102.4 meter motor yacht previously known as Project JASSJ, which set out on her maiden voyage on June 26. She is the German builder's sixth delivery of 2026, which the yard describes as a record year of new construction, and her global debut was announced for the Monaco Yacht Show 2026.

Six deliveries in a single year, at the size Lürssen works in, is the part of this announcement with consequences beyond one owner. Yards at the top of the market are constrained by covered dock space, by skilled labor and by the length of a build cycle that runs for years, so output is the slowest variable in the business to move. A record year is therefore not a marketing line. It is a statement about capacity that the rest of the northern European order book will be read against.

A pool holding up the whole aft end

The signature element is a semi-suspended glass swimming pool, six meters wide, set aft on the main deck and extending out over the swim platform. RWD conceived it as an architectural space rather than as an amenity, and the distinction is not rhetorical: it carries a privacy screen and adjustable water levels, which is what makes it usable by children and by older guests rather than only by confident swimmers.

Directly beneath it is the beach club and fitness area, with a gym and a cryochamber, taking up a major portion of the lower deck. Four large sea terraces and the transom hatch sit flush with the Indian teak, which is how the yard reaches 270 square meters of usable space and one of the largest beach clubs it has built to date.

Stacked that way, the pool is also the ceiling of the room below it, and the two spaces have to be engineered as one structure. That is the reason this arrangement shows up on a 102 meter and not on a 60. Glass, water and a hatch in the transom are a structural problem before they are a lifestyle feature.

An exterior built to dissolve

Above the waterline the design argument is about light rather than about volume. NIXIE's lines are described as fluid and organic, with gentle undulations, deep contours and broad convex forms that carry light in a way that makes the superstructure appear to dissolve into itself. Hull and superstructure are finished in a bespoke warm gray that responds to light and reads with a faint pearlescent quality.

The glass does the rest of the work. Each pane is uniquely shaped and gradient-tinted, blurring the line between where glass ends and steel begins. Uniquely shaped panes on a yacht of this length is an expensive sentence: every one of them is a separate tooling and fitting exercise, and the tolerance for error on a curved, tinted, structural pane is close to zero. Lürssen states that engineering and naval architecture were completed in-house, as on all its yachts, which is what makes an exterior of this kind buildable on schedule in the first place.

Diesel-electric, and straight onto the charter market

Underneath the architecture is a diesel-electric propulsion system supported by an advanced energy storage system, which the yard presents as delivering efficient operation across a wide range of cruising profiles and, more to the point on board, reduced noise and vibration. No figures accompany that description. There is no installed power, no battery capacity, no speed, no range and no tonnage anywhere in the announcement, which is a consistent pattern in this segment and still a gap when a propulsion choice is being offered as the comfort argument.

The commercial detail closes the picture. NIXIE is available for charter through Edmiston as central agent, so a yacht delivered in June is earning in the same season she launched. For brokers that is the operative line in the whole announcement, and combined with the yard's record year it points at the same conclusion: at the very top of the market, supply moved this year, and the new boats are being specified to work rather than to wait.