A glass-bottom pool and double-folding stern platform distinguish the open-air guest experience aboard Lürssen’s 142m DRAGONFLY.
The most unusual spaces on DRAGONFLY are not defined solely by her 142-metre length. Lürssen’s official profile describes a glass-bottom pool and a double-folding stern platform connecting the main deck to the beach club, with Nauta Design responsible for the yacht’s refined interior and exterior social spaces.
A pool with an extra visual dimension
The glass-bottom pool adds a different relationship between water, structure and the spaces below it. Rather than treating the pool as only an outdoor amenity, its construction makes it part of the yacht’s visual architecture and creates a distinctive feature in the guest areas.
The builder also lists a gym, games room and beauty salon among the onboard facilities. These separate uses give guests choices across the day without establishing unpublicised room sizes, treatment menus or private routines.
The stern becomes a place to gather
A bespoke double-folding stern platform links the main deck and beach club, creating an expanded social area close to sea level. That arrangement provides a distinct experience from a high aft deck where guests simply look down towards the water.
Deployment depends on the yacht’s operating procedures and appropriate conditions, with access controlled by crew. The official design description confirms the architectural arrangement, not that the platform is available in every sea state or while the vessel is moving.
The designers’ complementary roles
German Frers developed the overall profile, with crisp lines and suspended aft decks shaping the exterior appearance. Nauta Design handled the refined social spaces, using the substantial open deck area as an integral part of the onboard brief.
The yacht accommodates helicopter operations both forward and aft, allowing operational flexibility for a vessel of her scale. Those aviation arrangements are distinct from the areas set aside for social use and remain subject to specific procedures and permission.
Comfort and machinery are connected
Lürssen specifies diesel-electric propulsion with an electric azimuth pod and PTI/PTO units integrated into the gearboxes. The configuration provides different ways of routing power, although the published profile does not quantify fuel savings for a particular guest itinerary.
This feature concerns the design of an existing yacht, not a fresh 29 September launch or handover. The hero is a unique, official Lürssen DRAGONFLY photograph, not a borrowed generic image or an image of a different yacht.
Official sources: www.lurssen.com. Historical delivery milestones and existing yacht-design features are identified as such, not presented as new events today.