Soyaslan has launched the 35m motor yacht LOINTAINE, the first yacht in its Dionysos 35 series, with accessibility integrated into the design from the outset.
Soyaslan has launched the 35-metre motor yacht LOINTAINE, the first yacht in the Turkish builder's Dionysos 35 series. MORE Marine, which supported the project through planning and project-management services, confirmed that the yacht has entered the water and described the launch as a major milestone for the programme.
The launch moves a project long centred on accessibility from design and construction into its next stage. Naval architect Can Soyaslan has previously used the 35-metre Dionysos project as a case study in accessible yacht design, arguing that mobility, circulation and safety need to shape the general arrangement from the beginning rather than being added later as isolated adaptations.
In his detailed work on accessible architecture at sea, Can Soyaslan describes the Dionysos yacht as having been conceived from the keel up for a family in which the father uses a wheelchair. The approach treats accessible circulation as part of the yacht's fundamental architecture, with the layout developed around independent movement between living spaces and decks.
The features he identifies include a four-deck elevator, flush floors without thresholds and passageways wide enough to allow a wheelchair to turn. A custom 95-centimetre-wide pivoting and heeling passerelle is intended to support safer boarding, while a separate lift connects the aft platform with the main deck.
MORE Marine identifies LOINTAINE as the first yacht in the Dionysos 35 series and credits Soyaslan as builder. Its launch announcement also confirms MORE Marine's involvement in planning and project management, placing the company among the project partners supporting the yacht through construction to this milestone.
The significance of the launch therefore extends beyond the arrival of another 35-metre motor yacht. It puts a design philosophy built around inclusive movement and independence into a completed physical platform, where the relationship between accessibility, naval architecture and day-to-day operation can be judged on the water rather than only through drawings and construction plans.
Can Soyaslan's accessibility work argues against treating wheelchair access as a collection of special-purpose additions. Instead, the design objective is to create routes and spaces that can be used naturally by people with different mobility needs, avoiding segregated circulation wherever the architecture allows it.
Applied aboard a yacht, that principle affects more than interior decoration. Elevators, clearances, boarding systems and uninterrupted floor levels influence weight, structure, machinery placement and the general arrangement, meaning accessibility has to be considered alongside the conventional naval-architecture balance of performance, power and displacement.
LOINTAINE's launch gives Soyaslan a full-scale first example of the Dionysos 35 concept after the project's extended development period. MORE Marine's announcement marks the yacht's entry into the water while leaving subsequent commissioning, trials and delivery milestones to be confirmed as the programme progresses.
For the wider superyacht sector, LOINTAINE is notable because its accessibility brief is not presented as a retrofit or a compromise imposed on a finished design. The project instead demonstrates how inclusive circulation can be embedded in a custom yacht from the start, making the launch an important test of that approach at superyacht scale.