“Work hard, play harder.” A personal motto took on an entirely new riff when Damen Yachting handed the La Datcha 77 over to its expectant owner. Even before that, the colossal ship has been the subject of untold media coverage, from the moment it left Damen’s Galati shipyard along the Danube, to its first glimpse near Monte Carlo after her handover, and a recent siting in the Maldives en route through its two-year global tour. No doubt you’ve seen the articles and videos. La Datcha is all bold and aggressive, brutish even. But she ticks all the right boxes for super motor yacht that could be a home anywhere in the world, raising eyebrows and dropping mouths, as she basks in the glow of the Mediterranean sun or out in the spectacular blue of the Caribbean. And that’s precisely where her owner did not wish to cruise.