Boat of the Week: How a Rusted-Out ’50s Feadship Was Salvaged and Transformed Into a Modern Classic Julia Zaltzman
Once the largest motoryacht built in the Netherlands, the 138-foot
Istros is a story of passion, neglect and ultimately, as her name means in Greek, inspiration. Delivered in 1954 to the Pappadakis family, who owned a global shipping concern,
Istros was the height of ’50s fashion, with white telephones and “violet-blue-tinted bathrooms,” not to mention radar, which was then a rarity, even for a superyacht.
The yacht was later acquired by a British seasoned sailor, owner of classic sailboat
Hispania, who gave