Father’s Day Gift Guide 2024: Super Gifts For Superfit Superyacht Dads

Father’s Day gifts run the gamut, from a child’s artwork scribbles to ultra-luxurious presentations that would make Mansa Musa blush. Either would be equally revered by dads the world over, but this gift list unabashedly leans to the lavish side, offering ways to keep dad shipshape on board his superyacht.

1) Weights are weights, right? If father demands equipment that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing, the answer is a hard no. Compare traditional black iron to these stylish wood and stainless steel Diabolo dumbbells in a sleek wood vertical rack from Paragon Studio UK. Specializing in high end natural materials with sustainability in mind, these beautiful, functional pieces make purposeful workouts an aesthetic treat.

Choose from four types of wood and two steel finishes. Prices range upward from €5015.71/$5395 for 5 pairs of weights. The equally handsome and seriously stable adjustable bench comes in color choices for leather, hardware, and wood. Priced from €3,298.30/$3551.24.

Should father need more than a new set of weights, Paragon Studio also has substantial experience designing superyacht gyms focused on the marine operating environment, delivering superb performance at sea.

2) Tech-focused fathers will appreciate the AI and analytics in this next generation of Smart Dumbbells from Kabata Fitness. Integrated sensors track reps, measuring metrics like power, intensity, fatigue, velocity, sets, and volume to analyze and optimize workouts, automatically adjusting the weights as your favorite patriarch progresses through his workout.

Personalized workouts deliver real time analytics to a screen with gaming inspired haptics. Easy, efficient, engaging, and ready to preorder for fall shipment, a set of these compact, well designed weights is priced from €919.42/$999.

3) Ciclotte Pirelli is the ultimate in style providing an intense cycling workout. Minimal design turned sculpture embraces function with optimum performance. With a nod to ergonomics paired with real road feel, this Bluetooth-enabled smart exercise bike is designed for an immersive training session, while delivering a design performance with heightened aesthetics.

Dott. Luca Bonfanti, Product Manager for Ciclotte, explains that, “This design exercise bike is conceived to faithfully reproduce the feeling of pedalling a road bike, thanks to a multiple ratio transmission, an electro-magnetic resistance system, a frame that can flex laterally with each push of the pedals, and a narrow gap between those pedals, like a racing bike.”

Available in five colors echoing the prestigious racing tire brand, white for ‘hard’, yellow for ‘medium’, red for ‘soft’, green and blue for “rain” conditions, the bike delivers in approximately a month from order, starting at €9,500/$10,322.22.

4) Save Father some time and get him fit fast with the Carol Bike providing a REHIT, reduced-exertion, high-intensity interval training, workout. AI personalized to provide fast fitness with significant improvements in cardiorespiratory fitness and metabolic health, the CAROL bike recalls a ‘fight or flight’ situation, forcing muscles to use emergency glycogen energy reserves.

Muscles then release key signalling molecules, helping to develop more mitochondria. Blood plasma volume increases, and heart gets stronger. The result? A VO₂max increase by 12% in just 8 weeks, resetting this important milestone to where it was 10 years ago. Invite father to live younger with this Bluetooth android-based bike. Priced at €2388.30/$2,595. Check out their special pricing for Father’s Day purchases using code “FATHERSDAY” for a special discount.

5) KALNA™ Luxury Bulgarian Training Bag from Pent through Sportova Luxury Equipment may be unfamiliar to some, but for fathers invested in a strong core, improved grip strength, and increased explosive power it is a must have gym addition.

Weights from 5 to 20 kilograms are crafted in five different colors of leather, with optional trim colors, in four sizes from 5 to 20 kilgograms, making them not just purposeful but handsome as well, priced at €942.50/$1014

6) Also from Sportova Luxury Fitness, creative ideas for gym design are aimed at boosting both mental and physical workout benefits. Any father would welcome elevated, bespoke designs with functional layouts that make the most of space and time.

After a personal consultation, the Sportova team transforms father’s style and requirements into a gym that serves as a wellness retreat to keep him in top form. Since each project is fully customized, pricing is on a per project basis.

7) Tai chi is an ancient art that focuses attention in the moment and energizes, while building stamina, flexibility, and vitality, and at the same time, helping practitioners let go of tension.

If that sounds like just what father needs, consider hiring a tai chi expert for a week of sessions on board to give father an avenue to the peaceful practice of this healing, healthy art. Angus Clark of Living Movement is an expertly trained tai chi teacher with extensive training in tai chi and qi gong.

Angus will come aboard to offer a one week Tai Chi package consisting of one, two, or three daily private sessions each day. Scheduling Angus on board for a week long package of sessions is priced from €1000/$1074.06 per day, plus transportation, accommodation, and expenses. Follow up sessions online are available as an add-on service, as is crew participation, for an additional fee.

8) The Biorower is strong on design, coming very close to the real experience of actually rowing a boat on the water. Carefully engineered to protect the rower’s back, Biorower is much easier on the back than a linear ERG rower, mimicking true rowing motion. Each side has a precise angle sensor that checks your stroke length while noting oar position and strain gauge that precisely measures your force, giving live technique and performance data with 99% accuracy.

It can move from sculling to sweep rowing, and from stable to unstable in imbalance mode. It has adjustable length and height rotating oar handles with fully adjustable inboards, and a customizable body color. Priced from €9070,39/$9735.00.

9) What if you could give father a week of R & R aimed at longevity and rejuvenation? While not an onboard treatment, seven days at Clinique La Prairie prior to the yachting season might be just the thing to polish father’s image to perfection, offering ways to improve health and extend longevity.

From epigenetic testing to gut flora and metabolism, Clinique La Prairie puts every body system under scrutiny, analyzing and revitalizing mind and body. Guests receive advanced treatments focused on medicine, nutrition, stress reduction, mental serenity, movement, and sleep quality all aimed at enabling clients to live longer, healthier, more fulfilling lives. Rewarding father with this gift ranges from approximately €37,280/$40,000 to upwards of €93,202/$100,000 for a seven day, six night stay, depending on programs and accommodation.