January 1, 2009

Best of 2008

2008 has been a great year for new innovative boats, most coming from Italy, which saw a lot of growth in the last five to eight years, thanks to easy to buy schemes like the Nautical leasing. But saying all this, I would have made a top twenty for 2008 with other ten boat and yachts deserving merit. We have seen new boats thinking outside the usual, so here is PowerYacht's favourite new 2008 boats and yachts.  Ferretti Group which has eight different and distinctive brands dominates the best of 2008 list with four entries showing the innovative thinking of the most diverse Yacht holding in existence today.   

The Best of 2008 is the Mochi 23 Long Range. Ferretti Group first explorer yacht made the engineers at Ferretti Engineering think outside the box, from its Fer.Way displacement hull, to its hybrid or all clean energy electric power propulsion system.  The 23 Long Range apart being Ferretti Group and Mochi first explorer type yacht, is also the first of the genre for Giovanni Zuccon, which shows the never ending talent of the master yacht designer, who has redefined yachting quite a few times in his long career. 

The others.

Atlantis 50x4. Atlantis first IPS yachts is this fifteen meter hard top sport yacht which as the x4 suggests is offered in four different versions.  With patio door or without, and two or three cabins lower deck layout. 

Baia One Hundred. Designed as Baia of the past two decades by Galeazzi this new thirty meter flagship brings a record staggering all glass hard top, and thanks to expansive use of strong light weight materials a best consumption to nautical mile in its size.  

CNM 50 Continental. CNM is a new name and brings attention with its innovative first to the market opening side bulkheads which increase cockpit space of this traditional inspired yet modern open sport yacht.  It's interior also has a modular system converting from a single cabin to three cabins. 

Fiart 4 Seven Genius. The Neapolitan sport cruiser and yacht builder, presents its second hard-top model.  A new hard-top language which is light to the lines and full of open features. 

Grand Banks 41 Heritage EU. The explorer cruiser became very popular thanks to Grand Banks and its revolution onwards from the sixties.  This year Grand Banks embraces latest tech as never before into its new Heritage line entry model using ZF tunnel fitted aft looking pod drives.   

Itama SeventyFive. Marco Casali manages to strike the right balance in Itama's new 23 meters open sport yacht SeventyFive flagship.  Carbon fibre possibly the material of the future is used in the windscreen frame to the hard-top. 

Pershing 64. The new Pershing 64 will set the trend for years to come, thanks to its disappearing into the floor patio door, which brings outside inside.  In 2003 Baia did it first with the 78 patio door disappearing upward, Pershing does it the other way round with its patio door going into the floor. 

Viking 82 Convertible. The New Jersey name dominion in production sportfish yachts above fifty feet grows stronger with this new 25 meter flagship, which apart expanding length by six feet, is also the largest and currently only production super sportfish over 24 meters.    

Full merit. Ferretti 840 Altura. The aft cabin is for the most part a thing of cruisers and yachts build in the Northern part of Europe.  So when when in 2005 Ferretti and designer Zuccon brought the 690 Altura and its aft master stateroom in an Italian-Mediterranean design language they showed a lot courage.  To bring it on 25 meters takes even more merits, with a great believe in the value of the design. 

PowerYacht wishes to all its followers, friends, readers, and visitors a Healthy and Prosperous 2009 year. 

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