January 1, 2025

Best of 2024

The year 2024 brought boat and yacht builders back to reality, as the boost to boating from Covid-19 has gone.  We are finally in a polar market, correcting itself to before 2020!  Fortunately but also thanks to the supply chain problems which was generated mostly by the first lock downs, the damage of this boating boom is not bad as it could have been, with the exception of the inflation that has come after the pandemic, which unfortunately is not only related to boating but in everything that touches the purse.  The damage of the past years is not as bad as was that of the Leasing Scheme of the noughties for example, although the hurdle of inflation is a problem which also troubles the new boat market especially in the smaller-medium sizes, which probably will correct itself over the coming years, unless the commanding market says other wise. 

Power Yacht Best of 2024 is the Azimut Fly 62.  Probably you will ask why not give this to the Seadeck 6, which is an innovative yacht which still deserves a lot of praise.  But many times evolving the wheel is harder then inventing a new one, that is why the Fly 62 takes this. The flybridge motor yacht is the most conservative of styles, yet over fifteen meters it still has an important part of the sales.  Azimut has with this new 62 re-challenged the genre again, I do not know how many times they did it since the eighties, thanks to the innovative Beach Cockpit aft-area converting settee, that converts to sun-pad is pure genius, and as a reality of fact more all around usable to the opening balconies some other builders have introduced on similar sized flybridge yachts in the last ten years.   

The others.

BB Yachts Panarea 44.  New brand BB yachts wide-body fore to aft cockpit offers unrivalled exterior spaces, with an interior which is actually also comfortably good.

Blue Game BGM75. Catamarans look to be the next thing, though the BGM75 is the less cat of all with a less width to length ratio. With this all cabins rival that of a mono-hull, and has an aft beach club with spaces of a super yacht.

Bolide 80. A new name from fast hull specialist Brunello Acampora.  To achieve the 73 knots top speed nothing is left to chance on the first Bolide with full use of carbon fibre for the ultimate light to strength ratio.

Fairline Targa 40. A fully new Targa 40, which with its optional transformative cockpit rivals same sized central console walk-around space outside, with a cabin a twelve meter sport cruiser deserves.

Omikron OT-60. Translated Omikron means Little O, the name for Greek's Olympic Marine new brand.  Multi prized the sailing yacht without a mast looking OT-60 brings incredible spaces and a one thousand nautical miles range at best cruise.

Sacs Rebel 50G. Maxi rib becomes sport yacht or the other way round.  It is a mix in this fully enclosed good looking maxi-rib and yacht.  Two options for the lower deck, and four for the main deck makes it also semi-custom as it can get. 

Sanlorenzo 50Steel. Sanlorenzo leads the Super Yachting eco-race as green methanol totally fuels the domestic side for the new 50Steel.  But the 50Steel has other innovations, as its Hidden-Engine-Room making the lower deck its main living area. 

Wally Why100. The smallest Wally Why100 is different to the larger Why150 and Why200 maximum space to length offer, giving a magic unique way how its spaces are delivered.  Futuristic 23rd century fast commuter yacht! 

History Repeating. Apreamare Gozzo 38 Cabin.  When Apreamare revolutionized the Gozzo Sorrentino in 1987 with the Smeraldo 7 model, the cabin evolution that the Smeraldo 8 Cabinato brought five years later, for a more cabin cruising boat was as much important.  The 38 Cabin follows the same script again on the revolutionized Gozzo series which arrived in 2017, what is an enclosed hard-top more cabin cruising version of the Gozzo 35.  The story always repeats itself! 

PowerYacht wishes to all its followers, friends, readers, and visitors a Healthy and Prosperous 2025 year.

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