Competition Note

As you may have noticed since the beginning of the 2026 year PowerYachtBlog has added the competition line offer in the New Model section.  The competition offer chooses the most similar competitive model to the New Model presented.

The interesting part is that competition is not always simple as it may always seem and was say a decade ago.  That means that everyone is trying to offer something different to the other, which means product development is going beyond just presenting a new model for the sake of it.  Even for example when I thought finding a competitor was easy sometimes it was not, like for example a ten meter center console sport cruiser, as the new model many times offered something the other did not.

Then there is also New Models were competition does not exist, because they are pushing a new niche.  An example to this are the new Viking 64 Sport Coupe or the De Antonio D60.  The De Antonio for example thanks to its outboard propulsion and sport yacht comfort has no competition in its eighteen meter size.  While for the Viking it is fair to say production express sport fish at nineteen meters do not exist today.  Yes you can still go to one of the dozen or so custom yacht builder on the East coast and make one, but that's about it.