Some supply chain normality starting coming back in 2023, which allowed for the arrival of out of the box evolutionary thinking models to come from the popular and those less known names. Obviously supply chain delays and disruptions have been a headache for all boat and yacht builders since 2020, that is why some of these models have been in waiting and delayed for a year, or two. For example the 2023 best of the year was announced in 2020 for a 2021 launch but ended launching in late Summer 2022. A similar story comes from Pershing's first GTX range model, project presented in 2020 for an end 2021 launch only for it to arrive in mid 2023, and Sunseeker's Superhawk 55 announced in 2021 to arrive a year later but then launching in early 2023.
January 1, 2024
Best of 2023
May 26, 2023
New Model: Holterman X-treme 105
January 1, 2023
Best of 2022
2022 was a strange year, Covid-19 looked more like influenza second version, and finally we learnt to live with it without masks, and then humans continue to show the way of destruction with a war returning in central Eastern Europe after many years. In the meantime the yachting World has been busy presenting new models; some innovative breaking the rule book, while others update what has been written before into the year. Here is PowerYachtBlog 2022 favorites.
The Best of 2022 for PowerYacht is the new Sanlorenzo SP110. Under Massimo Perotti Sanlorenzo has turned from a conservative name to become one of the most innovative thinkers in the motor yachting World. So how to build your first super sport yacht of 33 meters? With a different design, and standing out from the rest with an un-edited vertical loft. Sanlorenzo first super sport yacht, the SP110 has been four years or more in the making directed by a who's who list of people knowing a thing or two about making a class leading act.
The others.
Apreamare 45 Gozzo. The third and largest model of the Gozzo line which debuted in 2017 gives what the two previous smaller models missed, cruising accommodation with aplenty day cruising abilities.
Austin Parker 85 Ibiza. The largest ever build by the Italian builder, it is not sport yacht re-invented, more found again. Looking like a massive centre console with its long big bow.
Benetti B.Yond 37m. There is a lot of important news in this semi custom triple deck super yacht. It was the last design from Stefano Righini, and a steel Benetti sub forty meters in many years.
Grand Banks EastBay 60. Its the first EastBay to come with Mark Richards efficient hull shape following nearly thirty years of Raymond Hunt bottoms. Classic looks with range and efficiency, the EastBay 60 give this and more.
Jarrett Bay 56 Open Convertible hull #67. For decades custom sportfish builders offered the same style, but in the last ten or so years we have seen a change in this. This sixteen meter is a flybridge sportfish yacht with the feel of an express, from one of Carolina's most respected names.
Overmarine Mangusta 165 Rev. Igor Lebanov is renewing Mangusta successful sport yacht fleet, and here he renews the fifty meter flagship which sold twelve units in thirteen years. The hull is the same, but the rest is totally new including of which is a forward main deck owners stateroom.
Rizzardi GR SessantaTre. Today most sport yachts above fifteen meters are enclosed. This new nineteen meter Rizzardi is a return to the real Mediterrean open sport yacht, with traditional propulsion, central engine position, and a guest VIP suite aft.
Tiara EX60. The largest ever yacht build in Michigan. For a precise production yacht it offers a lot of options, and offers what Tiara did with the Coupe series, a Down-East lobster boat feel into that of a modern sport yacht.
Doing different. Fiart P54. A sport yacht with the outside area spanning the whole sixteen meters size, in three split levels without losing any lower deck accommodation. Fiart did break design rules in 2021 with the Cetera 60, and here they go again with what is there bread and butter open yacht with an unusual offer.
PowerYacht wishes to all its followers, friends, readers, and visitors a Healthy and Prosperous 2023 year.
October 7, 2022
New Model: Sanlorenzo SP110
January 1, 2022
Best of 2021
The times are a changing, and against all forecast 2021 featured unthinkable growth to the yacht industry. No one ever thought that Covid-19 and lock downs and social distance would bring this to the yachting World. The yachting industry has been on a growing pattern in the last five to six years, but what happened in the last year was unthinkable, even in the best of forecasts, with some models having order books going into 2025. Without further ado lets go into PowerYachts best of 2021.
PowerYacht's best of 2021 is the Sunseeker 90 Ocean. Announced as 8X project in 2019, the 90 Ocean was one of the first creations directed by Andrea Frabetti at Sunseeker. It represents a total novelty for Sunseeker design language thanks to unique internal and outside space volumes, yet at the same time competing with similar explorer inspired super yachts without looking a copy-paste thanks to Sunseeker signature identity. The Poole famous name was on a roll in 2021 with the 65 Sport Yacht also short listed for the Best of list.
The others.
Azimut Grande Trideck 38m. The largest Azimut ever build is full of innovation. From a record breaking internal volume to size, to the three plus one deck, and going into Azimut Displacement2Planning patented hull which reduces fuel consumption.
Bimax 28 Alchimia. Bimax an unknown name to most, presents a forward looking shaft drive propulsion reducing fuel consumption, planning entrance, and the hump at slow speeds. In these days it is unusual for boat builders to do propulsion, but the small Bimax is doing all this.
Evo Yachts V8. Initially born as an independent project called Velar 78 of designer Valerio Rivellini, Evo Yachts main design man. Seeing the interest in the project Evo Yachts jumped on this sailing boat inspired explorer sport yacht. It looks different.
Fiart Cetera 60. Helped by Francesco Guida Fiart defy convention when they present the brands first live aboard explorer yacht. Its all unusual in the Cetera 60 from its exterior looks to the cabin area on the main deck, living on the upper deck, and a technical area below deck.
ISA Super Sportivo 100 GTO. 55 knots fast and sleek beautiful for an ISA like never made before, thanks also to designer Marco Casali. Guess if it had that famous American badge the accolades would have been double.
Lion Evolution 6.0. A fast explorer yacht of seventeen meters from a new young Italian name. Its style defies convention, as does the engine propulsion choices, which goes from quadruple petrol gas outboards as featured in hull one, to inboard with IPS and or line shaft.
Otam 70 HT. This new 70 HT sees Giuseppe Bagnardi take first design duties for Otam who presents the boutique custom boat builder with its most modern looking creation to date. Hull one was named Darth Vader, which I think does look the part.
Solace 415 CS. A twelve meter US made centre console is all about three or four outboards at the back and high fifty knots plus speeds. Solace a young 2019 founded builder new 415 CS flagship changes this, powered by twin 440hp Volvo diesel on stern drives.
Never stop. Wally Why200. Luca Bassani's Wally has been rewriting yacht design since its appearance in 1994. Previous to 2021 and the Why200 there was a large consensus though that Wally's trend setting minimalism was irresistibly beautiful, and unknowingly reshaped both modern sailing and motor yacht design. The new Why200 has many saying it is an ugly duck, and then there is that fore main deck master stateroom with 270 degrees views, something unseen in a yacht of any size. It is a Wally!
PowerYacht wishes to all its followers, friends, readers, and visitors a Healthy and Prosperous 2022 year.
May 21, 2021
New Model: Sunseeker 90 Ocean
January 1, 2021
Best of 2020
2020 was a year marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, something which humanity has not seen like since a hundred years. The last pandemic of such a scale was the Spanish Flu which started February 1918 and ended April 1920, leaving up to one hundred million deaths in its 26 months. Covid-19 was not as bad to yachting as some might have thought though. Brokerage used boat sales have benefitted the most of all this, possibly due to the social distance boating has as its main merit. As Covid-19 first wave started to get under control at the end of Spring boats starting to sell strong especially at the lower budget side of things. Onwards with the best of 2020.
Poweryachts's 2020 best is the Cantiere delle Marche Flexplorer 40m. Since founded in 2010 Cantiere delle Marche has become the address to build custom or semi-custom explorer super yachts sub fifty meters, and this new Flexplorer 40m designed by Paszkowski shows why CDM is at the forefront of these type of yachts. That large commercial type A-frame crane which hides in the aft deck floor is pure genius to say the least.
The others.
Azimut Magellano 25 Metri. For nine years we thought that a Magellano over 24 meters will never come. This all changed when Azimut announced the project of this 25 Metri in 2018, which with its raised pilot house looks different to the previous smaller Magellano's.
Bertram 50 Hardtop. The American Eagle makes its first large express yacht over fifty feet ever. It can come fully open, or as an open hard-top, and fully enclosed hard-top with or without patio door.
Invictus TT460. A turning point for Invictus which have arrived to this beautiful, distinctive yet modern fourteen meter flagship. With Christian Grande designing all the models since the founding in 2015 it was an announced success from the start.
Mazu 82. A future classic which disregards time that's what Mazu new 82 flagship model is all about. A super yacht of 24 meters which transmits Mazu distinctive design language without breaking the rules of what a sport yacht should be.
Prestige X70. Garroni and Prestige come very innovative in this new X Prestige model and range which looks and is different. Wide body, forward looking windscreen, are all unusual features, in all this giving one of the most spacious aft decks for a flybridge yacht in this size.
Sundeck 430 S. Walk around central console are in abundance nowadays, but this new 430 S reinvents itself in the genre, in its very own Sundeck way. It has this exterior with a very utilitarian look which does not forget a comfortable two double cabins below deck.
Tornado T-Rib 48. Tornado has build most of its fortunes on the copy-paste 38 model launched in the eighties. This Tornado-Rib, sees the Italian famed builder challenge this, without forgetting its roots and pedigree of efficiency and high performance.
Uniesse Exuma HTC5. Uniesse which since 2017 is under American ownership, presents its second model, the Exuma 5, what is the 48 Open presented in 1996 updated for current times.
Space unusual. Princess X95. When one looks at the Pininfarina designed X95 which is possibly one of Princess most awaited models ever, I cannot really understand its purpose and what its want to be. Step aboard and one starts to understands that it is all about the unbelievable space to be found in a 29 meter super yacht.
PowerYacht wishes to all its followers, friends, readers, and visitors a Healthy and Prosperous 2021 year.