Project: Beneteau Gran Turismo 50

In the wake of the announcement of the updated Gran Turismo range this Spring and the first two debuts of the 35 and 40 GT models at the 2025 Cannes yachting festival, Beneteau unveils the project for a new Gran Turismo 50 flagship.  Designed by long time Beneteau designer Andreani with naval architecture by Dixon, the Gran Turismo 50 revolves around a revolutionary approach to layout, looks and ergonomics.  For this the new Gran Turismo 50 is to feature a unique layout, with an expanding exterior spaces, see drop down bulk heads but also a fully enclosed hard-top, with astern galley, and a lower deck offering three cabins sleeping four or five.  The Beneteau 50 Gran Turismo is a cross-over in the sense that it unites center-console walk-around details to those of a full cabin yacht, making it a proposal for those who want to go boating also in the not so nice weather, without missing on the features of an open yacht.  The Beneteau Gran Turismo 50 is to be powered by twin Volvo 480hp with IPS pod drives propulsion, and is also to be available in the Alpine limited edition version; hull color mix of Blue Navy and Deep Black color contours, and a limited edition steering wheel.

www.beneteau.com

New Model: Sasga Menorquin 48 FB

Sasga has at the 2025 Cannes Yachting Festival unveiled the all-new Menorquín 48 FB. With its timeless elegance and robust hull designed for smooth sailing, the Menorquín 48 embodies the pure art of Mediterranean living, a cruiser dressed in traditional llaut Menorcan fishing vessel but offering plenty of living spaces.  The Menorquin comes as a model filler between the 42 and the recently unveiled 55 models, offering spacious spaces including a three double cabins layout, and a forward owners stateroom which is as spacious as a midships located master.  The galley is located in the lower deck in between the cabin, with a second with twin berths to port-side, and a third cabin with two L-shaped bunks to starboard.  The Menorquin 48 FB is powered by twin Volvo 370hp and or optional 440hp with line shaft propulsion.  To speeds are up to 23 knots from the big engine option.  An HT hard-top version will also follow this flybridge, with build capacity being reported to three units a year.

Technical Data:

LOA - 15.80 m (51.8ft)

Hull Length - 13.4 m

Beam - 4.85 m

Draft - 1.20 m

Displacement - 17.65 t

Fuel Capacity - 1840 l

Water Capacity - 700 l

Accommodation - five or six berths in three cabins

Engines - 2 x Volvo D6 370hp, or D6 440hp 

Propulsion - line shaft

Speed - 23 knots max, nineteen knots cruise with 440hp

Project - Inigo Toledo from Barracuda Yacht Design

www.sasgayachts.com

Project: Benetti B.Neos 40m

During the 2025 Cannes Yachting Festival Benetti presented the B.Neos project, a reportedly but not confirmed forty meter super yacht concept.  B.Neos embraces the proportions and silence of sailing yachts, favouring instead the pleasure of the essential and beauty of simplicity.  Coming from the Greek word néos, meaning new young and fresh the Benetti B.Neos is designed by Malcolm McKeon for exteriors who brings classic chic lines, with interiors by Francesca Muzio FM Architettura. Both the designers focused in offering a motor yacht with fluid lines and spaces, and an intelligent layout embracing classicality with a modern twist. B.Neos focuses on a new generation of owners, a philosophy for a smart yacht, technological, unconventional, that redefines the traditional codes of super yachts.  Instead of the relentless pursuit of volume, see no wide body main deck, with a smooth S-shear line B.Neos offers an intelligent distribution of space, designed for an owner who rejects the superfluous in favour of a more direct and functional experience, where technology makes it possible to enjoy silence thanks the standard hybrid propulsion.  So far it is not understood if a Benetti B.Neos is under construction, or this was an offered inbuild project, with technical details beside the designers name, and hybrid type propulsion being the only information provided.  Also it is not reported if the Benetti B.Neos is to be build of fiberglass, aluminium, or steel.

www.benettiyachts.it

New Model: AB Yachts 95

AB Yachts, a brand of Next Yacht Group and for over thirty years a symbol of fast jet propelled sport yachts raises the bar again as its unveiled the new AB 95 at the 2025 Cannes Yachting Festival.  Launched in early August, the first AB Yachts 95 is powered triple Man engines totalling 6,000 horsepower delivering a fifty knots of top speed, in almost total absence of vibrations.  The  95 is the ultimate and latest expression of AB Yachts philosophy: high performance, extreme engineering and a design that makes its presence felt without compromise. Developed in collaboration with the architectural studio Archea Associati, the AB yachts 95 measures 28 meters in length and features four cabins for the owner and guests, accommodating up to ten berths, plus two additional crew cabins for four crew members. Every detail reflects over three decades of shipyard expertise: fine, cutting-edge materials, advanced technical solutions and a high-performance propulsion system.

Technical Data:

LOA - 28.45 m (93.4ft)

Beam - 6.80 m

Draft - 1.35 m

Displacement - 93 t loaded

Fuel Capacity - 10,700 l

Water Capacity - 2000 l

Accommodation - eight or ten guests in four cabins, four crew in two cabins

Engines - 3 x Man V12 2000hp

Propulsion - 2 x MJP steerable water jets, plus one MJM central booster water jet

Speed - fifty knots max

Range - 440 nautical miles at cruise

Project -  Marco Casamonti of Archea Associati, Next Yacht Group

Certification - RINA  C cross of Malta Hull Mach Y, unrestricted navigation Pleasure

www.abyachts.com

Sea Ray Cruiser and Two Boaters Saved in Fjallbacka, Sweden

Two boaters were rescued as an eight meter Sea Ray sport cruiser lost power and ended on the rocks near Fjallbacka, Sweden before 20:00 of Thursday ninth October.  After receiving an alarm from the Sea and Air Rescue Center the Swedish Sea Rescue Society goes to the assistance of the Sea Ray cruiser with the RS Fjällbacka vessel.  As they arrived to the Sea Ray cruiser the rescue vessel finds it hitting the hard reefs in a perilous situation.  The conditions are challenging, but the Fjallbacka lifeguards who were in the middle of an exercise before the call act calmly and manage to pull the Sea Ray cruiser out to safe deep water.  After this they control the damage, and although the hull has taken a beating, it is not taking water, as the Sea Ray sport cruiser is then towed to a safe harbour in challenging seas with high waves.

The Sea Ray in this accident is the 268 Sundancer as produced from 1986 to 1989.  The 268 Sundancer was a replacement to the SRV260 Sundancer, and was replaced by the second generation Sea Ray 250 Sundancer.

Project: Princess 106 Odyssey

Princess Yachts, the UK’s largest luxury yacht manufacturer, has announced its return to the thirty meters plus superyacht segment with the announcement of the 106 Odyssey project at the 2025 Monaco Yacht Show.  A bit of Princess super yachting history, the Plymouth yacht builder entered 24 meters plus sizes in 2001 when it launched the 25M, this was followed by always expanding sizes and under one hundred foot for a decade, that is when Princess buys part of the Devonport Naval Base in 2011, and enters thirty meters plus sizes in that same year debuting the 32M.  The 32M is followed by the largest Princess to date, the 40M, and then by the smaller 35M and 30M.  In total 38 yachts were build in eight years over thirty meters with the most successful being the 30M sold in fifteen units, and the 35M the least as it was delivered in seven hulls.  The 106 Odyssey marks the return for Princess in the thirty meter plus segment after an absence since 2019, and is the first model in a forthcoming range of larger yachts with a more ship like exploring presence, unlike the previous M range which had sleek modern lines. The 106 Odyssey is a super yacht designed to deliver more volume to square meter for its size, and will offer numerous interior configurations, possible from an innovative layout, and a range of optional packages to ensure customer choice is both simplified and wide-ranging. Princess say the 106 Odyssey is engineered for distance and long range, although thus far with this first project announcement they have advised no distance capability details, but they are saying it will feature a hybrid fast displacement hull.  As layout goes the main deck features an expansive cockpit and transom with flexible furniture and drop-down balconies designed to adapt effortlessly to every occasion. The owner’s suite includes a private lounge or ante-room, a dressing area, and a spa-inspired en-suite bathroom, while the upper deck offers configurable layouts with bespoke furniture options, an optional spa bath, and floor-to-ceiling windows and skylights that create a bright, airy sanctuary. The lower deck is to feature a full-beam VIP stateroom that can be transformed into two en suite double cabins, providing up to four elegant guest cabins in total. Crew quarters are located forward and include three cabins for five crew members, including a private Captain’s cabin and a welcoming crew mess. 

www.princessyachts.com

Fifty Meter Classic Super Yacht Fire Damaged Near Agropoli, Italy

The classic fifty meter super yacht Espadarte under Valletta Malta flag was saved from a fire as it was cruising about seventeen nautical miles offshore to the coast of Agropoli, in the Cilentan Coast of the Tyrrhenian sea to the South of Naples, on the late morning of Thursday ninth October.  The Maltese flagged super yacht which also had sixteen persons onboard between crew and guests was assisted by two Guard Costiera vessels departing from Agropoli and Marina di Camerrota respectively, both of them carrying Vigili dell Fuoco fire fighting squads. The crew with assistance from a nearby boater also tried to control the fire before the Italian Guardia Costiera Coast Guard arrived, but had no success.  When the Guardia Costiera arrived the first operation was putting the sixteen persons to safety, and then to control the fire, which they did with success.  Following this the classic super yacht, which was handicapped and without power was towed to the harbour of Salerno, arriving there at 02:00 early hours of the following day.  For the towing operation to the harbour, the Port Captaincy of Salerno ordered that the Vigili del Fuoco squad remain onboard, due to the high risk of the fire re-igniting.  The blaze was reported as starting and confined to the engine room, as the cause of the fire is under investigation.

Motor Yacht Espadarte is a custom 50 meters as build by Portugal's Arsenal do Alfeite yard in 1968, to military specifications and exterior design by Jorge d’Almeida Araujo.  Espadarte has had some high profile owners over the years, from its first commissioner which was reported but never confirmed to be the then Prime Minister of the Estado Novo regime of Portugal.  After the fall of Portugal's New Order in 1974 the yacht was sold to Saudi-based Sheikh Mouffak al-Midani, who will in the nineties sell to Greek TV station and shipowner John Karageorgis.  Espadarte was last refitted by Lusben in 2018.

New Model: Scout 670 LXS

Scout present the new 670 LXS, its new flagship which expands its largest offer by fifteen foot, and what is the current biggest production outboard boat in the market larger to the HCB 65 Estrella by two foot.  Announced as Project Everest in early 2023, the new Scout flagship is designed by Harrison Eidsgaard and presents itself as a fully enclosed center console sport yacht with a lower deck offering a three cabin layout.  Debuting at the 2025 Palm Beach boat show in March, the Scout 670 LXS is a sport yacht with luxury, fishing, cruising and high performance features. The Scout 670 LXS is powered with quintuple Mercury 600hp for a top speed up to 52 knots, and a fast cruise of 34 knots which should give a range of about 443 nautical miles, provided by a five thousand litres plus petrol gas fuel capacity.

Technical Data:

LOA - 20.35 m (66.9ft)

Beam - 4.93 m

Draft - 1.04 m

Displacement - 

Fuel Capacity - 5678 l *petrol gas plus 697 l *diesel for generator

Water Capacity - 447 l

Accommodation - six berths in three cabins

Engines - 5 x Mercury Verado V12 600hp

Propulsion - outboard

Speed - 52 knots max, 34 cruise

Range - 443 nautical miles at 34 knots fast cruise

Construction - carbon fibre epoxy infused hull

Project - Harrison Eidsgard

www.scoutboats.com

Project: Manda Yachts S06

Manda Yachts is an interesting fresh yacht builder which announced itself in 2022 and debuted in 2023, shows the project for a new S06 model.  Manda Yachts offers a new type of yachting, from a certain view similar to BlueGame see free stern-area, but then with a different main deck.  Designed by Ceccarelli the Manda S06, fills and completes the range in between the fifty foot S05 and the 21 meter S07, the two models which debuted Manda Yachts in 2023.  For the S06 Ceccarelli follows similar design solutions, a spacious free aft deck which integrates with the fully open midships lounge located in the lower deck, with a walk-around main deck.  Accessing the main deck is from two side stair cases from the large aft lower deck, with this bringing a fully enclosed central hard-top area, this offering a dinette, mini-galley, and central pilot station with triple settees.  To fore-deck is another lounging area with a forward settee served with a coffee table, and fore deck sun-pad.  Manda Yachts S06 is to be powered by twin Volvo 725hp for top speeds up to 28 knots and a cruise of twenty knots.  

www.mandayachts.it

Azimut Cruiser Ends Beached in Gokova Bay, Mugla, Turkey

An eleven meter Azimut flybridge cruiser ended beached and aground in Gökova Bay in Akbuk, Muğla, Turkey on the morning of Tuesday seventh October.  The Azimut cruiser was reported to be anchored offshore to the bay, when it dragged anchor and ended beached as the wind from the South-Westerly intensified to force five intensity on that morning.  Locals and fisherman assisted the boat as no one was injured in the grounding, with some news saying that no one was onboard the flybridge cruiser as it ended beached.   

The Azimut cruiser in this accident is an AZ Trentanove model as designed by Stefano Righini and produced from 1999 to 2004.  The AZ Trentanove was a replacement to the AZ Trentasei, evolving into the 39 Evolution and produced for another three years.