The Absolute Yachts 52 Fly shares design cues with its recently launched sisterships, the 56 Fly and 60 Fly. These yachts are easily recognized by their snub bows, chopped transoms, sculpted hulls and topsides, and big hullside windows, which give away the location of their owner’s staterooms.

As with the flybridge, the 52 Fly’s cockpit terrace is left bare so owners can choose from a range of exclusive modular furniture by Absolute or from other sources. The vessel’s glass balustrade, which tops off the transom, and the fretted bulwarks aft make for even stronger visual connections to the sea and provide great views for seated guests.

The 52 Fly’s foredeck is also a welcome retreat, especially with the sunshade and side screens up. The space accommodates an island sun pad, as well as a low dinette with double sofas. The flybridge is similarly splendid, and the hardtop comes standard with solar panels that contribute 1.35 kW of peak power, enough to cover the yacht’s basic hotel loads (not air conditioning) without the generator or shore power.

With nearly 360-degree views, the salon consists of an aft galley to port with Corian worktops, and a view between them and the cabinets above. An amidships lounge has a dinette to port and a three-seat sofa to starboard. The vibe is cool and contemporary, with drop-down electric windows on each side. They help keep the temperature moderate when the air conditioning is off.

The two-seat lower helm is to starboard, with great ergonomics and unobstructed visibility. Garmin touchscreen displays provide all the essential information, and other controls are conveniently situated. A side-deck door allows a proper connection with the outside world. A second two-seat helm station up on the flybridge is to port. That means there’s always a fresh-air connection available for the skipper, no matter which side he needs to see when close-quarters maneuvering. An optional third docking station can be added in the cockpit, with joystick and thruster controls for stern-to docking.

Like the rest of Absolute’s portfolio, the oomph for the 52 Fly comes from a pair of Volvo Penta diesels and IPS pod drives. The 52 Fly’s 600 hp D8-IPS800s deliver a nominal top speed of 30 knots and a 25-knot fast cruise. I saw a top-end average speed of 30.5 knots on reciprocal runs with the trim assist on, the Seakeeper gyrostabilizer off, and the boat lightly loaded. Only four people were aboard, with no tender or stores, 26 percent fuel, and 44 percent fresh water in gentle swells.

Underway, handling is surprisingly responsive. Spin the wheel hard over when running flat out, and the yacht heels gently into a relatively tight turn without scrubbing off much more than 3 knots of speed. The turning circle is not much more than three boatlengths.

At my favored cruise-forever dawdle of 10 knots, the diesels burned just 14 gph. Given the tank capacity of 475 gallons, that means a range of 340 nautical miles. The yacht is least efficient at 13 to 15 knots, with fuel burn around 73 gph. Once over the hump, the cumulative burn tracks down gently from 2.5 gallons per nautical mile at 14 knots to 2.25 gallons per nautical mile at 30 knots, so you may as well rush. At a continuous fast cruise of 25 knots, range should be around 225 nm.

Noise is not an issue. I recorded just 64 decibels at the helm at 20 knots (65 decibels is the level of normal conversation). In the owner’s stateroom at the same speed, the tank buffer for the engine room meant just 72 decibels. It was 75 decibels in the double-berth stateroom aft.

Both heads that serve the three staterooms have windows and opening portholes. The owner’s en suite stateroom occupies the full beam forward, with big bow windows and plenty of space around a forward-facing queen berth. There’s also full-standing headroom here. Amidships is the VIP, also with a forward-facing queen and its hullside windows. The guest stateroom has twin berths that convert to a double. It’s good to see there’s enough space in the lobby beneath the companionway stairs for a washer-dryer.

There’s also lazarette space aft that includes a head-shower compartment, but it can alternatively be specified as a single-berth overspill stateroom or a crew cabin. (A teenager would love it.) As on some of the other newer Absolutes, it’s accessed discreetly from the hydraulic swim platform via a pantograph-style door in the transom and a half-hatch.

There’s a lot to like about the Absolute 52 Fly: solid performance, a high level of personalization, and a pugnacious build to cruise across blue water. Add its luxurious flourishes, and you get a family-friendly owner-operator yacht that should have broad appeal.

How It’s Made

Relatively complicated hull and superstructure shapes dictate a wet lay-up build rather than resin infusion. Interiors, including the bulkheads, are assembled outside the hull. They are built up from CNC-cut flat panels before being moved by crane and then bonded to the hull walls and stringer system. Then the superstructure is placed.

Where It’s Made

Absolute Yachts is based in Podenzano, Italy, between Genoa and Milan. Employing around 300 people on a 500,000-square-foot site, the company builds around 90 boats a year. The average length is about 60 feet. 

Wide Range

Absolute Yachts’ 14-model lineup ranges from 47 to 75 feet, with seven Navetta models, six Fly models and one Coupé yacht. Production is split about evenly between the Navettas and the planing models. The next new models are expected to be the Navetta 53 and Navetta 70, with debuts planned at the Cannes Yachting Festival in September.

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Yachts 360 has listed Neverland, an Absolute Yachts Navetta 58, with an asking price of $1.78 million. The low-hour, 2020 Italian build has a three-stateroom, three-head layout that sleeps six with an aft crew cabin for two. The Absolute Navetta 58 is part of a seven-model series ranging 48 feet to 75 feet length overall.

Absolute packs a lot of form and function into this 58-footer. The salon gets lots of natural lighting because of the waist-to-ceiling windows running the length of the main deck as well as a wraparound window forward. The salon, accessed via sliding glass doors off the cockpit, is set up with a C-shaped sofa to starboard and settee to port.

Forward and up two steps are the country galley to starboard in a caddy-corner layout with a Bosch microwave, a stainless-steel sink, a four-burner electric cooktop, a full-size refrigerator and a dishwasher. It’s worth noting an electric sliding glass partition can close off the galley and dining area from the salon.

Across from the galley is a U-shaped dinette for evening family meals and that pre-cruise breakfast. The dual-seat helm station with Garmin electronics, single-lever throttles and a joystick for precise close-quarters maneuvering is to starboard with side-deck access via a door adjacent to it, making it a great setup for shorthanded cruising. Wide side decks with high rails lead to the foredeck and four-person U-shaped settee abaft a three-person sun pad, making it a great location to enjoy time on the hook and sundowners with friends.

The second, single-seat flybridge helm station is on centerline and is flanked by L-shaped settees for guests to relax and have bird’s-eye ocean views en route to the next way point. A settee and table are aft and to starboard, creating an alfresco dining location. Additional loose chairs can be added to the after section of the flybridge for another spot to catch some sun.

Stairs to port lead from the flybridge to the cockpit where there is a four-person bench seat and a fixed table set under the flybridge overhang for shaded alfresco dining. A joystick-equipped docking station is to starboard.

Sleeping accommodations are belowdecks, including the amidships master stateroom, which has a queen berth, a desk and en suite head. The forepeak VIP has a cater-corner double berth, a desk, stowage and an en suite head. The starboard guest stateroom is also en suite and has twin single berths on electric tracks that convert to a double berth.

Power for Neverland comes from twin Volvo Penta D8 IPS800 diesels with pod drives that give this Navetta 58 a reported 26-knot top hop.

Where is Neverland located? The yacht is currently lying in Charleston, South Carolina.

Take the next step: contact the listing agent, Brian Dressler, brian@yachts360.com, (919) 971-8953, yachts360.com

Quick Specifications:

• Length Overall: 58′
• Maximum Beam: 16’6″
• Fuel Capacity: 634 Gal.

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Algi, an Absolute Yachts Navetta 68 currently listed with OneWater Yacht Group, just saw its price drop to $3.99 million. The 2023 build that was delivered less than a year ago has a four-stateroom, four-head layout, with a full-beam forepeak master stateroom and a full-beam amidships VIP.

The forepeak stateroom benefits from the yacht’s 18-foot-6-inch beam by moving the en suite head forward, and having the queen berth closer to amidships. The master also has rectangular hull-side windows that provide views and allow for natural light. A flat-screen TV, a desk, his-and-hers vanities, cabinet stowage and drawer stowage round out the space.

The Navetta 68’s VIP amidships also has a full-beam layout with an en suite head that is located outboard and to port. It’s accessed via sliding glass doors. This stateroom is flanked by hull-side windows and is furnished with a desk, a flat-screen TV as well as cabinet and drawer stowage.

Rounding out the accommodations are guest staterooms amidships to port and to starboard. Both spaces have two single berths; however, the port stateroom also has an en suite head and the two berths slide together for couples.

Algi is also set up for entertaining inside and outside. Take the flybridge, for instance. Guests will find loose furniture just beyond the hardtop, creating a great place to catch some sun. Forward and to starboard is an L-shaped settee, loose chairs and a table abaft the helm. The helm has a single seat forward and is surrounded on both sides by additional L-shaped settees so the captain can have casual conversation with guests en route to the next waypoint. To port, is a wet bar and grill, making this area dialed in for alfresco dining.

On the main deck, the galley separates the salon and cockpit on this Absolute Navetta 68. The open-concept galley to port has a U-shaped Dekton countertop with Calacatta marble nuances. The galley is fitted out with Miele appliances, including a combined microwave and traditional oven, an induction cooktop, an exhaust hood and a dishwasher. There is also cabinet stowage for extended-cruising provisions, a refrigerator and a freezer. A formal dining table with bench seating and loose chairs with room for six to eight guests is conveniently placed opposite of the galley.

Forward of the galley is the salon, which is furnished with a love seat, a sofa and a lounge chair. A smoke-tinted glass table sits between them to create a spot for cocktails and casual conversation. A flat-screen TV is to starboard in case guests are in the mood for dinner and a movie.

Abaft the galley, and through the sliding glass doors, is the cockpit furnished with a bench seat and a table. Add loose dining chairs and you’ve got shaded outdoor dining. Stairs to port lead to the flybridge, and side decks with high rails from the cockpit to the bow enable safe transit to the foredeck entertainment area where a C-shaped settee and table sit abaft a lounge pad.

Forward of the salon and up a couple steps is the two-seat helm station for an all-weather, climate-controlled piloting setup.

Optional twin 1,000 hp Volvo IPS1350s provide the power for Algi, which propel the yacht to a 25-plus-knot top hop. Algi’s engines currently have only 215 hours on them.

Crew quarters are equipped with a captain’s cabin that has a single berth, a wardrobe, shelves, head access and a porthole that opens for fresh air.

From the Archive: New Absolute

“The 68 carries on the series’ tradition of matching striking lines with performance that spans the gap between that of a long-range cruiser and a sporty motoryacht. This model has an interior laid out for longer stays aboard. That includes a feeling of roominess: The salon is perhaps most notable for its nearly sole-to-ceiling windows, which allow for a strong interplay between the comforts of home and the nautical environment.” – Yachting, December 2019

Where is Algi located? The yacht is currently lying in Miami, Florida.

Take the next step: contact the listing agent, Alesha Perez, 727-465-3515, owyg.com

Quick Specifications:

• Length Overall: 68’
• Maximum Beam: 18’6”
• Fuel Capacity: 924 gallons
• Draft: 5’8”

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The bluff-bow Navetta 64 is the latest new-age trawler from Italy’s Absolute Yachts. This model’s biggest evolution from the builder’s other five Navettas is a forward-raked windshield, a feature as practical as it is stylish. The proportionally larger side windows toward the bow are now a brand signature for Absolute, creating a bold profile in concert with detailing such as the sturdy molded rail that sweeps aft to the transom from the high foredeck.

For go-anywhere cruisers, the Navetta 64 has all the appropriate design elements. A hardtop protects the flybridge, whose overhang shields not only the aft deck but also the side decks. There are booth-style seating and sunbathing space on what Absolute calls the “foredeck terrace.” There’s also an optional glazed transom—another big design departure for this model—that conceals an air-conditioned space. This area can serve as a beach-club lounge during the day or as a double-berth stateroom for occasional overnight guests (a flip-over backrest converts the mattress into a sofa). With that aft space in use as a stateroom, the Navetta 64 can sleep eight people in four en suite staterooms.

The aft space has two sliding glass doors that seal pneumatically and are RINA-certified to ensure the compartment is watertight when they’re closed. Even if, in an emergency, the space were flooded, it would not compromise the yacht, according to the builder. And the engines won’t start if the doors are left open.

In addition to the sliding doors, a watertight door from the space’s portside head leads forward to the engine room, which can be accessed through a hatch in the cockpit sole.

If you’re thinking this stern design means there’s no place for crew, you’re wrong. A crew cabin is amidships to starboard, with its own stairs descending from a door on the starboard side deck—the sort of arrangement commonplace on larger motoryachts.

The Navetta 64′s interior styling is contemporary cool with elm and walnut furniture, oak soles, and a harmonious blend of textures and sheens. The main salon includes a galley and dining table aft. A drop-down window helps open up the galley to the cockpit. Amidships is a lounge where most of the furniture is by Minotti.

Forward of the salon, the bridge is raised, giving the lounge abaft it a feeling of intimacy. There are two seats at the bridge with the helm outboard. Most instrumentation is by Garmin. The commanding position delivers clear visibility forward and to the immediate sides, particularly so to starboard, thanks to an optional side-deck glass door whose top panel opens. Cameras and a stern docking station can mitigate the lack of direct sightlines aft, and there is the option of enclosing the upper helm position, which has 360-degree views.

The owner’s stateroom is forward, several steps down from the salon. The forward-facing berth has plenty of space around it, splendid views thanks to Absolute’s signature glazing, and en suite facilities in the bow with another set of windows and opening portholes. Two other en suite staterooms occupy the amidships space on the lower deck. There’s an athwartships double to port and a twin-berth setup to starboard.

Absolute’s design team also focused on utility in the Navetta 64. The laundry room’s door is set into the same bulkhead that separates the owner’s stateroom from the rest of the accommodations, but the laundry room itself is accessed from the lower-deck lobby. There’s space for a washer/dryer and stowage for towels and linens. Another door beyond the appliances reveals a service tunnel that runs all the way forward to the chain-locker bulkhead and deep stowage compartments.

Designed for a maximum speed in the mid-to-high 20s and a fast cruise in the high teens, the Navetta 64′s standard power is twin 900 hp Volvo Penta D13-IPS1200 diesels. However, most owners have opted for the biggest machinery offered: twin 1,000 hp Volvo Penta D13-IPS1350 diesels. Absolute says the optional powerplants are ideal for customers who run heavy with lots of guests and luggage, the largest possible tender, and the biggest stabilizer. Hull No. 1, the first of three Navetta 64s destined for the United States so far, has the big horses and a reported top speed of about 28 knots.

The Absolute Navetta 64 may have a trawler-inspired aesthetic, but the yacht’s fast-cruising performance, modern design elements and multifunctional spaces create a new and welcome style of cruising yacht.

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Absolute Yachts’ 64 Fly will debut in Miami this year!

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