Motor Boat & Yachting

PRINCESS 68

IN BUILD 2014 - 2018

PRICE RANGE £1,700,000 – £2,000,000

It’s always fascinating to watch new concepts in motor boats evolve and become de rigueur. Back in the 1980s we were introduced to transom doors – today the idea of scrambling over a cockpit coaming to get aboard seems absurd. In the 1990s manufacturers stopped asking us to climb ladders to reach the flybridge and stairs became the

“why did no one think of this earlier?” route to the top deck, while extended bathing platforms became the obvious solution to tender storage instead of hanging them from big ugly metal davits and hand-winching them into the sea.

The Noughties saw lower decks transformed from caves into bedrooms via the magic of large hull windows instead of tiny portholes, and those extended bathing platforms gained mobility, lowering gently into the ocean to float off your tender instead of having to hoick it off with a passerelle or a crane.

When the years hit their teens, aft-galley layouts for deck saloon boats were ushered in across the board, plus massive saloon

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