Two new stealthy yachts aiming to top the mini-maxi market

The crimson bandit. This rocketship is the second Carkeek design for Italian carbon cognoscenti Neo Yachts.

The Neo 620 is its new flagship, which can muscle into the aggressive mini-maxi enviornment. It’s an evolution of the 570 we featured a few years in the past (take a look at the video tour), and continues to sport Carkeek’s distinctive chamfered topsides, which run right into a reverse sheerline, a stealth bomber-style form first seen on racing machines similar to Ràn.

The 620 has varied format choices, primarily including a 3rd heads compartment in comparison with its smaller sister, and offering the choice for a convertible fourth cabin area, which can be utilized as a nav station, for eating or sleeping – all whereas preserving weight to a mere 13.5 tonnes (practically half of which is ballast in a deep keel).

Neo manages this wizardry by constructing the 620 in prepreg carbon fibre, fitted with a high-modulus carbon rig. Cariboni hydraulics support high-speed management, whereas it may well sport a single or twin rudders, has area for a 3m tender, and consists of 400lt tanks for each gasoline and water.

Based by aggressive sailor and sailmaker Paolo Semeraro, Neo has now constructed 30 {custom} or semi-custom high-performance yachts since 2018. The ‘Roma’ branding is Neo’s quick cruising line, which displays the chance for the wooden veneered inside to be detachable. So these yachts go well with these eager to compete at high-level occasions with the lightest-weight boat, but achieve this whereas defending the timber end and sustaining resale worth.

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460 Competizione (Race)

The place Roma signifies a cruiser racer or Gran Turismo theme, ‘Competizione’ is Neo’s pure racer line, and the Bari yard has simply offered the primary 460 on this guise to a German workforce. Designed by Ceccarelli as an offshore double-handed or crewed racer, which might compete in Group 1 of the Admiral’s Cup class, it’s out there with single or twin rudders, water ballast choices and an electrical retractable pod.

Fashionable carbon within the Neo 620 Roma’s inside

It additionally displaces solely 200kg greater than the 430, so weights in at simply 6.2 tonnes, but provides a second heads compartment inside. Semeraro causes: “There aren’t any manufacturing aggressive racing boats within the 45-46ft vary, the one aggressive boats racing are a bunch of very previous Ker 46s.”

With this 460 he explains that the moulds and design prices have been amortised by the yard, because it shares the hull mould of the 460 Roma. “A brand new proprietor can enter a no-compromise racing program with out having to assist the total prices of a prototype,” thinks Semeraro. And with the following Admiral’s Cup already deliberate for 2027, groups will already be needing to get their new steeds in place.

Two variations of the 460 Competizione are already in construct

“Our goal was to provide an all-round boat, not too gentle, not too particular for reaching in robust wind and so forth, however a ship that may win and can be utilized in lots of configurations, together with inshore, offshore and double-handed.”

Each variations of the 460 are in construct, plus a 520 Roma – all due for launch subsequent 12 months.

Neo 620 Roma Specs:

LOA 18.59m 61ft 0inBeam 5.30m 17ft 5inDraught 4.50m 14ft 9inDisplacement 13,500kg 29,762lb620 Roma value: €2.1m ex VAT460 Competizione value: €750,000 ex VATContact particulars: neoyachts.com

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