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Sunseeker 65 Sport Yacht

With no introduction necessary, the all-new, multi-award winning Sunseeker 65 Sport Yacht joins our expanding range of next-generation yachts.

The SkyHelm™, complete with IPS docking joystick, can be used in an upright position for low-speed manoeuvring or lowered to fall perfectly into outstretched arms when sat low in the bespoke helm seats cossetted by carbon fibre backrests and an integrated centre console. The modular layout allows for various specifications and enhancements, with space that adapts seamlessly to all kinds of socialising and adrenaline-seeking. Three cabins, including a full-beam master stateroom, can accommodate up to six guests in luxurious comfort, with a fully appointed crew cabin located forward of the garage.

Take your Sport Yacht to new heights by carrying the tender on the bathing platform and reconfiguring the vacated space as a dedicated ‘Beach Club’ – with direct sea access, bar, fridge, BBQ and free-standing seating. The perfect area for those happiest close to the water. With speeds of up to 35 knots, the 65 Sport Yacht cuts an equally impressive figure on the open water. Altogether, the experience is one of pure adrenaline, akin to driving a high-performance convertible supercar.

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Reviewed: Sunseeker 65 Sport Yacht

• By Chris Caswell
• June 24, 2022

As I ran the Sunseeker 65 Sport Yacht from what the builder calls the SkyHelm on the flybridge, one word came to mind: fun.

This yacht, powered with optional 1,000 hp Volvo Penta IPS1350 diesels paired to pod drives, streaked across the Gulf Stream’s 3- to 5-footers at just shy of 35 knots. As we left Florida in our wake, the 40-ton yacht maneuvered like a sports car. No matter how hard or fast I cranked the wheel, it just banked solidly and asked for more.

The Sunseeker 65 Sport Yacht is aptly named—for more than one reason. Designers penned the flybridge layout from a blank sheet to create a youthful, chic style. They studied today’s supercars, such as England’s 217 mph Aston Martin Valhalla. Two low-slung bucket seats are separated by a carbon-fiber, silver-lacquered console that would look at home in the latest Gulfstream G700 business-jet cockpit, right down to the throttles under the skipper’s hand.

To me, the coolest feature—an idea clearly borrowed from personal watercraft—is the steering pod that hinges up and locks in position. Yes, it has a steering wheel instead of handle bars. And, it allows the skipper to do two things: gain easy access to and from the bucket seat, and stand next to the SkyHelm, with its joystick controlling the twin pod drives and Side-Power bow thruster, providing an unrestricted view of the vessel while docking. It is a brilliant setup.

Stepping into the salon, I found coolly serene styling similar to a Cannes, France, penthouse overlooking La Croisette or a top-floor Miami suite on Biscayne Bay. Nearly 360 degrees of glass, low and comfortable furniture, and calmness exude from the smoked eucalyptus woods and nubby upholstery. The salon is designed for entertaining, with a settee to port around a folding/sliding table and a couch opposite. A notable feature is the single-level sole from the transom to the windshield, with no steps. The 7-foot-3-inch headroom adds to the feeling of spaciousness.

Aft is an optional teak hydraulic swim platform that can lift a Williams 345 SportJet. If owners don’t want the tender on the transom, they can use the garage that’s tucked in the transom; it can handle that same 11-foot-3-inch tender, with the rollers and chocks offset to port, so there is also room for Seabobs, paddleboards, dive gear or other toys.

The cockpit has a settee with a table. The yacht’s aft-galley arrangement helps the space blend with the salon. Doors framed in stainless steel slide away, and the galley’s electric window drops for pass-throughs.

The galley has a Miele three-burner cooktop, undercounter convection oven, dishwasher, ice maker, and stowage for glasses, dishes and silverware, all fiddled to prevent rattles. Rather than a full-height fridge that would block views, the 65 Sport Yacht has twin fridges under the counter to starboard.

The lower helm station has a pair of bucket seats with arms, as well as twin 15-inch Garmin displays. The design team injected a retro look on the console with round, analog gauges reminiscent of older Corvettes, and provided niceties such as stainless-steel footrests and an opening window next to the skipper.

Owners have several choices for the accommodations deck, including a galley-down layout, but I particularly liked the three-stateroom plan on this yacht. Each stateroom is en suite with Villeroy & Boch vessel sinks and Tecma heads. There is also a day head, so the staterooms remain private.

Access belowdecks is via a foyer that really should be called an atrium lobby because it is voluminous and opens to the windscreen above it. To starboard is a guest stateroom with twin berths and a full-height hanging locker (no crumpled clothes) with the en suite just forward. The VIP stateroom fills the bow with an island queen berth, drawer stowage, a hanging locker and more stowage below the berth.

The master stateroom uses the yacht’s 16-foot-8-inch beam to house a centerline berth and, on this yacht, a settee to port with a vanity/ desk. Windows with opening ports bring in light and a view, and the 6-foot-6-inch headroom adds to the airiness. One interesting option is to close off the passage to the master stateroom (this boat had a washer/dryer there) and add a desk or fourth stateroom with a bunk.

Access to the crew cabin is via a hatch from the cockpit under the bridge ladder. This cabin could be a teenage hangout; it has a single berth, sink and head, but no shower. The stairs to the bridge fold into an overhead recess.

The Sunseeker 65 Sport Yacht should prove a willing partner for whatever the mood: quiet entertaining in the cockpit and salon, gracious nights in the staterooms, or a playful romp across the ocean waves. The options are almost as endless as the horizon ahead.

Fortress of Quietude

With its resin-infused construction, the Sunseeker 65 Sport Yacht emitted nary a creak or groan while running across the lumpy Gulf Stream. Solid insulation meant that at full throttle, my decibel meter in the salon barely registered 75, which is about the level of a vacuum cleaner. With the engines off, there was no way to know if the 17 kW generator was even running without looking at the instruments. 

A Glazed Look

Sunseeker uses windows and ports to deliver light to the interior and create panoramic views from inside. Windows that are 6-by-4 feet line the salon, so seated guests have uninterrupted views on all sides. From the exterior, the glazing uses automotive technology for frameless flush mounting, turning the dark-tinted window shapes into rakish styling lines on the hull sides and house.

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Licence to thrill: Test driving the Sunseeker 65 Sport Yacht

Sunseeker’s 65 Sport Yacht meshes thoughtful design with performance that will blow back anyone’s hair, says Kevin Koenig

In its heart, Sunseeker has always been a sport-boat company. You can see it in the lines of every model it builds and feel it in your hands when you slam the throttle forward or spin the wheel hard into a tight loop-the-loop. It’s no surprise the British company has fostered such a cosy relationship with the James Bond film franchise – you could hardly catch a super-villain in a trawler, after all.

The builder’s new 65 Sport Yacht is right in line with that storied tradition. Fast, agile and brimming with Anglophile charm, this boat is ably poised to carry Sunseeker into the future by respecting her past.

“Our core function is and always has been rooted in our racing days,” says the company’s technical sales director Ross Donohue. “All our hulls are performance hulls. And we’ve taken what we’ve learned from our tradition and moved forward with it. For example, these days of course we use 3D printers during the design process, so everything runs very clean and true. But our fundamentals are still the same.”

And those fundamentals undeniably make for an exhilarating ride. I sea-trialled the 65 Sport Yacht off Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on a calm and hot late afternoon. The 65 has two helms – upper and lower – each interesting in its own right. The lower helm has twin helm seats, upholstered in soft leather with well-disciplined stitching throughout. The captain’s chair is afforded excellent visibility through windows that wrap near-360 degrees and let in lots of natural light.

However, what’s most interesting about the helm is the windshield. “The single piece of glass we do it with, it’s actually a bit of a nightmare [to manufacture],” says Jared Hall, Sunseeker’s new product development manager, with a laugh. “It’s double curved [meaning it curves both laterally and vertically] and made in Italy. You can’t just roll glass into that shape; it has to form under heat sagging. And once the shape is set, the glass is immersed in a heated chemical bath to impart a toughened surface.” But all the effort is worth it. The windshield plays an undeniable role in the 65’s sporty profile, and of course offers unfettered, stanchion-free views.

However, the place to drive this yacht is not down below. You really want to go up top to the boat’s compact but highly usable flybridge. There, you’ll find two more helm seats that represent a real engineering feat.

“When we first started with the early conception of the skyhelm, the seats were very upright,” says Donohue. “At the factory we got the shortest person in the room and the tallest person in the room and made sure they could reach everything. Could they get in and out of the seat comfortably, things like that. Having all those people test it helped us immensely. We discovered the seats were too upright and you had to lift the steering wheel up and away from you to get out. What you see on this model is the seats are more slanted back, with an automotive-racing-seat design. It’s much easier to get in and out, and fits with the sport concept of the boat very well.”

The racing car motif suits the ride. When I dropped the hammer, the 65 Sport Yacht shot up to 34 knots at wide-open throttle and, perhaps more importantly, cruised with confidence-inducing ease and control at 27 knots, while burning 299 litres per hour. She also easily grooved through S-turns and turned hard over in about one and a half boat lengths. The lightweight and strong hull pierced commandingly through the wake  I created by doing doughnuts.

This boat is something of a departure for Sunseeker in her construction, and the decision behind it is paying off. The 65’s hull is vacuum-infused, which is not new territory for the builder. However, for most of its boats below 23 metres, Sunseeker cores its bulkheads with marine ply. Not so here. The 65’s bulkheads are resin-infused, which make for a stronger yet lightweight vessel.

According to Donohue, the weight savings gained through the resin-infusion process also allow for bigger interior spaces, which leads to more layout options. But it’s just one of two major components that make the 65’s interior feel like it belongs on a larger boat.

The other factor is her engine choice. The 65 is available with either twin 900-horsepower Volvo Penta IPS 1200s or twin 1,000-horsepower IPS 1350s, though Hall points out that no one has yet ordered the smaller engines.

“When you look at the engine room, the IPS [integrated propulsion system] allows you to remove all these components,” says Hall, “and that allows you to move the [engine room] bulkhead aft and make more room on the accommodations level. It’s a huge selling point for IPS, being smaller overall. They’re also much quieter than a traditional engine because the exhaust systems are underwater, which makes for a more comfortable ride. The hull itself is designed specifically for IPS – it’s not a crossbreed. The two work very well together, we think.”

The 65 makes hay with the extra interior volume in its living spaces, particularly in the realm of layout options. “There are five layouts on the accommodations level and three more in the cockpit,” says Donohue. “You can have a galley down, a lower saloon, a grand master, etc. If you’re in America, you’re probably going to go for the lower saloon and storage area, whereas in Europe stowage isn’t as important. They may go for the grand master layout there. We find that Americans are big on refrigeration and stowage, whereas Europeans are willing to sacrifice in those areas.”

Sunseeker is in touch with its customer base thanks to a “gate review” process that surveys owners, dealers and others about potential product improvements. A few of the 65 Sport Yacht’s features came about by popular demand. For example, C-shaped seating in the cockpit was changed to something resembling bench-type seating. And the staircase leading from the cockpit to the flybridge was moved from port to starboard on European versions so that it lined up with the passarelle. The staircase was also changed from hydraulic to fixed.

“The more mechanisms we have on the boat, the more customers complain about them over time,” explains Hall. “Usability is king. We want to keep the style and make it look really good but keep it user-friendly. A boat this size isn’t going to be fully crewed all the time so it will be the owner who’s got to use these things – best to keep it simple.”

Simplicity reigns elsewhere, too. At the upper helm, Sunseeker’s designers didn’t like having all the controls on a touchscreen, since it can get wet and slippery. So some of them, including anchor controls, the alarm silencer and navigation lights, are synced to old-school “clunk-clink” switches.

“We have found when you’re motoring along at full speed, you can easily slip and touch the wrong button on a touchscreen,” says Hall.

“Full speed” is the key phrase. Temptation abounds with a yacht this sporty. “The only downside I can think of is that everyone wants to ride it very hard and run flat out continuously,” says Donohue with a chuckle. “It’s just too exciting. It’s the same with a Ferrari – you end up revving the engines endlessly just for the thrill of it.”

And really, isn’t that the whole point?

First published in the August 2022 issue of BOAT International. Get this magazine sent straight to your door, or subscribe and never miss an issue.

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THE ALL-NEW SUNSEEKER 65 SPORT YACHT – TRAILBLAZER

With no introduction necessary, the all-new 65 Sport Yacht joins Sunseeker’s expanding range of next generation yachts with explosive innovation.

The 65 Sport Yacht is a truly unique project. The skilled team responsible for the new model has created something truly exceptional and unlike any other yacht in the mid-range market. Sunseeker’s dynamic integration of carbon fibre and the latest IPS drives maximises interior volume whilst enhancing performance but it is the integrated SkyHelm that is a revelation; delivering a dynamic helming experience within an almost invisible flybridge profile. With 2,000hp on tap, it’s going to be a blast!

Carbon fibre is used extensively to reduce weight, a key focus for delivering an exhilarating ride with an ability to cut through the water. An infusion of stainless steel accents and rich tinted hull glazing makes for a striking, one-of-a-kind creation. Her silhouette will be sure to dominate at sea, and in the marina.

The SkyHelm, complete with IPS docking joystick, can be used in an upright position for low speed manoeuvring or lowered to fall perfectly into outstretched arms when sat low in the bespoke helm seats, cossetted by carbon fibre back rests and an integrated centre console.

“ Fundamentally, this new model is about design innovation and exhilarating performance. The user experience will be one of pure adrenaline, akin to driving a high-performance convertible supercar, with acceleration to match. Meanwhile, near undetected noise and vibration makes for unparalleled driving comfort. ” says Andrea Frabetti, CEO at Sunseeker International. “ The 65 Sport Yacht manages to maintain a wonderfully spacious interior without losing its inherently sporty look. The internal appointments deliver a sophisticated ambiance that makes any guest feel special and a Grand Master cabin that surprises and delights at every turn.”

The innovative hull and IPS installation creates an expansive garage that can comfortably accommodate a Williams 345 Jet RIB with space to spare for SeaBobs, dive tanks or bicycles. Last but not least, when the tender is stowed on the bathing platform, a fully-featured Beach Club with optional Flexiteek floor can be specified, creating yet another entertainment space that brings you closer to the water than ever before.

There is no compromise with the 65 Sport Yacht. It’s a trail blazer in the truest sense. For more information on the  65 Sport Yacht , contact your nearest  Sunseeker Dealer .

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