Versatile By Design

It’s hard not to expect great things when you’re working from the best-laid plans. For this boat test, the details were carefully coordinated by Adrien Berton, sales manager for Prestige Yachts. He had invited us to Liguria in Northwestern Italy to cruise on a Prestige 630 S, and he had ironed out most of the specifics by the time I arrived. We had a very short window to explore the area and experience the boat, but he had a few inspired ideas on how we could maximize our time aboard. We would cruise along the coast from Lavagna to Portofino, where we would then tie up, stroll the cobblestone streets, drink the coffee, sip the wine, eat the fish and peer into the mists that hang from the steep hillsides.

The Prestige 630 S is based on the same hull as the builder’s 630, yet it’s a different boat in some ways. The S stands for Sport Flybridge, which means this iteration features a shortened version of the full-sized flybridge on the 630. That more compact bridge moves the helm farther