ATLANTIC 444 & 460

STAR QUALITY: CONSUMMATE TWO - CABIN CRUISER

Should you look closely at the picture of the Atlantic 460 in the water, you’ll spot a year 2000+ era Fairline Phantom 43 in the background, all sleek swoopy windows and streamlined styling. Nowadays that’s all changed, and designers are cramming as much glass into their bulky superstructures as they can, the aim being to bring the outside world into the heart of the saloon. So it seems amusing that over three decades ago, the UK’s most prolific motorboat designer of the 20th century – John Bennett – was doing that very thing on his conservatively styled aft cabin cruisers for the likes of Atlantic and Broom.

Those long uninterrupted saloon windows are at the heart of the Atlantic 460 and 444’s appeal. Well, that and having a pair of ensuite cabins at opposite ends