AXOPAR 45 CROSS CABIN

There aren’t many companies like Axopar. Its rise has been rapid and, since the arrival of the 28 in 2014, it has gone from a producer of super versatile outboard powered sportsboats to a fully fledged lifestyle brand with expansions and partnerships sprouting up all over the place. Then there is the man behind the brand, Jan-Erik Viitala, who co-founded it, having had a hand in XO, Aquador and Paragon (hence the name, an amalgamation of all three) and even now is fastidiously fiddling at launch events, affixing decals to the boats himself and ensuring the Axopar mats on the quayside are perfectly aligned. It’s who he is and this obsessiveness offers a glimpse into what goes into designing a new Axopar. Given that the 45 is the largest boat the brand has ever built, it’s safe to assume the design meetings were exhaustive.

CABIN FEVER

The first boat off the line and the one that the press got to play with was the all-white pre-production mule you can see in these pictures. For the designers and engineers, the Cross-Cabin (XC) is the most complicated to produce