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NEW YACHTS

NEO 570c

LOA 17.50m 57ft 5in Beam 5.30m 17ft 5in

Draught 2.80m-4.20m 9ft 2in-13ft 9in Displacement 11,500kg 25,353lb

Price including full carbon build and lift keel is around €2m ex VAT neoyachts.com

If you design and build a boat to look this wickedly fast, you better hope it performs. And it seems Shaun Carkeek and Neo Yachts have done everything they can to try to achieve just that by producing an 11.5 tonne 57-footer which has half that weight hanging in the bulb 4m below the surface! Their brief to produce a repeatable cruiser racer with the same speed, power and performance as a TP52, yet with a habitable cruising interior, always ensured this would be a fascinating project.

Paolo Semeraro, the head of Neo Yachts and Banks Sails, reports that the 570c has already performed very well in the light

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