First of all, let’s clear something up: what makes a boat a coupé? It depends on where you look but the definition we’ve used over the years is that a coupé is a sportscruiser with its helm and socialising area at main deck level within a fully enclosed hard top that leads out to an open aft cockpit.
Nimbus itself dates back to 1968 when the Nimbus Group was founded in Långedrag, near Gothenburg, on Sweden’s west coast. Starting with the Nimbus 26, the company established a reputation for building practical, seaworthy boats that stood the test of time. The company and the range expanded over time, doubtlessly helped during the 1980s by a high-profile marketing collaboration with tennis superstar Björn Borg.
It wasn’t just tennis royalty that took a shine to its products; in 1996 the Royal Clubs of Sweden presented King Carl Gustav XVI with a Nimbus 19 Nova as a 50th birthday present, cementing its standing as a manufacturer of smart, high quality boats with lasting appeal.
It was around this time that Nimbus launched its first coupé – prior to this it had focused on open and semi-enclosed wheelhouse boats. The concept proved a great success both at home in Sweden and
