When Prestige launched its first powercat in the form of the M48, it felt like a promising, if imperfect, start. With its capacity to offer the space of a 60-footer alongside the running efficiency of a 40-footer, it was certainly a boat full of potential, but there were a couple of minor elements that left you feeling it could have been just a bit more polished and complete. So when Prestige invited us to Portopiccolo to sample the new 65ft flagship of that same multihull line, we headed to Italy full of hope that the new boat would deliver the results the concept merited.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
The first thing to note here is the style. With its spiky pickle-fork hull windows, its broad muscular stance and its low-profile foredeck, this is a far better looking boat than the M48. The second thing to consider is the beam. At 29ft, it encompasses 45% of the overall length, which is significantly greater than the M48’s 41%. That’s because Prestige wanted to factor in lofty headroom down below and flat, single-level decks on both the main deck and the flybridge. In order to achieve that, it had to create substantial elevation and in order to compensate for that,
