Very few boat builders in the world can match Galeon for the fun they incorporate into their designs. In fact, even in the shipyard’s most basic GTO line of open dayboats, each model courses through with a tangible sense of innovation. And yet if you’re keen to experience Galeon’s design creativity at its most playful and unconstrained, its multi-award-winning Flybridge and Skydeck models have generally been the place to look. So it was with a great deal of anticipation that we headed to Southampton for a sea trial of the 440 Fly at the hands of new UK importer, Argo Yachting.
SEATING GALORE!
When you step on board any Galeon, you immediately look for the one key design feature that enables everything else to work, and in this case, it’s actually very simple. The 440 is designed to be a sociable boat for up to 14 people to gather together in comfort, so Galeon has split the saloon in two. At the raised forward section, there’s a compact port galley, directly across from the helm station. That keeps the practical work zone very small, neat and self contained, which in turn frees up a huge
