Navetta 64

A launch built around a stern cabin, not a hull number

Absolute positioned the Navetta 64 as the trawler-look Navetta grown up: a hull built to cruise long distances in comfort but able to plane at speed when an owner wants to cover ground faster, sitting between the smaller Navetta 58 and the larger Navetta 68 and 73 that were also in the range at the time. Its debut was disrupted by the pandemic. Absolute had announced the model at Boot Dusseldorf in January 2020 with a Cannes world premiere planned for that September, but the festival was canceled, so the yard held a private showing in Varazze, Italy instead, and the boat only reached wider dealer and press testing through 2021, per Yachts Croatia's account of the launch.

What made the 64 stand out was not its size but a single cabin. Absolute built a convertible stern compartment it calls the beach club: an aft-facing sofa with an articulated backrest that folds flat into a double berth roughly 6 feet 3 inches by 5 feet 3 inches, with its own small head and shower and direct access to the swim platform, according to Yachting Magazine's review. On a 64 foot boat that is genuinely unusual, and it is the feature nearly every review leads with. The result won three separate industry honors in its first year: the World Yacht Trophies Best Innovation award and the Best of Boats Best for Travel award in 2020, and the European Powerboat Award for its size class in 2021, per Yachting News and Cruising Odyssey.

Layout: four cabins if you count the sofa

Standard accommodation is three en suite cabins for up to six guests plus a separate crew cabin, with the beach club as a fourth cabin when specified, taking capacity to eight guests plus crew, per Absolute's own specification page and Yachting Magazine. The forward owner's stateroom runs the full width of the bow and gets what Yachts Croatia's reviewer called probably the best master cabin on any Absolute, with panoramic hull windows down to near the waterline. Two further en suite cabins sit amidships, one with a double bed and one a twin, and the interior throughout uses elm, walnut and oak joinery rather than the high gloss finishes typical of faster Absolute models.

Absolute's naval architecture keeps the boxy trawler profile but opens it up with large hull side glazing and a forward-raked windshield at the main helm, a change from the outgoing Navetta design that both Power & Motoryacht and Yachting Magazine called the model's most visible styling shift. The flybridge is unusually generous for a 64 footer, running more than 30 feet from windscreen to aft rail and spanning the full beam, with a modular furniture system Yachting News describes as offering seven configuration options. A foredeck terrace with built-in booth seating adds a third outdoor social area to the flybridge and the aft deck, and a hidden third helm station gives engine start, joystick and thruster controls away from the main console.

Yachting Magazine called it "a new and welcome style of cruising yacht" built on a trawler-look hull that plans and cruises like something faster.

Performance: what the sea trials actually recorded

Absolute builds the 64 as standard with twin 900 hp Volvo Penta D13-IPS1200 pod drives, but Yachting Magazine's review notes most owners have instead opted for the larger twin 1,000 hp D13-IPS1350 package, which is also the engine fitted to every sea trial found for this profile. With the IPS1350s, BoatTEST recorded a top speed of 27.8 knots at 2,470 rpm on its test boat, closely matching the 27 to 28 knots reported separately by Yachting News and YachtBuyer for the same engine option. Fuel consumption was notably flat across the range: Yachts Croatia's reviewer measured 12 to 13 liters an hour at any speed between 15 and 25 knots, and BoatTEST's own figures show a similarly constant burn rate from 1,750 rpm up through the top of the power band.

Cruise speed depends on which cruise an owner means. BoatTEST logged its most efficient cruise at 11.6 knots and 1,500 rpm, burning 28.2 gallons an hour for a calculated range of about 353 nautical miles, a figure this profile could only verify against that single sea trial and could not independently corroborate elsewhere. Yachts Croatia instead describes a faster 20 knot cruise as typical in practice, and Yachting Magazine puts the boat's designed cruise in the high teens with a designed top end in the mid to high 20s. Read together, the honest summary is a hull that holds its fuel efficiency well whether an owner runs it at 12 knots or 25, rather than one number that applies at every throttle setting.

Systems built for long-range comfort

A Seakeeper 16 gyroscopic stabilizer sits on the centerline and is described in Yachting News's technical breakdown as bringing roll to a near standstill once spun up, a detail that matters more on a boat meant to sit at anchor or cruise at trawler speeds than on a pure planing express cruiser. Maneuvering is handled through the IPS joystick system plus a dedicated bow thruster, controllable from the main helm, the flybridge or the hidden third station, and BoatTEST's reviewer specifically praised the responsiveness of the joystick control at the dock. Twin 21.5kW generators, per specification data collected from brokerage listings, cover air conditioning and galley loads without needing to run a main engine at anchor.

Below decks Absolute fitted a genuinely large technical room, which Yachting Magazine's reviewer called truly stupendous, reachable directly from the beach club cabin, along with a laundry room that uses a service tunnel running all the way forward to the chain locker bulkhead for extra stowage, a detail specific enough that it appears in that same review. The watertight sliding door system separating the aft beach club from the rest of the hull carries RINA Class 1 approval, per Yachting News, a safety detail Absolute highlights given how close that cabin sits to the waterline. Fuel and water tankage is confirmed consistently across Absolute's own specification page, Yachting News, BoatTEST and Yachts Croatia at 3,600 liters and 910 liters respectively, one of the more solidly cross-sourced figures on this boat.

Price, market reality and where the compromises show

Absolute's original 2020 base prices were EUR 1,940,000 with the standard IPS1200 engines and EUR 1,990,000 with the IPS1350 upgrade, per Yachting News's launch coverage. Five production years and heavy inflation later, new-build asking prices for 2024 to 2026 hulls on YachtWorld run from roughly USD 3,000,000 to just under USD 4,000,000 depending on equipment, and a single sea-trial boat was priced at about USD 2,300,000 by both Power & Motoryacht and a related review, consistent with an earlier point on that same climb. Pre-owned examples built in 2023 and 2024 are currently asking between roughly EUR 2,700,000 and EUR 2,900,000, per YachtBuyer's market data, though YachtBuyer's own Market Watch figures show only a handful of Navetta 64 listings changing hands in the past three years, with boats sitting an average of 358 days before selling.

That slow turnover, and the fact that most owners pay extra to upgrade past the standard engines before they even take delivery, are the two honest weak points in an otherwise strongly reviewed boat. The standard 900 hp IPS1200 package is enough to float the brochure numbers but not enough for the speed most buyers actually want, which is exactly why Yachting Magazine noted the larger engines have become the de facto standard in practice. IPS pod drives more broadly carry a well known ownership tradeoff: strong low speed handling and fuel efficiency set against higher service costs and specialist maintenance compared with shaft drives, a tradeoff raised repeatedly in general boating owner discussion rather than being specific to this model. Absolute itself has not published an independent range or fuel figure beyond what individual test outlets have measured.

لمين هو: An owner who wants the look and long-range ease of a trawler but is not willing to give up a genuine 27-knot top end or the novelty of a fourth, sea-level beach club cabin.