Azimut's Magellano 27M Swaps the Flybridge for a Loggia

What is actually new about the Azimut Magellano 27M?

The Magellano 27M is the third and largest yacht in Azimut's long-range Voyager line, and its headline change is a main-deck "loggia" that replaces the flybridge lounge most yachts this size carry. It had its world premiere at the Cannes Yachting Festival, running 8 to 13 September 2026.

Azimut positions the Magellano series as its cruising counterpart to the flybridge-led Grande range, and the 27M is the biggest hull the line has built. Rather than stack another aft-facing sundeck lounge above the saloon, Azimut cut a sheltered, heavily glazed space into the main deck itself and called it a loggia, borrowing the term from Mediterranean domestic architecture for a covered gallery open on one side. The exterior is the first yacht project for Finnish designer Jarkko Jamsen, working with Azimut for the first time, and the interior is the first yacht commission for AMDL Circle, the studio led by architect and designer Michele De Lucchi.

The result is a yacht whose main deck reads more like a shaded terrace than a conventional saloon-plus-sundeck arrangement. Wooden louvres at the stern and light oak with walnut accents inside carry the same Mediterranean-pergola reference through both the exterior styling and the cabin fit-out, and the hull is built in Azimut's Dual Mode configuration, a fast-displacement form intended to cruise efficiently well below its top speed rather than plane continuously like the flybridge Grande models.

What does the loggia change about how the yacht is used at anchor?

The loggia removes the usual separation between the interior saloon and the open aft deck, giving the main deck one continuous, shaded, glazed room that opens to the sea on at least one side rather than splitting guests between an air-conditioned saloon and an exposed cockpit.

On a conventional flybridge cruiser near 27 metres, guests choose between an enclosed saloon, an aft cockpit, and a separate sundeck one level up, each with its own furniture and its own microclimate. Azimut's loggia collapses the saloon and the covered aft deck into one space at the same level, extensively glazed and shaded by the wooden louvre screen, so the transition from indoors to outdoors happens without a level change or a door. Azimut's own material describes it as a space designed to keep the surrounding scenery visible throughout the main deck rather than framing it through saloon windows.

The trade is that a loggia is a fixed architectural feature, not a lounge that can be reconfigured between a formal dinner layout and open deck space the way a flybridge can. An owner buying into this design is buying the aesthetic and the indoor-outdoor connection specifically, and should weigh that against a flybridge's flexibility, particularly in northern-European or shoulder-season cruising where an open loggia offers less weather protection than a fully enclosed saloon.

How fast and how far does the Magellano 27M actually go?

With the standard engines the Magellano 27M tops out at 21 knots; with the optional, more powerful engines it exceeds 24 knots, and Azimut quotes a 1,000 nautical mile range at a 12-knot cruise.

The standard powertrain is two MAN V12 diesels rated at 1,400 hp each, turning in a maximum speed of 21 knots at 2,300 rpm. Azimut also offers an optional pair of 1,650 hp MAN V12s, which several outlets covering the Cannes debut clocked at over 24 knots maximum, with a comfortable cruising speed in the 16 to 18-knot range on either engine option. Azimut says roughly 30 percent of the yacht's surfaces are built in carbon fibre, a weight-saving measure the yard credits with helping performance despite the extra glazing and structure the loggia adds high in the hull.

The Dual Mode hull is built to cruise efficiently at displacement-range speeds rather than plane continuously, which is where the 1,000 nautical mile range at 12 knots comes from. That figure covers a comfortable Mediterranean passage - Nice to Corsica and back, or a full Balearics loop - without refuelling, but it falls well short of the 3,000-plus nautical miles quoted on true expedition yachts of similar length, despite Azimut's own "Voyager" branding for the range. Azimut also fits a Zero Emission Hotel Mode, running the yacht's systems on battery power alone while at anchor or overnight, for houseboat-quiet mooring without the generator running.

How many guests does the Magellano 27M sleep, and what are the tank capacities?

The Magellano 27M sleeps up to 10 guests across 5 cabins plus 4 crew in 2 cabins, and carries 10,500 litres of fuel and 2,200 litres of fresh water.

Guest accommodation is five cabins for a maximum of 10 people, with six heads between them; crew quarters take two further cabins for up to four crew, with two more heads, for a combined seven cabins and eight heads across the yacht - a generous crew allowance for a 27-metre yacht designed for long owner-operated passages rather than short charter turnarounds. Fuel capacity is 10,500 litres and fresh water 2,200 litres, figures consistent across the builder's own listing and independent dealer specification sheets, which matters on a yacht whose whole pitch is extended range away from a marina.

The hull measures 27.38 metres overall, extending slightly further with an optional swim platform, on a 6.85-metre beam - proportionally a little narrower than Azimut's flybridge Grande yachts of comparable length, which the yard attributes to the Dual Mode hull's displacement-leaning form rather than the wider, flatter sections a planing hull needs for stability at speed.

What has Azimut not published yet on the Magellano 27M?

Azimut has not published a price for the Magellano 27M, and because the yacht only had its world premiere at Cannes this week, no outlet has yet run an independent sea trial - every performance and handling figure in circulation so far is the yard's own.

That is normal for a yacht in its debut week rather than a red flag, but it does mean a buyer cannot yet cross-check Azimut's 21-to-24-knot and 1,000-nautical-mile figures against a third party, and there is no owner or charter guest account yet to weigh against the yard's own description of the loggia's comfort at sea versus at anchor. Azimut's own dealer network, including US distributor MarineMax, is already listing the model for order, which suggests build slots rather than a concept exercise, but neither the yard nor its dealers have released a base price.

For an owner deciding between this and Azimut's flybridge Grande range at a similar length, the honest comparison is character and range against outright speed and a familiar deck plan: the loggia is a genuinely new answer to how a main deck can work, the Dual Mode hull trades top-end speed for efficiency at cruising speed, and the crew allowance suits an owner who cruises for weeks at a time rather than day-tripping from a home marina. What is missing, for now, is a price to weigh against any of it.