Baglietto delivers its largest yacht in 172 years, a 60.6m T60

The biggest hull in 172 years, and she is already delivered

Baglietto has handed over the first T60. Hull no. 10260 went down the ways at La Spezia on 20 March this year and has now been delivered to her owner as Kinda II. At 60.6 metres she is the largest yacht the yard has built in a history that runs back to 1854, which is the kind of claim that usually arrives with a large asterisk. This one does not. The previous holder was Vicky, 59.4 metres, delivered in 2008, so the record stood for eighteen years and has been broken by about a metre.

That thin margin is worth reading carefully. Baglietto did not chase length, it chased volume. Vicky was a 59.4 metre yacht of conventional proportions, while the T60 carries roughly 1,100 GT on a 60.6 metre hull, and internal volume is what an owner actually lives in. The yard is owned by the Gavio Group, and the launch drew the Italian Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Edoardo Rixi, the President of the Liguria Region Marco Bucci and the Mayor of La Spezia Pierluigi Peracchini, with Lorena Bianchetti as godmother. For a yard whose recent output has clustered in the 33 to 50 metre range, a 60 metre delivery moves it into a different competitive set.

What the yard publishes, and what nobody publishes

The specification is a displacement steel hull with an aluminium superstructure. Baglietto's own table gives 60.6 metres overall, an 11.0 metre beam, and main engines of 2 x CAT 3512E rated at a maximum 1,350 kW, or 1,810 hp, each. Maximum speed is 16 knots and the cruising speed is 12, and those two figures are the only ones every source agrees on. YachtBuyer puts range at 5,500 nautical miles at 12 knots. Baglietto itself does not publish a range figure at all, which for a 60 metre displacement yacht is a notable omission rather than an oversight.

The rest of the numbers do not line up, and a buyer should know that before he reads any brochure. On volume, the yard's launch release says about 1,100 GT, the yard's own class specification says 1,150, and YachtBuyer lists 1,051. On beam, Baglietto says 11.0 metres and YachtBuyer says 10.5. On accommodation, BOAT International reports two VIP and two guest cabins on the main deck plus one on the lower deck with 13 crew, while YachtBuyer lists ten guests in five cabins with eleven crew. No price has been published at any point, for this hull or the two behind it. There is no independent sea trial, no measured fuel burn, and no photograph of the delivered yacht in the water, because her first public showing is still seven weeks away.

One continuous room over two levels, entered from the water

The layout is the actual argument for the boat. Baglietto has designed the beach area, the main saloon and the dining area as a single continuous space of nearly 100 square metres working across two levels. Guests come aboard through a beach lounge with a swimming pool, a bar, a conversation area and a gym, and a staircase carries that space up into the main saloon, which opens fully to the outside. The dining area sits behind full-height glazing that can be opened in its entirety. Baglietto describes the beach area on the sister hulls as carrying a sauna as well.

This matters more than a deck plan usually does because it is what the volume was spent on. A 60 metre yacht that puts nearly 100 square metres into one connected social space has made a choice, and the choice costs something elsewhere in the boat. The owner keeps an exclusive suite on the main deck, which is now the expected arrangement at this size and remains the single feature most likely to decide a sale. Francesco Paszkowski Design drew both the exterior and, with Margherita Casprini, the interiors. The naval architecture is by Pierluigi Ausonio Naval Architecture, a point worth noting because at least one major database credits it to Baglietto.

B ZERO is an option on the platform, not a fitted specification

Baglietto markets a hybrid package called B ZERO, and the T60 platform is built to take it. The system combines diesel main engines with lithium batteries, variable-speed generators and electric motors, and the yard claims reduced consumption and emissions, silent electric running at low speed and better onboard comfort. Beyond that there is an optional onboard hydrogen production unit. The published schematic shows a lithium-ion pack of up to 397 kWh on a 700 VDC bus, with electric motors of 100 ekW and variable-speed gensets at 120 ekW.

Read the wording carefully, because it is doing work. Baglietto says the platform is optimised for an optional advanced hybrid system, and an option is not a fitted specification. The yard has not said whether Kinda II carries B ZERO, and the schematic it publishes is a generic system drawing rather than this hull's engine room. For an owner comparing the T60 against a rival that ships hybrid as standard, that distinction is the whole comparison, and it is the first question to put to the yard rather than something to infer from a diagram. The technology is genuinely engineered into the platform, which is better than a retrofit, but nobody outside La Spezia currently knows what is bolted into hull 10260.

Three sold to 2029, and what that does to a slot

The order book is the strongest evidence here. Three T60s are sold. The second is due in 2028, and the third was signed on 20 May this year for 2029 delivery, brokered by James Lloyd of Edmiston. Fabio Ermetto, Baglietto's chief commercial officer, framed that third sale as coming barely a month after the first hull launched. Selling three 60 metre yachts in a few years is a different business from selling a series of 33 metre boats, and it is the clearest signal that the yard intends to stay at this size rather than treat the T60 as a one-off.

For a buyer, that has two practical consequences. The near-term slots are gone, so a T60 ordered now delivers after 2029 unless somebody resells. And Kinda II herself will be seen in public for the first time at the Monaco Yacht Show from 23 to 26 September, where Baglietto is giving her a world premiere alongside the new FAST50, a 49.9 metre aluminium yacht on four engines that runs to 30 knots. Anyone weighing a T60 should wait for Monaco and walk both. The T60 at 16 knots and the FAST50 at 30 are the same yard answering two completely different briefs, and seeing them on the same quay is the cheapest research available this year.