Navetta 58

A third generation, not a one-off show boat

Andromeda is not a stand-alone concept hull. It is the production identity for the third generation of Absolute's Navetta 58, following an original 2014 to 2020 model and a second generation built from 2020 to 2025, both of which are still visible on the brokerage market today. Absolute's own naming habit of giving individual show hulls names like Andromeda, Calypso or Aurora can make a new generation look like a one-off, but dealer listings and Absolute's own site treat Andromeda as the current specification of the standing Navetta 58 model, not a limited edition.

At 17.60 meters (57 feet 9 inches) LOA with a 5.16 meter (16 feet 11 inch) beam, the boat sits at the smaller end of the Navetta range, below the Navetta 66 Aurora and above the new Navetta 50 Calypso shown alongside it at Cannes. Absolute designs, engineers and builds the hull, deck and interior entirely in-house at Podenzano rather than crediting an external naval architecture or design studio, consistent with how the brand has built every Navetta generation to date.

Design: squircle windows, glass bulwarks, a flat deck

The visible changes over the outgoing Navetta 58 are concentrated in glazing and deck flow. Andromeda uses rounded-square, or squircle, hull windows forward that Absolute says flood the forward cabins with light in a way the previous generation's smaller portholes did not, plus glazed cockpit bulwarks that keep sightlines open from the aft seating area out to the water rather than blocking them with solid gunwales. A truncated, reverse-angled transom is designed to make the step down to the swim platform feel shallower and more natural than a conventional vertical transom.

Inside, the main deck is genuinely step-free from cockpit to helm, replacing the split-level saloon of the prior generation with one continuous space that combines lounge, galley and helm on a single plane, and Absolute has carried that same step-free logic up to the flybridge rather than leaving it as a main-deck party piece. Absolute's own launch material describes the result as a calm, contemporary palette rather than the high-gloss black surfaces that defined its earlier interiors, with wide panoramic windows wrapped around the main salon so the boat reads as light-filled and continuous with the water outside rather than a boxed-in cruiser cabin. The accommodation deck keeps both the forward master and the midships VIP suite full-beam, with a third cabin whose beds convert electrically between a double and twins to suit charter-style flexibility as well as private ownership.

It starts to semi-plane at about 14 knots before reaching 27 to 28 knots at full throttle, an independent test found, which is the entire Navetta argument proven rather than asserted.

Performance: what an independent test actually found

Absolute specifies Andromeda with twin Volvo Penta D11-IPS950 pod drives rated at 725 hp (533 kW) each, a package the yard carried over from the outgoing generation because it already suited the Navetta brief of efficient slow cruising with a genuine planing option in reserve. Rather than simply repeating the yard's own numbers, Yacht Style's John Higginson ran the boat at the Cannes launch and reported the hull starting to semi-plane at around 14 knots (1,800 rpm) before reaching 27 to 28 knots at full throttle (2,500 rpm), which is close enough to Absolute's own figures that the claim survives independent scrutiny rather than being simply a brochure line repeated uncritically.

The same test found fuel consumption under 30 liters an hour at a 9-knot cruise, which Higginson calculated would give the boat over 750 nautical miles of range with fuel held in reserve, drawing on a 2,800 liter fuel tank and a 730 liter fresh water tank confirmed on Absolute's own specification page. That combination, low-teens semi-planing efficiency with a genuine high-20s top end still available, is the entire engineering argument for the Navetta line, and for once on a brand-new premiere it has actually been checked by someone other than the builder. Current-generation dealer specification sheets also list a Seakeeper Gyro 9 gyroscopic stabilizer as standard fitment, a detail Absolute's own Andromeda page does not repeat but which carries over from the outgoing Navetta 58 according to those same sheets. At the semi-planing speeds where the hull spends most of its cruising life, a gyro stabilizer does more for comfort than a conventional fin system, since it works at rest and at low speed as well as underway, which matters for a boat whose entire selling point is spending long hours at 9 to 14 knots rather than racing between anchorages at full throttle.

Price, delivery and what is still unknown

Absolute has not published an official base price for Andromeda, and every dealer listing found for the current-generation Navetta 58 reads call for price rather than showing a figure. The nearest real data point comes from brokers listing other individually-named hulls of the same third generation for resale, which have asked between roughly 2.6 million and 3.2 million US dollars depending on equipment, a range that is informative but not a confirmed Andromeda number. Delivery slots for new orders are being quoted for 2026 and 2027, consistent with a boat that has only just finished its show debut.

Because Andromeda is days old as a production model at the time of writing, there is no resale market, no multi-year reliability record and no independent long-term ownership feedback yet, only the one dockside performance test and the yard's own launch materials. That is not a defect in the boat so much as an honest limit on what anyone, including this profile, can currently verify about it. What is verifiable is Absolute's after-sale footprint: the yard sells Andromeda through a dealer network it has said it is actively expanding in the northeastern United States on top of the roughly 40 partners already in place across some 20 countries, and Absolute's own material points to that expansion, not a single flagship dealer, as the support structure a new owner outside Italy would actually deal with for service and parts.

Who it is for: An owner-operator who wants one hull that idles efficiently at 9 knots on long passages but can still open up to nearly 28 knots for a fast return leg, rather than choosing between a slow full-displacement trawler and a fast flybridge express cruiser.