32XP

• LOA 32.63 m, beam 8.02 m, draft 2.76 m
• 297 GT, steel hull with GRP superstructure
• Twin MAN diesels, 800 hp, SCR alternative available
• 13.8 knots max, 12 knots cruise
• Range 4,500 nm at 8 knots, 26,000 litres fuel
• 12 guests in 6 cabins, 5 crew in 3 cabins
• First hull Marla sold June 2016, delivered 2017
• RINA Pleasure class, commercial compliance available

The hull that changed the yard

In June 2016 Numarine announced the sale of the first 32XP, and the language around the deal was telling, an experienced owner choosing an unproven model from a builder then known for fast hardtops. Delivered in 2017 as Marla, she was the company's first explorer superyacht and the wager that reshaped everything. Within a few years the performance lines were gone and the XP formula she introduced carried the entire brand.

The design brief press coverage described at the time still defines the range, a go anywhere ethos with the ability to anchor in confined destinations that larger expedition yachts have to skip. At 32.63 metres with a hull drawn for volume, she planted the visual identity too, the near vertical bow, deep bulwarks and high wheelhouse that every subsequent XP has scaled up or down.

Small superyacht, serious construction

The 32XP is built on a steel displacement hull with a GRP superstructure, measuring 297 international gross tons on an 8.02 metre beam, with a 2.76 metre draft and a full load displacement of 271 tonnes. RINA Pleasure class is standard and the yard offers commercial compliance, which keeps the professional charter door open. Numarine quotes an 18 month build.

Those numbers deserve context. Very few builders offer steel construction at all below 35 metres, where composite is cheaper and faster, and fewer still class the boat for commercial work. The 32XP's structure is the reason early buyers trusted a new model, and the reason surviving hulls hold their credibility on the brokerage market today.

The 2016 sale of hull one turned a Turkish performance yard into the explorer specialist it is today.

Twelve berths on 32 metres

Accommodation is the model's quiet magic trick, six cabins sleeping 12 guests on a 32 metre platform. The plan centres on a full beam owner's cabin plus an upper deck cabin with the best view on board, with the remaining guest cabins on the lower deck. Three crew cabins berth five, a complement workable for private use and lean charter operation alike. Press coverage of the first hull singled out the full width owner's cabin and the upper deck VIP as the spaces that sold the boat.

Can Yalman's interior styling across delivered hulls runs bright and contemporary, with the oversized glazing doing much of the work. The point of the boat is that a family of owners plus two more couples cruise in genuine comfort at a length that still fits mid size marina berths and, crucially, anchorages that 40 metre yachts must pass by.

Forty five hundred miles at eight knots

Current specification lists twin MAN diesels of 800 horsepower, with an SCR equipped alternative available, while press coverage of the earliest hulls noted Caterpillar machinery, a reminder that the yard tunes its supply choices over a model's life. Top speed is 13.8 knots, cruise is 12, and the 26,000 litre tanks stretch to 4,500 nautical miles at 8 knots.

That is enough to cross the Atlantic with sensible reserves, run the Mediterranean season without fuel planning intruding, or take the Red Sea south. The 32XP established the brand's core promise at its smallest steel size, passage making range as standard equipment, and the follow on models have simply extended the same curve.

The elder stateswoman of the range

Nearly ten years after Marla, the 32XP still holds its slot in the catalogue between the GRP 30XP and the larger 37XP, and it remains the entry point to steel construction at Gebze. Later XP models outgrew it in glamour, but nothing in the range undercuts its combination of class notation, six cabins and draft under 2.8 metres at the length.

For buyers it now carries an extra dimension the newer models lack, a genuine secondhand market. Early hulls surface for sale periodically at a fraction of a new build slot, and because the design has stayed in production the yard remains the natural support base for them. Few explorer yachts under 35 metres offer that continuity, and none of the 32XP's direct rivals can match the depth of the fleet behind her.

Who it is for: An owner who wants the smallest steel Numarine with full superyacht accommodation, twelve berths and charter grade compliance, and who prizes access to tight anchorages over the volume of the larger XPs.