37XP
- LOA 37.14 m, beam 8.02 m, draft 2.57 m
- 362 GT, steel hull with GRP superstructure
- Twin MAN diesels, 800 hp standard or 900 hp Tier III with SCR
- 14 knots max, 12 knots cruise
- Range 6,000 nm at 8 knots, 49,000 litres fuel
- 12 guests in 6 plus 2 cabins, 7 crew in 4 cabins
- First hull Alaia launched August 2021, 11th hull delivered 2024
- RINA Pleasure class, 18 month quoted build time
From launch to bestseller in three seasons
Numarine launched the first 37XP in August 2021 and presented her, Alaia, to the public at the Cannes Yachting Festival that September. What followed is close to unheard of at this size. By April 2024 the yard was delivering the eleventh hull of the series, Maya, and trade coverage since has reported further sales with delivery positions stretching to 2027. In a market where a 37 metre model is a success at three or four hulls, the 37XP became a production run.
The pace is not an accident of fashion. The model landed exactly where demand was moving, owners stepping out of planing flybridge yachts into volume, range and stability, and Numarine could actually deliver, with the Gebze facility geared to run multiple hulls in parallel and an 18 month quoted build time that most competitors cannot approach in steel.
The volume argument
At 37.14 metres overall with an 8.02 metre beam, the 37XP measures 362 international gross tons, a figure many 45 metre yachts of conventional proportion fail to reach. The high freeboard, near vertical bow and full depth hull that give the XP series its character are what make the number possible, and inside they translate into ceiling heights, storage and machinery access that feel a class above the length.
Umberto Tagliavini's full displacement steel hull carries a GRP superstructure, a 2.57 metre draft and a full load displacement of 333 tonnes. RINA Pleasure class applies. It is worth saying plainly that this is proper little ship construction, with the weight, the metacentric calm and the sea keeping that composite semi displacement yachts of the same length do not offer.
Eleven hulls delivered inside three years made the 37XP the volume phenomenon of the explorer market.
Twelve guests, seven crew
The standard arrangement sleeps 12 guests in six cabins with two further convertible spaces, an owner's deck option among the layouts, and crew quarters for seven across four cabins. The ratio is the practical one for a family boat that also charters, enough hands for full service without the payroll of a 500 GT yacht, and the semi custom process lets each owner tune the plan.
Can Yalman handles exterior and much of the interior styling across the series, and the delivered fleet shows the bandwidth of the formula, from pale Scandinavian schemes to darker, more masculine fits. Because so many sisterships exist, a prospective buyer can walk several finished interpretations before committing, an advantage unique among explorer yachts of this size.
The numbers that sell her
Twin MAN diesels of 800 horsepower, or 900 horsepower in heavy duty Tier III trim with SCR, drive the 37XP to 14 knots with a 12 knot cruise. At 8 knots the 49,000 litre fuel capacity yields 6,000 nautical miles, which is Atlantic circuit range with reserve. The machinery is deliberately understressed, medium duty engines loafing far below rated output for most of their lives.
The consequence is the one that matters at sea, understressed machinery aging slowly and running costs that stay modest for a 362 GT yacht. MAN service coverage is global, passage speed fuel burn is a fraction of planing yacht figures, and the systems are repeated across enough hulls that faults have usually been seen, solved and engineered out somewhere in the fleet before a new owner ever meets them.
The fleet effect
Eleven plus deliveries in three years did something subtle for 37XP owners, it created a real market. Brokerage comparables exist, charter managers know the boat, crew agencies have candidates who have run one, and insurers price a known quantity. For a segment, explorer yachts, that has historically meant one-off builds and guesswork on values, this is a structural advantage.
The model also seeded the rest of the range. The 40MXP rides on its platform, the 38XPC and 39MXPC Classics borrow its engineering wholesale, and the 45XP scales its logic upward. Anyone weighing a new order today is effectively buying the centre of Numarine's entire product system, which is the safest place in any builder's catalogue to put money.
Who it is for: The owner who wants maximum proven capability per euro and per metre, values a deep fleet of sisterships for reference, resale and crew, and would sooner have 362 GT of honest steel volume at 12 knots than a lighter, faster yacht of the same length.