Custom Line's Navetta 33 Centurion Returns to Market at EUR 4.9m

Why has the Custom Line Navetta 33 Centurion come back onto the brokerage market at EUR 4.9m?

Centurion, a 107-foot Custom Line Navetta 33 Crescendo built in 2013, joined the sales market on 3 September 2026 through Northrop & Johnson brokers Ed Dickinson and Ed Cavendish, priced at EUR 4,900,000 and lying in Nice.

Northrop & Johnson's own listing names Centurion as a 107-foot (32.62-metre) Navetta 33 Crescendo, the semi-displacement long-range model Custom Line, the flagship brand of the Ferretti Group, built through the early 2010s. The yacht carries 184 gross tons on a 140-ton displacement, with a 7.01-metre beam and a 2.52-metre draft, dimensions that put her toward the larger end of the Navetta 33 line rather than the entry configuration some hulls of the same model were delivered in.

The listing gives a usage figure that is unusually specific for a brokerage page: 1,950 engine hours accumulated across twelve years of ownership, worked out to roughly 160 hours a year, a light-use pattern for a yacht this size that typically sees far heavier charter or family-cruising hours. A buyer comparing Centurion against a same-generation Navetta 33 with 4,000 or 5,000 hours logged is not comparing two equivalent used boats, even if both carry the same asking price bracket. Ferretti Group itself does not disclose model-by-model resale figures, so a broker's own hours log, cross-checked against the class society's paperwork, is currently the closest a buyer can get to an independent usage record on this specific hull.

What did the EUR 500,000 spent on Centurion in 2023 actually pay for?

The 2023 refit, confirmed by Northrop & Johnson at roughly EUR 500,000, covered a RINA ten-year class renewal and a 2,000-hour main engine service, followed by further interior and exterior soft-refit work completed ahead of the 2025 season.

A RINA ten-year class renewal is not cosmetic work: it is the structural and mechanical survey a classification society requires to keep a yacht's certification current, covering hull integrity, safety systems and machinery, and it is one of the costlier line items an owner faces on a yacht of this age. Pairing that renewal with the twin MAN engines' scheduled 2,000-hour service in the same campaign means Centurion's mechanical systems were inspected and serviced together rather than piecemeal, the sequence a surveyor would want to see on a boat presented for sale.

The 2025 pre-season work that followed, described by the broker as a soft refit covering both interior and exterior finishes, is the smaller and more visible half of the spend: new upholstery, cosmetic paint and varnish touch-ups, the kind of work that shows in listing photographs but does not by itself justify a EUR 500,000 figure. Taken together, the sequence reads as an owner preparing the yacht for sale rather than simply maintaining her for continued use, which is consistent with the September listing following so soon after the 2025 work was finished.

Who designed the Custom Line Navetta 33, and what defines the line?

Zuccon International Studio drew both the exterior lines and the interior of the Navetta 33 Crescendo, the same Venice-based practice behind long-running design work for Ferretti Group brands including Custom Line, Pershing and Riva.

The Navetta name signals Custom Line's semi-displacement long-range family, distinct from the planing-hull yachts the wider Ferretti Group is better known for, and the Crescendo designation on this specific hull refers to a layout variant within the Navetta 33 range rather than a separate model. Zuccon's brief on the line was long-range comfort over outright speed, reflected in the twin 1,400hp MAN engines specified for economical cruising rather than a planing top end.

Five guest cabins sleeping eleven, plus accommodation for seven crew, is a generous ratio for a 32-metre yacht and points to a boat built with extended owner use or charter operation in mind rather than a straight delivery-focused layout. The combination of fin and gyro stabilisation, active underway and at anchor, is a spec more commonly associated with larger yachts, and its presence on a 33-metre hull is one of the more concrete points in Centurion's favour for an owner who plans to spend real time aboard at anchor rather than just cruising point to point.

What speed, range and running costs does the Navetta 33 Crescendo actually deliver?

Twin 1,400hp MAN engines give Centurion a 12-knot cruise and a 16-knot maximum, with a 17,000-litre fuel capacity that, at the navetta's efficient displacement cruise, supports genuine long-range passages rather than short coastal hops.

A 12-knot cruise against a 16-knot top speed is a narrow spread by planing-yacht standards, but it is the expected shape for a semi-displacement navetta, where the hull is drawn for efficient long-distance running rather than a wide speed range. The 17,000-litre fuel capacity, paired with a displacement-hull's lower fuel burn at cruise compared with a planing yacht of similar length, is what gives navetta-type yachts like Centurion their reputation for genuine ocean and coast-to-coast range rather than day-boat autonomy. A prospective buyer should also weigh that a semi-displacement hull of this type trades outright speed for range and fuel economy by design, so judging Centurion against a planing flybridge yacht on top-end speed alone would misread what the Navetta line is actually built to do.

Northrop & Johnson's listing does not publish a specific consumption figure or a calculated range in nautical miles for Centurion, so a buyer relying on the brokerage page alone has engine and tankage numbers but not the derived range a sea trial or the builder's own performance data would provide. That gap is worth flagging to a surveyor or the selling broker directly before an offer, rather than assumed from the tank size and engine rating alone.

Is Centurion's EUR 4.9m asking price a fair trade for a 13-year-old Navetta 33?

Centurion's case rests on documented low engine hours and a recent, class-society-verified refit rather than on novelty, a genuinely different trade from a new-build order at a similar price point, but the listing still leaves a buyer to independently confirm range, consumption and survey condition that the brokerage page does not itself provide.

The strongest points in Centurion's favour are verifiable rather than promotional: 1,950 hours in twelve years is a light-use record, the RINA ten-year class renewal is a third-party certification rather than a broker's claim, and the fin-and-gyro stabiliser combination is a real spec line, not a marketing description. Set against a new Navetta 33-class order, which would carry a multi-year build slot and no maintenance history at all, a well-documented thirteen-year-old hull with a fresh class certificate is a legitimate alternative for a buyer who wants to be cruising this season rather than in 2029.

Set against that, the asking price sits close to what a buyer could expect to pay for a smaller new-build from a volume production yard, and Northrop & Johnson's own listing, the only detailed source on Centurion currently public, omits a published sea-trial or independent survey report, a consumption figure, and any confirmation of how the EUR 4,900,000 figure compares with recent sales of comparable Navetta 33 or 35 hulls. YachtBuyer's own database entry for Centurion corroborates the core specification and asking price but adds no independent detail beyond the selling broker's own listing, so a prospective buyer is currently working from one side's numbers and should commission an independent survey and sea trial before treating the low-hours figure as the whole story.