T450

• LOA 45.0 m, beam 8.80 m
• About 450 GT as built, steel hull with aluminium superstructure
• Twin MAN diesels, top speed about 15 knots, cruise 14 knots
• Range about 4,000 nm at 10 knots
• 12 guests in 6 staterooms, 9 crew
• Main deck owner's suite, 270 degree glazed salon
• Beach club with fold-out platforms, pool with sliding sunpad cover
• First hull Go delivered July 2024, second hull in build

Four years from sketch to sea

Tankoa unveiled the T450 concept in 2020 as its answer to the strong 45 metre market, and the first hull found her owner in late 2021, a young North American client introduced by the Italian Yacht Group of Fort Lauderdale. Go left the yard in July 2024, departing from Imperia for her maiden cruise, and made her public debut at the Cannes Yachting Festival a few weeks later.

The build followed Tankoa's big-boat recipe at reduced scale, a steel hull under an aluminium superstructure engineered to RINA class. The yard lists the platform at 45 metres overall on an 8.8 metre beam, with a 2.4 metre full-load draught and maximum displacement around 460 tons. It is the entry point to the fleet, built in the same sheds by the same engineering team as the 70 metre projects.

Cassetta's compact architecture

Giorgio M. Cassetta carries both exterior and interior, as he does on the larger T580 platform, and his brief was volume without bulk. The profile pairs a bold vertical bow with long horizontal lines through the superstructure, so the yacht reads modern and low despite stacking five deck levels into 45 metres. Tankoa calls the language timeless, and it sits comfortably beside the yard's bigger Paszkowski and Mancini designs.

The cleverest number is the tonnage. The original design carried around 430 GT, Go's owner asked for more volume, and the yard answered with enlarged main deck windows, an extended upper deck saloon and a finished measurement of about 450 GT, with the platform now listed at about 455. Growing a design by twenty gross tons for one client is the kind of flexibility that separates a custom yard from a production line.

A 45 metre with a main deck owner's suite, a salon glazed through 270 degrees and a fire pit hidden in the bow.

Volume where the owner lives

The owner's suite sits forward on the main deck, the position usually reserved for yachts ten metres longer, with the accommodation for guests in five cabins below. Twelve guests sail with a crew of nine, a strong ratio at this size, and the main salon is the showpiece, glazed through 270 degrees so the room feels suspended over the water at anchor.

Cassetta's interior for Go works in a calm, light-filled register, consistent with his work across the Tankoa range, though the arrangement remains semi-custom for future hulls. The five-deck layout gives the T450 spaces smaller yachts flatten together, a separate upper deck saloon, a real sun deck and a lower deck that can give its full length to guests and wellness.

Decks that work at anchor

The stern opens into a beach club flanked by fold-out side platforms, and the pool above it wears a sliding sunpad that closes the water over during navigation, returning the deck to usable space on passage. The sun deck carries a hydromassage tub and shaded dining, the upper deck aft houses a gym, and the bow hides a fire pit for evenings at anchor away from the marina crowd.

That inventory is unusual at 45 metres, and it exists because the tender and toy storage is planned tightly so leisure space wins the argument for every remaining square metre. The result is a yacht that behaves like a much larger boat at anchor, which is where an owner's family will spend most of their hours aboard, while staying compact enough for the tight berths of the Riviera and the Bahamas.

Easy numbers, a growing series

Twin MAN diesels drive Go to a top speed of about 15 knots with cruising at 14, and the range runs to about 4,000 nautical miles at 10 knots, enough for a Mediterranean season and an Atlantic crossing on her own keel. Tankoa has also engineered the platform to accept hybrid propulsion, bringing quiet nights at anchor and lower emissions for owners who want them.

A second T450 has been sold and is under construction, turning the one-off into a series and validating the yard's push into the American market that later produced the T720 Fenice contract. For a buyer, the T450 is the least expensive route into Tankoa ownership, and the first hull's delivery record, on the water within three years of contract, is the practical argument for the slot.

Für wen: The owner entering the superyacht bracket who wants boutique-yard attention and semi-custom freedom at 45 metres, with the running costs and crew list still on a human scale.