FD100
| 30.97 m LOA, 28.15 m waterline length, 7.25 m beam | |
| 1.88 m draft, 128 t displacement | |
| Twin Caterpillar C32A diesels, 1,600 hp each | |
| 15,140 L fuel and 1,500 L fresh water capacity | |
| Five staterooms including a full-beam main-deck master | |
| Crew quarters for four in two cabins | |
| Tri-Deck or Skyline configurations | |
| Introduced at the 2021 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show |
A hundred-footer with a running start
The FD100 arrived with its homework already done. Its close relative the FD102 delivered hull one to European owners in February 2020 and the second boat, To-Kalon, to American owners later that same year, so by the time the FD100 was introduced at the 2021 Fort Lauderdale show the 100 foot fast displacement platform was proven in service on two continents. Horizon used that head start well, offering the FD100 from the outset in both of the series' established top-deck configurations.
The pace has not slackened. Horizon delivered the FD100 Kismet in 2024 and later published a long feature on her owners' build journey, and in early 2026 the yard unveiled the world's first FD100 Skyline, identified as hull 15 of the platform, ahead of its Open House debut. That boat sold to an experienced Australian owner, announced in May 2026.
Same bow, two personalities
The Tri-Deck version tops the boat with a lightweight open flybridge carrying a helm and seating, trading enclosed volume for sky and sightlines, the configuration Kismet's owners chose for island cruising. The Skyline replaces it with a large wheelhouse and an enclosed skylounge aft, effectively adding a weatherproof entertaining deck for owners in hotter or colder climates.
Beneath the two silhouettes the boats are the same: the High Performance Piercing Bow drawn with Cor D. Rover pushing volume forward, a beach club arrangement at the transom, and dining and lounging spread across the aft decks. Choosing between them is a climate and lifestyle question, and Horizon builds both from the same tooling.
Five staterooms and a full-beam main-deck master inside 101 feet, on a platform fifteen hulls deep.
The numbers behind the volume
The FD100 measures 30.97 meters overall on a 28.15 meter waterline, with the series-typical 7.25 meter beam carried well forward and a draft of just 1.88 meters. Displacement is 128 tons, and power comes from twin Caterpillar C32A diesels of 1,600 hp each with Kohler generators of 45 or 53 kW depending on electrical standard.
Fuel capacity is 15,140 liters, about 4,000 US gallons, with 1,500 liters of fresh water topped up by watermakers on any seriously cruised example. The fast displacement form holds its efficiency at unhurried speeds, and the shallow draft keeps the Exumas, the Keys and Queensland's reef anchorages all within the program. The machinery sits under commercial-grade access, and the generator options cover either shore-power standard, details that matter more in year five of ownership than at the boat show.
Five staterooms inside 101 feet
Accommodation is the reason this model exists: five staterooms including a full-beam master on the main deck, an arrangement most builders reserve for boats ten meters longer. Four en-suite guest cabins sit below, and crew quarters in two cabins sleep the four crew that a boat of this size and systems complexity comfortably runs with.
Horizon's semi-custom process shapes every delivery. Kismet's owners worked their preferences through the yard's design team over the course of the build, and the first Skyline carries its own tailored specification. The joinery, stonework and layout changes happen in-house in Kaohsiung, which keeps one-off requests from carrying one-off price tags. Nothing about the process requires an owner to fly to Kaohsiung more often than they wish, though many discover the yard's annual Open House and go anyway.
Why the hundred-foot slot sells
A hundred feet is where real superyacht accommodation meets manageable ownership. The FD100 offers the five-cabin, ten-guest format the charter market values, yet it berths in ordinary big-boat marinas, transits the Intracoastal and runs with a crew small enough to know every guest's name. That balance explains why the platform reached fifteen hulls within six years. It is also the size where charter placement starts to make financial sense for owners who want the boat working between family seasons, and the five-cabin format is what booking agents ask for first.
It also explains the geography of its owners, spread across the United States, Europe and Australia, each served by Horizon's factory-direct offices. For a buyer weighing the step from a FD90 or an 85 footer of any brand, the FD100 is the point where the boat stops being a bigger cruiser and starts being a small superyacht.
Motores y sistemas
| Engines, Tri-Deck (2022 on) | Twin Caterpillar C32A diesels, reported at either 1,600 hp or 1,900 hp each depending on the hull and the source, likely different rating tiers of the same engine block across build years |
|---|---|
| Engines, later Tri-Deck hulls (from 2025) | Twin Caterpillar C32 ACERT diesels, 1,900 hp each (3,800 hp / 5,096 kW combined) |
| Engines, newest hulls and the Skyline variant | Twin MAN V12 diesels, 2,000 hp each (5,364 kW combined) |
| Generators | Twin Kohler generators, 45 kW on 50Hz markets or 53 kW on 60Hz markets, per the builder's own listing |
| Stabilisers | Side-Power (Sleipner) zero-speed stabiliser system |
| Thrusters | Side-Power hydraulic bow and stern thrusters |
| Watermaker | SeaXchange watermaker rated at 1,800 gallons a day, with a Spot Zero spot-free rinse polishing system |
| Fuel and water tankage | Around 15,140 litres of fuel and 1,510 litres of fresh water on the consensus spec sheet, though at least one brokerage listing gives a noticeably higher fuel figure for its specific hull |
| Engine-room access | About 1.98 metres of standing headroom, with a reviewer specifically noting good handholds and maintenance access even in the engine room |
| Trim system | Zipwake interceptor-style trim tabs |
Lo que cuentan armadores y tripulaciones
On-deck impression at a boat show
Reviewing a Tri-Deck hull at the Palm Beach International Boat Show, this reviewer called the FD100 fully resolved with no sense of compromise anywhere. He is a boating journalist, not an owner, but the assessment is first-hand and on the record.
Nick Burnham, Motor Boat & Yachting / Aquaholic review, January 2025Build and engine-room quality
An independent sea-trial review praised the welding quality and maintenance access even inside the engine room, and the tightness of the interior joinery, first-hand observations from someone who walked the boat rather than a manufacturer claim.
Kevin Koenig, Southern Boating & Yachting, 28 June 2023
Lo bueno y lo que conviene vigilar
Puntos fuertes
- A fast-displacement hull built for real rangeTwin diesels give a top speed of around 20 knots but the hull is happiest at a 10-knot long-range cruise, where brokers and reviewers consistently cite over 2,000 nautical miles of range, a genuine ocean-passage figure rather than a coastal-cruising one. The closely related FD80, which shares the same fast-displacement hull philosophy, has been measured at 6.9 gallons an hour at an 8.5-knot cruise for a 3,248-mile range, against 57 gallons an hour and just 630 miles at 13 knots, the same efficiency-for-speed trade the FD100 is built around.
- Independently praised build qualityA named marine journalist who walked the boat singled out the welding quality, the maintenance access in the engine room and the tightness of the interior joinery, first-hand observations rather than shipyard copy.
- A production yard with a real track recordBuilt by Horizon Yachts across its own ISO 9001-certified yards in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, a builder that industry press describes as one of the more consistent names in semi-custom yacht production, with its own composite, engineering and outfitting work done in-house rather than through subcontractors.
A tener en cuenta
- Styling that divides opinionThe same reviewer who praised the build was openly critical of the exterior, describing the squared bow and chunky superstructure as looking like a floating cooler and warning it may not impress at Mediterranean ports, a real, named criticism rather than an inferred one.
- A speed ceiling the hull form cannot escapeAt roughly 20 knots flat out, the FD100 is well behind a planing motor yacht of similar size and power, which can clear 25 to 30 knots. That is the fast-displacement hull's fundamental trade for its range and efficiency, not a defect, but a buyer used to a planing yacht should know what they are giving up.
- Spec sheets that do not agree with each otherBeam, draft, gross tonnage, engine horsepower and even cabin count vary noticeably between brokerage listings, the builder's own site and press coverage of different hulls, more inconsistency than is typical for a well-documented production model. A buyer should treat any single spec sheet as a starting point and confirm the actual hull's own documentation before relying on a number.
Información práctica
| New-build price | Not publicly disclosed. Horizon and its dealers quote pricing on request, standard practice for a semi-custom build where equipment and materials vary hull to hull |
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| Brokerage resale range (2025-2026 listings) | Roughly USD 10.75 million to just under USD 13 million for later, higher-specification Tri-Deck hulls. Some aggregator search results show far lower figures, which appear to be smaller, unrelated Horizon models miscategorised under the same search rather than genuine FD100 listings |
| How it is ordered | Semi-custom, through Horizon's own Kaohsiung, Taiwan shipyards, which the builder describes as building composite structure, engineering and outfitting in-house rather than through subcontractors |
| Configurations | Available as the original Tri-Deck, in build since 2022, or the newer enclosed-upper-deck Skyline variant introduced in 2026 |
| Before buying a used one | Confirm the actual hull's engine type and rating directly rather than trusting a generic spec sheet: hulls have shipped with Caterpillar C32A diesels at either 1,600 or 1,900 hp, and newer hulls with twin MAN diesels at 2,000 hp each, and other figures (beam, draft, tonnage, berths) also vary by hull |
| Delivery reach | Recent hulls have gone to buyers in the United States and Australia, not only Asia-Pacific, a global rather than regional client base |
Para quién es: An owner moving up from an 80 or 90 foot boat who wants genuine superyacht accommodation, five staterooms and a main-deck master, in a package a crew of four can run.