Majesty 65

Dubai 2025, the range gets its newest rung

Gulf Craft used its home show in 2025 to premiere the Majesty 65, filling the gap between the 60 and the 72 with a boat wearing the family's current face, upright bow, long glazing lines, clean flanks. The debut mattered locally and abroad, this is the size band where the Gulf market buys in volume and where European brands defend hardest. Showing her first in Dubai was deliberate, the home crowd buys this size in numbers, and the boat was drawn with their cruising pattern in front of the designers.

The 65 arrived as a fully in-house product, designed, engineered and laminated in Umm Al Quwain by the studio whose recent work has been collecting international awards across the range. That vertical integration is the quiet reason the boat undercuts European rivals while carrying a longer standard equipment list.

Four cabins on under twenty metres

The layout gives eight guests four proper cabins, each with en suite access, plus a crew cabin so the boat runs with paid help or without it. At 19.8 metres that count is the difference between a couple's boat that tolerates guests and a family boat that expects them, and it is the spec line that moves buyers up from the 60.

The main deck runs open plan from cockpit to helm, galley amidships serving both the salon and the alfresco table, with expansive glazing keeping the water in view from every seat. Smart storage throughout acknowledges that an 8 person boat lives or dies on where the bags, boards and provisions go. The crew cabin flexes with the season, staffed for the summer, stowage for a delivery, guest overflow when the plan changes.

Four cabins, a full flybridge and a light 44 tonne hull, the newest boat in the collection at the size families keep.

Light hull, easy sums

At roughly 44 tonnes displacement on a 5.3 metre beam, the 65 is a light boat for her volume, and lightness cascades through the ownership economics, moderate engines pushing her properly, a 3,930 litre fuel load that goes further, marina draft of 1.64 metres that keeps every berth and sandbank option open. Light boats are also kind boats in a seaway at cruising speed, which passengers register even if they never ask why.

Power comes from twin 800 hp diesels, a sensible match that prioritises cruising economy and machinery life over headline speed. A 28 kW generator carries the domestic systems at anchor, air conditioning included, which in the boat's home waters is where the summer is actually spent.

The flybridge is the second home

Up top the 65 carries the full flybridge programme, helm, dining, sunpads and shade, effectively doubling the social deck area of the boat. In the Gulf evening or the Mediterranean afternoon this is where the boat lives, and the space is drawn generously because the yard knows its buyers count deck chairs before berths.

The cockpit below connects to the swim platform for the waterline half of the day, tender, toys and swimmers cycling through while lunch runs long above. It is an unremarkable formula described honestly, executed with more beam-for-length and more standard kit than the boats it is priced against, which is the whole pitch.

Where she sits, who she serves

In the range the 65 is the committed family boat, past the owner-driven simplicity of the 60, short of the crewed scale of the 72. Many owners reach this size and stay, the boat is big enough for two weeks aboard and small enough that using her on a Tuesday requires no phone calls. That decade of ownership is the design target, and the specification reads like it.

As the newest design in the Yacht Collection she also carries the strongest resale story, current styling holds value in this segment where dated lines discount fast. For buyers weighing the established European names, the 65 offers the increasingly familiar Gulf Craft trade, more boat for the money at every line of the spec sheet, from a builder whose top end now competes at Cannes.

A chi si rivolge: A family owner who wants four cabins and real flybridge life under 20 metres, with running costs and handling that do not demand a professional crew.