Sirena 68

• LOA 21.4 m, beam 5.9 m
• Frers semi-displacement hull, CE Category A
• Twin Volvo D13s, 900 or 1,000 hp
• Top speed 26 to 27.7 knots
• Range about 1,200 nm at 10 knots
• 38 litres per hour total at 10 knots
• 3 en suite cabins plus optional crew cabin
• Interior by Cor D. Rover, three decor schemes

Built for people who actually cruise

Sirena introduced the 68 with an unusually specific pitch, a yacht for owners with real sea miles behind them, and premiered it at Cannes in September 2021. It took over the slot the original 64 had opened for the brand in 2017 and refined the same idea, maximum volume and range on a hull an owner can handle with minimal help, drawn by the same naval architect.

The pitch shows in the priorities. Sightlines from the helm, weather protection, tankage and stowage all rank ahead of theatre, and the crew cabin is optional because plenty of 68 owners intend to run the boat themselves. It is the kind of specification sheet that reads quietly in a show hall and makes complete sense three days into a passage, which is exactly the audience Sirena named.

Frers efficiency, with proof

The semi-displacement hull comes from Frers Naval Architecture and Engineering, and the yard publishes the numbers that matter. With the standard twin 900 hp Volvo D13s the 68 tops out at 26 knots, and the optional 1,000 hp versions lift that to 27.7. Fast cruise sits at 16 knots, where the boat burns 130 litres an hour, useful pace for outrunning weather or shortening a delivery leg.

The other number is the one owners quote. At ten knots the 68 burns 38 litres an hour in total, which stretches the 5,250 litre fuel capacity to roughly 1,200 nautical miles. That is genuine trawler economy from a boat that also runs in the high twenties, and it is the clearest single illustration of the dual character every Frers-drawn Sirena is built around.

At ten knots the 68 burns 38 litres an hour and keeps 1,200 miles within reach.

Three cabins, six berths, no compromises below

Accommodation is three en suite cabins with six guest berths, plus the optional crew cabin with its own head. On a 21 metre platform with a 5.9 metre beam that is a deliberately unhurried use of space, and it shows in cabin volume, bed sizes and stowage rather than in a headline berth count. The full-height engine room access is the sort of detail this audience checks first.

Cor D. Rover handles the interior, offered in three named decor schemes, Serenity, Inspiration and Elegance, so owners can move the mood from pale Scandinavian calm to something warmer without commissioning custom work. The wide flybridge is designed as the social focal point of the boat, and the aft deck and galley connect so the same crew of two, or none, can serve every zone.

Carbon topsides, Category A paperwork

Like its bigger sisters the 68 is laminated as a GRP and carbon hybrid, with the light superstructure lowering the centre of gravity and calming the roll at anchor and underway. Certification is CE Category A, so the design is signed off for ocean conditions at full load, and the loaded displacement of 47 tonnes speaks to structure and tankage sized for use, and for weather.

The yard's low-noise engineering carries through here too, and it matters more on this boat than on the crewed models above it, because the person on watch at 4 am is usually the owner. Volvo's D13 is among the most widely serviced marine diesels in the world, which keeps maintenance simple in exactly the far-flung places a 1,200 mile range invites you to reach.

Where it sits, and why it sells

Within the range the 68 is the bridge between the in-house styled 60 and the crewed 78, close enough to the 78 in capability to tempt, far enough below it in running cost to keep. Against the wider market it undercuts comparable Italian and British 70 footers while carrying naval architecture those brands cannot list, which is the Sirena argument in miniature.

It is also the size where the brand's promise is easiest to test. One owner, one partner, three couples aboard, ten knots, a fuel bill that reads like a misprint and a season that stretches from the Balearics to the Ionian without a marina fuel berth in between. The 68 is the boat that turns Sirena's brochure language into a log book.

A chi si rivolge: A hands-on owner with real miles in the log who wants crew-optional cruising, trawler economy at ten knots and a hull that can still hurry home ahead of weather.