Pershing built the GTX90 on spec - and moved the 90-foot queue

Where does the GTX90 actually sit in Pershing's lineup, and why does the 90-foot bracket matter right now?

The GTX90 slots between the GTX80 and the flagship GTX116, giving Pershing its first entry in the 27-30m "90-foot" bracket at the exact moment rivals there - Sanlorenzo, Azimut|Benetti - are sitting on backlogs worth over a billion euros and running into 2027-2029.

Ferretti Group confirmed that the first Pershing GTX90 went into the water at the port of Fano on 1 July. At 27.97 metres with a 6.89-metre beam, she fills the one slot missing from the GTX line, which until now ran GTX70, GTX80 and then jumped to the GTX116, as Megayacht News noted in its launch coverage. The GTX90 is the range's only model in the 90-to-100-foot band.

Twin 2,200 hp MAN V12X engines drive Castoldi TurboDrive 600 HCT waterjets, with the yard quoting a preliminary 35-knot top speed and a 30-knot cruise. A pair of Seakeeper NG18 gyros steadies four en-suite cabins for eight guests, per BOAT International's report. The deck numbers are the real Pershing argument - 37 square metres of cockpit and another 33 on the sportbridge, with a double garage holding a Williams 395 SportJet and a jet ski.

What did building the GTX90 on spec actually save, in concrete terms?

Ferretti Group started construction in 2025 with no named buyer, so the July 1 launch at Fano landed just 13 days after the model's public unveiling - against BOAT International's benchmark of roughly a three-year wait from contract to delivery for a fully custom yacht this size.

The schedule is the telling detail. This hull was started on spec in 2025 at Ferretti Group's Plug and Mould facility and completed at the new Mondolfo production area, where the entire GTX range is now built, per BOAT International. Ferretti Group only unveiled the model publicly on 18 June. Thirteen days later the boat was afloat.

A yard does not tie up capital in an unsold 28-metre unless it trusts both the demand and its own throughput. Dedicated GTX capacity at Mondolfo points to series production, not one hull per signed contract. That is the operating posture behind this launch, and it is the part a buyer can act on.

What does a buyer taking this hull get, and what do they give up, compared with ordering a new one?

A buyer gets a finished, waterborne 28-metre now instead of a multi-year position in the queue, but only as Vallicelli Design and Ferretti's engineering department already built it - twin MAN V12X engines, twin Seakeeper 18 stabilisers, the 4-cabin layout - with none of the customization scope a from-scratch commission carries.

The first GTX90 makes her global show debut at the Cannes Yachting Festival in September, per BOAT International. A finished, CE Class A certified 28-metre standing on a dock changes a negotiation in ways a rendering cannot. Anyone shopping this bracket can board the actual boat in eight weeks and weigh it against whatever delivery position a rival yard is quoting.

If you hold a deposit in the 90-foot segment, this launch is leverage in your next conversation with your yard. If you are still choosing, ask Pershing at Cannes where hulls two and three stand before you accept anyone's lead time. Spec production resets what "available" means, and Pershing just proved it can do it in this class.

Did the Pershing GTX90 actually appear at Cannes, and has a buyer been named?

Yes, the GTX90 had its show debut at the Cannes Yachting Festival from 8 to 13 September 2026, as part of Ferretti Group's display, but no named buyer or confirmed sale has surfaced in published reporting as of mid-September 2026.

The Pershing GTX90 made its show debut at the Cannes Yachting Festival, held at the Vieux Port and Port Canto from 8 to 13 September 2026, as part of Ferretti Group's stand of world premieres. The festival drew roughly 700 boats and about 56,000 visitors across the six days, with close to 150 world premieres on the water, so the GTX90 was one entry in a crowded field rather than a standalone event. The hull shown was finished in Pershing's Anniversary Silver and configured with an owner's cabin, one VIP cabin, one double and one twin, a more specific breakdown than the four-cabin, eight-guest figure quoted at the July launch in Fano.

What Cannes did not produce, at least in anything published so far, is a named buyer. No broker listing, yard statement or trade report found in this research turned up a sale of the Fano hull or a second GTX90 under contract, and Pershing's own model page still lists the GTX90 as a boat built to order rather than sold out. That gap matters for the spec-build story: launching a boat with no owner attached is a bet that a buyer will surface at a show, and as of mid-September the trade press has confirmed the boat's presence at Cannes but not that bet paying off. If a sale is announced later, it would be the detail that closes the loop this article opened.

What was Vallicelli Design's brief, and how does the GTX90 stack up against its closest rivals?

The brief was to add usable living space without sacrificing Pershing's performance edge, which produced the model's first flying bridge and a pair of fold-down side terraces, and against comparably sized rivals like the Riva 90 Argo and Sanlorenzo SD90 the GTX90 remains the fastest boat in its own length bracket.

Vallicelli Design's brief for the GTX90, worked jointly with Ferretti Group's own engineering department, was explicit: add usable indoor and outdoor living space without giving up the speed that separates a Pershing from a standard flybridge cruiser. The most visible result is a flying bridge, a first for any Pershing under 100 feet since neither the GTX70, GTX80 nor GTX116 carries one, sized at 33 square metres, which the yard says is 43 percent larger than the class average. Two side terraces fold down from the main deck at the stern to extend the cockpit to 37 square metres, and the hull is being engineered to CE Design Category A, the highest EU offshore certification, with twin Seakeeper NG18 gyroscopic stabilisers offered as an option. A garage aft carries two watertoys, a Williams 395 SportJet tender and a Sea-Doo Spark Trixx, rather than the single tender typical of the class. None of that shows up in a spec sheet's headline numbers, but it is the argument for why a buyer pays a performance-boat price for a deck plan closer to a flybridge yacht's.

The boat was built on spec inside Ferretti's Mondolfo complex, the same site that builds the rest of the GTX range, after early construction work at the Group's Plug and Mould facility in 2025. Mondolfo covers roughly 84,500 square metres of yard, just under 26,000 square metres of it covered, spread across four buildings with 27 assembly bays run in parallel, and the newest of the four was added specifically for the GTX series. That is the physical version of the series-production pitch: Ferretti is not tooling up once for a single spec build, it is running the GTX90 down a line built to turn out several GTX hulls a year. Against its closest same-group relative, the Riva 90 Argo at 28.55 metres with twin MTU diesels and a 30-knot top speed on the faster of its two engine options, the waterjet-driven GTX90 is slightly shorter but 5 knots quicker at a predicted 35 knots. Against Sanlorenzo's nearest length-mate, the 27.3-metre SD90, the contrast is starker. That boat is a displacement-style cruiser capped at roughly 15 knots, built for range and efficiency rather than a sprint, which underlines that the GTX90 is competing on a performance axis those two rivals do not even try to match. Sanlorenzo's SP110 does match it on speed, at 40 knots, but only by being six metres longer and running three engines instead of two.