43m Fast
| LOA | 43.6 m |
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| Beam | 8.3 m |
| Draft | 1.7 m |
| Gross tonnage | 378 GT |
| Hull | aluminium, semi-displacement planing |
| Engines | 2 x MTU 16V4000, water jets |
| Top speed / cruise | 33 / 25 knots |
| Guests / crew | 10 / 7 |
A modern take on the fast Baglietto
The 43 m Fast revives the yard's long history of building genuinely fast motor yachts, this time in a contemporary aluminium hull. Seven units had been delivered from the first boat in 2021, which makes it one of the yard's more successful recent models. It carries the Baglietto name for speed into the current range, a thread that runs back through the yard's history. The run of deliveries shows steady demand across several years. The model proved there was still a market for a fast planing superyacht at this size.
At 378 GT the 43 m Fast is compact for its length, a consequence of the lightweight hull built for speed. Its aluminium construction is the key to reaching planing speeds. The model bridges the yard's fast heritage and its modern design language. Repeat orders suggest owners valued the mix of real pace and a full superyacht finish. It stands apart from the slower DOM and T lines.
The Fast line
Baglietto's Fast line gathers its planing and semi-displacement aluminium yachts, the craft built for outright speed rather than displacement comfort. The 43 m Fast is a central model in this family, alongside larger fast yachts and the Superfast 42. Francesco Paszkowski Design shapes the line, giving it a sharp, contemporary look. Speed and light weight define the whole group from the smallest hull upward. The line reaches back to the fast open boats that first made the yard's name.
Where the DOM and T lines cruise in the mid-teens of knots, the Fast line runs at nearly twice that. The 43 m Fast expresses this with a hull built to plane. It suits owners who value passage time and a sporting character. The choice of aluminium keeps the weight low enough to reach real speed. The line keeps alive the fast-yacht reputation Baglietto built over a century.
A 33 knot planing yacht that keeps alive Baglietto's fast-boat heritage.
Sharp and light
Francesco Paszkowski Design drew both the exterior and the interior, giving the 43 m Fast a clean, low profile over a semi-displacement aluminium hull. The 8.3 metre beam and a very shallow 1.7 metre draft suit fast running and inshore access. The all-aluminium build keeps weight low for planing performance. Large glazing runs along the superstructure. The styling stays restrained for a yacht built around speed.
The exterior balances sporting lines with usable outdoor space across the decks. A beach club and bathing area sit at the stern within easy reach of the water. The shallow draft opens up coves that deeper yachts cannot reach. Owners gain access to inshore spots that a displacement yacht would have to pass by. The look is unmistakably a fast yacht.
Paszkowski inside and out
With Paszkowski handling the interior as well, the 43 m Fast reads as a single design from hull to saloon. It accommodates ten guests across five cabins, with the owner given a private cabin. The interior volume is trimmed to suit the light, fast hull without stripping out comfort. Finish and layout follow the owner's brief within the platform. The result keeps comfort high without adding the weight that would blunt performance.
Crew accommodation supports seven across three cabins, enough for full service under way. The layout keeps the sporting character while giving comfortable living space. Storage and tender handling are planned around the fast hull. Guest and crew routes are kept clear at speed and at anchor. The interior suits active, shorter-range cruising.
Thirty-three knots
Twin MTU 16V4000 M93L engines driving water jets take the 43 m Fast to a top speed of 33 knots, with a cruise of 25 knots. Range at speed is about 700 nautical miles from 41,000 litres of fuel, which fits its role as a fast regional yacht. Some hulls specified with smaller MTU 12V4000 engines reach around 28 knots. The water-jet drive suits the shallow draft and the high top speed the hull can hold. The engineering is built around pace rather than long ocean legs.
This is a yacht for an owner who wants to cover ground quickly and reach quiet anchorages the same day. It suits busy cruising grounds where fast hops between ports matter. The trade for that speed is shorter range and less interior volume than a displacement yacht of the same length. For owners who prize pace, that is a fair exchange. The 43 m Fast offers that pace with a full superyacht finish.
How the 43m Fast Handles at Sea, and Why the Spec Sheet Shifts by Hull
The only independent sea trial found, run by Barche Magazine, backs up the shipyard's speed claims rather than just repeating them. The boat held 31 knots on the water with the twin MTU 16V4000s working hard, and at a 26 knot cruise the trial logged 1,550 litres an hour, worked out to 59.61 litres per nautical mile, a number the magazine called notable for a boat capable of over 30 knots. The four stabiliser fins were credited with keeping things flat both underway and at anchor, and the owner on board is quoted saying fuel consumption at 28 knots was great, singling out how much quieter and smoother the ride felt than expected from a boat this fast. That is a real, named account, not shipyard copy, and it is the strongest single piece of evidence found that the 43m Fast delivers on its performance claims in practice.
What the trial does not settle is which spec sheet actually describes a given hull. This model has been built across seven deliveries between 2007 and 2025, and the sources disagree with each other on real hardware, not just rounding. Generator ratings come back as either 80 kW or 100 kW Kohler units depending on whether the source is the sea trial report or a brokerage listing. Stabiliser brand splits between AB Trac and Naiad Dynamics depending on the hull, and one hull's own builder listing even shows a smaller engine than others. None of that is necessarily a flaw in the boat, it is what happens with an eighteen year semi-custom production run, but it means the number printed in a brochure for engines, generators or stabilisers is not something to take on faith. Anyone seriously looking at a specific hull should get that hull's builder file rather than relying on the model-level spec sheet.
Двигатели и системы
| Main engines (2021-2025 hulls, HT generation) | 2 x MTU 16V4000 M93L, 2 x 3,440 kW (approx. 4,680 hp) at 2,100 rpm, driving water jets. Confirmed independently by Barche Magazine's technical sea trial write-up and Romeo United Yachts' brokerage specification sheet. |
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| Gearboxes | Not disclosed in any source found for this page. Propulsion is by water jet, which carries its own integral reduction drive rather than a conventional shaft gearbox. |
| Generators | Sources disagree. Barche Magazine's sea trial report lists 2 x 80 kW, 400V/50Hz gensets. Romeo United Yachts' brokerage sheet lists 2 x 100 kW Kohler units. The Barche figure is preferred here as it comes from a measured trial report rather than a sales listing, but the discrepancy is unresolved. |
| Stabilisers | 4 fins, active underway and at anchor, standard across the line, though the fitted brand varies by hull: AB Trac on later HT-generation hulls per Barche Magazine and Romeo United Yachts, Naiad Dynamics on earlier hulls per Boat International and Superyachts.com. |
| Bow and stern thrusters | Not disclosed in any source found for this page. |
| Watermaker | Not disclosed in any source found for this page. |
| Fuel and water tankage | 41,000 litres of fuel and 5,800 litres of fresh water, consistent across Barche Magazine, Romeo United Yachts and Superyachts.com. |
| Range | About 700 nautical miles at cruise per Boat International, Romeo United Yachts and Superyachts.com, though a Boat International brokerage report and a YachtBuyer listing for a sister hull instead give 900 to 1,000nm, so range appears to vary with load. |
| Engine room access | Not disclosed in any source found for this page. |
Что сообщают владельцы и экипажи
Owner praised the balance of speed and fuel economy on sea trial
During the trial the owner said that cruising at 28 knots the fuel consumption was great, and the report separately credits the boat with a notably successful reduction in noise and vibration at speed.
Barche Magazine sea trial report
Сильные стороны и что учесть
Сильные стороны
- Genuinely fast for the sizeWaterjet-driven MTU 16V4000s took the boat to a sea-trial-verified 31 knots in Barche Magazine's report, unusually quick for a 43m aluminium semi-displacement yacht.
- Fuel efficiency at speedBarche Magazine's trial recorded 59.61 litres per nautical mile at 26 knots, a figure the magazine itself flagged as notable for a yacht capable of over 30 knots.
- A proven, long-running platformSeven hulls delivered between 2007 and 2025 per Romeo United Yachts, so the design has years of real service history rather than being an unproven first-of-line.
- The 2020-2021 restyle added real usable spaceYachting Pages and Charterworld both report the Paszkowski-led update lowered the bulwark, enlarged the windows and added a hardtop, opening up the flybridge and main deck without changing the underlying hull.
На что обратить внимание
- Public specification is inconsistent hull to hullEngine rating, generator size and stabiliser brand all differ across sources for different individual hulls, so a buyer cannot rely on one generic spec sheet and needs that specific hull's builder file.
- Key equipment is simply not published anywhere foundNo source turned up bow thruster or watermaker details for this model, an unusual gap for a yacht this size that a buyer will need to confirm directly with the yard or a broker.
- Thin independent test coverageBeyond one Barche Magazine sea trial, no major outlet appears to have run its own independent trial of this specific model. Most public material is shipyard-supplied renderings and press releases.
- Shallow draft is a real trade-off, not just a featureAt 1.7m draft the semi-displacement hull gives up underwater volume for shoal access, a known limitation of the type that this yacht does not escape.
Практическая информация
| Price new | Baglietto quotes 43m Fast pricing as price on request per Romeo United Yachts. The closest disclosed new-build figure found is a EUR 21 million asking price for a hull under construction with a 2016 delivery date, reported by Boat International. |
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| Price used | A 2015-built hull of this model was offered used at EUR 19.5 million through Camper and Nicholsons, as reported by Boat International. |
| Running costs | Not disclosed in any source found for this page. |
| Charter | No current charter listing for this specific model turned up in this research. Weekly rates for other 43m Baglietto yachts run USD 139,000 to 163,000, but those are different models and should not be read as this yacht's rate. |
| How to buy | Through the brokerage houses that have handled hulls in this line, including Camper and Nicholsons and Fraser Yachts, or via Romeo United Yachts, which lists the model family directly. |
| Comparables | Baglietto's own Fast line includes a larger 46m Fast, sold as Lucky Me and reported by Boat International at a EUR 23 million asking price, a same-builder comparison one size up. |
| What is not published | Bow thruster specification, watermaker capacity, gearbox or reduction-drive detail, and a single consistent generator rating are not published anywhere found for this model. |
Design
| Экстерьер | Francesco Paszkowski Design (restyle of the iconic Fast line) |
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| Интерьер | Francesco Paszkowski Design with Margherita Casprini |
| Морская архитектура | Baglietto (in-house engineering. Semi-displacement aluminium hull) |
Для кого: An owner who wants a genuinely fast yacht for busy cruising grounds, willing to trade range and volume for the speed to make long day hops and reach shallow anchorages.