M75 Panacera

A Mediterranean-styled motor yacht from an American sportfish builder

Hatteras built its name on Carolina-style sportfishing convertibles, so the M75 Panacera, developed from 2017 with exterior and interior design by Enrico Gabbi and The Team For Design, was a deliberate departure: an open-concept deckhouse salon and galley wrapped in panoramic glazing, styled to compete with European flybridge motor yachts rather than with Hatteras's own convertible lineup. The layout puts a full-beam master suite forward on the main deck, a private VIP stateroom, and twin further guest cabins, sleeping up to eight across four cabins in the standard plan, with a fifth-cabin option available for owners who wanted a dedicated office instead.

At 22.71 meters (74 ft 6 in) LOA with a 6.40 meter (21 ft 0 in) beam and a shallow 1.60 meter (5 ft 3 in) draft, the M75 was built for exactly the kind of go-most-anywhere cruising grounds a Mediterranean-inspired motor yacht implies, a convex modified-V hull with tunnels rather than the deeper-draft convertible hulls Hatteras built its reputation on. It shared its basic design language with the larger 100RPH, scaled down to a size Hatteras marketed at owner-operator couples as much as at fully crewed buyers.

What the tested performance actually was

BoatTEST's sea trial of an M75 fitted with the optional twin MTU 12V2000 diesels at 1,800 hp each recorded a top speed of 29.2 knots at 2,455 rpm and a cruising speed of about 22.9 knots at 2,000 rpm burning 116 gallons an hour, reaching planing speed from a standing start in 8.8 seconds. Standard power was a pair of Caterpillar C-32A diesels at 1,600 hp each, with a 1,900 hp Caterpillar option also offered; buyers who wanted the fastest available boat needed to specify the MTU package rather than assume the Caterpillar range-topper matched it.

Stabilization was an ABT fin system as standard, with a Seakeeper gyro or a Seakeeper Zero Speed unit available as options, and the boat carried a 32-hp hydraulic bow thruster with dual propellers for tight-quarters handling despite its size. Fuel capacity was 2,200 US gallons and fresh water 300 gallons, figures confirmed consistently across BoatTEST's own tested specification and Kusler Yachts' buyer information sheet. Across the full range of engine options, Kusler Yachts quotes cruising speeds of 19 to 23 knots and a cruising range of 418 to 475 nautical miles depending on which engines are fitted, or 950 nautical miles at an economy 9-to-11-knot cruise, a genuinely long-legged figure for a boat this size and one worth checking against a specific hull's actual engine hours and tankage before assuming it still holds.

When Bass Pro Shops' parent company bought Hatteras in 2021, it discontinued the Panacera motor yacht line entirely to put the yard back to building sportfish convertibles alone, and the M75 has reportedly grown more sought after since.

Why it stopped being built

The M75 and the larger M90 Panacera were both discontinued after White River Marine Group, the boat-building arm connected to Bass Pro Shops, acquired Hatteras Yachts in 2021. The new ownership redirected the yard's production capacity back toward the sportfish convertibles Hatteras is historically known for, the same GT-series boats the yard builds exclusively today, rather than continuing to compete in the crewed European-style motor yacht market the Panacera line was built for. No successor motor yacht model in this size range has replaced it.

That closure has, if anything, helped the model's standing on the used market: trade coverage describes the Panacera line as having risen in value since production stopped, characterizing it as a sought-after blue-water widebody cruiser precisely because no more are being built. One Hatteras owners' forum post summed up the sentiment plainly: envy, from an owner who did not have one, aimed at someone who did. The M75's flybridge was built to entertain rather than just to steer from, with a dedicated dinette shaded under the hardtop and enough deck space around the helm for guests to sit out the whole way up the coast, a layout choice that reads as more European motor yacht than American convertible, consistent with the brief the Panacera line was built to. The M75 was the smaller of two Panacera models: its sister ship, the M90 Panacera, ran 27.95 meters (91 ft 9 in) overall against the M75's 22.71 meters, with a deeper 1.88 meter draft, 3,285 US gallons of fuel and a 230,000-lb displacement, built from 2016 to 2021 on the same design language before it too was discontinued in the same 2021 restructuring. Buyers cross-shopping the two were choosing between the M75's shallower, more owner-operable size and the M90's larger, more crew-dependent scale, not between two unrelated boats.

Price and what a buyer should still check

Used M75 Panaceras from the model's first two production years have listed for resale between roughly 3.85 million and 5.05 million US dollars, depending on year, engine package and condition; no confirmed original base price from Hatteras was found in this research, since new pricing for the model was never published as consistently as a European builder's list price would be. With the line discontinued, every M75 on the market today is a brokerage boat, so the usual pre-purchase survey, engine hours and maintenance history checks matter more than they would on a boat still in production with a live factory to fall back on. A pre-purchase survey should also confirm which of the three engine options a given hull carries, since the difference between the standard 1,600 hp Caterpillars and the optional 1,900 hp or MTU packages materially changes both the boat's speed and its fuel burn.

What this profile could not confirm is a single authoritative account of how many M75 hulls were actually built across the model's five-year run, a figure Hatteras and its post-2021 ownership have not published; trade coverage discusses the model's rising desirability without ever putting a hull-count number to it, which is worth knowing before treating any claim of rarity as more precise than it actually is.

Для кого: An owner-operator or lightly crewed couple who wants a European-styled, open-plan motor yacht from an American builder, is comfortable buying a discontinued model on the brokerage market, and values the shallow draft and cruising range over convertible-style fishing capability.