Absolute Navetta 75

The Navetta 75 — The Absolute Sphere — is the flagship of the Absolute fleet, a designation the yard applies to it directly. Length overall is 74' 10" on an 18' 4" beam. Fuel is 1,057 US gallons and fresh water 293 US gallons, water heater volume included. She is certified CE category B and rated for eighteen people, two more than the Navetta 66 and 70.

The architectural idea is a single level. Rooms are arranged on one deck, and the covered side walkways are reachable from inside the boat — from the galley and from the raised helm station both. On most yachts this size, getting from the helm to the side deck in weather means going outside first.

Aft, the terrace cockpit carries a glass rear parapet and is left deliberately unfurnished at build, so the owner specifies how it is fitted out. Two interior atmospheres are offered, one darker and one light, over an identical layout, materials set and build standard.

Power is twin Volvo Penta D13-IPS1350 pods rated 735 kW each — the same package Absolute fits to the Navetta 66 and 70 and the 70 FLY, which tells you something useful about how the yard scales its range: volume grows, the drivetrain does not change. Joystick control comes with the pods.

Handling was clearly a design priority here. Two steering consoles, plus a third and a fourth mooring station, mean whoever is on the lines and whoever is on the controls can see each other from wherever they are standing. Two stairways reach the flybridge, one from the stern and one from the bow, so crew move fore and aft without crossing guest space.

Tankage is 1,057 US gallons of fuel and 293 US gallons of fresh water — the fresh water figure a meaningful step up from the 240 gallons on the Navetta 66 and 70, which matters on a boat rated for eighteen people. At sea trial, log observed burn at your intended rpm in writing and plan your legs off the 1,057 gallons, with the boat loaded the way you will actually run it.

The owner's cabin is the reason to look at this boat. It is full-beam, forward, on a raised level relative to the lower deck, with private access from the main lounge and an en-suite head. Raising it buys three things at once: a higher sightline over the water, more separation from the guest cabins, and a quieter cabin.

Amidships are two double cabins with private bathrooms and a twin-berth cabin with a dayhead. Aft, the captain's and sailors' quarters take up to three berths with a bathroom and a private galley — a crew arrangement that runs independently of the main galley rather than sharing it.

The rest of the interior follows the single-level logic: unusually wide windows, high ceilings, sliding doors, and generous storage so the living and sleeping areas stay clear. The covered walkways accessible from inside are the detail that reads as a much larger yacht.

Two interior interpretations are offered. The darker one works contrast and depth for a warmer, more intimate feel; the lighter one runs natural light and visual continuity through the boat and reads more contemporary. Layout, materials and construction quality are identical in both — the language changes, not the boat.

On the flybridge and in the cockpit, modular furnishings and the absence of fixed structural elements mean both areas re-arrange to the week you are having.

At 74' 10" the Navetta 75 is the flagship of the Absolute range and cross-shops upward as often as sideways.

The Ferretti Infynito 80 is the closest match on intent — an Italian yacht built around single-level living and long stays aboard — and the one to weigh if you are willing to step up in size and price. The Azimut Fly 78 is the planing Italian alternative at almost identical length, and the comparison is a genuine fork between volume and pace. The Sunseeker 76 Yacht is the British option, with a different take on how much of the boat the crew occupy.

Where the Navetta 75 separates itself is crew architecture and the raised bow owner's cabin. Walk the crew route on all four boats — stern stairway to flybridge, aft galley, side deck — and the differences stop being abstract.

This is the Absolute for an owner who runs with crew but still wants the boat to feel like his. The crew have three berths, their own head and their own galley aft, and two stairways to the flybridge that keep them out of the saloon. The owner has a raised full-beam cabin in the bow with a private route to it from the main lounge.

Eighteen people aboard, CE category B. That is a boat set up for extended cruising with guests rather than day use, and the tankage — 1,057 gallons of fuel, 293 of water — is sized for it.

The deliberately unfurnished terrace cockpit rewards an owner with a view about how he entertains. If you would rather take the yard's answer than form your own, that space will feel like homework. If you have run boats long enough to know exactly what you want back there, it is the best part of the deal.