The Absolute Navetta 58: Beam Bought Deliberately

Photos courtesy of Absolute.

Read the Absolute Navetta 58's two headline figures next to a conventional flybridge of the same length and the character of the boat is already clear. Sixteen feet eleven of beam. Seven hundred and forty gallons of fuel. On 57' 9" of length overall, that is a specification written for volume and distance rather than for profile.

Fresh water is 206 gallons, and the boat is certified CE category B for 14 people aboard.

Drawn for privacy as much as for looks

The signature squircle bow windows are the detail people notice. The glass bulwarks in the cockpit are the one they live with — they keep the sea in view from a seated position without giving up the security of a solid rail. The truncated transom brings water access closer, and the stern platform comes fixed or with an integrated automatic ladder.

The cockpit sits fully under the flybridge, so shade is structural rather than an awning you rig, and it takes modular sofas to the owner's brief.

An upper deck built for a season

The flybridge is step-free, with a customisable aft terrace, a generous L-shaped sofa and a sliding ceramic table, and a fully equipped wet bar carrying a barbecue, a refrigerator, an icemaker and a freezer. The helm is to starboard, placed to simplify docking manoeuvres.

The hardtop is available with an opening section or with solar panels, and carries dimmable ceiling lights and integrated floor lighting. If you plan to run the boat in the shoulder seasons, price both of those at order rather than later.

A saloon you order rather than accept

Inside, the saloon is seamless and step-free, and it is specified rather than assumed. The lounge takes either a foldaway table or an electrically operated dining table with six chairs, and the alternative layouts run to a crystal cabinet, a large storage unit, or a coffee table with armchairs. Three genuinely different rooms from the same shell, chosen once, at order.

The raised helm carries two state-of-the-art seats and gives real visibility, which matters more on a boat with this much bow.

Forward, the full-beam master is the room the beam pays for: bright, wide, with a walk-in closet and furnishings chosen at order. The midship VIP is built to the same standard, with its own bathroom and large panoramic windows, so guests get a cabin rather than a berth. The third cabin takes two single beds that convert electrically into a double — the configuration that lets the same room take children one week and a couple the next.

The interior character is consistent throughout: soft flowing lines, rounded furniture edges, wide beds, soft ambient lighting, efficient climate control and natural ventilation. Those are the details that decide whether a week aboard is restful or merely impressive.

One engine package, one number to measure

Power is twin Volvo Penta D11-IPS950 at 2 x 725 hp — one package, so there is no engine decision to agonise over. Pod drives with joystick control, and the starboard flybridge helm is positioned to simplify docking, which is what makes a boat with this much beam manageable for an owner-operator working alone.

Fuel is 740 gallons, and that tank is the reason to look at this boat. Ask for observed burn at your intended cruise rpm, in writing, from a boat rigged the way yours will be, and work your own range arithmetic off it — at sea trial, with the boat loaded the way you will actually run it. That gives you a number worth planning a season around.

Fresh water is 206 gallons with the water heater included, which is generous for the length. Plan showers and pump-outs around it and a full boat stays comfortable longer than the length suggests. Confirm the people-aboard figure and the draft on your own build documents before you size a slip, a lift or an insurance policy.

Where it sits in the range

The Navetta 58 sits between the Navetta 53 and the Navetta 62, and the step up from the 53 is substantial: fuel from 528 gallons to 740, fresh water from 159 to 206, beam from 15' 3" to 16' 11", and the engine package from twin D6-IPS650s to twin D11-IPS950s. Forty percent more fuel and twenty more inches of beam is a different brief, not a longer boat.

Above it, the Navetta 62 adds eight more inches of beam and 158 more gallons of fuel on three and a half more feet of length. If the passage is what you are buying for, walk both.

The comparison worth making inside the brand is against the 56 FLY, which is an inch longer and a very different boat: 15' 9" of beam against 16' 11", 687 gallons against 740, and a flybridge brief built around entertaining rather than around distance. Same berth, different week.

Where else to look

A high-fifties motoryacht with this much beam and a 740-gallon tank puts a buyer in the same set as the Galeon 560 FLY and the Princess F55 — both of which spend their length differently, and both of which are worth walking before you decide which trade you actually want.

The trade here is honest: a 16' 11" beam buys volume and pays for it in wetted surface. If you want an express profile and a hard turn of speed, that is the wrong bargain. If you want a boat that goes further and lives larger than its length, it is exactly the right one.

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