Somewhere past 70 feet, most flybridge yachts stop feeling like boats you drive and start feeling like buildings you manage. The Azimut Fly 72 is built to hold that line: V12 power and a carbon-topped superstructure on a 74-footer that still answers the helm like a sport boat.
Who This Boat Is For
The Fly 72 is for the owner who cruises with family and friends in numbers — four cabins, four heads, and deck space across three levels — and who has already owned enough boat to know what they are asking of this one. It is the size where the Fly series moves from family boat to small crewed yacht: eight guest berths, two crew, and systems drawn for either arrangement.
The Platform
The Fly 72 runs 74'5" overall on an 18'5" beam and a 6'0" draft, with 1,373 gallons of fuel and 290 gallons of water aboard. Construction is carbon fiber and GRP, and the carbon superstructure is not a styling exercise — it is a weight-saving measure that lowers the center of gravity, which you feel as stability in a beam sea and honesty in a turn.
The flybridge spans helm, dining and sun space, with the main-deck saloon opening wide to the cockpit below. Four cabins and four heads plus the crew cabin mean nobody queues for a bathroom with every berth filled.
Performance
Twin 1,400 hp MAN V12 diesels drive a published 32-knot maximum and a 26-knot cruise at test load. Full-load displacement is 117,593 lbs, on a planing hull running 15 degrees of deadrise aft and 20 amidships. The active trim control keeps the boat running level without the constant tab-tweaking that turns a passage into work, and the yard publishes independently witnessed sea-trial consumption figures for this hull — ask for them, then verify the numbers at your own sea trial at the speeds you actually intend to run.
Where It Sits in the Range
The Fly 72 slots between the Fly 68 and the Fly 78 — the step into V12 power and 70-foot volumes without the running scale of the series' biggest hulls. Step down to the Fly 68 if four cabins in a simpler package cover the brief; step up to the Fly 78 for triple-pod handling and more separation between guests and crew.
Where to Start
If you have owned a 55-to-65-footer and know what you are doing, the Fly 72 is a logical next step rather than a leap. Walk it with your actual guest list in mind — the four-heads arithmetic is the feature you will appreciate most by the second season — and put the boat through a real sea trial, not a harbor lap, before you sign.