The marina is still quiet when you slip the lines, and by the time the coffee is finished you are running 30 knots in open water. That is the whole argument for the Azimut S6: a 60-footer that treats the run itself as the point, not the thing you endure between anchorages.
Who This Boat Is For
The S6 is the opening model of Azimut's S series of sport coupes, and it is drawn for the owner who wants the fast, low-slung Azimut — a couple or a young family that boats hard on weekends and wants pace without giving up real accommodation. If your picture of a 60-footer is a second living room with a helm attached, look at the Fly 60 instead. If it is a sports car with three cabins, keep reading.
The Shape and What It Buys
The sheet reads 59'1" overall on a 15'7" beam and a 5'3" draft, with 686 gallons of fuel and 156 gallons of water. Like the rest of the S line, the S6 pairs a carbon-fiber superstructure with a low, fast profile — the sport silhouette in place of a full flybridge, with a sportfly upper deck offered as an option. The carbon does two jobs at once: it keeps weight down and it keeps the center of gravity low, which is most of why the boat feels planted at speed.
The main deck opens the saloon wide to the cockpit in the S-series manner, trading the second deck for one wide living level close to the water.
Performance
Triple Volvo Penta IPS 700 pods, 550 hp each, deliver a published maximum of 35 knots and a 30-knot cruise at test load. The planing hull runs 15.5 degrees of deadrise at the transom, sharpening to 21.2 amidships, and full-load displacement is 65,763 lbs. Three pods also mean joystick docking, which turns the most stressful five minutes of any weekend into a non-event for an owner-driver.
As with any boat you intend to run hard, make observed fuel burn at your preferred cruise a sea-trial item and get the numbers in writing.
Three Cabins Under a Coupe Roof
Sport profiles usually tax accommodation. Here the layout holds: three cabins and two heads, plus a crew cabin with its own head — berths for six guests plus crew, a full family layout under a coupe roofline. That is the S6's quiet trick: it photographs like a dayboat and sleeps like a cruiser.
Against Its Own Family
Within Azimut's range the S6 shares its length with the Fly 60 — the same footprint pointed at speed and profile instead of a second deck. Choose the Fly 60 if guests and entertaining outrank the run itself. Step up to the S7 when berth count and the bigger sport deck justify 71 feet.
Where to Start
If the way a boat drives is the first line of your brief and three cabins is the second, the S6 is the entry point to exactly that formula. Sea-trial it back to back with the Fly 60 — same length, opposite personalities — and you will know within an hour which owner you are.