Most boats that look like the Azimut S7 sleep four people badly. The S7 sleeps eight, well — four cabins and a crew berth under a coupe profile that runs a published 35 knots. That combination is rarer than it should be, and it is the whole reason this boat exists.
Who This Boat Is For
Buy the S7 if the way the boat looks and drives matters as much as the guest list it carries — four cabins' worth of family or friends at 35 knots. This is the sport counterpoint to Azimut's own Fly 68: comparable length and the same accommodation count, with the full flybridge traded for a sport fly and a faster published top end. If that trade reads as a win to you, you are the S7's buyer.
The Design
The S7 is the 71-foot member of Azimut's S series: 71'2" overall on a 16'11" beam, 101,412 lbs at full load, built in GRP with carbon fiber. Alberto Mancini drew the low, athletic exterior; Yachtique styled the interior. The plan runs three decks — sport fly, main and lower — on a hull that reads like a coupe.
Sporting lines usually tax accommodation, and here they don't: four cabins, three heads and a crew cabin. The sport fly adds an open-air helm and social deck above the main saloon, so the S7 keeps the alfresco living its silhouette seems to rule out.
Performance
Three Volvo Penta D13 IPS 1050 pods, 800 hp each, take the S7 to a published 35-knot maximum and 27-knot cruise from 1,004 gallons of fuel. Triple pods keep the machinery spaces compact — part of how a sport yacht this shape finds room for four cabins — and give a 71-footer joystick precision around the dock. An owner who drives will feel the difference every single time the boat comes home.
Sea-trial at your intended cruise and get observed burn in writing — the habit that serves every buyer at every length.
Within the Range
The S6 opens the series at 59 feet for the couple or young family; the S8 steps up to 80 feet with more beam, a double garage and two crew cabins. Against the Fly 68, the choice is temperament: same berths, different silhouette, different top end.
Where to Start
Drive it. The S7's argument is not made on a dock walk — it is made at the helm, with the pods holding the boat flat through a turn that would have a flybridge heeling. Then walk the cabins and count the berths again, because that is the half of the boat the profile hides.