Anchored off Bimini on a Friday afternoon: cocktails for eight on the sun deck, guests spread across the boat, and somehow it still feels intimate rather than cavernous. That is the brief the Ferretti 1000 was built to. This is the flagship of the flybridge range — 98'10" of it — with the volume of a small estate and the published speeds of a much sportier boat.
Who It's For
The 1000 is for the owner who entertains for real and runs the boat with professional crew, without crossing into superyacht logistics. Five guest cabins and three crew berths set the model: those three berths — matching the 800 and beating the 860 and 940, which carry two — are what make the 1000 a genuinely crewed boat rather than a very large owner-driven one. The step up from the 70-to-85-foot bracket lands here when the guest list stopped fitting.
Design & Layout: The Full-Beam Main Deck
The master spans the full 22'4" beam on the main deck, with side windows at eye level — the layout argument that decides boats in this class. Below, the guest cabins and the separate crew quarters keep guests and service out of each other's way, and the flybridge adds an entire second living deck. At 98'10" overall drawing 7'6", the 1000 still uses marinas a 110-footer has outgrown.
Performance: A Four-Knot Spread
The engine choice is unusually consequential here. Standard twin MTU 16V 2000 M86s give a published 24 knots flat out and 20 at cruise; the optional M96Ls lift those to 28 and 24 — a four-knot spread at both ends, the widest in the large end of the range. On a 98-tonne hull, that is the difference between keeping up with the flybridge fleet and watching it leave. Compare listings by the M86 or M96L designation, not by a horsepower figure.
Tankage is 2,378 US gallons of fuel and 349 of water. The water figure is the one to look at twice: with 20 people aboard, the 1000 carries less water than the 860's 370 gallons despite ten more feet of boat — plan on the watermaker doing real work. Range, as everywhere in this range, is a sea-trial question: observed burn at your rpm, in writing.
Ownership Conversation: Crewed by Design
Three crew berths mean the 1000 runs the way boats this size should: the crew keeps the boat ready, and the owner keeps the fun parts. Price the ownership from documents — the sea-trial sheet, the service history on the MTUs, the build specification — and price the option list the same way. And if the 1000 tempts you but the open flybridge does not, the Skydeck encloses the upper deck on this same hull.
Where to Start
The 1000 is the boat for the owner whose guest list finally outgrew everything below it. Walk the main deck, sit in the master with the side windows at eye level, and the argument makes itself.
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