You are leaving Miami on a Friday afternoon. The boat is fueled, provisions are stowed, and your partner is already on the flybridge. By sunset you are anchored off Bimini; by Sunday night you are back in the slip with a full weekend behind you and no crew to debrief. That is the Ferretti 580 in a sentence — the sixty-footer built for owners who want flybridge-yacht living without running a floating hotel.
Who It's For
The 580 is for the owner-operator coming out of a fifty-footer who wants more boat without stepping into crew territory. It is also the right size for the owner who splits the year between South Florida and the islands and wants speed and space in the same hull. If your typical trip is two couples and a few nights away, this layout is built for exactly that. If you are hosting eight for a week, look at the 670 or the 720 instead.
Design & Layout: Where the Full-Beam Suite Enters the Range
At 59'10" on a 16'5" beam, the 580 is where the full-beam owner's suite enters the Ferretti range — the suite runs the full width of the hull, and it is the single feature buyers step up from the 500 to get. Three guest cabins are standard, plus crew accommodation with separate access that earns its keep as storage when you run without help. Ferretti rates the boat for 14 people aboard.
The main deck follows the range's playbook: galley, salon and cockpit reading as one connected space, with the flybridge adding the second helm and the deck where the weekend actually happens.
Performance: Two Ways to Power It
Ferretti offers the 580 with standard twin Volvo Penta D13 900s — a published 28 knots flat out and 24 at cruise — or optional D13 1000s or Baudouin 6F21s, which lift the published figures to 32 and 26. Two knots of cruise and four of top end is a meaningful spread: if your calendar puts you on long legs at fixed dates, the optional package buys real time. If you cruise in day hops, the standard boat will not leave you wanting.
Tankage is 859 US gallons of fuel and 185 of water, moving 31,000 kg of boat, and the 4'11" draft keeps the good Bahamian anchorages open. What the tanks come to in range depends on your engines and your throttle hand — settle it on the sea trial with the tanks measured, and get the observed burn in writing.
Ownership Conversation: Crew Optional
The 580 sits squarely in owner-operator territory, with the crew cabin as an option on your lifestyle rather than a requirement of the boat. If you are new to this size, put a captain aboard for the first season and learn the boat properly. Budget from documents, not folklore: the sea-trial sheet, the service history and the build specification will tell you what this specific hull costs to run far better than any rule of thumb.
Where to Start
The 580 delivers on the core promise of the mid-range flybridge: speed when you want it, three real cabins, and a boat one confident owner can run. It is the step in the range where the owner's suite becomes the reason you go aboard early and stay up late.
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