Three hours south of Miami, anchored off Bimini with eight guests aboard: lunch on the flybridge, the master quiet enough for an afternoon call, the crew working the galley without crossing a single guest space. That is the weekend the Ferretti 800 is designed to deliver — not the fantasy version, the functional one.
The 800 sits in the middle of Ferretti's flybridge range, between the 720 and the 860, and it marks the point where the range changes character. This is where the crew stops being occasional.
Who It's For
The buyer for this boat has done a season or two on a sixty- or seventy-footer and learned that what he actually needs is separation — guest areas the crew can service without walking through them. The 800 carries four guest cabins and three crew berths, and those three berths are the headline: a live-aboard captain and stew fit this boat by design, not by improvisation. Unusually, that is more crew accommodation than the larger 860 carries. If a permanent crew is central to your plan, this is the boat in this part of the range built for it.
Design & Layout: Built Around Service Flow
At 80'3" overall on a 19'5" beam, the 800 is drawn around the way a crewed boat actually works: independent crew access, a galley the crew can own, and a main deck that stays a guest space all day. The owner's cabin anchors the accommodation below, and the flybridge spans the boat's full beam — the deck where the 800 spends its afternoons, with room for the entire guest list and the helm in the same conversation.
Performance: Two V12 Packages
Ferretti powers the 800 with standard twin MAN V12 1550s — a published 27 knots flat out and 24 at cruise — or the optional V12 1800s, which lift those to 31 and 27. A 27-knot cruise moves this boat between islands on your schedule rather than the weather's, and the three-knot spread between packages is worth an honest conversation about how you actually cruise before you pay for it.
For everything the speed figures do not tell you — burn at your rpm, and the range that follows from it — the sea trial with the tanks measured is the only document worth quoting. Get it in writing.
Ownership Conversation: Crewed, Comfortably
The 800 is the boat in the flybridge range that most owners will run with permanent help, and its three crew berths mean doing so does not cannibalize guest space. Budget from documents: the sea-trial sheet, the service history on the MAN V12s, and the build specification. If you want the same idea with an owner-operator bias, the 720 is a size down; if you want another step of volume, the 860 is next.
Where to Start
The Ferretti 800 is the range's quiet professional: four cabins, real crew quarters, real speed, and a layout that keeps everyone in their best rooms. If your boat is becoming a crewed boat, start here.
Explore full specifications at YachtSpecsDirect.com
Browse available Ferretti inventory at mintedyachts.com/ferretti