Buy a 95-footer and you are either buying a main-deck master or you are not — most of the rest is variation. The Ferretti 940 puts the owner's suite forward on the main deck at the full 22'2" beam, and that one decision is the reason this boat exists: your cabin gets windows at eye level with the water, there is no companionway between dinner and bed, and the guest accommodation below stops competing with you for the best real estate.
Who It's For
The 940 is built for extended family trips run with a captain and a mate — the Bahamas, the Keys, the Caribbean in season. Five guest cabins and two crew berths take two families, or one family and a rotation of guests, without anyone sleeping in the saloon. The buyer it fits has no need to be the fastest boat leaving the inlet; he wants the boat that is the most comfortable to live on for ten days at a stretch.
Design & Layout: The Widebody Argument
The widebody main deck is what a 22'2" beam is for. The master takes the full width forward; the salon and cockpit run aft as connected living space. Below, the five cabins spread across the beam with the crew quarters kept separate, so service and privacy stop being a trade. At 95'1" overall on a 7'7" draft, the 940 still fits the marinas and anchorages a hundred-footer starts negotiating with.
Performance & Handling
Ferretti publishes the 940 with standard twin MAN V12 2000s — 25 knots flat out, 21 at cruise — and the optional V12X 2200s, which move those to 27 and 23. Two knots of cruise does not sound like much. Across a long day it is most of an hour, and an hour is the difference between arriving for dinner and arriving in the dark. If the boat's life is Fort Lauderdale and four Bahamas trips a year, the standard package is plenty.
There are 2,378 US gallons of fuel and 349 of water in the tanks, and 85,000 kg to push. What that comes to in range is a sea-trial question, not a brochure one — be wary of anyone who hands you a range figure without a test sheet behind it, and get your own answered in writing before you sign. The 349 gallons of water, shared among a full guest list, is the number to remember when you spec the watermaker.
The Ownership Conversation
This is a crewed boat run the civilized way: a captain and a mate, with the owner still taking her out of the anchorage on a good morning. Costs live in documents, not articles — the sea-trial sheet, the service history and the build specification will price this specific hull honestly. Getting the specification right the first time is what protects the boat's value, so it is worth having someone in your corner who knows how Ferretti builds and what post-sale support should cover.
If you want more volume, the 1000 is next door; if you want less boat to run, the 860 does the same job a size down.
Where to Start
The 940 is the main-deck-master boat in the heart of the range. If that is the feature your last boat taught you to want, this is the one to walk first.
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