Every boat range has a step where the numbers stop being incremental. On Galeon's flybridge line it is obvious once you put two specifications side by side.
The 680 FLY: 72' 0" overall, 85,010 lbs in light craft condition, four cabins plus a crew cabin.
The 800 FLY: 84' 4" overall, 138,920 lbs, four en-suite cabins plus a crew apartment.
Twelve feet of length. About fifty-four thousand pounds. Nothing in between. Galeon's own two-word description of the 800 is the flagship, and for once the marketing is just the arithmetic.
What the jump actually buys
Not sunpad. Separation.
The master sits amidships with a central double bed and an adjacent walk-in wardrobe, and it is reached by its own staircase. The owner does not cross guest circulation to go to bed.
The guests get a bow VIP with an overhead skylight above the berth, and two midships cabins with twin beds that convert into doubles. All four cabins are en suite, with a day head on the main deck as well, and Galeon's guest figure for the boat is eighteen.
And the crew get an apartment. Galeon's description, in its own words: a discreetly positioned cabin at the stern with two beds separated by sliding doors, a private bathroom, wardrobe, kitchenette, and a convertible sofa and table.
That last one is worth dwelling on. Crew that live properly stay longer and run the boat better. At this size that is an operating decision rather than a luxury, and it is the clearest signal that the 800 was drawn for a yacht that gets used for weeks at a time rather than weekends.
The flybridge, and the carbon that makes it possible
Galeon is direct about the engineering: carbon fibre structural elements are what allowed the upper deck to be expanded. What that buys is a deck carrying a double helmsman's position, a fully equipped bar, a sunbathing area, four adaptable tables, and two large semicircular sofas with a jacuzzi set between them.
Then there is a separate private bow lounge with sunpads and optional shade. Then there is the aft cockpit, shaded, connected directly to both the salon and the hydraulic swim platform.
Three social areas that work independently. At eighty-four feet you more often get one grand deck plus two places people drift to when it is full. This is a different arrangement and it changes how a full boat feels.
The main deck
Galeon's own comparison for the main deck is an upscale apartment, and the layout supports it. A generously equipped galley around a refined kitchen island. Beside the double helmsman's station, a sofa with a coffee table. A grand dining table seating eight. A living area with ample windows, a retractable television, a modern bar - and a separate day toilet, so nobody is sent below to use a head during dinner.
Large glass sliding doors and an open plan connect it through to the cockpit, and the side decks are wide walkarounds rather than the pinched passages some builders accept at this beam.
The numbers
Length overall 84' 4", beam 19' 0", hull length about 77' 8". Fuel 1,445 gallons in two tanks. Fresh water 441 gallons across two, a 111-gallon grey tank and a 227-gallon black tank. Displacement 138,920 lbs in light craft condition with base engines, and maximum load 21,142 lbs. Bridge clearance 28' 1" from the waterline at minimum draft, height to transport 32' 5". CE Category B, crew limit sixteen.
Engine power is a band: minimum 2 x 1,650 hp, maximum 2 x 1,920 hp. Maximum speed 31 knots - which, on Galeon's own published figures, makes the flagship the joint-fastest boat in the flybridge range alongside the much smaller 620 FLY, with the 640 and 680 quoted at 30.
The draft number that matters
Draft is 4' 6" - or 5' 9" with the running gear underneath it.
Those are two measurements of two different things and both are true. The one that matters when you are sizing a berth, booking a lift or planning an approach is the larger one. Give a marina 5' 9", have it confirmed for your hull, and do not read 4' 6" and stop there.
While you are on that subject, add the weight. A light-craft mass of 138,920 lbs with 21,142 lbs of maximum load on top means a fully loaded 800 FLY is asking a travelift for roughly eighty tons. That is a conversation to have with a yard early rather than on the day.
What to settle in writing before signing
On a model this new, the build documents are the boat: it arrives with exactly what your contract says it does, from the engine package - settled at the order desk within the 1,650-to-1,920 hp band - to the equipment list. Four things to get on paper, and none of them are unreasonable to ask for.
Tankage, confirmed on the build documents. The engine package, named and rated, on the contract. A rigged and loaded weight, because 138,920 lbs is a light-craft figure with base engines and your maximum load allowance is 21,142 lbs on top of it. And observed fuel burn at cruise, in writing, from a boat that has actually run - then do your own range arithmetic off 1,445 gallons, and off two-thirds of it rather than the whole tank.
Get those four and you are buying the biggest, best-separated, best-crewed yacht Galeon makes with your eyes open. Skip them and you are buying a very good boat on somebody's word.