You have been told for years that you cannot have both — the yacht that makes the passage in a morning, and the yacht you actually want to sit in all afternoon. One has a low ceiling and a hard ride. The other has a full-height saloon and eighteen knots.
The Sanlorenzo SP110 is the yard's answer to that, and it is the first open Sanlorenzo has ever built. Three MAN V12s and hydrojet propulsion for a published 39 knots, underneath an interior Piero Lissoni built around one word: lightness.
Who it's for
You move the boat. Not once a season with a delivery crew, but on Friday afternoons, between islands, on a schedule that has other people's plans attached to it. The difference between 22 knots and 39 is the difference between arriving for dinner and arriving for breakfast, and you have done enough of the second to want the first.
You also want the arrival to be worth it. This is not a stripped performance hull with a bed in it. Sanlorenzo lists six to eight guests and five crew — a properly staffed boat, run by a captain and a team, with the accommodation to match.
Design and layout: the open coupé, and the volume above it
Sanlorenzo's framing for the SP110 is redefining speed through intelligence, lightness and sustainable design. The exterior it calls sculpted dynamics: an open coupé profile with expansive glazed surfaces and a sporty stance, engineered for efficiency, lightness and speed.
Lissoni's own description of the interior is the more useful one, because he tells you what he was trying to do rather than what it looks like. He calls it an extreme, intelligent project where vertical open space reveals architectural power, and says that inside, everything is subtle and delicate. The guiding word is lightness.
Vertical open space is the part to hold on to. The saloon is not one flat storey — the volume runs up through more than one level, which is what people mean when they call this interior loft-like, and it is the reason the boat does not feel like a fast boat when you are sitting still in it. Sanlorenzo describes the interiors as light-filled and multi-level, with generous volumes and fluid connections between them.
There is a detail on the yard's specification page worth understanding before you read too much into it. Sanlorenzo publishes two configurations for the SP110, A and B. They are interior arrangements. The dimensions, the tankage, the engines and the published speed are identical for both. This is not a boat with two spec sheets — it is a boat with two floor plans, and choosing between them is a layout conversation, not a performance one.
Performance: what Sanlorenzo publishes
Three MAN V12s at 2,000 horsepower each — 6,000 horsepower in total — driving hydrojets, for a published maximum of 39 knots. Length overall 33 metres, which is 108 feet 3 inches, on an 8.2 metre beam, or 26 feet 11 inches. Fuel 12,000 litres, 3,170 US gallons. Fresh water 1,850 litres, 489 US gallons. Six to eight guests, five crew.
The yard's word for the whole package is Smart Performance, and it is not only about the engines. Sanlorenzo describes the platform as a lightweight hull with hydrojet propulsion and a three-engine system, plus energy recovery, solar panels and batteries to cut consumption and extend onboard autonomy. It publishes no capacity figure for the solar array, none for the batteries, and no autonomy hours — so treat the claim as directional and take the numbers from the specification.
The comparison worth making is with the SP92 below it. That boat is 91 feet 10 inches, runs two MAN V12s, and Sanlorenzo publishes 38 knots for the 2,000 horsepower package and 40 for the 2,200. Which means the SP110, sixteen feet five inches longer with a third engine, publishes one knot less than the fastest SP92. Again: stepping up this range does not buy top speed. It buys 3,500 more litres of fuel, a fifth crew berth, and the vertical volume the smaller boat cannot make room for.
Sanlorenzo publishes no cruise speed, no range, no draft and no displacement for the SP110 or for any model in its fleet. On a boat whose entire proposition is covering distance quickly, the absence of a published consumption figure at speed is the one that stings — and it is better said plainly than filled in with a guess.
Ownership: the questions worth asking
Ask for the sea trial report, with observed speed and observed fuel burn at each rpm step. On a 6,000 horsepower boat this is not a formality — it is the difference between a 39-knot yacht you use and a 39-knot yacht you admire at the dock.
Ask for the draft from the build specification. Hydrojets typically sit shallower than shafts, and shallow draft is a large part of why a boat like this gets bought — but Sanlorenzo does not publish the figure, so get it in writing rather than off a listing.
Ask about the jets themselves. Three sets of running gear, three engines, three of everything to service. Find out what the maintenance interval looks like and what the last owner spent on it.
Ask for the energy package on paper — solar capacity, battery capacity, and how many hours of hotel load the yard will actually stand behind at anchor.
And ask which configuration the hull carries, A or B, and walk both if you can. It is the only choice on the specification that changes how you live aboard.
Where to start
The SP110 makes sense if speed is a schedule requirement rather than a boast, and if you want the volume of a 33-metre while you are using it rather than only while you are moving.
Walk an SP92 first if there is one nearby. Same design language, a published top speed a knot higher, two engines instead of three — that comparison tells you fast whether you are buying the pace or the room.
Talk it through with Tony Smith — TS@MintedYachts.com or +1 (404) 805-9819 — or send the form on this page and we will come back with the yard's own documents.
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