The crossover idea has been working its way up Sanlorenzo's range for years. It started at 88 feet, went to 100, then to 120 — and each step made it a bigger, more heavily crewed proposition than the one before.
The SX76 goes the other way. At 77 feet 9 inches it is the smallest boat in the line, and it is the one that asks the least of you: eight guests against two crew, which is the lightest crew brief of any Sanlorenzo we list.
Who it's for
You want the SX arrangement — the open stern, the volume, the indoor-and-outdoor layout that made the line worth talking about — without stepping into a five-crew operation to get it.
Two crew and eight guests is a specific brief. It works if you are cruising as a family or with one other couple, with a captain and one more pair of hands. It stops working if you fill all eight berths for a week and expect hotel service. Be honest about which of those you are planning, because it is the single thing that decides whether this boat or the SX88 is the right one.
You are also cross-shopping here rather than looking at a category of one. At this length the SX76 sits against boats like the Azimut Magellano 25M, the Sunseeker 76 Yacht and the Ferretti Yachts 800 — three very different answers to the same question. The SX is the one that treats the stern as living space rather than as somewhere to keep the tender.
Design and layout: explorer volume on a yacht platform
Sanlorenzo's own description of the SX76 exterior is balanced strength: sculpted volumes and expansive glazing that set yacht elegance next to explorer robustness, with a high bow and a slim stern profile. That is the SX line in one sentence — the proportions and the deck volume of something built to go places, on a platform that still behaves like a yacht.
The stern is where the idea lives. On a conventional 76-footer the aft end is a garage with a swim platform bolted to it. On an SX the beach area at the stern is somewhere you spend the day, and the tender and the toys are arranged around that fact rather than the other way round.
Bernardo Zuccon, who drew it, describes the boat as an interpretation of the relationship between man and the sea, and a merging of form and function. Inside, the yard calls the interior luminous calm — a continuous open space rather than a sequence of rooms, with natural light on all sides and a residential rather than nautical feel.
Two configurations, A and B, are published. As elsewhere in the fleet they are interior arrangements: dimensions, tankage, engines and published speed do not change between them.
Performance: what Sanlorenzo publishes
Twin Volvo Penta IPS3 1200 pods, 900 horsepower each, for a published maximum of 22 knots. Length overall 23.7 metres — 77 feet 9 inches — on a 6.6 metre beam, which is 21 feet 8 inches. Fuel 4,350 litres, 1,149 US gallons. Fresh water 1,250 litres, 330 US gallons. Eight guests, two crew.
Pods are the reason the layout works. Volvo's IPS puts the drives aft and low and lets the designer place the engine room where the arrangement wants it rather than where a shaft line insists, which is what frees the stern. They also bring joystick control, which on a 77-footer with two crew is not a convenience — it is part of the operating case for the boat.
Twenty-two knots is the published maximum, and it is the slowest in the SX line: the SX88 and SX100 both publish 23, the SX120 publishes 24. That is not a criticism. Nobody buys an SX for its top end, and the pod package that gives you the stern and the handling is the same decision that sets the number.
Sanlorenzo publishes no cruise speed, no range, no draft and no displacement for the SX76 or for anything else it builds. Draft matters more on this boat than on most of the fleet, because shallow-water access is a large part of why people buy an SX in the first place, and the figures you will find quoted for it did not come from the yard. Take it from the build specification.
Ownership: the questions worth asking
Ask for the sea trial report, with observed speed and observed fuel burn at each rpm step. With 4,350 litres aboard — less tankage than anything else in the SX line — consumption at your intended speed is what decides your range, and only the trial sheet gives you it.
Ask for the draft from the build specification, in writing. It is the number that determines whether the anchorages you have in mind are open to you.
Ask about the pods. IPS drives are proven and easy to live with, but they are a service item with a schedule of their own. Find out where the boat has been serviced and what it has cost.
Ask how the two-crew arrangement actually works on the hull in front of you — where the crew sleep, how the galley is placed, and what happens when all eight guest berths are full.
And ask which configuration it carries, A or B. It is the only choice on the specification that changes daily life aboard.
Where to start
The SX76 earns your time if you want the SX arrangement at the smallest scale Sanlorenzo builds it, and if two crew is a deliberate decision rather than a compromise you have not thought through yet.
Walk an SX88 alongside it if you can. Nine feet ten inches longer, a third crew berth, and 4,950 litres more fuel — that comparison is the whole decision, and it usually resolves in an afternoon.
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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