Sunseeker builds nineteen models today. Two of them are published at 40 knots. They are the same hull.
The 75 Sport Yacht and the Predator 75 are both 75' 8" overall, 17' 8" in the beam, drawing 6' 2" at full load, displacing 103,396 lbs at half load, powered by twin MAN V12-1550 at 2 x 1,550 HP on shafts, carrying 1,268 gallons of fuel and 211 of fresh water, sleeping eight guests and two crew across three cabins with a fourth optional and three en-suites.
Every published figure on the two pages matches, line for line. There is no hidden difference in speed, weight, tankage or accommodation.
The difference is one deck. And the deck is on the boat most people would guess it was not.
Correcting the assumption first
If you go by the names, you would expect the Predator to be the open, sporting one and the Sport Yacht to be the enclosed, more formal one.
It is the other way around.
This boat's own page says a traditional second helm is accessible on the spacious flybridge via a stairway, with companion seating on the starboard side adjoined by a chaise-longue sunpad, and an uninterrupted view of the water from up there. It also describes a spacious foredeck with seating and a table for six, dual steps from the bathing platform to the aft cockpit, a tender garage capable of housing a Williams 395, and a double-piece windscreen to bring light into the main deck.
The Predator 75's page has none of that. It has one helm, on the main deck, forward of the sofa, beneath an oversized polished carbon fibre sunroof, and it sits lower as a result.
So the 75 Sport Yacht is the boat with the extra deck. That is the choice you are actually making, and it is worth making it deliberately.
What an upper station is worth at 75 feet
Two things, and they are different from each other.
First, running the boat. A second helm on a flybridge changes how you handle traffic, how you see a mark, how you place a 75-footer in a crowded anchorage, and how pleasant an eight-hour passage is on a good day. On a shaft-drive boat with no joystick, being able to see over the bow from height is not a small consideration.
Second, living aboard. The flybridge is a room with a view that nobody else on the boat is occupying. Companion seating and a chaise-longue sunpad up there mean it works when you are not driving as well as when you are.
Add the foredeck - seating and a table for six, properly finished rather than a sunpad you visit - and the boat has three social areas: bow, cockpit, flybridge. The Predator has two.
The main deck and the interior
The main deck is lit through a double-piece windscreen and full-height glazing, which matters more on this version because there is a flybridge sitting over part of the superstructure.
Seating centres on a fold-out table to starboard and a large television unit to port, with the helm station forward of a U-shaped sofa - the layout Sunseeker has refined across generations rather than reinvented.
The materials are where the boat spends its confidence: exquisite woods, contrasting fabrics and rich lacquers, indirect dimmable lighting, and then bold notes in carbon fibre trim, sharp accent designs, reflective surfaces and stainless steel cabinet detailing. It is a more decorated interior than the class average and it is not trying to be quiet about it.
Accommodation, for eight and two
The lower deck takes up to eight guests and two crew.
The full-beam master has a dressing table fitted with storage, a chaise longue and substantial wardrobe space. All three guest suites have their own en-suites, and the shared day head is reached from the lower hallway rather than through a cabin - a small routing decision that matters every single day.
The fully fitted lower galley and dining space give the lower deck a purpose of its own. For four people aboard rather than eight, it becomes the room you actually eat in.
Three things to settle on the trial
Shafts, not pods. Sunseeker uses Volvo Penta IPS on its smaller performance hulls and comes back to shafts at 75 feet, so there is no docking joystick and berthing this boat is a conventional skill again. Take it into a berth the width of the one you keep, with wind on the beam, and be honest with yourself about whether you want a captain.
And the engine question. Sunseeker names two different MAN V12 packages for this hull, and the one to expect is the twin MAN V12-1550 at 2 x 1,550 HP. Ask which is in the boat you are driving, and have the rating written onto your contract, before you form an opinion about the 40 knots.
Then the cruising numbers. Up to 40 knots is the top of the sheet and a condition you will hardly ever be in, which hands you a fifteen-minute job: on sea trial, run at the rpm you genuinely intend to cruise at, ask the dealer for observed burn at that rpm in writing, and do your own arithmetic against the 1,268 gallons under the floor. That is the only figure that will describe your boat.
Where else to look
At this length the cross-shops are Italian. The Pershing GTX80 at 78' 8" is the closest on size and the more overtly performance-led reading of the same brief. The Azimut S8 at 80' 10" is longer and comes at it differently again.
Both deserve a day. But the real question stays in the Sunseeker dealership, and it is simple: will you use the flybridge? If yes, this is your boat, and you are getting an upper deck without giving up a single knot. If no, take the Predator 75 - same hull, same numbers, lower profile, one helm done properly.