If your cruising pattern is long legs and long stays at anchor, the number that matters most on the Sunseeker 95 Yacht is 3,170.
That is the fuel capacity in US gallons, and it is more than any of this boat's direct rivals carry. Everything else about the yacht follows from it: this is a capacity boat, not a cabin boat.
The specification
Length overall is 92' 1"; Sunseeker names this class the 95. Beam is 21' 6". Draft is 7' 0", a maximum at full load. Displacement is 186,731 lbs at half load.
Accommodation is four cabins and four heads. Fuel is 3,170 US gallons. Fresh water is 462 US gallons. Power is twin MTU 12V 2000 M96L, and the yard quotes up to 26.5 knots.
What the boat is good at
Carrying things. Fuel is 3,170 US gallons, and that is more than any of its direct rivals: the Ferretti 940 carries 2,378, the Sanlorenzo SL90A carries 2,378, and the Riva 90' Argo carries 2,298. It is also 263 gallons more than the 88 Yacht below it.
Fresh water is 462 US gallons, up from the 370 that both the 76 Yacht and the 88 Yacht carry. That is the first real increase in the line and it changes how long four occupied cabins can stay away from a dock.
The trade is speed. 26.5 knots is the lowest maximum of the four boats below the flagship: the 76 is quoted at 32, the 100 Yacht at 30 and the 88 at 28. Notice that the ordering does not follow weight. The 100 Yacht is 219,095 lbs at half load against this boat's 186,731 and is quoted faster, because the 100 runs the M96X variant of the MTU where the 95 runs the M96L. At the top of this range the engine variant is doing more than the displacement is.
The volume step is smaller than the length step
Five and a half feet longer than the 88 Yacht buys three inches of beam: 21' 6" against 21' 3". Half-load displacement goes from 170,417 lbs to 186,731. Both boats draw 7' 0". Both carry four cabins and four heads.
So the difference between the 88 and the 95 is 263 gallons of fuel, 92 gallons of water, three inches of beam and a knot and a half off the top. If you are choosing between them, you are choosing capacity, not accommodation.
Where the fifth cabin lives
Not here. Four cabins and four heads is the count from the 76 Yacht through to the 95, and the accommodation step in this range is the 100 Yacht, which adds a fifth cabin, a sixth head and seventeen inches of beam. Among the cross-shops, the Ferretti 940 is the one offering a fifth guest cabin at this length.
If four cabins is enough, the 95 gives you the longest legs of the group. If it is not, no amount of tankage fixes it.
How it reads against the class
The three closest cross-shops are all within a foot and a half of this boat on length. The Ferretti 940 is 95' 1" on a 22' 2" beam, with five guest cabins and two crew and 2,378 gallons of fuel. The Sanlorenzo SL90A is 90' 7" on a 21' 4" beam, four cabins and four heads plus crew, 2,378 gallons, and up to 29 knots. The Riva 90' Argo is 93' 6" on a 21' 4" beam with four cabins and two crew cabins, 2,298 gallons, and the same 26.5 knots on the M96X variant of the same MTU.
Competitive on capacity, mid-pack on speed, in a group where nobody is far ahead. What separates one deal from another at this size is the survey, the sea trial and the contract.
Four things to get in writing
The crew arrangement. Where it sits on your hull and how many berths it carries, taken off the general arrangement drawing rather than off a conversation.
The MTU rating as installed. Name the variant and the rating on the contract.
Rigged weight and tankage as fitted. 186,731 lbs at half load and 3,170 gallons are the published figures for the model. Confirm both for your hull.
Observed consumption at your cruising rpm. Available at sea trial, on a loaded boat, and only if you go out planning to record it.
The verdict
Strong tankage, moderate speed and a modest volume step over the boat below. The 95 Yacht is a good long-legged four-cabin yacht for owners cruising deep water, and the case for it is 3,170 gallons of fuel and 462 of fresh water.
Buy it with the arrangement drawing in front of you rather than the brochure.