Most yachts at seventy feet come with a layout. You look at the plan, you decide whether you can live with it, and you choose your veneers. The Sunseeker Manhattan 68 is not that boat. Sunseeker offers configurable interior layouts on it, and the choice you make reshapes the saloon, the cabin count and how private the owner's cabin actually is.
That is the interesting part of this yacht. Before we get there, though, there is a piece of misinformation to clear out of the way, because it is on the first page of results for this model and it will trip somebody up at survey.
It is a shaft-drive boat
Sunseeker's own technical specification for the Manhattan 68 lists propulsion as shafts. That is the complete entry. Engines are twin MAN V8-1000s at 1,000 PS each, with a twin MAN V8-1200 option at 1,200 PS each, and both turn straight shafts.
At least one large third-party listing site reports a pod drive package as standard equipment on this model. That information is from an earlier generation of the boat, and the same site carries generation-stale data on other Sunseekers too. The current Manhattan 68 is a shaft boat in every configuration.
If you are reading a broker listing that says otherwise, do not argue with the listing. Look under the boat, or have your surveyor confirm the running gear before you spend money on anything else. Getting this wrong changes the docking technique, the yard bill and the value.
Now, the staircase
Here is the decision that actually matters.
Configuration one is the dual-staircase four-cabin boat. A private staircase leads down to a midships full-beam owner's cabin. The owner's route to and from the cabin never crosses the guest route. If privacy is the reason you are buying a 70-footer instead of a 56, this is the plan.
Configuration two takes the second staircase out. The volume that stair would have used becomes an opposing seating group in the main saloon, which changes the main deck from a boat with a sofa into a boat with two facing seating areas. From that base you can go two ways. Run three cabins, and spend the difference on a grander entrance to the owner's cabin plus an office in the plan. Or keep four by adding a Pullman-style fourth cabin, which gets you the berths without the second stair.
Published accommodation is four cabins for up to eight guests plus two crew, with three en-suites and a day head.
Take this seriously at order time. It is a decision you make on paper months before you stand aboard, and it is the difference between a boat that fits your family and a boat you resent on the third season. Sit down with your actual cruising pattern from the last two years, count how often you carried two guest couples versus one, count how often you worked aboard, and choose from that rather than from the prettiest rendering.
What else changed in this generation
Sunseeker describes the current Manhattan 68 as building on a celebrated predecessor, and the list of changes is specific rather than vague.
The superstructure profile is refreshed, lower and sharper in the shoulder. The flybridge is redesigned with a larger and more versatile seating arrangement and a new ergonomic console. The exterior upholstery has been refreshed in a contemporary palette. And the aft cockpit has been reworked for seclusion, with a built-in privacy screen.
That last one deserves more attention than it gets. On a boat that will spend its life stern-to in a busy marina, a screen between your evening drink and the pedestrian traffic on the quay is a feature you will use every single night. Go and deploy it in person.
The numbers
Length overall 69' 7". Beam 17' 3". Draft 5' 4", which Sunseeker qualifies as maximum at full load. Half-load displacement 87,764 lbs, so that figure already carries a working amount of fuel, water and gear. Fuel 1,057 US gallons. Fresh water 238 US gallons. Black water 53 US gallons. Generators at 17.5 kW or 21.5 kW at 50 Hz.
Maximum speed is up to 32 knots.
The speed figure to ignore, and the one to build yourself
There is a 10-knot number attached to this boat in various places, presented as a cruise speed. It is not one. Ten knots is the condition at which Sunseeker quotes range, and an aggregator has picked up the figure and put it in the wrong row. Nobody cruises a 32-knot flybridge at ten knots.
The number you actually want is one you take yourself, and the sea trial is where you take it. Bring the boat to the speed you intend to hold with your normal load aboard. Let it settle. Have observed fuel consumption recorded in writing, with the sea state, the trim and the weight aboard noted alongside it. Then do the same at wide-open throttle to confirm the boat makes its 32 knots in the condition it is in.
That report is what you plan passages against for the life of the boat, and it is worth insisting on before the deposit goes hard.
Where it fits
Cross-shop it against the Azimut Fly 68, which at 68' 10" is the closest match on length and also carries four cabins plus a crew berth, and the Princess Y72 at 74' 9", which is the British alternative most of these buyers see and is a genuinely larger boat. The Galeon 680 FLY at 72' 0" is worth a look if you want to see how much feature content another yard puts into the same berth.
Inside Sunseeker's own family, this is the step above the Manhattan 56 where four cabins and crew accommodation arrive, and the step below the Manhattan 94, which moves the owner's suite onto the main deck entirely. The whole family is on the Manhattan series page.
Sunseeker is showing the Manhattan 68 at the Cannes Yachting Festival from 8 to 13 September 2026.