Nineteen models in Sunseeker's current range. Exactly two of them are published at 40 knots, and they are the same hull with two names on it.
The Predator 75 and the 75 Sport Yacht are 75' 8" overall, 17' 8" in the beam, drawing 6' 2" at full load, displacing 103,396 lbs at half load, running 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 matches. There is no hidden speed difference, no extra volume, no separate engine package.
So what are you choosing between? A deck. And it is not the deck most people assume.
The assumption to correct
The intuitive reading of these two names is that the Predator is the open, sporting one and the Sport Yacht is the enclosed, more formal one. That is backwards.
The 75 Sport Yacht carries a traditional second helm on a spacious flybridge, reached by a stairway, with companion seating on the starboard side and an adjoining chaise-longue sunpad. It also has a spacious foredeck with seating and a table for six, dual steps from the bathing platform to the aft cockpit, a tender garage sized for a Williams 395, and a double-piece windscreen.
The Predator 75 does without all of it. One helm, on the main deck, forward of the sofa with companion seating alongside to port. Above that helm is an oversized polished carbon fibre sunroof that opens to flood the living space with light.
So the Sport Yacht is the boat with the extra deck. The Predator is the boat that resolves everything into one level and sits lower for it. That is a real ownership difference and it has nothing to do with enclosure or finish.
What the Predator 75 does with one deck
Because there is no flybridge, the main deck has to be the whole boat, and it has been designed as such.
Interior styling is deliberately assertive: contemporary furniture in wood, carbon fibre and stainless steel under dimmable mood lighting. The standard arrangement runs wraparound seating with a large television unit, the helm forward of the sofa, and the carbon sunroof overhead.
Aft, the cockpit takes a classic arrangement - U-shaped seating around a rise-and-fall carbon fibre table, and an aft sunpad with a large concealed storage compartment beneath.
The connection between the two is the feature people remember from the sea trial. The cockpit door slides to starboard, and then the door and the window descend beneath the seating. Not folded, not stacked - gone. Open, the saloon and the cockpit are one deck with no threshold and no frame between them.
On a boat with a single social level, that detail is doing a lot of work, and it is worth operating yourself rather than watching a salesperson do it.
The exterior, which Sunseeker clearly enjoyed
This generation gets a new, angular hull and superstructure glazing design, stainless steel air intake cowlings and exterior handrails, new exterior upholstery and moulding options, and a choice of four grey hull colours.
Hull colour sounds trivial next to a layout decision and it is not. On a 75-foot performance boat it is the choice owners revisit most often in their own heads, and unlike the interior it is not something you change your mind about later.
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 additional 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 anyone's cabin.
There is also a fully fitted lower galley with a dining space beside it, which is more useful than it sounds - it gives the lower deck a social function for small groups rather than making it purely a corridor with bedrooms off it.
Cabins are listed as three with a fourth optional, and Sunseeker describes the space configuration as fully customisable. That means it is settled at order.
Shafts, not pods
This is the point in the range where Sunseeker leaves IPS behind. The smaller Predators run Volvo Penta pods with joystick docking; at 75 feet, the propulsion is shafts.
Practically, that means docking a 75-foot boat is a conventional skill again. Some owners want exactly that. Others discover on the third weekend that they want a captain. Find out which you are on the trial, in a berth the width of the one you keep, with wind on the beam.
There is also an engine question to settle. Sunseeker offers two different MAN V12 packages on this hull, and 2 x 1,550 HP is the lower of the two. Establish which is in whatever boat you drive before you form a view about the top end - it is one question and it prevents a misunderstanding later.
Get your own cruise number
On sea trial, run at the rpm you actually intend to cruise at, ask for observed burn at that rpm in writing, and do your own arithmetic against the 1,268 gallons under the floor.
Fifteen minutes of work, and the number you plan a season around is your boat's, measured on the day - which is the only version of it worth having.
Where else to look at 75 feet
The direct rivals are Italian. The Riva 76' Perseo Super at 76' 3" is within seven inches on length and the closest stylistic competitor. The Pershing 7X at 69' 3" is shorter but comes from the same instinct - fast, hard-edged, unapologetic.
Both are worth a day. But if you are already in a Sunseeker dealership, the decision in front of you is between two boats on one hull, and it is simply this: will you use a flybridge? If yes, take the 75 Sport Yacht. If no, take the Predator, because you lose nothing on speed, weight, tankage or accommodation by doing so, and you gain a lower boat with one properly resolved helm.