It is Friday at three. You close the laptop, text the family, and by five you are backing out of the slip. No crew, no coordination, no waiting on anyone's availability. Just the helm, three staterooms behind you and 700 gallons under the sole.
That is the Tiara EX 60 in one sentence. It is a 60-footer designed for the owner-operator who wants the space and capability of a larger yacht without the operational weight that usually arrives with it. At this length that is a deliberate and slightly unusual bet, and the boat is drawn around it from the helm outward.
Who It's For
This boat fits the owner-operator who has outgrown fifty feet and does not want a captain to come with the upgrade. Pods on a joystick, one helm built for long runs, and Active Ride Control holding the boat flat mean a competent owner and one other person can run it - which is the whole reason to look at a 60-footer laid out like this one.
It fits a family that stays out for a week. Three staterooms, two heads, 150 gallons of water and an 86-gallon holding tank on 700 gallons of fuel is a genuine extended-cruising package, and the 304-nautical-mile cruise range means the next harbor is a decision rather than a constraint.
It does not fit a buyer chasing top speed for its own sake, and it does not fit anyone who needs an upper station or a flybridge. The EX 60 is a single-helm boat under a hardtop.
Design and Layout: An Anthology of the Range
Tiara describes the EX 60 as an anthology of its own product line, and the description is literal. The exterior thinking comes from its outboard yachts, where the deck is the whole point. The accommodation comes from its inboard heritage, where an extended stay aboard is assumed. That is why a 60-footer with three staterooms also has a cockpit you order rather than accept.
The aft cockpit takes a module: a social configuration, an adventure module with tender and toy stowage, or a glass patio that extends finished living space aft. The media gallery on Tiara's own page is organized around those choices, which tells you how much of the boat they change.
The main deck follows the pattern the EX series is built on - salon and galley on one level, sight lines kept open to a helm designed to be sat at for hours rather than glanced at between marinas. Volvo's Electronic Vessel Control puts the driving on one interface.
Below deck, three staterooms and two heads on a 16'11" beam. That beam is a full foot wider than the EX 54's and it is where the extra accommodation volume comes from, not the length.
Performance: The Efficiency Peak Is Where You Want to Sit
The EX 60 on twin D13 IPS1350s was tested at Stuart, Florida on 30 November 2022 in a light breeze and under a foot of chop, with fuel, water and waste tanks full, three aboard and 2,381 lbs of gear and test equipment.
Wide open throttle is 46.1 mph at 2,454 rpm on 102.3 gallons per hour. Idle to 30 mph takes 17 seconds.
Optimum cruise is 28.9 mph at 1,801 rpm on 52.0 gph, or 36.6 mph at 2,107 rpm on 71.2 gph. Tiara's own arithmetic on 90 percent of the 700-gallon tank gives 304 nautical miles at the lower setting and 281 at the higher.
The number worth pausing on is the efficiency: 0.56 statute miles per gallon at 1,801 rpm, against 0.45 at wide open throttle. The peak sits right inside the cruise band, which means the boat is genuinely at its best where you would want to run it all day rather than at some setting you would never hold.
Noise is 69 dB(A) at cruise and 72 at wide open throttle. Three decibels across the whole working range of the boat is the payoff for the noise and vibration engineering Tiara put into this hull.
Deadrise at the transom is 14 degrees - a cruising number, correctly chosen for a hull meant to hold a flat attitude in the high twenties.
What to Test Rather Than Read About
The Interceptor Trim System with Active Ride Control trims the boat automatically through turns and in a following sea. How much difference it makes is a sea-trial question, not a specification question. Run the boat with it on and off in the same conditions and form your own view.
Propulsion is pods, so slow-speed handling is joystick work. Dock it in a crosswind, in a slip the size of yours, before you decide anything about handling from the way it feels at cruise.
And plan your season off the published sheet - 52.0 gph at 28.9 mph, 71.2 at 36.6, worked against 700 gallons - then get observed burn at your intended rpm in writing on the day.
Where to Start
Inside the range, the EX 54 is the same idea six feet shorter, and the comparison is unusually clean because both boats have published test sheets. The EX 54 runs 38.7 mph on 650 gallons with twin 725 hp pods; the EX 60 runs 46.1 mph on 700 gallons with twin 1,000 hp pods, on a full foot more beam. Cruise range comes out within five nautical miles of each other, 304 against 299 - the bigger boat is not the shorter-legged one.
Where the EX 60 argues is documentation and reconfigurability: an rpm-by-rpm test sheet with decibels and calculated range at every step, and an aft third of the boat you specify rather than inherit.
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