Galeon 360 FLY

The Galeon 360 FLY is the entry point to Galeon's flybridge line - 38' 7" overall with the extended stern platform, on an 11' 5" beam and a 2' 7" draft. It is the smallest flybridge Galeon builds, and the point of the boat is that nothing structural was removed to get there. The upper deck carries a full second helm station with its own seating, not a sun pad with a wheel in it.

Fuel is 211 US gallons across two tanks, with 92 gallons of fresh water, about 40 gallons of black and between 79 and 83 gallons of grey - confirm the grey tank on your build sheet. Light craft mass is 17,725 lbs with base engines, against a maximum load of 5,512 lbs. Bridge clearance is 13' 9" from the waterline at minimum draft, height to transport is 13' 8", and the boat is certified CE Category B with a crew limit of ten.

Power is diesel, up to 2 x 350 hp a side, for a top speed of up to 27 knots. Below decks the layout is a choice rather than a fixed plan: Galeon offers either two cabins with two heads, or three cabins with one, the third being a compact cabin with a bunk bed. That single decision at the order desk is what makes the 360 FLY a different boat for a couple than it is for a family.

Galeon quotes the 360 FLY at up to 27 knots, on a maximum of 2 x 350 hp a side. Passage-planning numbers come off your own sea trial: hold your intended cruise rpm, record the speed and the observed burn, and get them in writing on the engine package you actually order.

The engine ceiling itself is quoted two ways, and it is worth settling before anyone talks about propellers: up to 2 x 350 hp a side, and elsewhere a 2 x 300 hp ceiling with a 2 x 200 hp minimum package. Fifty horsepower a side is not a rounding error - get the ceiling for your model year confirmed on the build sheet before you order.

The specification is a power band rather than a brand: a listing that names a particular diesel is describing one individual boat's build rather than the model.

What you can plan with is mass and height. Light craft mass is 17,725 lbs with base engines, with a maximum load of 5,512 lbs on top of it. Bridge clearance is 13' 9" from the waterline at minimum draft and height to transport is 13' 8", which is the pair to check against your fixed bridges and your yard's travel lift before anything else. Draft is 2' 7" measured without propellers.

The main deck is a single social level: galley and helm forward, a dinette and lounge aft, wide sliding glass doors onto the cockpit, and panoramic windows down the main deck and hull sides. Galeon's own note on the helm is about visibility rather than styling - the position is chosen for all-round sightlines, and the sliding side door beside it exists so whoever is driving can step out and take a line.

Below, the boat is ordered one of two ways. The two-cabin, two-head version buys privacy: separate heads for owner and guests, four aboard overnight. The three-cabin version puts a compact bunk cabin into the same volume and drops to a single head - Galeon frames it as the family setup, and it is the one that lets a 38-footer sleep six without anyone on a settee.

The master is forward and full-beam, with a large double berth, generous storage, side windows for natural light and standing headroom. The midship guest cabin runs twin berths that convert to a double depending on the layout ordered, with wide hull windows. Galeon has also described the choice the other way round, with the expansive berth in the midship cabin and a skylit VIP forward - so if the exact berth arrangement matters to you, confirm it against the layout drawing for the model year you are buying.

Interior finishes are offered as Walnut High Gloss, Walnut, Silver Oak and Eucalyptus. Two numbers set the practical limits: 92 gallons of fresh water and roughly 40 gallons of black. That is a comfortable weekend for four and a short one for six, and the black tank is what decides how often you go looking for a pump-out.

The 360 FLY is Galeon's way into a flybridge without moving up to a 40-footer, and Galeon aims it squarely at owners entering the category - it is the smallest flybridge in the lineup. At 38' 7" and 11' 5" of beam it is a boat a competent owner drives himself and docks himself, and at 13' 8" height to transport it moves on a lowboy rather than behind a pickup.

The nearest step up inside the brand is the 400 FLY at 40' 11". Two feet four inches of length badly understates that gap. The 400 gains a foot and a half of beam, 53 more gallons of fuel, 26 more gallons of water, a second head as standard rather than as a choice, and Galeon's Beach Mode fold-out balconies - which the 360 does not have. If the balconies are the reason you are looking at Galeon at all, they begin on the 400 FLY.

What the 360 keeps that a comparable express cruiser cannot is the second station. A full upper helm with its own seating changes how the boat is used at anchor and how it is docked in a crosswind, and it is the reason a 38-footer gets three decks at all.

Against the wider market, buyers here are cross-shopping compact European flybridge cruisers in the 37- to 40-foot band. What usually settles it is whether the upper helm is a real station or a fair-weather one, whether the lower deck can be reconfigured after the fact - for Galeon that is a decision made at the order desk, not a refit - and whether 27 knots on a Category B hull is enough boat for the water you actually run.

The 360 FLY fits the owner making a first move into a flybridge and unwilling to trade away the things that make one worth having. The upper station is a real helm with real seating, the main deck opens into the cockpit through wide sliding glass, and the bow has a proper sunpad rather than a token cushion. Ten is the crew limit; six is the number the boat entertains well.

It fits families specifically, and Galeon has built the flexibility in. The three-cabin version puts two double cabins and a compact bunk cabin below, which is how a 38-footer sleeps six. The trade is a single head for everybody aboard. The two-cabin version reverses it: two heads, more privacy, four overnight. Decide which of those two boats you are buying before you get anywhere near colour swatches - Walnut High Gloss, Walnut, Silver Oak and Eucalyptus are the easy part.

It fits the owner who intends to run it himself. Wide side decks and secure handrails, a sliding door at the helm for mooring, a swim platform for the tender or the water toys, and a hull certified CE Category B. Nothing about the boat asks for crew.

It is the wrong boat if you want Beach Mode - the fold-out balconies begin on the 400 FLY. And if six people need two heads, this hull will not give you both at once.