Galeon 800 FLY

The Galeon 800 FLY is the largest boat the yard builds, and Galeon calls it the flagship. It is 84' 4" overall on a 19' 0" beam, with four en-suite cabins below, a genuine crew apartment aft, and four bathrooms plus a day head between them. Galeon's guest figure for the boat is eighteen.

Carbon fibre structural elements are what make the top deck work. Galeon uses them to extend the flybridge, and the result carries a double helmsman's position, a fully equipped bar, a sunbathing area, four adaptable tables and two large semicircular sofas with a jacuzzi set between them. That last item is not a common fitting at 84 feet and it is a fair summary of what this boat is for.

Draft is 4' 6", or 5' 9" with the running gear underneath it - size a lift and a berth off the deeper figure. Fuel is 1,445 gallons in two tanks, fresh water is 441 gallons across two, the grey tank holds 111 gallons and the black tank 227. Displacement in light craft condition is 138,920 lbs with base engines, and maximum load is 21,142 lbs. Bridge clearance is 28' 1" from the waterline at minimum draft and height to transport is 32' 5". CE Category B, crew limit sixteen.

Engine power is a band: 2 x 1,650 hp minimum to 2 x 1,920 hp maximum. Maximum speed is 31 knots, which makes the 800 the fastest boat in Galeon's flybridge range on the yard's own numbers - the 640 and 680 are both quoted at 30. Galeon builds it in Poland.

Galeon quotes a maximum speed of 31 knots for the 800 FLY, which makes it the fastest boat in Galeon's flybridge range on the yard's own numbers, ahead of the 640 and 680 at 30 knots each. For the throttle setting you will actually run, ask for observed burn at cruise in writing from a boat that has been in the water, and do your own range arithmetic off 1,445 gallons - and off two-thirds of that rather than the whole tank.

Engine power is given as a band: 2 x 1,650 hp minimum, 2 x 1,920 hp maximum, with the package settled at the order desk - have it named, rated and written onto your contract before anything is signed.

Two figures matter more than the speed on a boat this heavy. Displacement in light craft condition is 138,920 lbs with base engines, and maximum load is 21,142 lbs - that is Galeon's headroom for fuel, water, stores, tender, toys and eighteen guests combined, and a full fuel load alone is a meaningful share of it. A fully loaded 800 FLY is asking a travelift for roughly eighty tons, which is a conversation to have with a yard before you need it rather than on the day.

Draft is 4' 6", or 5' 9" with the running gear underneath it. Size a lift and a berth off the deeper figure, and give a marina that number rather than the smaller one. The other dimensions to have in the same conversation are bridge clearance of 28' 1" from the waterline at minimum draft and height to transport of 32' 5". Confirm tankage, rigged weight and the engine package on your build documents rather than against a model name - at this length those four things decide what the boat can actually do, and none of them costs anything to settle early.

The lower deck is four en-suite cabins and no compromises among them. The master sits amidships with a central double bed and an adjacent walk-in wardrobe, reached by its own staircase so the owner never crosses the guest circulation. The bow VIP has an overhead skylight above the bed - Galeon's description is stargazing from the berth, and on a boat of this length there is enough beam forward for that to be a real room rather than a wedge. Between the VIP and the master sit two guest cabins with twin beds that convert into doubles. Every one of the four has its own bathroom, finished with natural light, stone and stainless detailing, and there is a day head on the main deck as well.

The crew accommodation aft deserves the word apartment rather than cabin. Galeon specifies two beds separated by sliding doors, a private bathroom, a wardrobe, a kitchenette, and a convertible sofa and table. Crew that live well stay longer, and on a boat this size that is an operating decision rather than a luxury.

The main deck is laid out like a well-planned flat. The galley is generously equipped around a kitchen island. Beside the double helmsman's station sits a sofa with a coffee table, and a grand dining table seats eight. The living area has ample windows, a retractable television, a modern bar and a separate day toilet, so guests are not routed below to use a head. Large sliding doors connect it all through to the aft cockpit, and the side decks are wide walkarounds.

Above, the flybridge is where the carbon structure pays for itself: a double helm position, a full wet bar, a sunbathing area, four adaptable tables, and two semicircular sofas arranged around a jacuzzi between them. There is a private bow lounge as well, with sunpads and optional shade - a separate space from the flybridge and the cockpit, which on an 84-footer means three genuinely independent social areas rather than one big one and two overflow zones.

The 800 FLY is the top of Galeon's range by a wide margin. The next boat down, the 680 FLY, is 72' 0" and 85,010 lbs; the 800 is 84' 4" and 138,920 lbs. That is more than twelve feet of length and about fifty-four thousand pounds, with nothing in between. It is not an incremental step up a ladder - it is the point where the range stops being a family of boats and becomes a yacht, with a crew apartment, four en-suite cabins and a professional-scale flybridge.

Against the wider 80-to-90-foot flybridge market, the 800's arguments are the crew accommodation, the number of independent social spaces and the top deck. Galeon uses carbon structural elements to extend the flybridge and then fills it with a double helm, a full bar, four tables and a jacuzzi between two semicircular sofas; the bow lounge is a separate space again; the aft cockpit is a third. Boats at this length often give you one grand outdoor area and two smaller ones. This one gives you three that can hold a crowd independently.

What the 800 asks of a buyer is paperwork. At this length the build documents carry the deal, so settle tankage, the engine package, rigged weight and observed burn at cruise in writing before anything is signed - none of it costs anything to ask for early.

One positioning note that changes how you read the range. The 800 is the only Galeon flybridge quoted at 31 knots alongside the much smaller 620 FLY, while the 640 and 680 between them are quoted at 30. Do not build a purchase decision on a one-knot difference in figures nobody has tested for you - but it does tell you the yard is not treating its flagship as the slow one.

The 800 FLY fits an owner who has crossed the line into running a yacht rather than a large boat. The crew accommodation aft is a full apartment - two beds separated by sliding doors, a private bathroom, a wardrobe, a kitchenette, a convertible sofa and table - and the master amidships has its own staircase so the owner never shares circulation with guests or crew. Four en-suite cabins, four bathrooms plus a day head, and eighteen guests by Galeon's own figure. If the boat is going to be professionally run for extended periods, this layout is designed for it.

It fits entertaining at scale, in three separate places. The flybridge carries a double helm, a full bar, a sunbathing area, four adaptable tables and a jacuzzi set between two semicircular sofas, on a deck extended by carbon structural elements. The bow lounge is a separate private space with sunpads and optional shade. The aft cockpit is a third, shaded and connected directly to both the salon and the swim platform. Three areas that each work independently is a genuinely different proposition from one big deck.

It fits a family that wants the guest cabins to convert. The two midships guest cabins have twin beds that convert into doubles, the bow VIP has a skylight over the berth, and the main deck's grand table seats eight with a separate day head so nobody goes below to use a bathroom during dinner.

It is the wrong boat to buy on a handshake. The boat arrives with what your contract says it does - so close everything on paper: the equipment list, tankage, the engine package, rigged weight and observed burn at cruise, all in writing, before anything is signed.