Sunseeker's flybridge motoryachts, from a 56-footer you drive yourself to a 94 with the owner's suite on the main deck.
Manhattan is the flybridge line at Sunseeker, and it is the oldest nameplate the yard still uses. The current family runs from 56' 6" to 93' 10" across four boats, all of them Flybridge Motoryachts, all built at Poole in Dorset.
The range covers three distinct kinds of ownership. At the bottom, the Manhattan 55 and Manhattan 56 are owner-operated boats with three cabins, two heads and no crew accommodation. In the middle, the Manhattan 68 adds a fourth cabin, a third head and quarters for two crew, which is the size where paid help becomes practical. At the top, the Manhattan 94 takes ten guests and up to five crew and moves the owner's stateroom onto the main deck entirely.
One thing about this family is worth knowing before you start looking: the 55 and the 56 are the same boat underneath. Every published figure matches to the digit: 56' 6" length overall, 16' 0" beam, 4' 6" draft, 59,524 lbs at half load, 580 US gallons of fuel, 158 US gallons of water, three cabins, two heads, up to 32 knots, 25 knots cruise. Sunseeker's own copy for the 56 calls the platform proven. The 56 is the 2026 presentation of it, not a larger yacht.
Every Sunseeker Manhattan model we review in depth, in the order owners step up through the series.
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Three cabins, a 25-knot cruise and a barbecue-ready Beach Club in 56' 6". Shafts or pods.
Sunseeker's 2026 restyle at 56' 6": modular cockpit, full-beam master, 25-knot cruise.
Four cabins, three heads and crew on 69' 7". Shaft-drive MAN V8-1000s, configurable layouts.
Main-deck owner's stateroom on 93' 10". World premiere at Cannes, September 2026.
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Manhattan 55 — 56' 6", 3 cabins / 2 heads, up to 32 knots, 25 knots cruise. The entry point of the family. Main-deck galley opening into the cockpit, a Beach Club aft whose barbecue, shower and fold-down transom seats are all options rather than standard, and a genuine choice between shaft-drive MAN i6-800s and Volvo Penta pods. Draft is 4' 6", which is shallow for the length.
Manhattan 56 — 56' 6", 3 cabins / 2 heads, up to 32 knots, 25 knots cruise. The same platform, presented for 2026. New exterior profile, main-deck glazing running uninterrupted along the side, the first showing of Sunseeker's new exterior upholstery collection, and an aft cockpit rebuilt around modular seating that converts between dining, lounging and a full-beam sunpad. Below, the latest Sunseeker Interiors Collection and a full-beam master with full-height headroom around a curved king berth. Get the engine make and model written into the contract for your specific hull.
Manhattan 68 — 69' 7", 4 cabins / 3 heads + crew, up to 32 knots. The first size in the family with crew quarters, and the one where you specify the interior rather than accept it. Dual staircase with a private route to a midships full-beam owner's cabin, or a single staircase that buys an opposing seating group in the saloon and allows three cabins plus an office or a Pullman-style fourth. Twin MAN V8-1000s standard with a V8-1200 option, on straight shafts, with no pod option at any specification. Fuel jumps to 1,057 US gallons.
Manhattan 94 — 93' 10", 5 cabins / 5 heads + crew, up to 26 knots. The flagship of the nameplate, and undelivered: its world premiere is the Cannes Yachting Festival, 8 to 13 September 2026, and all released imagery is manufacturer renderings. The full-beam owner's stateroom sits on the main deck, forward of a penthouse saloon, with four guest cabins below for up to ten guests and up to five crew. Twin MTU 10V 2000 M96Ls on shafts, with the 12V 2000 M96X above. Fuel is 2,972 US gallons.
The Manhattan range is the easiest Sunseeker family to shop, because the steps between the boats are about how you use them rather than about styling.
If you are running the boat yourself for long weekends with the family, you are looking at the 55 or the 56, and the choice between them is a choice of generation rather than of size. They publish identical numbers in every row. The 56 gets the current deck, the current cockpit and the current interior programme, and it is the one Sunseeker took to Cannes. The 55 is the same naval package with the earlier presentation. Do not let anybody sell you one as the bigger boat.
If your guest list has outgrown three cabins, or you have reached the point where a captain makes sense, the 68 is the answer, and the configurable interior is the reason to plan the order carefully rather than buying whatever is in stock. That staircase decision is permanent and it changes the saloon.
The 94 is a different proposition entirely, and I would be careful with it for now. It is a good-looking design with a genuinely interesting idea, putting the owner's suite on the main deck, but nobody has cruised one and the imagery is all renderings. Go and see it at Cannes in September before you form an opinion.
One habit that applies to every boat in this family. Get observed burn at your intended cruise recorded in writing on your own sea trial, and build your own numbers from that rather than from a figure on a listing.
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Nothing measurable. The two publish an identical figure in every specification row: 56' 6" length overall, 16' 0" beam, 4' 6" draft, 59,524 lbs half-load displacement, 580 US gallons of fuel, 158 US gallons of fresh water, three cabins, two heads, up to 32 knots maximum and a cruise of 25 knots. Sunseeker's own copy for the 56 refers to a proven hull platform.
The difference is the generation above the waterline. The 56 carries the 2026 programme: a new exterior profile, main-deck glazing running uninterrupted along the side, the first showing of Sunseeker's new exterior upholstery collection, an aft cockpit rebuilt around modular seating that converts between dining, lounging and a full-beam sunpad, and the latest Sunseeker Interiors Collection below with a full-beam master. Sunseeker took the 56, not the 55, to its Cannes stand for September 2026.
Manhattan is Sunseeker's flybridge motoryacht line and the oldest nameplate the yard still uses. The current family is four boats: the Manhattan 55 and Manhattan 56 at 56' 6" with three cabins and two heads, the Manhattan 68 at 69' 7" with four cabins, three heads and crew quarters, and the Manhattan 94 at 93' 10" with five cabins, five heads and up to five crew. All four are built at Poole in Dorset.
The steps between them are about how you use the boat rather than styling: owner-operated at 56 feet, captain-capable at 68, and full crew with the owner's suite on the main deck at 94.
Work from crew and cabins rather than from length.
If you run the boat yourself for long weekends with three cabins' worth of people, you want the Manhattan 55 or the Manhattan 56. They are the same platform, so that choice is between the earlier presentation and the 2026 one rather than between two sizes.
If you have outgrown three cabins or you are ready for a captain, the Manhattan 68 is the first size in the family with a fourth cabin, a third head and quarters for two crew, and it lets you specify the interior layout rather than accept one.
If you want ten guests, five crew and the owner's suite on the main deck, that is the Manhattan 94. Be aware it is undelivered and premieres at Cannes in September 2026, so you would be buying from drawings.
Tell us how you plan to use the boat — guests, range, crew or no crew — and we'll give you the straight story on where in the Manhattan series you belong, new or brokerage.
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