Expert Review, Technical Specifications & Market Analysis
| Feature | Specifications |
|---|---|
| Overall Length | 69' 7" |
| Beam | 17' 3" |
| Draft | 5' 4" |
| Displacement | 87,764 lbs |
| Engines | Twin MAN V8-1000 (2 x 1,000 HP) |
| Fuel Capacity | 1,057 gal |
| Water Capacity | 238 gal |
| Cabins / Heads | 4 Cabins / 3 Heads + Crew |
| Max Speed | 32 knots |
Source: Spec & Photos courtesy of Sunseeker. Specs verified by Tony Smith, USCG 100 Ton Master, on August 27, 2026.
Four cabins, three heads and crew quarters on 69' 7", with an interior you specify rather than accept. Twin MAN V8s on straight shafts, and a layout choice made at the staircase.
Part of the Sunseeker Manhattan series — see how owners step up through the lineup.
The Manhattan 68 is the boat in this family where the argument stops being about styling and starts being about how you actually live aboard. Sunseeker offers it with configurable interior layouts rather than one fixed plan. Take the four-cabin arrangement with a private staircase down to a midships full-beam owner's cabin, or take the single-staircase version, which frees the volume for an opposing seating group in the main saloon and lets you run three cabins with a grander entrance to the owner's suite and an office, or add a Pullman-style fourth. Most builders at this length hand you a layout. Here you specify one, and that is worth planning properly before you place an order rather than discovering it after.
Second thing, and it is the correction I most want to make on this boat. This is a shaft-drive yacht. Twin MAN V8-1000s at 1,000 PS each, with a V8-1200 option at 1,200 PS each, turning straight shafts. Sunseeker lists propulsion as shafts and nothing else. There are third-party listing sites reporting pod drive as standard equipment on the Manhattan 68, and that data is from an earlier boat. If a listing tells you the hull you are looking at has pods, treat that as a red flag on the listing, not a feature of the yacht, and verify it under the boat.
Third, be careful with the speed figures you see quoted for this model. Maximum is up to 32 knots. The other number in circulation is 10 knots, and that is the condition at which Sunseeker quotes range, relabelled by somebody as a cruise speed. Nobody cruises a 32-knot flybridge at ten. Build your own number instead: run the boat at the speed you intend to hold, and get observed burn recorded in writing at sea trial.
Video courtesy of Sunseeker.
Photos courtesy of Sunseeker.
The Manhattan 68 is the middle of Sunseeker's Manhattan family and the first size in it that carries crew accommodation. Length overall is 69' 7" on a 17' 3" beam, drawing 5' 4" at maximum full load. Half-load displacement is 87,764 lbs, published by Sunseeker on a row labelled explicitly as half load. Fuel is 1,057 US gallons, fresh water 238 US gallons, with a 53 US gallon black water tank. Accommodation is four cabins for up to eight guests plus two crew, with three en-suites and a day head.
Sunseeker positions the current boat as a next-generation development of a celebrated predecessor rather than a clean-sheet design, and the changes are specific and listed. A refreshed superstructure profile that lowers and sharpens the silhouette. A redesigned flybridge with a larger, more versatile seating arrangement and a new ergonomic console. Refreshed exterior upholstery in a contemporary palette. And an aft cockpit reworked for more seclusion, with a built-in privacy screen.
The most consequential change is the one you cannot see from the dock. Sunseeker offers configurable interior layouts on this model, which is unusual at the size.
Power is twin MAN V8-1000s at 1,000 PS each, with a twin V8-1200 option at 1,200 PS each. Propulsion is shafts. Generator capacity is quoted at 17.5 kW or 21.5 kW at 50 Hz. Maximum speed is up to 32 knots.
Maximum speed on the Manhattan 68 is up to 32 knots. Be careful with the other number that circulates for this boat: 10 knots is the condition at which Sunseeker quotes range, and it turns up relabelled as a cruise speed on a yacht nobody cruises at ten. Treat it as what it is, and plan around a figure you record yourself.
Standard power is twin MAN V8-1000s, 1,000 PS each. Sunseeker also lists a twin MAN V8-1200 option at 1,200 PS each. Output is quoted in PS throughout this range and the engine model name carries the figure, so the standard fit is 2 x 1,000 either way you write it.
Propulsion is shafts, and that is the whole list. It is also the single most common data error you will find on this model: at least one large third-party listing site reports a pod package as standard on the Manhattan 68, carried over from an earlier generation. Look under the boat, or have your surveyor confirm it, rather than trusting an aggregator.
Draft is 5' 4" at maximum full load, and half-load displacement is 87,764 lbs on 1,057 gallons of fuel. Have observed burn recorded at your intended cruise on sea trial, with the sea state and load noted alongside it. That is the number to plan passages against.
The reason to look hard at this boat is that you specify the interior rather than accept it. Sunseeker offers configurable layouts on the Manhattan 68, and the fork is at the staircase.
Take the dual-staircase route and you get a four-cabin boat with a private staircase leading down to a midships full-beam owner's cabin. That is the arrangement to choose if owner privacy is the priority, because the owner's party never crosses the guest route.
Take the single-staircase route instead and the volume that the second stair would have used becomes an opposing seating group in the main saloon. From there you can run three cabins with a grander entrance to the owner's cabin and an office in the plan, or you can add a Pullman-style fourth cabin and keep the guest count. Either way the main deck is the beneficiary.
Published accommodation is four cabins for up to eight guests plus two crew, with three en-suites and a day head. That crew provision is the first in the Manhattan family, and it is what makes this the size where an owner can start using paid help rather than doing everything himself.
Above, the flybridge has been redesigned with a larger and more versatile seating arrangement and a new ergonomic console. If you have looked at an earlier Manhattan 68, this is the space where the difference is most obvious.
Aft, the cockpit was reworked for seclusion rather than volume, and the built-in privacy screen is the piece to try in person. On a boat that will sit stern-to in a busy marina, a screen between your evening and the passing crowd is worth more than another cubic foot of locker.
Fresh water is 238 US gallons against a 53 US gallon black tank. With eight guests and two crew aboard, water is the constraint on how long you stay out, not fuel.
At 69' 7" the Manhattan 68 sits in the most contested part of the flybridge market. The Azimut Fly 68 at 68' 10" is the nearest match on length and also runs four cabins with a crew berth. The Princess Y72 at 74' 9" is the British cross-shop most of these buyers will see, and it is a noticeably larger boat despite the similar positioning. The Galeon 680 FLY at 72' 0" comes at it from the features-and-volume direction.
Against that field the Sunseeker argument is layout flexibility and drivetrain conservatism, in that order.
The configurable interior is genuinely uncommon at this length. Most builders at 70 feet give you a plan and a choice of finishes. Sunseeker gives you a choice between a dual-staircase four-cabin boat with a private owner's route and a single-staircase boat that spends the saved volume on the saloon, with a three-cabin-plus-office or a Pullman fourth-cabin outcome. That decision should be made with your actual guest pattern in front of you, and it is worth more than most option-list items.
The shaft drive is the other differentiator, and it cuts both ways. Straight shafts on a 69-footer are simple, well understood by any yard in the world, and forgiving. What you give up is the joystick docking that a pod boat offers, which at this size and windage is not a small thing. If low-speed handling in a crosswind is your worry, the pod-equipped competition has a real answer and this boat does not.
Inside the family, this is the step up from the Manhattan 56 where four cabins and crew quarters arrive, and the step below the Manhattan 94, which moves the owner's suite onto the main deck entirely. The full family is on the Manhattan series page.
This is the Manhattan for an owner who has outgrown the do-everything-yourself boat but is not ready for a full-time professional crew and a hundred-foot berth. Four cabins for eight guests plus two crew, three heads and a day head, on 69' 7". That is a boat you can run yourself on a normal weekend and hand to a captain and a mate for a longer trip.
Take it seriously if your guest pattern is unsettled. The configurable layout means you can build the boat around how you actually cruise: dual staircase and four cabins if you regularly carry two guest couples and want the owner's route private, single staircase and an office if the boat doubles as a place you work, Pullman fourth cabin if you carry children and want the berths without the second stair.
Take it seriously if you prefer straight shafts. Some owners want the simplicity and the tolerance for a hard grounding, and are willing to trade the joystick for it. This boat is built for exactly that preference.
Look elsewhere if you want pod drive at this length, because Sunseeker does not offer it here regardless of what a listing tells you. And look elsewhere if you want the owner's suite on the main deck, which is the Manhattan 94 rather than this boat.
Two things to settle at survey. Confirm shaft drive physically rather than from paperwork, because the aggregator data on this model is wrong. And get observed fuel consumption at your intended cruise recorded in writing at sea trial, because that trial number is what you will actually plan around.
Sunseeker gives you a fork at the staircase, and the decision is permanent.
The dual-staircase arrangement is a four-cabin boat with a private staircase down to a midships full-beam owner's cabin. The owner's route never crosses the guest route, so choose it if privacy is the reason you moved up to a 70-footer.
The single-staircase arrangement gives that volume back to the main deck as an opposing seating group in the saloon. From there you can run three cabins with a larger entrance to the owner's cabin plus an office, or add a Pullman-style fourth cabin to keep the guest count.
Choose from your actual cruising pattern rather than from a rendering. Count how often you carried two guest couples versus one over the last two seasons, and how often you worked aboard. That answers it faster than a layout drawing will.
Four cabins, three en-suites and a day head, accommodating up to eight guests plus two crew. This is the smallest boat in the Manhattan family with crew accommodation. The cabin count is not fixed, though: Sunseeker offers configurable layouts, and one of the options runs three cabins with a grander entrance to the owner's cabin and an office in the plan instead of the fourth.
No. The current Manhattan 68 runs conventional straight shafts, with no pod package offered at any specification. Engines are twin MAN V8-1000s at 1,000 PS each, with a twin MAN V8-1200 option at 1,200 PS each.
This matters because at least one large third-party listing site reports a pod drive package as standard equipment on this model. That information appears to be carried over from an earlier generation of the boat. If a listing tells you the hull in front of you has pods, verify it under the boat or have your surveyor confirm the running gear before you spend money on anything else.
Build it yourself on the sea trial. Sunseeker quotes a maximum of up to 32 knots for the Manhattan 68 on twin MAN V8-1000s, so hold the boat at the speed you intend to run, let it settle, and have observed fuel consumption recorded in writing with the sea state, trim and load aboard noted alongside. Work that against the 1,057 US gallons it carries.
Be careful with cruise numbers quoted elsewhere. The usual way one gets manufactured for this model is by taking the published range condition, which is quoted at 10 knots, and presenting the 10 knots as a cruise speed. That produces a 10-knot cruise on a 32-knot yacht, which is obviously wrong.
