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Azimut Yachts is part of Italy’s Azimut-Benetti Group, the largest yacht builder in the world. Renowned for its composite yacht construction expertise, Azimut is the market leader of smaller luxury yachts for sale, from 34 (10m) to 80 feet (24m) in length. With the addition of its Azimut Grande division, the larger luxury yacht division, the range goes from the smallest yacht at 34 feet (10m) in length up to their largest at 120 feet (36m). Azimut celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2019 with new models. The Italian yacht builder continued its commitment to innovation and celebrated its anniversary with the launch of several new models including the Grande S10, the Azimut 76 Fly, the Atlantis 45 and the Grande Magellano 25 METRI.

Azimut Yachts: Italian Yacht Building Heritage

Azimut Yachts began as a charter company, but very quickly became an Italian distributor for leading yacht manufacturers from around the world. What followed was a decade of design and joint ventures with yacht builders until 1985 when Azimut acquired the Benetti shipyard in Viareggio. Armed with the facilities to construct its own yachts, Azimut was able to define new styles. The brand certainly played its part in revolutionizing the boat-building industry. With the acquisition of new shipyards, Azimut then went on to become the foremost builder of yachts and has maintained its leading position through continuous innovation.

“Azimut is known for its modern styling and contemporary design as well as being great value for money, making them a popular choice for buyers who want a yacht for sale that provides a lot of bang for their bucks. The brand also is particularly popular yachts for charter due to contemporary styling and streamlined profiles,” says Northrop & Johnson Sales Broker Sean Doyle.

“Azimut has grown to become one of the world’s leading shipyards. I believe this is partly down to its technological and technical expertise and the quality of its finished product, combined with expert customer relations and an extensive dealer network,” says Crom Littlejohn. “Of particular interest to Northrop & Johnson clients are the yachts in the Azimut Grande collection. They are produced on a different, more bespoke production line than the smaller vessels and are aimed at a different level of luxury than their smaller brethren.”

Northrop & Johnson has access to the most exclusive Azimut Yachts for sale. Built-to-last, designed with beauty and crafted with magnificent Italian engineering, the Azimut yachts available on the market offer comfort, safety features, advanced technology and lavish living quarters. In addition to being visually pleasing, the Azimut yachts for sale through Northrop & Johnson aim to be environmentally sound. Indeed, Azimut places great importance on environmental preservation and has taken the direction of Eco-friendliness through projects like the MAGELLANO 53, the first motor yacht less than 60-feet (18m) to be awarded RINA Green Plus notation. Azimut focuses on developing concepts for yachts with low environmental impact and clean production processes. Thanks to this dedication, it has been awarded the ISO 14001 certification for its management system aimed at reducing environmental damage.

Azimut yachts also are perfect yachts for charter, offering a fast and fun lifestyle. Guests can truly enjoy cruising in style through the Caribbean and Mediterranean on board any luxury Azimut yacht available to charter , with accommodations ranging from four guests and up to 12 guests in well-put-together staterooms.

“Azimut is known for its style and quality,” says Northrop & Johnson charter broker Amy Wachmann. “The range of yachts all offer something different to the charter market, offering fantastic onboard space while retaining excellent levels of static and dynamic stability. In particular, the Azimut Grande collection offers great appeal for yachts for charter.”

Azimut is known for its modern styling and contemporary design

The Azimut Fleet

Azimut has a large range of yachts for sale in its collection, including the Flybridge, S, Magellano, Atlantis, Brazilian, Dragon Series and the Azimut Grande superyacht collection. The most popular Azimut yachts for sale include the 116 Azimut/ Grande 35 METRI, the Azimut S7, the Azimut 77S, and the Azimut 68S.

Azimut Grande Collection

The Azimut Grande collection includes the Azimut Grande 35 METRI and Azimut Grande 27 METRI. Built in carbon fiber, they offer a great deal of onboard space. The wide-body on the Grande 27 METRI allows for a unique layout for a yacht of this size. Boasting a full-beam owner’s suite on the main deck and a lower deck with three or four cabins, her accommodation layout offers great appeal for the charter market. The Grande 35 METRI boasts a raised pilothouse and an exceptionally large sundeck. She also has a pivoting balcony that extends from the master suite directly over the water and a stern beach area that can be opened with a side-access garage.

Other models in the Azimut Grande Collection include the Grande 25 METRI, Grande 30 METRI, Grande 32 METRI, Grande S10 (94 feet), and the Grande Magellano 25 METRI RPH.

Flybridge Collection

The flybridge collection ranges from 52 feet (16m) up to 82 feet (25m), all designed to strike the perfect balance between design, performance and optimized interior spaces.

S Collection

The sporty looking S Collection includes the S6, S7, 77S and the Grande S10. For those looking for a smaller yacht for sale or charter, the Azimut S Collection offers a great sportster style yacht and is ideal for those looking for a performance vessel. The use of carbon fiber in the superstructure and the pivoting platform has allowed Azimut to increase the volume of the models without sacrificing excellent performance. Fast, silent and extremely maneuverable, the Azimut S7 is just an example of the range and has four spacious cabins and a garage for water toys.

Magellano Collection

The Magellano Collection of long-range yachts begin with the Magellano 43 (13.35m) up to the Grande Magellano 25 (82 feet).

Azimut Atlantis Collection

The Azimut Atlantis Collection of sporty, high-performance yachts range from the Atlantis 34 up to the Atlantis 51. The latest model to be launched, the Atlantis 45, is the successor of Azimut’s highly successful Atlantis 43 that sold over 140 units in four years.

Due to the large range of Azimut yachts for sale, Northrop & Johnson’s knowledgeable team of brokers will be able to find the most suitable yacht to suit a client’s requirements. Backed by the enormous financial firepower of the Azimut-Benetti Group, their market share looks to be in safe hands for the foreseeable future.

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Designed to amaze

A yacht with sleek, weightless contours, designed by Stefano Righini, that hide spacious interiors.

Elegance and informal charm.

The interior design is by Achille Salvagni, who chose the coloured lacquers that range from purple to powder blue and are cleverly calibrated to deliver new standards of class and refinement, in a constantly evolving approach to design that is never a foregone conclusion.

Carbon-Tech Generation

Midway between charm and technology, the Grande 25 Metri has a Carbon Tech superstructure, roll-bar, hard top and transom.

Charm and technology

A streamlined yacht that seems sculpted in wind, with ample space for life in the open air, to keep the connection with the sea alive.

Carbon-tech generation

• superstructure
• hard top (opt)

EPS Electronic Power Steering

At the helm, the innovative Optimus Electronic Power Steering system by Seastar Solutions gives you a similar sensation to driving a top of the range car. The owner can configure the responsiveness of the helm by regulating wheel turns and steering effort according to speed. The system also has the additional benefi t of eliminating the hydraulic piping between the helm station and the rudder compartment.

Active Trim Control

Automatic interceptors by Humphree gives the vessel the lift it needs to get up on plane faster or to reach that optimum running trim. In this way the resistance of the hull is automatically optimised for every speed and load condition, this resulting in increased speed and lower fuel consumption. The Humphree system is all electric powered by 12-24 Volt DC. Thanks to the design of the Interceptor it only requires a small amount of power to move the blade up and down, even under high speed operation.

Integrated Control Panel

The integrated control system by Raymarine has been customised to increase control potential: from engine data and alarms, to bilge and water discharge pumps, tank levels and engine room ventilation, right through to the sound system and the air conditioning units. The system can be accessed from both helm stations and remotely from a tablet.

HTS High Technical Standard declaration

Azimut Grande 25 Metri has been designed and engineered according to the highest standards applied in the recreational industry for production boats. With CE Class A and NMMA Certification, the boat is in compliance with the two major safety.

Superior level of privacy

A specially designed partition with sliding doors and the option to instantly switch between transparent and frosted glass allows the crew to move freely around the helm station and galley without encroaching in any way on the absolutely privacy of the owner and guests. Crew quarters, comprising mess, a cabin for the captain and a second cabin with bunk beds, are accessed from a stairway aft of the superstructure.

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Azimut Grande 26M review: The 85ft yacht that feels like a 100ft superyacht

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The Azimut Grande 26M features pod drives and a wider beam, but does it match its older siblings when it comes to performance?

With its pod drives, high-tech construction, wide beam and zippy performance, this latest model in the range, the Azimut Grande 26M is an ambitious project intended to move the game on.

It has been styled by Alberto Mancini, who has imparted a slightly imperious quality to the new model’s profile – from a distance you could convince yourself that it’s over 100ft.

The businesslike wheelhouse windows set the tone, while the superstructure mouldings provide the illusion of an upper deck that runs in an unbroken line from the bow roller to the flybridge balustrade.

And once on board there is nothing illusory about the 26’s exceptional deck spaces, from the spacious and versatile foredeck seating to the wide prairies of the flybridge. It is not just the length of the flybridge that imparts this sense of space but its width, too – spreading across the Grande’s full beam.

This new Azimut model is very nearly 2ft wider than its predecessor, the Azimut Grande 25M, and that tells on all three decks. It feels big. It feels even bigger when the ingenious cockpit extension is deployed – the garage door hinging upwards to create a quite unexpected balcony overlooking the aft platform.

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Azimut Grande 27M: Game-changing ideas abound on luxurious cruiser

Sanlorenzo sl90a tour: this €7.3m asymmetric yacht does things a little differently.

The glass cockpit balustrade splits in the middle and swings out to embrace the new corners, while a lightweight infill section takes care of the gap. Simple but effective.

The interior is by another designer that Azimut has been keeping quite busy recently, Achille Salvagni, whose distinctive use of ovoid, organic shapes and tactile eggshell finishes has created a quirky but homogeneous design that should raise a smile, without losing sight of the fact that light tones and generous, open spaces are the best way to complement all that drenching daylight coming in through the huge side windows. Dark flooring and mid-toned veneers on the bulkheads keep things comfortably rooted.

Perhaps the highlight of the interior is the owner’s cabin on the main deck, with its floor-to-ceiling glass and a shower and WC that spans the full beam. It still feels absurdly spacious. This is another area of the boat where you can actually forget it’s only 85ft feet long.

The location of the master suite forward on the main deck enhances the view out through its vast hull windows

There is one slight shortcoming in the layout forward, where the steps to the lower deck, master cabin, crew accommodation, galley, wheelhouse and flybridge all converge on each other, as if one designer started from the bow, and one from the stern, and this is where they met.

It’s like it’s been designed by MC Escher. In the middle of it all, the lower helm station sits on a sort of platform, with a single seat, awkward communication with the rest of the boat and poor visibility. On our sea trial we helmed from upstairs, as we usually do.

Inner space

Down below, the eight-berth guest accommodation features a pair of impressively roomy symmetrical VIPs aft, each with a spacious shower and heads compartment along the engineroom bulkhead.

All three of the double guest cabins are of a similar size

Just forward, the starboard double cabin is almost as big, losing out only slightly on floor area and the size of the head, while all three double cabins have the same size bed, at 6ft 2in by 5ft 2in.

The twin to port is the smallest, and suffers somewhat from clashing doors, as three – cabin, head and wardrobe – all compete for the same space. Otherwise it’s a reasonable sleeping space with decent stowage.

With a bathroom no smaller than the twin cabin’s across the corridor, your guests shouldn’t feel as if they have drawn the short straw.

Driving the Azimut Grande 26M

The Azimut Grande 26M is the first boat to sport ZF’s big new 4600 pod drives, designed to serve in twin-engine yachts up to 100ft, and in triple installations up to 130ft.

Pod drives can of course be great fun in boats properly set up and designed from the outset to take them, and the Azimut Grande 26M clearly was. It gave us a remarkably enjoyable drive, which seemed quite surprising in such a big vessel.

But perhaps we shouldn’t have been surprised. The shipyard is well known for incorporating a lot of high-tech materials into its builds, and the amount of carbon fibre used in the Grande’s deck, superstructure, flybridge and hardtop reportedly saves some 30 per cent over the weight of conventional fibreglass laminates, significantly reducing the yacht’s centre of gravity.

The new model is measurably faster than its shaft-drive predecessor

Also, although the hull of the Azimut Grande 26M is little different in length to that of the 25 Metri that it replaces in the range, its extra width provides additional lift, while its stern sections are simple, efficient flat panels rather than the prop tunnels sported by its shaft-drive predecessor. Deadrise recedes from 20.4 degrees amidships to 13.8 degrees at the transom.

The result is a yacht that is a perfect match with its machinery when under way. It feels light and lively, and has plenty of power. The Seakeeper gyro was switched off for our sea trial and the Humphree interceptors were on automatic.

Although there is the option of Humphree fins as well, they would probably have spoilt the fun, for the Azimut Grande 26M launched itself into high-speed turns with all the puppyish enthusiasm of a lightweight sports machine, heeling over so far it felt almost undignified.

The flybridge helm station is the most enjoyable place to captain the boat from

You couldn’t actually lean down from the flybridge and dabble your fingers in the sea, but the impression was there, always underwritten by a superb feeling of control. On a more sensible even keel it tracked beautifully and inspired confidence as a serious piece of cruising kit.

Of course it would be disappointing if a yacht packing 3,300hp didn’t impart at least a frisson of excitement to its driver, and the 26’s maximum speed during our test, with a realistic cruising load of fuel and water, topped out at over 30 knots – faster, incidentally, than Azimut’s claims for it.

A key selling point of the ZF pods is their efficiency, and they deliver here too – the new model is measurably faster than its shaft-drive predecessor with the same engines. Azimut claims 20 per cent less fuel consumption than comparable yachts at “the most frequently set speeds”, which is vague but not entirely without substance.

Visibility is goodforward and fair to the sides but you need a camera to look aft

In a very unscientific comparison with other new boats launched at the 2022 Cannes Yachting Festival , the Azimut Grande 26M might burn about 18 per cent less fuel at 20 knots than the 4,000hp Ferretti 860 , but about 25 per cent more than the 2,000hp Grand Banks 85 .

Different rev settings will probably give different results, and at full speed the Azimut is faster than both of them. It has a larger fuel capacity than its predecessor, which makes the 26 a distinctly more versatile cruising machine, with a useful range of about 360nm at 24 knots, even allowing for our conservative 20 per cent fuel reserve.

Azimut Grande 26M verdict

The new Azimut Grande 26M is a worthy addition to a high-achieving range of motor yachts which have invariably offered an impressive combination of style, innovation, comfort and sheer cruising competence.

Whether your idea of cruising is pottering about on the Côte d’Azur, or holidaying over the horizon, the Azimut Grande 26M is small enough to fit into most harbours, spacious enough to provide real home comforts for extended stays on board, and great fun both at anchor or at speed.

Azimut Grande 26M specifications

LOA: 85ft 7in (26.09m) Beam: 22ft 2in (6.75m) Draught: 4ft 11in (1.50m) Displacement: 49 tonnes Engines: Twin 1,650hp MAN V12 + pod drives Fuel capacity: 1,870 gal (8,500 lt) Water capacity: 330 gal (1,500 lt) Top speed on test: 30.4 knots Cruising speed: 23 knots Fuel consumption: 348lph @ 18.8 knots / 64lph @ 10.5 knots Range: 367nm @ 18.8 knots / 1,117nm @ 10.5 knots Noise: 64 d(B)A @ 18.8 knots / 59 d(B)A @ 10.5 knots Design: Ausonio/Salvagni/Mancini/Azimut Starting price: €5,750,000 (ex. VAT)

First published in the February 2023 issue of MBY.

The Azimut Grande 26M has an imperious profile – from a distance

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