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Princess Yachts originally launched a V39 back in 1994. It was a hugely successful boat, soon morphing into the V40 (extended bathing platform) and then V42 (extended hull). Time ran out on the triumvirate 15 years later with over 500 built and when a new V42 was created a couple of years after that, it missed the ‘entry level’ mark on size and price. Princess needed a new route into the marque, and the new V39 was introduced at the London Boat Show in 2012.
INTERIOR
The big news about Princess’s new baby was the sense that there was no compromise in the interior fit-out. Satin finished walnut abounded throughout and everything from the light switches to the glass splash back around the galley was the equal of much larger (and more expensive) models in the range. The layout echoed those earlier boats, with the owner cabin in the bow, midcabin back under the forward section of cockpit and saloon opposite the galley between them. But somehow the boat felt bigger everywhere than its predecessors.
EXTERIOR
Where the original V39, and the V40 and V42 evolutions that followed were resolutely open boats, a hard top never even gracing the options list, the new V39 was hard top only.
How times have changed. But the advantage with developing the boat as a hard top is how cohesive it looks. The way the swoop of the rear profile matches the buttresses either side of the bathing plat
