LOA: 52ft 2in (15.90m) BEAM: 25ft 6in (7.76m) ENGINES: twin Volvo Penta D6 480s TOP SPEED: 22 knots PRICE: pending CONTACT: www.aquilaboats.com
Chinese-American powercat specialist, Aquila, is back with a 50-footer that takes the C brand’s well regarded Yacht line in a subtly fresh direction. Designed to replace the outgoing 48 and assume its natural position beneath the flagship 54 as the second largest powercat in the Aquila fleet, we have yet to see any internal images but the implications of the new boat’s external form are clear.
The initial renders show a very pronounced elevation in the forward gunwale line and while Aquila suggests that this is all part of a bold new “explorer aesthetic”, the likelihood is that it has more to do with creating extra volume for the full-beam owner’s cabin than with increased bridge deck clearance or deeper side decks.
Happily, this same feature enables the use of much deeper hull windows than you see anywhere else in the Aquila fleet, and while that ought to translate into a big, brightly lit owner’s cabin of rare and special scale, the new 50 Yacht will come with options. The standard layout provides three cabins, three heads compartments and a utility room but the alternative layout (which will presumably be favoured by the charter market) will increase that to four cabins, four bathrooms and optional captain’s qua
