If you think you might run into some heavy seas on your next cruise (or even on the cruise after that), you might want to take a look at Enmer, a 75-foot explorer yacht that’s built to handle them all.
Enmer in a 2019 version of a 75-foot, 44-knot Safehaven Marine XSV20 that’s built to go anywhere in the world. The front windshield is supposed to be bulletproof: It’s made of inch-thick ballistic glass. The hull is designed to blast through waves offshore, not riding over the top.
The hull is reinforced with carbon fiber and Kevlar, and it has a sharp, wave-piercing entry with a deep-V midsection flowing back to two catamaran-like aft sections for stability.
Enmer is powered by twin 1,150-hp CAT C18s with waterjet derives. It has a top speed of 44 knots and a range of 600 nm at 26 knots. Humphree Interceptors provide control at all speeds.
The interior is minimalist, with two cabins, holding two people each, plus a crew quarters. The pilothouse has four SHOXS shock-absorbing helm and passenger seats.
Enmer was built for Jack Setton, the French billionaire and yacht owner, power and sail. On its delivery, the boat cruised 2,500 miles from the Safehaven yard in Cork, Ireland, to Setton’s slip in Porto Cervo, Sardinia. Now it’s for sale in the south of France, with a price of 1,950,000 Euros, or about $2,374,000, listed with Edmiston Yachts. (See the video below.)
For his part, Setton will move on to another adventure. He got in to boating in 1966 when he and his father saw Don Aronow’s Magnum 27, and got hooked. They had a similar boat designed in France, replacing the sterndrives with outboards and taking some weight out of the hull. Then they built it, as the Setton Bullit 298, in Miami. The U.S. Navy bought some and dropped them from airplanes.
Jack Setton himself moved on to building and buying a series of innovative sail and power boats, including a 194-foot expedition yacht and a 105-foot converted Gulf coast shrimp boat called Pink Shrimp.
Specs.: LOA: 75’0”; Beam: 17’7”; Draft: 2’’9”; Disp.: 52,910 lbs.; Fuel: 1,056 gals.; Water: NA; Power: 2×1,150-hp CAT diesels. Read more:
