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Coming: New Light-Filled Prestige F5

Prestige, the upscale French builder, just announced that it’s making a new 57-foot F5 flybridge motoryacht, a larger version of the 50-foot F4 that it launched at the Cannes Yachting Festival last September. The new F5 has the same styling as the F4, but with even more glazing in the salon and in the hull sides for the lower accommodations deck. Indeed, the salon sides have almost full-height glass side windows, forward and aft; on the starboard side, they’re separated by a sliding glass door in the middle, designed to give the captain immediate access to the side deck. The…

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Popular Prestige 520: Still Going Strong

Ever since it was first introduced at the Cannes Yachting Festival in 2017, the Prestige 520 flybridge motoryacht has been one of the French builder’s most popular models. Taking a good look at the newest 520, continually updated through the years, helps to understand why. The Prestige 520 is an elegant, comfortable, easy-to-handle cruiser, with separate social areas in almost every direction. The salon, with an aft galley that serves the cockpit as well as the flybridge, has large windows that provide views all around. In the salon, says Camillo Garroni, of Garroni Design in Genoa, who designed the yacht,…

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Prestige X70: Spirit of a Superyacht

Prestige, the upscale French builder, says its X70 provides all the spirit and space of a superyacht, while blurring the lines between the interior and exterior areas of the yacht. The X70 does indeed provide a lot of space, even for its 71-foot-plus size. The salon is full beam, because the side decks have been moved up to the flybridge. Then the aft deck/beach club/swim platform area is considerably larger than usual, creating lots of outdoor space for lounging, sun bathing, entertaining and water sports. The new Prestige was designed by the Garroni Design studio in Genoa, and it has…

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Prestige Wins 3 New Awards

Prestige just won three awards at the major European shows for two quite different yachts, the flagship 65-foot Prestige M8 catamaran and the 50-foot Prestige F4 flybridge cruiser. The F4, the first model in the French builder’s new flybridge line, won an award for best interior design in its size category at the World Yachts Trophies ceremony in Cannes, while the M8 won the award for power-driven catamarans there. The M8 then won the 2023 Design Innovation Award in the Multihull category a week later at the Genoa show. The interior of the F4 is fluid and elegant, with a…

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Prestige To Unveil New Upscale F4 at Cannes

Prestige, the upscale French builder, will hold the global premiere of its new almost-50-foot F4 flybridge yacht at the Cannes Yachting Festival, starting Sept. 12. The new Prestige comes with some heavy-hitting names. Garroni Design of Genoa, which has worked on everything from cruise liners to superyachts, did the lines, while Michael Peters, the Sarasota-based naval architect who has worked on everything from Hinckleys to race boats, did the hull. Powered by twin 480-hp Volvo IPS650 pod drives, the new F4 is expected to cruise comfortably and efficiently in the 22-knot range, and top out at 27 knots. Prestige says…

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New Prestige 420S Low-Profile Cruiser

It’s easy to use, and to like, the new Prestige 420S cruiser, a low-profile coupe with stylish lines and  an open, flowing interior. The 420S is the smallest in the upscale French builder’s S series that also has a 46S and a 520S. They’re all designed by the Garroni studios in Genoa; Garroni Design’s portfolio includes everything from sailboats and motoryachts to cruise liners. The Prestige 420S is a two-cabin, two-head cruiser that would be at home in coastal waters around the U.S. as well as on the Great Lakes. Its air draft is only 14′ 9” so it can…

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Prestige Unveils New 65-Foot Power Cat

Prestige, the upscale French builder, is doubling down on its power catamaran line. It launched its first power cat, the M48, last summer. Now, it says it’s making a new M8 that’s 65 feet long and has as much room as a five-bedroom house. The new M8 will have  the same semi-planing hull as the M48, with the same profile designed to look like a monohull. Its 19-foot beam is large enough to provide a lot of room inside and outside the boat, but it’s relatively narrow in terms of a 65-foot cat. The foredeck on the M8 is unusual;…

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Prestige Wins Two Awards in Cannes

Two Prestige Yachts, one a monohull and the other a multihull, won big awards recently in Cannes. Prestige’s X60 monohull won the award for Best Innovation of the Year at the World Yacht Trophies competition, announced at the end of the Cannes Yachting Festival. The Prestige M48 catamaran won the award in the multihull category for Design Innovation; it also was nominated for the European Powerboat of the Year award that will be announced at the Düsseldorf show in January. The Prestige X60  award came just two years after its larger sibling, the X70, won the award for Best Layout.…

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New Prestige 690 with Swarovski Interior

Prestige Yachts, the upscale French builder, is taking the world of luxurious yacht interiors to a new level. Prestige just formed a partnership with Swarovski, the Austrian maker of world-famous crystal glass since 1862, to design a limited-edition Prestige 690 with lavish, light-catching and over-the-top Swarovski surfaces and inserts. For the new yacht, Prestige and Swarovski redesigned the standard interior of a 690 to create panels of Swarovski’s unique Crystal Compound elements, made from a complex glass panel with Swarovski crystals. The decorative panels are created with a glass backdrop with the embedded crystals. They are then combined with grey…

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Prestige Planning New Luxury Power Cat

Here’s some big news on the power catamaran front. Prestige, the French builder of luxury motoryachts and part of the powerful Groupe Beneteau, will start making luxury power cats. Erwin Bamps, the Prestige general manager, made the announcement at a Groupe Beneteau press conference at the Cannes Yachting Festival. He did not reveal any details, and said he would have much more about the new cat at the Düsseldorf boat show in January. But Bamps did say the cat was an expansion of the company’s “private island concept” and it would be aimed at both the charter and owner-operator markets…

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