More Than a Party Boat: Rise of the Day Boats
Jeanneau, Sunseeker, Galeon, Fairline, Sunreef and Swan are among a diverse range of builders who have recently entered the luxury day boat market, which has grown rapidly in the Med and Florida. But will such boats also prove popular in Asia"
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Designed by Camillo Garroni, the DB/43 is Jeanneau?s first luxury day boat
With over 250,000 boats around the world, Jeanneau has a client database that most other builders can only dream about. Part of the Groupe Beneteau collection of yacht brands, the French shipyard doesn?t create new series on a whim. Its Cap Camarat range of open outboard models marked its 40th anniversary last year.
Its Leader series started in 1985, yet this line of open inboards has been discontinued to make way for Jeanneau?s new DB Yachts range of day boats, which started with the DB/43 last year and has been bolstered by the DB/37 that debuted at Boot Dusseldorf in January. DB stands for day boat and was also the name used for a series of day boats Jeanneau launched in the early 1980s.
Day boats are nothing new. Vincent Piel, Jeanneau?s Powerboat Product Marketing Manager, says ?every boat can be a day boat?. However, the luxury or premium day boat ? open designs with large aft decks dedicated to social entertaining ? has risen dramatically in recent years, led most notably by Scandinavian, Dutch and Italian brands such as Fjord, VanDutch and Wajer.
When Jeannea...
The post More Than a Party Boat: Rise of the Day Boats appeared first on LUXUO.
Designed by Camillo Garroni, the DB/43 is Jeanneau?s first luxury day boat
With over 250,000 boats around the world, Jeanneau has a client database that most other builders can only dream about. Part of the Groupe Beneteau collection of yacht brands, the French shipyard doesn?t create new series on a whim. Its Cap Camarat range of open outboard models marked its 40th anniversary last year.
Its Leader series started in 1985, yet this line of open inboards has been discontinued to make way for Jeanneau?s new DB Yachts range of day boats, which started with the DB/43 last year and has been bolstered by the DB/37 that debuted at Boot Dusseldorf in January. DB stands for day boat and was also the name used for a series of day boats Jeanneau launched in the early 1980s.
Day boats are nothing new. Vincent Piel, Jeanneau?s Powerboat Product Marketing Manager, says ?every boat can be a day boat?. However, the luxury or premium day boat ? open designs with large aft decks dedicated to social entertaining ? has risen dramatically in recent years, led most notably by Scandinavian, Dutch and Italian brands such as Fjord, VanDutch and Wajer.
When Jeannea...
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