Talk of the Town Sea 2025
As Forbes magazine recently reported, the yachting world is currently abuzz in 2025 with the the ever growing industry and new yacht brands to look out for.
The latest Talk-of-the-Seas in the sub-superyacht motor yacht sector (under 120ft) covers three BIG and important dominating subjects that need attention:
Safety, Usable Space, Price
EkoKat didn’t just join this latest conversation - it launched it quietly to itself three years ago, and just look at the result.
EkoKat 62W - Spoiler Alert! This is a 62ft yacht, NOT a 120 super-yacht!
Shown here with the giant solar array roof removed to reveal the super yacht sized flybridge
Safety (always) First
Following the tragic sinking of the Bayesian superyacht in Sicily in 2024, where owner and guests perished trapped down in the hull bedrooms, unable to escape up to the main deck and outside in time – things happen very quickly as sea - the entire matter of owner and guest bedrooms being located down in the hulls of yachts has now seriously been called into question.
You wouldn’t sleep down in the hulls of a cruise ship or mega yacht would you? The challenge that has existed though with yachts <120ft in size, is quite simply summarised with the question ‘where else is there to put the bedrooms’ (except maybe the owner’s master suite that is often now found at the front of the main-deck on the larger yachts, but this blocks the forward view from the salon lounge behind).
Ekokat shows why that outdated hull bedroom layouts can finally be left behind using a mixture of bold creative thinking, pure genius and innovation. There are also countless benefits to avoiding hull-based cabins - something Ekokat proves with clarity.
The 62ft EkoKat Voyagers astonishing 'mega yacht sized' owners full beam master suite
This is just one of EkoKat’s fundamental game-changing and industry transformational design shifts. Through an ingenious and innovative layout and voice activated wall system, the brand uses the main deck as a huge salon in the day-time, that it calls a luxury penthouse apartment with guaranteed sea view! and uses the exact same space at night as a luxury presidential Suite with up to 4 private and oversized soundproofed bedrooms.
The space is miraculously transformed in minutes and even during the daytime individual private rooms can be created for those wanting rest in the day or some quiet privacy. The presidential suites are not only much larger than hull bedrooms but they help prevent sea sickness (sleeping down in the hulls with limited views of the horizon is one of the most common causes of motion sickness).
And when it comes to actually sleeping in your superyacht sized suite, introduce yourself here to Sleepkat - the most comformable sleeping experience on board any sub super yacht sized boat. Click Here to read about our custom made cinema day bed sofas that conceil one of the most spectacular and health orientated sleeping experiences imagineable made in conjunction with Simba Mattresses and Eight Sleep.
See EkoKats humorous Schrödinger’s Cat analogy here: https://www.ekokat.international/schrodingerscat
More on Safety (and common sense)
Another safety related issue is the almost absurd continued use of side-decks on power catamarans, simply a legacy and traditionally presumed, and needed way to transit between the front and rear of the boat. Brands have slowly been increasing the width of the side-decks for safety purposes. This reduces the usable space inside the salon and up on top the flybridge even more). Why not just use the front door?!
Attempting to scramble along side-decks whilst at sea underway can be very dangerous (especially if one has had one too many glasses of champagne!). They are completely redundant other than for Mediterranean style stern-too parking and the retrieval of the bow/easy line (for which EkoKat have a unique tool).
Who spends any time on them, and at the expense of the huge loss in space of key recreational spaces.
This simple diagram show the amount of space lost in both the salon and on the flybridge above from having legacy side decks, and bedrooms in the hulls
….EkoKat have again made a simple but radical and logical decision and done away with them altogether as power catamarans simply do not need them at all anyway (just use the front door in the middle of the forward salon or the staircase from the flybridge), and in the process, combined with the absence of hull bedrooms (that themselves steal valuable floor space from the salon above to create headroom below for bedrooms, meaning the furniture needs to be deceivingly moved inwards creating even less usable floor space, in the salon) have been able to provide 80ft+ power catamaran, and up to 120ft monohull salon and flybridge-sized usable space on boat their 62 ft yacht! It’s an absolute revelation!
Space on Board
As we know boating becomes addictive as it is not long before owners desire a bigger yacht, mainly to get more usable space in key main-deck and flybridge areas. Llogic dictates humans are used to living on land, and whilst a 40-50-60ft+ yacht may seem big at 1st and the best toy ever, the space constraints soon become realised and there is always a bigger boat next to you on anchor or in the marina.
The trouble is this is never ending with yachts going up to 500ft these days and costing up to ½ billion $). Owner operators also lose the ability to drive and operate the boat themselves much above 65ft and the entire dynamic changes as well as the seemingly pocketless holes the upgrade exercise creates. So the trend these days is seeing brands come up with all sorts of design techniques to create more space on board, such as hydraulic folding down sides to create a little more space aft (which is fine as long as they don’t malfunction and get stuck down, which less face it they will do sooner or later) and they can’t be used when underway at sea. The Volume of boats have increased as well by simply have greater beam and height amongst other things, but there is a limit to this.
….EkoKat simply as no need to do any of these things. As is explained above she is a 62ft boat in length, suitable for owner operators if desired (and with 2 oversized crew cabins if not) that has the main-deck and flybridge usable spaces of monohull boats twice its length and that of power catamarans in excess of 80ft. The advantages of this are almost endless and too many to list here, but practicality is one. With its ability to anchor in 2 metres of water and not damage its hulls or props if it touches the sandy sea bed, and even carry out beach landings, EkoKat is like parking a superyacht up at the beach! It really is the best of all worlds.
See EkoKat’s humorous Dr Who Tardis analogy here: https://www.ekokat.international/tardis
Price
Yachts are just too expensive for the mainstream these days. Do 50-80ft yachts really need to cost this much. Well unfortunately legacy brands still choosing to build in western Europe are forever feeling the pinch and many are appearing to go bust every few years. Sunseeker and Fairline being two victims in the last year alone.
Gone are the days of ‘Built in China’ meaning poor quality. Providing the factory facility is aware of international standards, has the right workforce, quality control and shipping is in place, and the overseeing brand itself is from the West, with labour charges and factory leasing costs being 1/3rd – ¼ that of the west, the luxury EkoKat Voyage 62 can literally be built for 1/3rd the overall cost than if it were built in western Europe, and this includes the use of premium brand important equipment, much of which comes from Italy
“The Ekokat 62W ($2.98m) will cost you HALF that of the competitor length Sunreef 60, and literally has DOUBLE the usable space in its salon and on its flybridge, not to mention the myriad of additional benefits and features of the yacht” says EkoKat’s CEO, an owner-operator of 50-60ft monohulls for 30 years, with practical experience at sea spanning 3 continents. Side decks, bedrooms in the hulls and the prices simple made no sense.
“Our flybridge at a whopping 80sqm tops the considerably larger/longer Sunreef 80 with its 64sqm flybridge and its 4x price tag in excess of Usd11m. It outdoes all monohulls pretty much with an example being the new Sunseeker 100 yacht which will cost you a tidy USD15m and EkoKat even sits alongside the 130ft Sunseeker Predator yacht when it comes to flybridge and salon space and an owner’s full beam master cabin the same size (all guests sleep down in the hulls even on this yacht). It absurd but true”
So the word ‘price disrupters’ is an understatement and why would you want to pay double, treble and even 4 times the price to have a yacht less practical and with less usable space on board? “That’s a good question” says the CEO, “and I can’t think of an answer. In fact without sounding biased, if most of these larger length yachts were the same price I would still choose an Ekokat simply from the get-onand-go ability, also able to tuck myself away in tiny tight and idyllic anchorages next to the beach rather than park 100m out and come ashore by tender
.… let alone that EkoKat will cost you 1/10th the annual running costs.
See the Ekokat comparisons flip brochure here EkoKat v power catmarans and monohulls up to 103ft
Time to Convert?
With all this transformational change and disruption what would stop a monohull owner from converting to a regular power catamaran then? (whilst they offer more space conventionally than a monohull , they do not come close to an EkoKat)
Under usual circumstances this would eventually come down to performance, with monohull owners used to at least a 20/21+ knot cruising speed. Whilst many monohulls can do more, fuel consumption is important to many, but more relevant maybe is comfort. Unless you are in a hurry to get somewhere, which isn’t what boating is about, 20/21 knots does appear to be the optimum cruising speed still allowing for guests to move around the yacht and wine and dine. There is enough exhilaration at this speed and intermittent bursts up to 25-27 knots is usually more than enough for most.
This is why EkoKat and its performance hulls, not wide enough to require bedrooms and hence create less drag, choose engine options up to MAN 1200’s and even 1500’s making it the only 60ft+ luxury power catamaran to enable such post 20 knots cruising speeds. Of course, you can cruise much slower and down at <10 knots you can achieve up to 3000nm range, but if you want monohull performance you have it with EkoKat and this gives is a significant edge over all other power catamaran brands and effectively a 10x client audience size.
EkoKat will arrive with more of a Lions roar than Puss cat meow when it hits the waters somewhere close to you soon, and could very well change the future of yacht concepts, layouts and safety dramatically. Even the lightweight Aquila 54 costs more than EkoKat so there is for sure going to be quite a disturbance in the industry very soon.
This article only just touches the surface about Ekokat, there should probably be a 1000 page book written about it, motor yacht lovers will be truly astonished … as we indeed are.
The future of yachting has surely arrived, with gradual yacht design improvements usually taking 3 decades to evolve, coming out at the same time in 2025 with Ekokat.
The Line Up
There are various models in the line-up, an 8m or 10m beam Voyager 62 as well as a commercial sports series, one of which can carry 2 private U Boat Worx Nemo superyacht submarines or 5 electric jet skis. The Equally disruptive and transformational 11m 36ft EkoRib also joins the gang ... but that's another story.
Shown without the huge solar array roof to reveal the simply enormous flybridge
DiveKat is surely the best luxury liveaboard or day trip dive boat afloat, equally suitable for non-diving partners, and with the size-v-price matter, also very much applying to the yacht charter world, this is surely the best and most cost-effective luxury charter boat <120ft
Hell, they even have a concept version without a roof that doubles as an marine e-VTOL Vertiport, and another with no flybridge that takes 30-40 people in 1st class luxury as a transfer yacht, able to cruise at 25+ knots – perfect for the Maldives and the Caribbean.
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