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'Talk of the Seas' 2025
The most transformational reset in the motor yacht industry ever?
Next Gen Ekokat delivers a radical and pivotal shift in yacht layout, safety, practicality and price. It is rapidly gaining recognition as the world’s first 60ft super yacht
EkoKat Voyager 62s with super yacht beach club in the Maldives, demonstrating its beach landing ability, and ease of operating in very shallow water
The yachting world is abuzz in 2025 in this ever growing industry with new yacht brands to look out for and their new and innovative designs.
The latest Talk-of-the-Seas in the sub-superyacht motor yacht sector
(under 120ft) covers at least three BIG and dominating subjects under scrutiny
Safety, Usable Space, Price
EkoKat didn’t just join this latest conversation - it started it quietly to itself three years ago, and just look at the result.
1. Safety First
No more bedrooms in the hulls!
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 at sea - this surely brings the entire matter of owner and guest bedroom suites being located down in the hulls of yachts into question?
Would you sleep down in the hulls of a cruise ship or mega yacht if given the choice?
Ekokat shows why that outdated hull bedroom layouts can finally be left behind using a mixture of bold creative thinking, pure genius and innovation.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 other benefits to avoiding hull-based cabins - something Ekokat proves with bold clarity.
Some of the larger power catamaran brands place the owner’s master bedroom suite at main deck level as do the smaller superyacht and larger monohulls brands, but this just blocks the forward view from the salon lounge behind.
If they are asked 'why do you put guest bedrooms down in the hulls of the boat?' the answer has always been ‘where else is there to put them, the main deck is used for the salon lounge’
IMAGINE IF THERE WAS A SOLUTION?
This is just one of EkoKat’s fundamental game-changing and industry transformational design shifts.
EkoKat Main Deck Living 'and' Sleeping Panoramic Views
EkoKat Introduces
The World's 1st dual-functioning Salon (lounge)
Luxury Penthouse Apartment by Day, transforms to Presidential Suites by night
Through an ingenious and innovative layout and voice activated electric 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 with fantastic panoramic views over the ocean that 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) but there are a host of other benefits to not having bedrooms in the hulls. Space to house Superyacht sized bathrooms, more space for solar batteries and extra sized crew rooms, and over USD1million saved in fit outs passed on to the buyer.
And when it comes to actually sleeping in your superyacht sized suite, introduce yourself here to Sleepkat - the most conformable sleeping experience on board any sub super yacht sized boat.
CLICK HERE to read about our custom made tv/cinema day bed sofas that conceal one of the most spectacular and health orientated sleeping experiences imaginable, made in conjunction with Simba Mattresses and Eight Sleep.
See EkoKats humorous Schrödinger’s Cat analogy here: https://www.ekokat.international/schrodingerscat
Safety First
No more dangerous side decks
Another safety-related issue is the continued — and frankly, almost absurd — use of side decks on power catamarans. This legacy feature was traditionally presumed necessary for transiting between bow and stern. A power catamaran has a 'front door' inside the salon/lounge so given the safety aspect as well as the amount of interior and flybridge space lost by having them.
Yet, modern brands are now quietly widening these side decks to react to the obvious safety aspect, which reduces usable interior space — both in the salon and up on the flybridge. But let’s be honest: why not just use a front door? Attempting to scramble along narrow side decks at sea — especially after one too many glasses of champagne — is inherently dangerous.
They serve little to no purpose other than for stern-to docking and the occasional bow line retrieval… both of which Ekokat has solved with a unique, forward-thinking tool. So again — who really uses side decks? And more importantly, why sacrifice major living space just to keep them?
This simple cross section 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 side decks 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!
No side decks also provides privacy for occupants of the owners full beam master cabin
and their direct access to the lounge-on-The-Bow outside terrace
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 industry transformational!
That is DOUBLE the size salon and flybridge than competing 60ft power catamarans
2. Space on Board
Superyacht sized spaces on a 62ft yacht
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.
Unfortunately 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.
See EkoKat’s humorous Dr Who Tardis analogy here: https://www.ekokat.international/tardis
….EkoKat simply as no need for any of these things. 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.
3. Yacht Prices
(and annual running costs)
Yachts are just too expensive for the mainstream these days. Do 50-100ft 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.
How does EkoKat manage to charge half the price of competing size 60ft power catamarans (and have double the usable space on board), and as little as 1/4 the price of yachts with the same usable space and still maintain the highest build quality, branded quality parts and equipment?
Well for one, EkoKat saves well over $1 million alone as a downstream benefit to its attention to safety matters such as no hull bedroom fits outs, no side decks, and no unnecessary and even dangerous features such as over-engineered hydraulic bathing platforms for lowering tenders, that block views rear for guests and will sooner or later fail.
Secondly, 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.
Price and Flybridge size comparisons
“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.
In seeking out the next yacht for himself and wife personally 3 years ago, side decks, bedrooms in the hulls and the prices simple made no sense so he set about taking a proven hull design shell (7 commissioned and proven so far), and with a solid team of naval architects, engineers (including a Mercedes F1 engineer), marine specialists, superyacht crew and handlers, and of course the factory itself, simply designed his own instead.
Deciding to call it EkoKat, it then received such overwhelming global acclaim, as a 3 decade entrepreneur decided an exclusive pedigree brand was in great need so deciding to make it available to other discerning yacht lovers (both owner operators and this that simply wish to enjoy them with crew), but on a strictly limited and exclusive basis. EkoKat was born.
“Our flybridge at a whopping 80sqm even tops the 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”
See the Ekokat comparisons flip brochure here EkoKat v power catamarans and monohulls up to 130ft
Price Disrupters
So the word ‘price disrupters’ is an understatement for EkoKat. 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-on and-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!
.… not forgetting EkoKat will also cost you 1/10th the annual running costs of some of these much larger 100ft+ yachts
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Yacht Charter Market
This Usable space 'v' yacht price basis also translates directly to the ever growing yacht charter market. As an example a brand new Sunreef 60 (half the space on board) charters in the Caribbean/Bahamas for around usd 55-60,000 per week and the Sunreef 80 (still less space on board) is up at usd 95-100,000 per week. 100-120ft Monohulls with less or similar size usable space will cost in addition of usd 100,000 per week.
EkoKat on the other hand plans weekly charge rates down at usd 45,000 per week, and is all set to radically transform the charter market globally.
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ROI?
Downstream benefits and reasons to consider an EkoKat just keep on flowing like champagne!
These radically lower yacht purchase and charter prices reflect directly onto the yacht owner looking for an ROI from their yacht purchase.
Having EkoKat Yacht Management manage your yacht and charter it when you are not using it, can see your annual running costs completely covered with as few as just three weeks charter per year, and if you choose to finance your yacht purchase on a 70% LTV basis, you are likely to cover your annual finance repayment as well, making your yacht available for charter for less than 8 weeks per year.
This can make a huge difference and give those with far less available cash to spend on a yacht suddenly in a position to buy an EkoKat when maybe they thought they could not!
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And there is more ...
The $3m yacht that rivals $15m Giants - Let alone Anything its own size
Safety, Usable Space and Price are just the start of things with Ekokat - the world's 1st 60ft superyacht. Over 30 Unique and Game Changing innovative features mean Ekokat is catapulted into an altogether different and unique yacht category of its own.
Who ever heard of a 60ft yacht with a dumb waiter, who ever heard of a 60ft yacht with superyacht sized bathrooms (courtesy of freed up space in the hulls having no bedrooms). AI is more than here to stay and regardless of mixed views there is no question of its benefits. Ekokat makes full use of this, and whilst we are not handing over control of the driving just yet, there are plenty of other incredibly useful applications for both owner, guests, captain and crew.
Time to Convert?
Especially as Ekokat has Monohull Performance speeds too!
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.
The Line Up
There are two primary EkoKat Voyager 62 models an 8m or 10m beam
EkoKat Voyager 62s (Sport 8m) and EkoKat Voyager 62w (wide-body 10m)
Voyager 62 Sports Series
The commercial sports series, introduces SubKat which can carry 1 or 2 private U Boat Worx Nemo superyacht submarines, WaveKat carrying up to 5 electric jet skis and DiveKat is surely the best luxury liveaboard or day trip dive boat afloat, equally suitable for non-diving partners.
eVTOL Vertiport
EkoKat even has a concept Voyager without a roof that doubles as an marine e-VTOL Vertiport. We all know the speed at which eVTOLS are approaching into our every day lives, not only commercially but for private use.
Click Here to see 5 eVTOLS that do not even require a private pilots license to operate! Remember eVTOLS operate using GPS systems ensuring collisions with other aircraft or buildings cannot occur. Following on from commercial interest EkoKat offers the opportunity to replace the solar array with a vertiport.
EkoCruisers
Eko Express and Nautikat
EkoExpress with no flybridge can take 30-40 people in 1st class luxury as a transfer yacht, able to cruise at 25+ knots – perfect for the Maldives, Caribbean and similar destinations.
NautiKat on the other hand as an entertainment boat offers high end scale partying to rival any Beach Club. Both EkoCruisers are fully bespoke
Mission Possible
Ekokat's mission was also to elevate innovation and practical features (some new, some found on superyachts) without over complicating. In fact in many areas we have reverse complicated things. Where architects and brands are heavily competing to out do each other by adding things that can easily go wrong, are realistically unnesary and cost a lot of money. Hydraulic platforms being one of them. 'Sure, the idea is nice' , Ekokats CEO Phil Dobson said, 'but there is so much heavy metal, complex hydraulic systems just waiting to fail when submerged, leaving the yacht unable to go anywhere with engines disabled - potentially hazzardful and has actually happened to me several times left slowly dragging on anchor, we questioned why they are even needed when superyachts don't bother and instead offer an almost endless and far more fun modular floating beach club.
As well as a plethora of highly practical features, we also have a philosophy not to be a brand that offers a lead in price that then require you spend often more than 50% in options. With Ekokat you get Ultra, the best holding anchors in the world, Xenta joystick driving and even a e-watersports garage with efoils and sea scooters as standard equipment.
This article only just touches the surface about Ekokat, there should probably be a 1000 page book written about it, motor yacht lovers will likely be truly astonished.
The future of yachting is surely seeing a pivotal shift with EkoKat, with gradual yacht design improvements usually taking 3 decades to evolve, coming out at the same time in 2025 with Ekokat.
Provisional registrations/orders by invitation only are also being taken now.
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