2023 Maritimo M75 to hold spotlight at Gold Coast showcase

The Maritimo Boat Show will be held at the Sanctuary Cove marina on July 14-15. The big drawcard will be the global debut of the Maritimo M75, a boat that stands as the largest motor yacht built by the Coomera-based company founded by Bill Barry-Cotter in 2003 – its first product, the Maritimo 60 flybridge cruiser, was released in 2004.

Teased as a concept in December 2021, the Maritimo M75 has taken five years and 120,000 hours of research, design and tooling to complete the first boat off the production line. 

Each boat will take Maritimo’s skilled craftworkers 35,000 hours – the equivalent of four years – to build.

The new model has already attracted around $100 million in pre-order sales.

Maritimo managing director Tom Barry-Cotter said the Maritimo M75 was the sum of 20 years of Maritimo evolution, and Maritimo’s “most magnificent model ever”.

“We have taken two decades of our customers’ experience and input into our design evolution and melded that into what is the most incredible flybridge motor yacht ever crafted in Australia," Barry-Cotter said.

"The Maritimo M75 represents a quantum leap in long-range cruising design when it comes to cruising range, offshore performance and onboard comfort.”

Alongside the new M75 will be the new Maritimo S75 sedan launched at the 2023 Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show, the M55 flybridge and its S55 sedan siblings.

The Maritimo Boat show will be open on both days from 9am to 5pm on each day. It will include a careers desk for anyone interested in working with Maritimo to help build its boats.

A defining feature of the Maritimo M75’s design is a vast adventure deck filling the aft section of the motor yacht and incorporating a large lowering swim deck.

At heart, the new Maritimo M75 will remain a capable long-range cruiser with a variable deadrise deep-vee hull with a deep keel, sharp bow entry and a flattened progression aft that is optimised for offshore conditions, cruising efficiency and comfort, and stability. 

Powering the package will be a pair of 1150hp Scania Di16 inboard engines driving a shallow-angle straight shaft fitted with five-blade Nibral propellers. Draft is only 1.5 metres, meaning that despite its size, the Maritimo M75 can sneak into shallow anchorages.

Owners seeing more performance can step up to twin MTU units providing either 1380hp or 1625hp each. The Maritimo M75 will take on up to 10,000 litres of fuel to provide plenty of fast cruising range.

As befitting the M-Series, the new Maritimo M75 features an enclosed and climate-controlled flybridge sky lounge accessed via an internal staircase.

The base of the flybridge features wings that extend outwards over the side decks below, creating what Maritimo claims is unprecedented amounts of interior space.

"The space incorporates a pair of distinct internal lounging areas, with a forward cruising lounge and aft TV lounging, which can both conveniently convert to additional sleeping berths if required.

"Beyond the flybridge sliding glass doors, the flybridge balcony deck offers further unprecedented amounts of flybridge outdoor deck space.

"Above, the flybridge hardtop fully shades and protects the flybridge balcony deck, with the ability for hidden roll-down blinds to conveniently encase the area from the elements."

Owners can also choose the option to have the stairwell fully enclosed in glass to help with both noise suppression and privacy if the upper deck is converted to sleeping quarters.

Outdoor space

Equally impressive is the amount of outdoor space on offer, with the M75 aft adventure deck creating what Maritimo says is "an incredibly versatile hub for lounging, cooking, adventuring or storage, with plenty of room to spare".

“Front and centre of the immense adventure deck is the wet bar module with sink, top-loading refrigeration, and electric grill. Integral within the wet bar module is access to the utility cabin with secondary engine room access.

“Flanking each side of the adventure deck are large top-loading storage lockers and rear fairleads with optional capstan winches.

“Three steps up from the adventure deck is the gigantic upper cockpit deck, where the deck space spreads outwards to the outer bulwarks, maximizing available decks space, thanks to the on-deck storage lockers being located aft on the lower adventure deck.”

That allows the cockpit to offer more than 4.0 metres of width.

Maritimo says all furniture within the upper cockpit deck is designed in modules so that owners can choose how they would like their cockpit to be arranged, with all options comfortably catering for a minimum of eight guests in any lounging or dining arrangement, including fixed or freestanding tables.

The flybridge headliner fully covers the extremities of the upper cockpit deck, with the option of electric roller blinds which can encase the entire area in seconds, to give privacy, or to protect from weather.

Deep walk-through side decks connect the upper cockpit to the forward deck lounging space from both sides.

Up front are a forward-facing lounge and a separate large sun pad. Because this is a blue-water cruiser with water likely to come over the bow as owners gain more confidence in driving the boat in more varied weather conditions, attention was given to ensuring there were no places for water to pool in this space.

Saloon and galley

A step up from the cockpit through a glass bulkhead is the saloon space featuring an aft galley with an island bench.

The winged flybridge allows Maritimo to push the staircase leading up to the flybridge further abeam than more traditional designs that enclose the flybridge deck space inside the superstructure.

The space under the stairwell is dedicated to a full-height fridge and a pantry that can be optioned as space for another full-height appliance such as a freezer.

The M75's galley is the largest and most bespoke galley produced by Maritimo to date.

Further back in the saloon, the space turns over to comfortable living.

“Veiling all sides of the M75 saloon are enormous sections of glazing, injecting the surrounding seascapes right into the living and dining areas," Maritimo says.

"There is also the added option of Maritimo’s unique two-stage vista sliding windows which transform the entire saloon into an indoor/outdoor retreat.”

Heading below

The lower accommodation deck is accessed via an internal staircase from the front of the saloon. Descending below looks grander in the Maritimo M75 because the staircase stands alone and is not built into a space for the washer and drier like on other Maritimo models.

Instead, the space becomes a light-filled open atrium, with a washer, drier and a pull-out laundry locker built on the outside of the stairwell. A separate door gives easy access to the bilge; no more lifting sections of the floor to access the space.

The Maritimo M75 offers four separate accommodations – with a temporary berth available on the flybridge deck and the option of converting the aft utility room into crew accommodations – and three bathrooms.

The master suite includes an offset king-size bed with a walk-in robe and the option of a lounge or desk space and a three-quarter beam ensuite. Windows to either side run bulkhead to bulkhead – another one to tick off on the list of largest-ever benchmarks for Maritimo.

Tender choices

The aft adventure deck includes a large underfloor space that can store a tender of up to 2.3 metres in length, hoisted in and out via a davit. For owners who would prefer to use this space to stash gear for other watersports such as kayaking, stand-up paddleboarding or SCUBA diving, an option is to instead mount a 500kg-rated davit on the foredeck and use that space for tender storage.

An optional hydraulic swim platform also can serve as a platform to carry a tender or jet ski.

The Maritimo M75 is the seventh of eight new or updated models that Maritimo flagged it was working on.

Specifications
Model: Maritimo M75
Length overall: 23.07m
Hull length: 22.86m
Beam: 6.0m
Draft: 1.5m
Displacement: 48,300kg (dry)
Engines: 2x1150hp Scania Di16
Genset: 22kW/50Hz Cummins Onan
Fuel: 9500L
Water: 1400L
Holding tank: 400L
Accomodations: 4 cabins/8 people