Maritimo to lure more buyers with fishing-friendly luxury motor yachts
A custom fishing build by Maritimo One has more potential buyers pooling around and ready to biteMaritimo is weighing up adding specific fishing-focused models to its growing mix of luxury motor yachts after a custom build for its bespoke boat-building business hooked up other potential buyers.
The Queensland-based luxury motor yacht maker is currently building a specialised version of its M59 flybridge motor yacht as part of its Maritimo One sub-brand set up earlier this year to alter boats to suit specific customer needs.
Modifications to the boat for its new Zealand-based customer include a reversed transom that will allow the cruiser to move at higher speeds in reverse while backing down on a fish.
When completed, the Maritimo M59 that’s still in its early build phase will even include a game tower.
Changes to the design include a new hardtop, flybridge and cockpit, and changes to the hull to make it perform better while going backwards.
The boat will be completed in time for the 2020 Sanctuary Cove Boat Show, where it will go on display.
Joining it will be a Maritimo M64 with a fishing cockpit, a boat that Maritimo operations general manager Phil Chandler said was “under development”.
“We’re going to continue to do that [modify boat cockpits for fishing],” Chandler said. “We have a lot of requests for it.
“It’s a lot of work, a lot of time for us at the R&D interface, and at the production interface, and we believe there’s an opportunity, particularly in the fishing market, there seems to be an opportunity for us to develop and design that boat,” he said.
Maritimo announced the establishment of Maritimo One at this year’s Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show, with the division dedicating up to 12 months at a time to craft an owner’s vision of their perfect motor yacht.
It has already delivered an M51 flybridge cruiser featuring a “regency suite” master stateroom to a customer.
The Queensland-based boat-maker is also working on a heavily modified M70 flybridge cruiser that will wear an M78 tag once it is completed, featuring an extended cockpit space.
Chandler said it was more cost-effective, easier and yielded more space for Maritimo to extend the length of a boat’s cockpit than it was to build in drop-down side decks.
He said there was also less risk of warranty claims if the drop-down side decks ever failed.
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