Seavana 60 Full Listing and Specifications

Company Background

 Seavana Yachts was formed as a New York company in 1999 for the purpose of designing and building a yacht of a size that can be handled solely by its owner, yet also accommodate a crew. The challenge was to do so without compromising the elegant lines and proportions of the European motor yacht. A team of American and British designers, engineers and boat builders with over 100 years of collective-experience worked for over two years on the design. The well-regarded naval designer Bill Dixon of Southampton, England successfully accomplished the naval architecture and engineering. Experienced builders in Oundle, England, a town well known for its yacht building industry, construct the vessels to the highest standards of quality and safety meeting both RCD and ABYC (British and American) regulations.

 The finished product is a versatile yacht that easily and efficiently goes long distances to keep up with boating seasons and cruise in shallow waters such as those in the Bahamas. With plenty of power (from 1420 up to 2030hp) and a modified deep v hull the yacht is ideal for cruising.

 With no range of models to fit into, the size evolved solely by the program of requirements and the capability of the designers. The most important criteria incorporated into the design of the Seavana 60 was the versatility of the vessel, allowing it to be captained by the owner as well as accommodate a crew, but also prove spaces that would serve multi functions, such as the garage that can be fitted as a dive center. Other necessities were that the vessel have 3 large staterooms all with ensuite baths, a large comfortable galley, dining area and saloon, and spacious exterior areas ideal for outdoor entertaining.

Modern design tools and a concerted effort to re-evaluate functions and space utilization played an important role in the outcome. The Seavana 60 is a yacht with an engine power to size (displacement) ratio that strikes a critical balance between speed, efficiency and space. To illustrate, the size of the master stateroom is comparable to that of most 65-foot yachts. To package this space into a hull length of only 58 feet (overall length is 59'-8") is testament to the efficient spatial design. In fact, when we compared all the spaces it was obvious that we were comparable to yachts in the 60- foot range. For this reason we choose to call the yacht the Seavana 60.

 It is with the ideals of efficiency, versatility, effective use of space and style that we make yachts. Just as the Seavana 60 is no larger than necessary, no space within it is smaller than needed.

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SeaVana 60: A Background

The Seavana 60, a flybridge motor yacht with European styling designed expressly for the American market.

Historical Overview

 Up until now Americans purchasing a European style motor yacht had to settle for many design items that were European in nature. If one liked the exterior styling of a European Yacht and the high quality of the interior they had to adjust to the onboard European standards. Such items include the large interior helm considered by Europeans as the primary helm and a sunken in galley. The items an American could not find aboard were: king size beds, wide doorways, and full size furniture.

Implications

 The Seavana 60 is a flybridge motor yacht conceived and created by Americans for the North American market. Seavana Yachts searched the world when deciding where to have the yachts built. After considering many options including Italy and the Far East, Seavana Yachts chose to build its yachts in the United Kingdom, where they are built to the highest level of quality.

Onboard the Seavana 60 are items Americans value as important such as:

• A spacious cockpit and flybridge providing plenty of space for outdoor entertaining.

• Deep, full size furniture for comfort.

• Large and spacious Master and VIP staterooms with king size beds.

• Spacious interior design that allows the galley and saloon to become one expansive, uninterrupted space.

• The galley located one step up giving it 360º views.

• An ideal location for the interior helm allowing it to relate to surrounding spaces, enabling the captain to be joined by guests while piloting inside.

• All American made and serviced appliances, systems and equipment.

With the launch of the Seavana 60 Americans can purchase a yacht with the exterior and interior styling and craftsmanship of European yachts with the onboard comforts that Americans value. The yacht's design along with the restrained high quality finishing as well as its versatile spaces conveys the practicality of the Seavana 60.

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About the Designer

Bill Dixon
Dixon Yacht Design
Naval Engineer of the SeaVana 60

Dixon Yacht Design is a multi-disciplinary design practice in its 21st year, with an established reputation in both performance cruising yacht and motor yacht design. An experienced team of designers offered a comprehensive service encompassing Naval Architecture, yacht design, engineering, and styling, utilizing the latest 3D computer technology in the design of the Seavana 60.

As one of the first yacht design offices to attain ISO 9001 approval, Dixon Yacht Design, is committed to quality and conforming to the relevant specifications relating to the Seavana 60 since the company must be externally audited every 6 months in order to retain the ISO 9001 status.

The company's approach to design is to extend an individual character to each and every design that clearly reflects the client's vision. Past successful designs include "Yanneke Too" for which the company received the prestigious "International Superyacht Award", and the contemporary design That's Y.

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Boat Info

Seavana 60 Full Listing and Specifications

Technical Information

Comparison Chart
Hull
The Seavana 60's 58-foot hull benefits from the design evolution and on going refinement of previous hull designs by Dixon Yacht Design. The hull design is characterized by a deep forefoot for a soft ride, an amidships dead rise of 21 degrees, reducing to 15 degrees at the transom. The hull has a flair, characteristic of Bill Dixon Design's, to maximize deck beam without unduly increasing drag.

The Ride
Wide chines and prominent spray rail make for an efficient, dry ride with great handling and stability both up and down wind.

Other
The placement of the engine room resorted in a moderate shaft angle without resorting to tunnels in order to maintain the efficiency of the Seavana 60.

Patented Convertible Crew Cabin/Tender Garage

The versatile Convertible tender garage/crew cabin, found on the Seavana 60, allows valuable space to be utilized for two functions that are not needed at the same time. While cruising the space holds the tender and the crew pilots the boat. Upon arrival at the destination the crew launches the tender and the space converts to a cabin with a full bath.

 The tender garage is an easy and quick launch and retrieval system. This cabin can also be fitted for specialty uses such as a dive center, storage for extended cruises or a permanent sleeping berth. This patent pending system protects the tender in an enclosure, preserves the elegant lines of the yacht and leaves the alternate tender storage areas (e.g. flybridge or swim platform) unencumbered and useable.

The Seavana 60 is the first three-cabin flybridge yacht of its size (hull length is 58 feet) to incorporate both a tender garage for a 3.5-meter (11'-6") jet boat and a stateroom completely under the level of the cockpit floor. By using the space behind the engines and the foot space between the reinforcement stringers of the hull and carefully structuring the level of the cockpit floor, gunnels and engine bulkhead Seavana was able to achieve a yacht with more useable space. The increased living area onboard allows for more finishing onboard the Seavana 60 than on yachts of similar sizes. The aft freeboard at 2 meters (approximately 79 inches) creates a well-proportioned yacht in the aesthetic style of the European motor cruiser.

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