Yacht Style – July 2019

COMFORTABLE CRUISE
Both helm stations suffer the same pitfalls of not-enough adjustment
and driving positions that do little to engage the person at the helm.
This is a boat set up for cruising and will spend most of its life on
autopilot, but it wouldn’t hurt to add some adjustment to the seats so the
helmsman can sit closer to the major controls. They both lack storage for
loose items, but the yard says it is looking into a solution.
The annoyances melt away in cruise, though, with the meaty yet
refined Man 1,200hp V8s effortlessly driving the 66 through the water
with very little to disturb the peace on board.
Even at its 26-knot cruising speed, sound levels remain well
below 70 decibels and there is such effortlessness to its progress that

Length overall 20.1m (66ft)

Beam 5.2m (17ft)

Displacement 36 tonnes (dry);

38 tonnes (light)

Fuel capacity 3,500 litres

(925 US gallons)

Water capacity 750 litres

(198 US gallons)

Engines 2 x Man V8

1,000hp/1,200hp

Top speed 31 knots

Cruising speed 26 knots

Cruising range

200 miles @ 26 knots

Certification

RCD A

DECKS & SPECS

The superb full-beam owner’s suite is midships, has storage and a sofa to the sides, and an elegant vanity table (right) in the entrance hall

The 66 is the second of three new MCY models for 2019

long journeys won’t feel a chore. Although 30 knots is a perfectly

achievable top speed, it’s the low to mid-20s where the boat feels most

comfortable and at a laid-back cruise of 22 knots, the engines are

using a combined 293 litres per hour.

Fin or gyro stabilisers are offered on the 66, but the benign

conditions of our sea trial did little to prompt the use of the Seakeeper

fitted to the test boat. The fuel tanks are mounted midships and as

low as they can possibly be in the hull, so weight distribution is good,

meaning the boat has a comfortable natural running attitude without

the need to rely on the trim tabs.

Monte Carlo Yachts has never been afraid to do things differently,

be it the modular way in which it constructs its boats or the way

they look. Chief Executive Fabrizio Iarrera makes the point that

to encourage customers into the brand, you have to begin with the

aesthetic, but with the 66 the attraction runs far deeper than that.

It’s solidly engineered, attractively decorated and has some of the

finest deck spaces in the sector. A case then, if ever there was one, of

beauty being more than skin deep.

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