Lizzi
Powered by 4 Volvo IPS pod drives, this stunning 75′ Lazzara is a joy both out on the open water and in a tight marina.
Mac 1
A low profile design & flowing lines, makes this 2008 Mangusta a real head turner.
Monty
With 4 state rooms, a large salon & a top speed of 44 Knots, this 2005 express cruiser is a great example of a still popular Azimut boat.
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Let’s get stuck in here. The three boats that we have today are in the 75 to 90 foot range. They’re all the same style. They’re all express cruises, sort of fast boats, and nice for day boats, long weekends, and lots of sunbathing area. They’re very popular, especially in Europe.
Getting stuck in here our first boat is Lizzi. This one is in South of France. There are some of these same boats available in the U.S. I want to show you this one because it’s particularly nice. She’s a 75 foot Lazzara. The new model for this boat is 78. They do 78, 92, and I think they do a 64 as well. This one being 2008 is just a slightly different version of the same model.
It’s 75 foot long, as I say, 18.3 or 18 foot 3 inches is the beam and the maximum draft here, it’s a planning hull, which makes them a little shallower, so it’s only just over 3 ½ feet deep. The speeds that we’re talking about here, this is the slowest one out of the three that we have today. It’s between 24 and 30 knots depending on sort of where it’s cruising speed or maximum speed.
The sets up inside, Lazzara, they do two different styles of boats. I think they do this style, which is called the LSX. I think they do this really, really well. I love the interior layout. I love the design of the interior spaces, the way they lay out the cabins and the social areas. In the 92 LSX, which we’ll review at another point, they actually have a sauna and spa area off the master suite. It’s very cool. This is the slightly smaller version of that. It doesn’t have that spa, but it has the same sort of quality layout as the large boat does.
The asking price on this is just over $3 million. It has four staterooms. The social area that they have here is split into two levels. They have the main salon, which is this upper deck, and then they have the lower deck, which is centered around the galley. Nice seating area, nice galley, tons and tons of storage, and then you go either fore or aft to the cavernous room there.
I really like the Lazzara LSXs. They have a great, it’s called an IPS drive. This LSX would be my choice. The IPS drive, if you haven’t seen it before, it’s actually a separate little joystick that sits next to the regular throttles, the split throttles that you have. What this joystick does is it gives you a real simple way to control the close quarters maneuvering of the boat. You have full 360 degree movement of the joystick and you can also spin the joystick.
Rather than having to worry about which engine you put in the head, which one comes in reverse, and trying to incorporate the bow thruster in with that. This joystick actually does everything for you. You just point it to where you want it to go or tell you to the extent you want it to spin around and the boat does the thinking and puts you where you want to be. It’s great for first time drivers, great for own operators, and very easy and very intuitive to operate.
It runs with four engines. Each of those engines drives an individual pod and this pod is what enables it to be so easily controlled. Rather than the propellers being on a shaft out of the hull, it’s actually contained in one pod and the pod can spin 360 degrees completely. It’s a little bit like the tugboats. They have the same sort of set up. Great boat there, Lazzara LSX is a great boat as far as I’m concerned.
Next we have a Mangusta. This is the largest one for today, 92 feet, 21 foot beam. She was built in 2008. The asking price on this is just over $5 million. This is another one that’s in South of France in Monaco. Mangusta is sort of the stereotypical go fast express cruiser boat. It’s what everyone things of when they picture this style of boat. To a certain degree that explains the slightly higher price.
They are a good boat. It’s an Italian boat built in the Overmarine yard. For me personally, I prefer the setup of the Lazzara style boats, but still a great boat. It’s hugely popular over in the Med especially. These are actually jet boats. They’re very maneuverable, same as the Lazzara. The way they do this is exactly the same as the Jet Ski. They have the bucket that comes over the sort of thrust of the water at the jets and that gives it, whether the bucket is up or down, gives it a force of 360 degree range of where it throws that water jet.
It’s very maneuverable, not as easy as the IPS drive in the Lazzara that we just saw, but still a great boat. It’s very fast, 30 to 38 knots, so great speed there. This, as far as the Mangusta range goes, Mac I is by far the nicest that I’ve seen. Mangusta’s tend to get, in my opinion, a little carried away with the sort of Euro Nikki Beach sort of style, whereas here it’s a lot more toned down. They use great complementing colors; nice rich toned wood floors, cream soft goods, so they’ve kind of toned it down. It’s not as in-your-face as some of them are.
What’s nice about this one is they have this huge retractable roof or ceiling panel that comes back and opens this entire main salon area up to the sky. They have huge exterior sun pads. It has a master cabin, full beam aft, huge cabin. It’s actually a suite. It has a TV, sort of a social room off to the side of it. You’ll notice that this is only three staterooms and that TV area would be the fourth stateroom, but they’ve chosen, whoever commissioned the build of this, has chosen to have it just as three and have that larger master cabin. Again, a great boat, the price, like I say, just over $5 million, and we’ll look into that one in the full review as well.
Last for today is Monty. This is built by Azimut. It’s their Azimut S series. These are actually another boat that as far as the company is concerned, I think this is their best model that they have out. They do build much larger, sort of fly bridge style, boats, but I think they have a really nice concept for this style. This was built back in 2005, but the 86 S is still built. Almost exactly the same boat is built today. It’s the same size, same interior look.
It has a really nice classy feel inside. They don’t get carried away, like the Mangusta’s do, with that real Euro minimalistic, sort of everything white, look. She’s 86 feet, so she’s right in the middle of our range today, 20 foot beam, which is a nice beam in relation to the size of the boat. It has a 4 foot draft, slightly bigger draft because it’s a deep V hull rather than planning hull. All of the sun seekers in this same style are also deep V hulls.
This has a great speed, a whopping 35 to 44 knots depending on whether you’re cruising or at maximum speed, so the fastest out of the three that we’ve seen today. There are four staterooms. It has a nice big full beam master with a nice sized bathroom. It has a double twin and VIP up forwards.
This one is actually in Miami. It’s here in South Florida. There are a couple of these that are around. The 86 S was a very popular model for them, so there are quite a few of them out there. This one has been maintained very well by the owner. The owner is actually an ex-Formula 1 driver so you know all of the engineering and mechanics have been greatly maintained on this thing. A great boat, I’m excited to do the full reviews today.
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