Ignore the luxurious two-, three- or even four-bedroom options available on Italian builder Pardo’s brand-new 75-foot, GT75 flagship. That’s because the company predicts few owners will actually bring their toothbrushes and spend the night.
“You’d be surprised; very few of our owners sleep aboard. They like to know that they could, but most either go out for the day, or cruise to a marina and stay in a luxury hotel,” Roc Babarovic, Pardo’s international business development manager, tells Robb Report during a tour of the new yacht at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show.
Not that there’s a shortage of space or comfort aboard. The GT75’s midships owner’s suite spans the yacht’s 19-foot beam and features a king-sized bed, lounge area, and ensuite bathroom. For VIP guests, there’s a sizable forward cabin with bathroom. Need room for the kids? Opt for the lower galley and dining area to be moved up into the main salon, and two extra twin-berth cabins can be added.
The only person we know who has actually stayed overnight on a GT75 is Hollywood actor and director Kevin Costner. The Yellowstone star spent four days on the yacht in August as a guest of Pardo. He took a cruise to Sicily and the Aeolian Islands in the Mediterranean.
For Pardo, this new GT75 is a key addition to its ever-expanding fleet, providing buyers with a step up from the current GT52 dayboat. Next summer, they’ll have yet another option with the introduction of a new GT65.
Designers at Milan-based studio Nauta Design gave the GT75 its distinctive superstructure with that bold, reverse-angle windscreen—but again the focus is on indoor/outdoor living. There are sliding doors on each side of the helm station, an innovative louvered roof section that opens Venetian-blind-style to let in air and light, plus rear side windows that lower. There’s even a hatch above the central-positioned helm that opens to channel air through the salon while under way.
“We wanted to create the feeling of the boat being open and airy. In the salon, almost uninterrupted windows on four sides provide 360-degree views of the water,” says Babarovic.
Despite its voluminous interior, this new GT follows the proven Pardo formula of focusing on exceptional outdoor space. Step aboard via the “transformer-style” rear swim platform and take the steps up to the rear sun-lounging area with a huge pad that can accommodate five across. Power down the large terraces on either side to expand the area. A press of a button raises the area to reveal a large tender garage below.
Want more even more rear deck space? There’s a “beach” version that dispenses with the sunpad and tender garage to create a vast deck space. It gives private access to the owner’s cabin via a sliding glass door.
Performance is also a key ingredient for this new GT75, which sets it apart from Pardo’s more long-distance-focused Endurance 72 flybridge model. Standard propulsion with the 75 is a trio of 800 hp Volvo Penta IPS 1000 pod drives with the desirable option of 1,000 hp IPS 1350 versions. With the bigger engines, top speed is an impressive 43.7 mph.
At 34.5 mph it can run 300 nautical miles; at 29 the range goes up to 400 nautical miles, with around 1,000 miles possible at a leisurely 9 mph, all courtesy of the yacht’s 1,140-gallon fuel capacity. The all-new hull, from the drawing board of Maurizio Zuccheri’s Bologna studio, features a Bahamas-friendly draft of just 5.5 feet.
Despite the GT75 only being launched at the Cannes boat show in September, the company says 12 units have been sold, most to existing Pardo owners. The boat we toured at FLIBS, the actual one Kevin Costner stayed on, was heading to a U.S. buyer.
A base GT75 with triple 800 hp IPS 1000 Volvos costs around $4.5 million, rising to around $5.7 million with the 1000 hp IPS 1350s and more custom features.
Pardo plans to deliver five or six GT75s a year out of its 45,000 square-foot plant in Forli on Italy’s east coast. Maybe free hotel vouchers should be offered with each yacht.
