Adventure Yachts unveils AY60 powercat with 3,000-mile range in La Grande-Motte

The big idea behind the AY60 was not just speed or styling, it was independence. Adventure Yachts rolled out the powercat at the International Multihull Show in La Grande-Motte with a clear message: this is a long-range boat built to keep moving, with Adventure One making its world premiere and already lined up to leave for Split, Croatia, for the summer season.

That matters because the AY60 was presented as a charter-ready cat with the kind of self-sufficiency owners usually associate with much heavier, more conventional long-range inboard boats. The hull measures 18.40 metres by 8.47 metres and displaces 18.50 tonnes, with a 4-cabin layout plus 2 crew berths. Adventure Yachts and 36ZERO Yachting also split the model into three versions, Sport, Flybridge and SportX, which gives the platform a broader sales pitch than a single showboat launch.

The headline number is the range. Multihulls World put the AY60 at 3,000 nautical miles at 8 knots, supported by 8 kWp of solar panels and an 1,800 Ah, 48-volt battery bank. The Sport version uses dual Cox CXO300 diesel outboards, each rated at 300 hp, with 224 kW of propeller shaft power, a 4.4-litre displacement, a 393 kg weight and a propping-speed range of 3,700 to 4,000 rpm. On paper, that turns passage planning into something much simpler: a south-of-France to Croatia reposition is no longer about squeezing the boat into a marina-hopping routine, but about treating the Mediterranean as a genuine cruising corridor with far fewer fuel stops.

The performance figures were not presented as a straight-line sprint story, and the published numbers varied by source, with some reporting a 22-knot top end and 16-knot cruise, while others listed 18 knots and 14 knots. What did stay consistent was the message that the AY60 paired light-displacement construction, using fine hulls and glass-epoxy and carbon-epoxy build methods, with a modern profile and real offshore reach. Three more hulls were already in build, which suggested this was more than a prototype exercise.

Adventure Yachts said the company had grown to more than 75 people in under three years from its own custom shipyard in Thailand, after Sam Jessop’s first sailing lesson in 2019 and a 52-foot catamaran trip from Tasmania to Indonesia. That backstory fit the boat: the AY60 was built to look sharp at a boat show, but it was aimed squarely at owners who want a catamaran that can go farther, stay longer and spend less time negotiating the fuel dock.