Aquila 46 Yacht wins power catamaran award in Singapore

Aquila Catamarans walked away with the clearest market signal from Singapore’s Yacht Style Awards 2026: the Aquila 46 Yacht won the Power Catamaran 12-16m category, and it did so in a field that showed how hard builders are pushing comfort, range and space into tighter footprints. The model succeeds the Aquila 44 Yacht, which Aquila says passed 200 sales, and the new boat is 2 feet longer and 2 feet wider, a straightforward answer to a familiar catamaran question: how do you keep the easy handling buyers want while making the boat feel like a much larger platform?

That answer mattered because the awards were not a niche afterthought. Held at the Constellation Ballroom at ONE°15 Marina Sentosa Cove on April 22, 2026, on the eve of the Singapore Yachting Festival, the ceremony gathered around 300 guests and handed out trophies across 35 categories. Yacht Style CEO and publisher Gael Burlot described the 2026 edition as one of the liveliest and most in-demand to date, and the guest list included more than 20 representatives from mainland China’s yachting scene. For multihull builders, that kind of regional visibility is as valuable as the hardware itself.

What stood out across the catamaran categories was how clearly the market is splitting into two tracks. On one side are compact, premium power cats like the Aquila 46 Yacht, which is being positioned around large-yacht comfort without the penalty of a larger hull. On the other are the bigger signature boats that keep stretching the category upward, such as the Fountaine Pajot Power 80, GranOcean W-72, Lazzara LPC 300, Silent Yachts SY80 2-Deck, VisionF 82 and WiderCat 92. Even without taking every trophy home, those nominations show where the conversation is heading: hybrid systems, serious volume and owner-operator luxury that no longer stops at the traditional 50-foot mark.

The sailing-cat side told a similar story. The shortlist included the Excess 13, Leopard 52 and Lagoon Eighty 2, a lineup that mixes performance and livability rather than treating them as opposing camps. That matters in Asia-Pacific, where buyers are increasingly looking for cats that can serve as private cruising platforms, charter assets or long-range family boats without feeling stripped down.

Beneteau Group’s note that Beneteau, Excess Catamarans and Lagoon Catamarans each received awards reinforced the same point. The biggest brands are not just collecting trophies for shelf space; they are using events like this to test where demand is going. In Singapore, the message was blunt enough: the catamaran market is rewarding brands that can deliver more boat, more comfort and more flexibility without losing the practical advantages that made multihulls attractive in the first place.