This 52 footer from Miami-based Manari offers sparkling performance and a rear beach club that is a rarity in boat of this size
This new Manari 52, the first model from the Miami-based brand, is extremely rapid by the standards of an IPS-equipped 52-footer. Equipped with a pair of Volvo Penta D8-IPS800 diesels and a hull form from Mulder Design, it will apparently reach speeds in the region of 45 knots.
It looks the part too, thanks to its clean, purist lines and sleek, low-slung superstructure. But if this boat excites with its pace and style, there’s nothing especially new or unusual about the main deck arrangement.
The aft end feels like a proper beach club
An aft sunbed leads onto a convertible dinette with a central table. Ahead of this, a transverse wet bar butts up against a bank of helm seats and it’s all orbited by a set of symmetrical side decks that lead forward to a second lounge in the bow.
Back aft, an open transom helps connect you to the water and that connection is augmented by a drop-down hydraulic swim platform, plus a pair of folding terraces – one on either side of the central sunbed. It’s clearly a sunny-weather, dayboat-centric, beach-club-style layout with ease of movement and open-air parties at its heart and in that regard, it ought to work well.
But there are some more surprising elements here too. There’s a neat walkway between the split wet bar and the two pairs of helm seats that enables you to move fore and aft along a walkway at the heart of the social zone.
The bright port lounge looks aft to an open twin cabin
The finer elements of detailing, like the subtle angles in the furniture and the stylish T-top that flares out above the cockpit dinette are also very pleasing. And while this is principally a day boat, it does a decent job for some relaxed weekending too.
The lower deck space is split between a forward owner’s cabin and a twin guest cabin amidships. Between them, a lounge on the port side looks across to a starboard bathroom and a breakfast bar. There is only one bathroom and there are no windows, nor an access door in the mid cabin; and cooking has to be done up at the open-air wet bar, so it’s by no means a genuine cruising machine. But long hull windows do a good job of brightening the lounge and the fit-out looks first-class.
Manari 52 specification
LOA: 52ft 0in (15.85m)
Beam: 15ft 0in (4.59m)
Engines: Twin Volvo Penta D8-IPS800 diesels
Top speed: 45 knots
Price: €1.5M ex VAT
Contact: manariyachts.com
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