Absolute Navetta 62 Review, Layout and Price Guide

Absolute Navetta 62 at a glance

The Absolute Navetta 62 is the newest mid-size boat in the Italian yard's navetta range, the trawler-styled flybridge line that Absolute builds at Podenzano near Piacenza. It made its world premiere at the Cannes Yachting Festival in September 2025 and slots between the new Navetta 58 and the forthcoming Navetta 66. Absolute gives every model a nickname, and this one is called Absolute Vibe.

On paper it is a 61-foot 3-inch yacht with a 17-foot 7-inch beam, 898 gallons of fuel, three guest cabins with three heads and a separate crew room. In practice the headline is the way those cabins are shared out. There is no single dominant master; instead the boat has two suites of near-equal standing, one in the bow and one full beam amidships, which makes it unusually good for two couples cruising together.

The reviews have been warm. Motor Boat and Yachting called it arguably Absolute's best Navetta yet, and it won the Passagemakers category at the Motor Boat Awards 2026.

Why the owner sleeps in the bow

Absolute has championed the forward owner's cabin for years, and the 62 continues the habit. The owner gets a forward-facing king berth with floor space on both sides, the largest bow windows MBY says it has seen on a boat of this size, a dressing table and a step-down walk-in wardrobe with a safe. The en suite sits right in the forepeak behind a soundproofed bulkhead, which puts the head, a separate bidet and a walk-in shower ahead of the bed and, according to MBY, also damps the chine slap that bow cabins can suffer at anchor.

The logic is better views, more headroom and more privacy when moored stern-to in a crowded harbor, and it frees the widest part of the hull for a second suite.

That suite is the full-beam VIP amidships, which MBY describes as to all intents a second master. It has a king bed, a walk-in wardrobe, storage along the hull sides and an en suite where only the toilet and shower sit behind glass doors, leaving the basin open to the cabin. A neat touch: the large mirror behind the basin drops electrically to reveal the hull window. Counters are Corian as standard, with marble as an upgrade.

A transverse third cabin and a crew room across the stern

Between the two suites, Absolute shifted the lower-deck passage to one side to make room for a third cabin laid out athwartships. The builder lists it as a twin; MBY notes the berths can convert to a double. It has about 190 cm (6 feet 3 inches) of headroom, a hanging locker and two opening round portlights rather than a big hull window, and it uses a head across the small lobby that doubles as the day head. Pocket doors that slide fully into the bulkheads serve both guest cabins and the day head, which saves space but, MBY warns, the catches can be fiddly in a seaway.

The crew cabin runs across the full width of the stern and is reached by lifting the cockpit steps on the swim platform. One berth is standard and a second is optional. It has its own head with shower, room for a washer and dryer, and a long opening window across the transom on pantograph hinges that still opens when a tender sits on the hydraulic platform. A watertight door leads to the engine room. For a day captain or overflow guests it beats the usual lazarette berth by a wide margin.

Main deck: galley aft, lounge forward, helm to starboard

The saloon follows a kitchen-diner logic. The galley sits aft near the cockpit with a full-height fridge freezer, dishwasher, all-electric cooking and pan retainers that hold cookware in place underway. Beside it the dining table can be specified with an electric sliding top that moves inboard by about 18 inches when people sit down, and the picture window next to it drops electrically for open-air dining.

Forward and a couple of steps up, a separate lounge with a deep sofa and a pop-up television is treated purely as a sitting room. The raised forward section frees headroom for the cabins below and improves the view from the helm, which sits to starboard behind a slatted partition with twin Aras bucket seats, up to two Garmin displays and a glazed side door onto the deck. MBY's tip for owners is to trim the bow down from its usual three or four degrees to see astern from the lower helm without ducking.

Bulwarks are cut away at eye level along the sheltered side decks, a Navetta signature, so seated guests look at water rather than fiberglass.

A three-zone flybridge and a cantilevered foredeck lounge

Up top the flybridge splits into three areas. Forward is a C-sofa to port and, for the first time on a Navetta, an offset helm to starboard with one or two bolstered seats. Amidships there is a wet bar with sink, fridge, ice maker and grill to port and an L-shaped dinette to starboard that seats six comfortably. The aft third is left open for freestanding furniture, either the owner's own or Absolute's Terrace Atmosphere modules. The hardtop is optional and can carry an opening sunroof or a 1.8 kW solar array.

The foredeck is a proper second cockpit. Its seating rides on a cantilever system that swivels forward to create a sociable C-dinette with its back to the windscreen or slides aft into a sunpad, and the anchor gear sits neatly ahead of it. Aft, the cockpit has freestanding furniture, a compact bar with fridge and sink, an electric awning, a glazed transom balustrade and a docking station with an IPS joystick on the starboard side.

IPS1200 or IPS1350, and what the first hull did on trial

Do not be fooled by the trawler profile. Absolute's navettas run on chined planing hulls, and the 62 is offered only with Volvo Penta IPS pods. Standard power is a pair of IPS1200 units driven by 900 hp D13 diesels, good for a top speed of around 27 knots according to MBY. The upgrade is twin IPS1350, also D13-based, at 1,000 hp each.

MBY tested the first hull out of the Podenzano factory with the bigger engines, about one-third load and the optional Seakeeper 18 running. It planed in about 10 seconds and topped out close to 30 knots. The ride was comfortable and well mannered, but the steering is low geared and the turning circle large, a trait the magazine sees on many IPS flybridges. Absolute and Power and Motoryacht quote 19 to 27 knots of cruise and a top end just shy of 32 knots with the 1,000 hp option.

Range figures depend on who is counting. The builder's numbers, relayed by YachtBuyer, are about 340 miles at 19 knots and 305 nautical miles at 27 knots. MBY's own calculation, holding back a 20 percent reserve, gives a working range of about 230 nautical miles at a 25-knot cruise and around 450 nautical miles at 10 knots. In short, a fast coastal and island cruiser, not an ocean passagemaker.

• Standard: 2 x Volvo Penta IPS1200, about 27 knots top (MBY)
• Optional: 2 x Volvo Penta IPS1350, close to 30 knots on test, builder quotes just under 32
• MBY working range: about 230 nm at 25 knots, about 450 nm at 10 knots, with a 20 percent reserve
• Fuel 898 gallons, water 206 gallons including the water heater

A service tunnel, a stand-up engine room and the systems

The details that matter to long-term cruisers are where the 62 earns its award. A service tunnel runs under the owner's cabin from amidships all the way to the bow thruster and chain locker, lined with deep storage bays for spares and provisions. It requires a duck to enter, but it is much more than a crawl space. Even the owner's basin has a drawer cut around the plumbing rather than a blanked-off void.

The engine room, reached from the cockpit, has standing headroom and clear access to the generator, tanks, chargers, gyro and an automatic fire suppression system, plus an emergency escape into the cockpit. Power is split between 230-volt AC and 24-volt DC panels, so US buyers should confirm the shore power spec for their hull.

Navetta 62 price, options and the old Navetta 64

MBY reported a starting price of 1.98 million pounds ex VAT. In US dollars that is about 2.6 million before freight, commissioning and tax, and a realistic delivered price for a well-optioned American boat lands between about 2.7 and 3.4 million dollars. The big-ticket options are the IPS1350 engines, the hardtop, the gyro and the crew cabin fit-out. Absolute keeps hard surfaces such as sole laminates and veneers non-negotiable, so the configurable list is mostly loose furniture, upholstery and window treatments.

Buyers shopping a used Absolute Navetta 62 for sale will find very few boats yet, and early hulls will trade close to new. The closest used alternative is the Navetta 64 of the early 2020s, a slightly longer boat famous for its fold-down beach club cabin. The 64 offers similar volume at a lower price but uses an older generation of styling, while the 62 adds the forward owner's suite, the sliding dining table and the sharper reverse-angled transom.