Azimut 78 Fly Price, Specs and Ownership Guide

Azimut 78, 78 Fly or Fly 78, sorting out the name

Searches for the Azimut 78 split between three labels for one current boat. Azimut announced it at the Miami Yacht Show in February 2019 as the Azimut 76, renamed it the Azimut 78 Fly a few months later, according to Yachting, and now markets it as the Fly 78 on its own site. YachtBuyer files it as the Fly 78, previously called 78. Brokers use all three, so a listing titled azimut fly 78, azimut 78 fly or plain Azimut 78 from 2019 onward is the same yacht.

The confusion runs deeper because there was an earlier Azimut 78, a Stefano Righini flybridge on twin MAN V12s built from 2011 to 2013. It is covered further down this page. Everything else here refers to the 2019 boat, which debuted at the Cannes Yachting Festival that September and is still in the Fly range alongside the Fly 72 and the new Fly 82.

Carbon where it counts

The 78 belongs to what Azimut calls the Carbon-Tech generation. The superstructure, flybridge, hardtop and cockpit are carbon fiber, and the main deck is a hybrid glass and carbon laminate over a GRP hull. Azimut says putting carbon in the upper parts lightens those components by up to 30 percent and cuts the natural roll moment by up to 15 percent, which keeps the center of gravity low despite a big flybridge and a long hardtop.

Why should a buyer care? Weight high up is what makes many 78-foot flybridges roll at anchor and feel top-heavy in a beam sea. A lighter superstructure lets the yard add volume, especially on the flybridge, without paying for it in stability. It also helps the triple pod package, since IPS boats are sensitive to weight. Full-load displacement is quoted at 58 tonnes, or about 127,690 pounds.

Crew in the bow, toys in the stern

Pod drives let Azimut push the engines far aft, and the 78 uses that freedom in an unusual way. Instead of the typical crew cabin tucked against the transom, the crew quarters sit in the port bow section, next to the galley and helm and partitioned from an angled VIP cabin by a curved bulkhead, as Motor Boat & Yachting described at the Cannes launch. Azimut claims it was the first boat in its category to fully separate galley and crew areas from the guest spaces.

That move clears the transom for a large water-toy garage behind a hydraulic door, and YachtBuyer lists a maximum tender length of 12 feet 10 inches. Below decks, guests reach their four cabins by a separate staircase from the saloon. The owner's full-beam suite amidships has its own dressing room; two VIP cabins with double beds and a twin cabin complete the plan, all en suite.

For a family that uses a captain and one crew member, this layout is a genuine improvement: the crew can work the galley and helm without walking through the saloon, and nobody sleeps next to the engine room.

• Owner's suite: full beam, amidships, separate dressing room
• Two VIP doubles plus one twin cabin, all en suite
• Crew cabin and head forward on the port side
• Garage aft with hydraulic door; tender up to about 12 feet 10 inches

A main deck without a formal dining room

Achille Salvagni's interior does away with the usual split between a dining area forward and a lounge aft. Azimut calls the concept a Full Lounge layout: the dining table converts into a low coffee table, so the saloon can be one open living room or a dining space as needed. YachtBuyer's deck plans also show a standard formal dining arrangement and an optional extra-seating version, so check which a boat has before assuming the open plan.

The styling is Salvagni's signature mix of curved, suspended furniture, pale tones and organic shapes under Mancini's sharp exterior lines. MBY's Jack Haines felt the pairing worked well in the flesh and that Mancini had cleaned up the fussiness creeping into earlier Azimut flybridges, while keeping the big overhang and upright snout that mark the brand.

A flybridge you can order four ways

The flybridge is the 78's party space, covering lounging, dining and sunbathing under an optional hardtop. Azimut offered four treatments for the aft section: a big sunpad, a spa tub, a lounge with sofas, or a sunbathing area with a mobile barbecue. That choice affects resale, because the spa version is the most sought after in hot climates while the sofa version suits charter and families with young children.

Forward, the bow has a lounge with facing sofas and a sunpad, private when moored stern-to. The cockpit aft has an alfresco dining area shaded by the flybridge overhang. Testers consistently describe the outside spaces as enormous for a boat under 80 feet.

Triple IPS numbers from the builder

Power comes from three Volvo Penta IPS1200s of 900 hp each, with three IPS1350s of 1,000 hp as the option. Azimut quotes up to 33 knots and a cruise of up to 26 knots; YachtBuyer's figures show about 31 knots with the IPS1200s and 33 with the IPS1350s. Automated interceptors adjust trim at every speed, and the joystick ties into the autopilot for one-handed docking.

Azimut publishes fuel data from a sea trial witnessed by Lloyd's Register under ISO 8666: 10.7 liters per nautical mile at 17.3 knots for a range of 420 nautical miles, and 12.8 liters per mile at 26 knots for 351 miles. At 26 knots that works out to roughly 330 liters, or about 88 US gallons, per hour for all three engines. The 5,000-liter (1,321-gallon) tank is modest for the size, which is the trade-off for the space gained below.

The builder also labels the 78 a Low Emission Yacht, claiming 20 to 30 percent lower fuel use than comparable hard-chine boats on shafts. Independent instrumented test data for the 78 was not available to us, so treat these as manufacturer figures.

• Slow cruise: 17.3 knots, 10.7 liters per nm, 420 nm range (builder)
• Fast cruise: 26 knots, 12.8 liters per nm, 351 nm range (builder)
• Top speed: up to 33 knots with IPS1350s
• Certification: CE A and NMMA

What a Fly 78 costs, new and used

Azimut sells new boats through dealers and does not publish a US price list. As a frame of reference, MBY priced the bigger Fly 82 from 4.5 million euros ex taxes in 2025, so a well-optioned new Fly 78 delivered in the US realistically lands in the $4.8 to $6 million range depending on engines, hardtop, stabilization and electronics.

On the used side, YachtBuyer recently counted seven listings priced from about $3 million to $4.6 million, and MarineMax listed a 2024 boat with IPS1350s at $4.995 million in late 2025. For anyone pricing a 2022 Azimut 78, expect asks in roughly the $3.5 to $4.2 million band, with the highest numbers reserved for low-hour boats carrying the spa flybridge and gyro stabilizers. Second-generation boats spent about 331 days on the market on average, quicker than most big flybridges.

The first Azimut 78 of 2011 to 2013

Before the Fly 78 there was a different Azimut 78, built from 2011 to 2013. YachtBuyer lists it at 77 feet 9 inches with an 18-foot 4-inch beam, 1,585 gallons of fuel, 121,254 pounds full-load displacement and twin MAN V12-1360 diesels on shafts for 30 knots top and 26 knots cruise. Stefano Righini styled it with a hardtop and mirror-finished windows, and the full-beam master has a walnut portal framing the bed and two panoramic windows with four vertical sections, two of which open.

Boat International's Dag Pike summed it up in 2011 as sound, sensible design without clever styling tricks. Those published dimensions match the earlier Azimut 75, which suggests the first 78 was a developed 75. On the used market it is easy to tell apart: twin shaft drives, a Righini profile, no carbon superstructure and crew quarters aft. It also sells for roughly half the money of a second-generation boat, but listings are rare.

Owning a carbon, triple-pod flybridge

Running costs follow the propulsion. Three engines mean three sets of IPS services, anodes and filters, and the machinery space is busy. The payoff is joystick docking, low noise and a boat an experienced owner can run with a single crew member. Insurance, dockage at 24 meters and crew will usually dominate the budget, so annual costs from the low to mid hundreds of thousands are realistic before fuel.

Azimut integrates Garmin electronics with its control and monitoring system, which can be accessed remotely from a phone or tablet, and later boats include the Aircare air treatment system. Ask which software and hardware generation a used boat carries, since electronics are the first thing to date on a yacht of this age.