The largest yacht confirmed for the 66th Genoa Boat Show is the Mangusta 165 REV, at 49.90 metres. It leads a short list of boats over 35 metres on the water at the Waterfront di Levante from Thursday 1 to Tuesday 6 October: Azimut’s new flagship, the Grande 44M, fresh from Monaco; a 41-metre steel explorer from Amer Yachts in its first show; and the 35-metre Pershing GTX116. Behind them come the flagships of a dozen yards between 25 and 30 metres, a handful of world premieres, three new brands and a stamp issued for the occasion. We set out the dates and the numbers in our preview; here are the yachts, with lengths as their builders give them.
Over 35 metres: four yachts to board
Mangusta’s page for the show, published on 28 September, is one line long: “On display Mangusta 165 REV.” The boat is one of the yard’s Maxi Open models, 49.90 metres, or 163 feet 8 inches. Azimut brings the Grande 44M, 43.6 metres, which the yard calls its new flagship and which made its debut at the Monaco Yacht Show last week, with Alberto Mancini and m2atelier behind the design and, as Azimut announced before Monaco, seven units sold ahead of the debut; we looked at the boat in our piece on the Grande 44M. It is moored at Banchina H, berth 505. At berth 507 on the same quay is Even Further, the first Amer 42 Custom Explorer: 41.45 metres in steel, the first steel hull and the first of a new Custom line for Amer Yachts, making its first appearance at the Salone, according to the organisers. And at berth 511 is the Pershing GTX116, 35.33 metres, the largest Ferretti Group boat confirmed so far. Four yachts, all built in Italy.
| Yacht | Builder | Length | Status at Genoa |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mangusta 165 REV | Overmarine | 49.90 m | On display |
| Grande 44M | Azimut | 43.60 m | New flagship, shown first at Monaco |
| Even Further, Amer 42 Custom Explorer | Amer Yachts | 41.45 m | First appearance at the Salone |
| Pershing GTX116 | Ferretti Group | 35.33 m | On display |
| Magellano 30m | Azimut | 29.70 m | On display |
| Grande 30M | Azimut | 28.69 m | On display |
| Princess X90 | Princess Yachts | 27.11 m | First appearance at the Salone |
| Grand Soleil Plus 80 Long Cruise | Cantiere del Pardo | 26.20 m | First appearance at the Salone |
| BGX83 | Bluegame | 25.60 m | World premiere at Düsseldorf in January |
| SHE | Sanlorenzo | 25.50 m | World premiere at Cannes in September |
Living Made in Italy, on Banchina H
The quay where the big boats lie has a new name this year. Living Made in Italy is an area on Banchina H developed with ICE Agenzia for Italian yachts over 24 metres, with Venini, Riflessi and Leonardo as partners, and the organisers said on 15 September that it had drawn superyachts between 35 and 50 metres. The list of the yachts inside it has not been published, and not every boat on Banchina H belongs to it: the quay also holds foreign builders and large RIBs. What it signals is the direction of the show. Confindustria Nautica says the average size of the three largest boats in each segment has grown by 14.1 percent against 2025, and that the water layout is 4 percent larger.
Between 25 and 30 metres
This is where Genoa is densest. Azimut alone lists fifteen boats for the show, from the Grande 44M down to the Atlantis 45, with the Magellano 30m at 29.7 metres, the Grande 30M, the Grande 26m, the Magellano 27M, the Seadeck 9 and the Fly 82 in between, and it notes that the list is subject to change. The Princess X90, 27.11 metres, makes its first appearance at the Salone. Cantiere del Pardo brings its sailing flagship, the Grand Soleil Plus 80 Long Cruise, 26.20 metres. Bluegame shows the BGX83, 25.60 metres overall and certified at 23.98, which it first presented at Düsseldorf in January, and Sanlorenzo brings SHE, the 25.5-metre first boat of its Heritage collection, which had its world premiere at Cannes and which we covered in our report from the Riviera.
World premieres, in the builders’ words
Genoa comes after Cannes and Monaco in the calendar, and many of its novelties are boats making their first appearance at this show after a debut elsewhere: the Ferretti Yachts 720, the Itama 70, the Riva 56′ Rivale Super and the wallypower50X from the Ferretti Group, the Azimut Fly 70, the Fiart SX5. The world premieres are fewer, and smaller. Cranchi writes it plainly on its own page, “Also on display 2 World Premieres: A48 O/B e A32 O/B”: the A48, 14.75 metres, which the yard calls the evolution of the luxury tender, and the A32, 10.21 metres, alongside a ten-boat line-up led by the Settantotto 78. Sessa Marine unveils its new flagship, the Key Largo 40, 11.94 metres, in world premiere, as the organisers put it. Frauscher’s 797 Spectre, a 7.97-metre day boat from the Austrian lake yard, makes its first appearance too.
Three new names on the water
Genoa is also where brands are born. Vertex Yachts, a new Italian yard launched by Ranieri International, has chosen the Salone to present its first two models, the Quarantacinque TT and the Quarantacinque Z, both 13.80 metres. Icona inspired by Mangusta, the new line from the Overmarine group, shows its first boat, the Icona 70, 20.90 metres, designed by Igor Lobanov and unveiled at Cannes. And Pioner Yachts, a German yard, makes its debut with the PY60, an 18.30-metre solar-electric catamaran. Apreamare adds its new Gozzo 42, 12.80 metres, which it announces on its home page as a Genoa debut.
Sail and multihulls
The multihull count is up 28 percent in units, the organisers say. Fountaine Pajot brings the FP55, 16.98 metres, which the organisers describe as its first catamaran with a flybridge, and the FP48; Lagoon shows the Lagoon 47. On the monohull side, the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 455 and the Amel 50.2 make their first appearance at the Salone, Beneteau brings its First 60, 18.95 metres, and the Grand Soleil Plus 80 leads the sailing flagships.
The opening and the awards
The show opens on Thursday 1 October with a ceremony on the terrace of the Padiglione Blu: the flag is raised by the Corpo delle Capitanerie di Porto, the Italian Navy’s ship Margottini sails past, and a stamp in the series dedicated to the excellence of Italian production and Made in Italy is issued for the Salone, as the organisers announced on 28 September. On Friday 2 October the Design Innovation Award names its winners in its seventh edition, across eleven product categories and a new one for components, with a jury chaired by the architect Paolo Brescia of OBR. The industry’s own yearbook, Nautica in Cifre, is presented on 30 September, on the eve of the show.
The Luxury.it perspective
Monaco is where the superyachts are unveiled, and Genoa is where the Italian fleet is seen together. That is why the biggest boats in Genoa have usually been somewhere first: the Grande 44M in Monaco last week, SHE in Cannes in September, the BGX83 in Düsseldorf in January. It changes nothing for a buyer. A yacht is chosen aboard, not in a press release, and Genoa is the one show where a client can walk from a 49.9-metre Mangusta to a 43.6-metre Azimut to a 41-metre steel explorer on the same afternoon, then look at a new tender or a new brand before dinner. The two boats to see are the 165 REV and the Grande 44M. The two names to remember are Vertex and Icona, because the yards of 2030 start at shows like this one.
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