Azimut Grande 26M

One water toy stored in the transom garage and a second on the swim platform is the kind of detail that says how a yacht is meant to be used: ready for a full day on the water without a tender run home. The Azimut Grande 26M is a 2026 stock build from the Italian yard, a flybridge yacht built around exactly that kind of day. She sleeps ten guests in five cabins, with three crew to run things.

Build and provenance

Azimut builds the Grande series with a light, glazed profile; Alberto Mancini drew this hull's exterior lines, and Achille Salvagni designed her interiors. She measures 26 metres, 86 feet, with a beam of 6.3 metres and a draught of 1.4 metres; her gross tonnage is 122.

Layout and accommodation

Her master cabin sits on the main deck, and four further cabins on the lower deck take the rest of the ten guests across five cabins in total. Three crew have their own quarters in the bow, reached directly from the galley, and a partially raised helm station keeps the bridge a step apart from the accommodation.

Performance and engineering

She is offered with a choice of engines, a pair of 1,550 mhp MAN V12s or a pair of 1,650 mhp V12s, both driving ZF pod units rather than a shaft line. Pod propulsion is said to save up to 15% on fuel against a shaft-driven boat, while freeing engine-room space and cutting noise and vibration underway. On either engine she cruises at 23 knots and reaches 26 knots flat out, with a stated range of 379 nautical miles.

On deck and at anchor

On deck, a rising transom opens the aft main deck outward, turning the cockpit into a larger space for a group rather than a corridor to the saloon. Two water toys stow aboard at once, so both can be in use on the same afternoon instead of one at a time.

Where she lies and how to see her

Italy is where the Azimut Grande 26M lies, close to the yard that delivers new Grande-series builds. We put viewings on the calendar and join buyers at each one; the survey and sea trial that follow an accepted offer happen before she leaves the yard.