The Prestige X60 that I have just featured on my YouTube channel gives you several ways to spend the same afternoon aboard. There’s the large saloon, with its facing sofas and galley close enough to keep whoever’s on cooking duties in the conversation. Open the wide electric sliding door, and the cockpit joins in; upstairs, the flybridge offers another table and somewhere for the rest of the family to disappear with a book.
That arrangement is the starting point for this 2023 example, listed with Mark Hesselmans (De Valk in Loosdrecht) at €1,595,000, VAT not paid (link to listing below). She’s a GRP motor yacht measuring 18.70m overall, with a 4.87m beam and 1.31m draught. The question is how all that living space works over several weeks, and what it takes to keep the boat behind it running.
Room to spread out
Her trawleresque (superstructure) profile reflects how those spaces stack up: a heavily glazed saloon beneath the flybridge, a shaded cockpit aft, and a hydraulic bathing platform below the transom. The foredeck lounge adds somewhere separate again. Rather than everyone gathering around one outdoor table, you can split up without retreating inside.
The galley’s long U-shaped counter sits alongside the lounge, while the dining table sits in the cockpit for al fresco dining. Preparing lunch, eating it and heading out to the cockpit are all part of the same shared space. The flybridge has its own wet bar and helm, with seating and a table aft beneath the overhead cover. For a boat used as a base for longer holidays, those choices add a bit of variety to the day.
Prestige’s roots are in Jeanneau’s shipbuilding know-how, with more than 30 years behind the brand. The X60’s specification credits Garroni Design, J&J Concepts and Prestige. This is a different starting point from the unfinished steel conversion in my Jezebelle article: here, the domestic equipment already includes a dishwasher, washing machine/dryer, watermaker and air conditioning.
She has three guest cabins plus a separate single crew cabin. Below the living spaces are twin 600hp Cummins QSC 8.3 diesels driving Zeus pods, with 113 advertised engine hours. The Onan 19kVA generator shows 227 hours, and for stability there’s a Seakeeper gyro. Her boat-specific fuel specification is two 1,045-litre tanks, while fresh water is carried in two 380-litre tanks.
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