With over 40 years experience, luxury motor yacht manufacturer Fairline Boats has historically ensured that model ranges and product offerings are contemporary, relevant and compelling for the boat buyer. The company’s award-winning design team continues to push boundaries and create innovative, class-leading boats to this very day.
The company’s latest generation Squadron flybridge motor yachts have been well-received everywhere. The first in a series of new models, the Squadron 55 is one of Fairline’s most successful boat launches to date, with 35 boats sold from early drawings alone. The Squadron 55 was launched in September 2008 and in her first year was awarded the prestigious accolade of the ‘Motor Boat of the Year’ Award 2009 in the Flybridge Above 50ft category, judged by a panel of boat testers from UK marine publications Motor Boats Monthly and Motor Boat & Yachting.
Most recently, December 2009 marked a significant milestone for Fairline when its 12,000th hull went into production. The 55ft 4in (16.97m) length hull is being built at the yacht builder’s Nene Valley factory in the United Kingdom for a Squadron 55 model. Key features that set the three-cabin Squadron 55 apart from its competitors include an expansive full width master cabin amidships and a spacious class-leading flybridge.
Testament to the design and build of Fairline’s latest Squadron model has also been recognised and praised following her launch last year. The new Squadron 65 was recently awarded the ‘Motor Boat of the Year’ Award 2010 in the ‘Flybridges over 55ft’ category. The four-cabin Squadron is
finished to the highest standard of craftsmanship and offers owners sophisticated, spacious living areas in which to relax and entertain. Other key features include a single-level flat floor that extends from the saloon through to the dinette and galley area, providing an exceptional feeling of spaciousness.
The next addition to the range will be the Squadron 41 flybridge motor yacht, which will be available this summer; it is anticipated that this model will arrive into Malta in early 2011. Since Fairline released plans of the upcoming Squadron 41, demand for the much-anticipated model has been strong, with “all of 2010 production as well as over half of 2011 production retail sold to date”.
The smallest in the Squadron range, the two-cabin, two en-suite Squadron 41 is still ‘every inch a Squadron’. Fairline’s design team has created a flybridge motor yacht that offers some of the largest accommodation areas on a boat of this size with every available space utilised and maximised. The same sense of space and ‘big boat’ luxury is further enhanced by the extra large flybridge and the openness of the cockpit.
The Fairline boat building heritage spans over 40 years and started as a company with modest beginnings that went on to become one of the finest luxury motor yacht manufacturers in the world. Behind each of Fairline’s boats lies countless hours of development, innovative thinking and first class craftsmanship by people who are as passionate about boating as their customers.
Over the next five years, Fairline will be introducing one of its largest and most comprehensive line-ups, with 15 models ranging from 35 to 85 feet.
For further information about the Fairline range, visit www.fairline.com/malta or contact Fairline Malta, FL Yachting, No 2 Garden Street, Gzira, Tel: 2132 0743 / 9942 3334.