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Other cockpit updates include moving the port-side outside galley to starboard. It's also being reconfigured from its current L-shape design to a straighter and narrower fore-to-aft setup, enhancing cockpit square footage, too.
The linear nature of the new outside galley will reflect 64's interior arrangement, which being driven by both style and function, is dominated by straight lines and 90-degree angles. The look is contemporary, including the adjustable high-gloss, hi-lo square table and its light-tone U-shape seating. The saloon's bright feel, which benefits from cabin-length side windows and an electrically retractable sunroof (see "Retractable Hardtop," this story), is accented by a standard and dark wenge sole that extends from the saloon to the galley-down to starboard.
That galley is offered in two layouts. The standard arrangement, as on my test boat, has a half galley with a two-burner electric cooktop, Avonite countertops, optional Fisher & Paykel dishwasher (in lieu of a standard freezer), and a Vitrifrigo refrigerator. Just aft of this is L-shape seating, which due to its low profile and lack of a table, isn't practical as a dining space. For this reason some owners will opt for the full galley, a $3,500 option that results in the removal of the seating area and extends the galley, and thereby the counter space, along the starboard side. You can then eat your meals in either the saloon or at the cockpit table.
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While the galley is down, you don't get that cave-like feeling because of the NBA-player headroom, and the light coming from that large raked windshield on the bridge deck. And there's headroom everywhere: The engine room has 6'4" vertical clearance, as do the three staterooms.
One place that space doesn't abound is in the crew quarters, which can also be set up as a stowage area, accessed via the cockpit. At 5'7" I could barely fit into it (or for that matter, into the berth), which offers only a few inches of clearance between where you rest your head and the deck above. I suspect most American buyers will keep this a stowage area.
Fortunately her small crew quarters don't matter much because the 64 is really for an owner-operator. Bringing together admirable speed, agile handling, an easy-running nature, and a spacious three-stateroom layout, she's a great vessel for a voyaging family. Her low-profile design and sturdy build should make operating in a seaway more comfortable, while entertaining on the hook will be welcome thanks to her updated outdoor entertainment space.
And with that wide-open windshield and level running attitude, it'll be real easy to spot the next horizon, which is good, since that's where this vessel wants to take you.
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SPOTLIGHT ON: Hide And Seek Door
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The master stateroom's en suite head, which resides on the port side just a few feet from the athwartships berth, offers privacy thanks to its transforming door.
Flick a switch on the head bulkhead near the sliding-glass door and gas inside changes from transparent into an opaque green. The now-green door prevents anyone in the master from seeing inside the head and reduces the amount of light coming in from the nearly five-foot-wide frameless window in the hull sides, a great idea for those sleep-in mornings. —P.S.
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This article originally appeared in the December 2008
issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.
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