Boat test for the 2007 Mochi Craft Dolphin 64 Fly with boat pictures, boat specifications, and boat test results. Includes pricing, videos, engine test reviews, and ratings for the 2007 Mochi Craft Dolphin 64 Fly.

Despite her Yankee influences, this boat is in her heart a European, and nowhere is that more obvious than in her crew quarters. Accessed via a starboard companionway beneath a sliding panel, it runs full beam. There's a single fixed berth to port with a pilot berth above it and a small—telephone-booth-size—head to starboard. Between the two our boat had shelving, a Splendide combination washer-dryer, and a wine cooler, but I was told that you can opt for yet another berth here. I'm afraid I may have looked a little shocked at that. Fitting three human beings into this space is, in my opinion, a feat worthy of David Copperfield and something no American owner would ever try. In fact, I'm not sure most Americans will ever exile any crewmember here, partially because the 68 can be easily handled by a couple, especially with the optional stern thruster. (A 13-hp SidePower bow thruster is standard.)

A better example of spatial sleight of hand is on display in the engine room, which is immediately aft of the crew quarters and accessed via a hatch in the teak cockpit sole. There are a lot of mechanicals in here, but generally everything is accessible with the exception of the ZF V-drives. They're up under the cockpit sole so as to be almost invisible and virtually unreachable. Thank goodness they need only occasional attention.

There are superb sightlines from the well-integrated bridge.

Overall, the 64 comes with a lot of standards, even for a boat with such a dear base price (the U.S. figure with options was not available at presstime): cutlery, china, and glassware for eight; Bose 3.2.1 home entertainment system; additional refrigerator in the lower companionway; crash-pump system that works off the engines; centerline fuel-tank sight gauge; 28-kW Onan genset; and no fewer than five electric and two manual bilge pumps.

And of course, there's that flying bridge with enough seating and sunpadding for the stateroom occupants and their lucky friends. The helmsman gets a comfortable adjustable seat and sightlines in every direction except to the transom. But really, the best aspect of the flying bridge is how perfectly it's integrated into the 64's profile. It doesn't look tacked on because it's not. The house mold is different from that for the Euro version, a decision that offers big dividends in aesthetics.

I'm tempted to add that aesthetics is what the Mochi Craft Dolphin 64 Fly is about, and they do play a big part. But she's also about performance, comfort, and agility. She's really a multifaceted creation that does many things well—just about anything except hauling aragosta pots.

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SPOTLIGHT ON: Throwable Flotation Stowage

Every boat needs a throwable flotation device, but where do you put it on a vessel that's as beautiful and sleek as the Mochi and still keep it close at hand? Why, here, in the cockpit overhang. Just twist a lock, and a hatch opens to expose this necessary but not exactly beautiful piece of safety gear.—R.T.

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