The salon of the Sunreef 60 Power Eco that I boarded at the 2024 Cannes Yachting Festival has a distinctive design scheme that acted as a foil to the boat’s lofty, eco-conscious raison d’etre. Built for a European tobacco exec, the boat had a cozy and masculine boys-club vibe. One could almost picture Don Draper slouching easily on the portside sofa, lighting a Lucky Strike, while surrounded by black countertops and dark, rich woods. The throwback, alpha-male interior felt somewhat anachronistic given the Eco 60’s bright and optimistic view of the future.
The 60 is the second in the Eco line from Gdańsk, Poland’s Sunreef, a builder that has cemented itself in recent years as one of the world’s most advanced and enthusiastic crafters of environmentally friendly yachts. When the 80 Power Eco launched in 2022, it became one of the first mass-produced yachts to be run on full electric power (save for the generators). The idea was met with such fanfare that a second, more manageably sized sistership was sure to follow. Like the 80, the 60’s exterior is plastered with high-powered photovoltaic panels (7.5kW are on this hull, with even more possible). These power cells help lend an impressive range of about 4,500 nautical miles at an 8.5-knot cruise speed. The boat can also run that speed for three to four hours without needing its two 80kW generators to recharge the batteries, and can stay in port under battery power alone for two days. Underway on lithium-run electricity, it is reported that the Eco 60 is as quiet as a sailboat, and cruises without diesel fumes punching its guests in the nostrils as they lounge in the cockpit. As a cat design, she also benefits from the added stability of a twin hull.
Another built-in benefit of a catamaran is, of course, all that extra space. The entertainment areas on this boat are expansive. Her beam is 33 feet, 6 inches, and that comes into effect in multiple places. That aforementioned cockpit has an alfresco dining table with transom sofa seating and individual chairs facing aft. Wide sliding doors open nearly completely across a flush deck to lead into the salon. The forward portion of the space is the interior helm, which has excellent lines of sight thanks to a massive windshield. A heavy and waterproof door through the center of the windshield provides access to an expansive bow lounge (which can also be reached by crew via nearly-yard-wide side decks). The forward lounge has a sunken U-shaped sofa wrapped around a teak dining table to port, and sunpads to starboard. The space provided a lovely respite from the madness of the Cannes docks as the boat was docked stern-to, as is popular in the Med.
The third outdoor entertainment space on this boat is the flybridge, which is reached via a notably sturdy staircase leading up from the starboard side of the cockpit. Perhaps nowhere else on the boat is the sheer magnitude of this 60-footer on full display more than up top. A large teak table at amidships dominates the space with seating for 10 people. Aft of that, a sentry line of sunpads peers past the railing and out toward the Eco 60’s wake. A grill to port and forward serves as the de facto alfresco galley, while a helm station with three seats across makes an excellent place to pilot the boat in fair weather, or for a bit more privacy. Walking space forward of the helm helps when on watch or for docking purposes and is a wise use of the flybridge’s footprint.
When it’s time to retire for the evening, this 60 has a four-stateroom layout spread out across her hulls. The cabins have excellent headroom to the tune of about 7 feet, 6 inches in some places, and were fitted out with dark woods and blue and brown alcantara throughout. It was a pleasing color scheme to go with the topside interiors. As if to complement the aesthetic choices on the accommodations level, the furnishings and particularly the doors were remarkably solid. Though as I had come to find out during my tour of the Sunreef Eco 60, pleasant surprises are to be expected.
Specifications:
LOA: 60’
Beam: 33’6”
Draft: 4’11”
Water: 211 gal.
Fuel: 1,585 or 2,641 gal.
Cruise Speed: 8.5 knots
Power: 2/180-kW (244-hp) electric
Top Speed: 10.5 knots
Price (base): $5.6 million
