Sessa C42 -> what Boat after the Sessa?

Hello,

I'm a 20 year old boat enthusiast from Germany.

We (my parents) currently own a Sessa C42 from 2006.
We're thinking of buying something bigger and/or newer.

Now, it may seem a bit odd compared to the amount of money some of you guys spend on their Yachts, but our budget is limited to around 200t€.

What would you take into consideration?

Newer Sessa models are quite expensive compared to other boats in this class.

Good value for money seem to be the Cranchi Mediterranee 43 (IPS)/47/50 models.

What do you think about Sessa? We are currently quite happy with the C42. Does anyone have experience with Sessa?
Why are the Models from 2009 on more expensive - is it just the modern design?

A boat we like a lot - great design imho - is the Atlantis 47. Prices are quite good for a boat from 2007/8/9
What do you think of them?
Did the Azimut kind of hull failures also occur to the Atlantis Boats built in the former Gobbi-Plant?

What models/Builders would you suggest?

Thank you!!
(and sorry for my possibly not perfect English)
Tim

Thanks for your reply!

Of the boats you have mentioned three are still in the race:

Atlantis 47 (ht)
Cranchi mediterraneé 47 (ht)
Sunseeker Portofino 46

I personally love the design and style of the Atlantis. I would probably go for this boat. Only thing is, I'm still worried about the balsa wood core that is used. You just don't want it to soak in water and rot on the inside...

Did they use the core material only on the sides and deck or under the water line as well?

I may think a bit too much, but I can't help it...those thoughts are just there..

I know osmosis could show on every boat, but I have never heard of a Cranchi or Sunseeker having problems will hull delamination or osmosis.

The boat will stay in the water (freshwater, Lake Garda in northern Italy) all year round and we want to make sure we buy a boat we can use for years without major (especially structural) damages.

Do you guys know, how the portofino 46 and the Cranchi 47 are build? Did they also use Balsa wood core material? Do they even have a core or are those boats built without sandwich-lamination (don't know if that's the right word for it).

Thank you!

Tim

We have checked the prices in our marina and it looks like a boat above 13,99m will cost 12t€ per year...that's 3000€ more than with the Sessa right now.

So the Cranchi 47 is roughly 50cm too big.
The length of the Atlantis 47 seems to be between 13.96m and 14,50m (not sure what's right) , so you could probably convince them (Marina staff) it's smaller than 14m, but not sure if that's gonna work.

So right now it's still Atlantis 47 ht and the smaller Cranchi Med 43 ht with IPS 600 and Joystick "in the race".

What do you guys think about Bavaria?
We've had a Bavaria a few years ago, but the newer Models look a lot better than the old ones.
The 39 ht would still fit in the price brackets, and those boats are considerably newer (2012-2015) than the Atlantis or Cranchi models, but have conventional Z-drives...

It's a big step back as we were already looking for Cranchi Med 47s that would fit our needs...

Thanks a lot!
Tim