AMORE carries 4,500 nautical miles of range on a 37-metre hull. To put that in proportion: it is more range than most 50-metre yachts, on a boat thirteen metres shorter, and it is the entire reason the Numarine XP line exists.
Numarine built her in steel in 2022 to the 37 XP design. XP stands for explorer, and unlike most yachts that borrow the word, she has the tankage to justify it. Twelve knots cruising, 14.5 at the top, 345 gross tons – the numbers of a small ship rather than a large yacht. The trade is obvious and she does not hide it: nothing about her is quick, and if speed is on your list she is the wrong boat.
What the range buys is not the Atlantic crossing you will never make. It is independence. A yacht that can run for weeks without refuelling is a yacht that does not plan its itinerary around fuel docks, and in the Bahamas and the eastern Caribbean – where she spends her winters – that is a genuine difference in where you can go and how long you can stay.
Six cabins sleep twelve, which on a 37-metre hull is dense and deliberate. Most yachts this size stop at four or five. She fits six because the XP layout spends its volume on accommodation rather than on engine room, and because the whole point of a range-first hull is to carry people a long way rather than a few people quickly. Eight crew.
Her hull is deep marine blue and she looks like nothing else in the marina – hard-edged, vertical-bowed, more offshore support vessel than Riviera yacht. It is a real design position and it will divide people, which is generally the sign of one worth taking.
Inside she is the opposite: pale grey oak, white lacquer, ivory upholstery and glazing along the entire main deck. Bright, calm, and completely at odds with the exterior. The salon runs the length of the main deck with dining at the far end; there is a lobby with a proper staircase rather than a companionway.
On deck the sundeck carries a jacuzzi with lounging around it and shade forward. The aft deck seats twelve. The beach club opens at the waterline, and the foredeck has enough clear teak to lay out mats and use it.
Numarine builds at Istanbul and spent its first fifteen years making fast open boats before pivoting hard to explorers. That pivot is unusually visible in the product. The XP line does not look like a fast yard’s idea of a displacement boat – it looks like a yard that decided to stop hedging, threw out the styling language it had spent a decade building, and started again with the range figure as the brief. Very few builders are willing to do that. It is why the 37 XP has no obvious competitor at its length rather than a dozen.
The six cabins are the part that deserves scrutiny, because density has a cost. Twelve people on 37 metres is closer together than twelve people on fifty, and no amount of clever layout changes that arithmetic. What she offers in exchange is that the twelve of you can go somewhere the fifty-metre cannot afford to sit for a fortnight.
She splits her year: the Mediterranean from April at 175,000 euros, then the Caribbean and Bahamas from October at 165,000 US dollars.
AMORE is an explorer that mostly explores the Caribbean, which sounds like a waste and is not. The range is what lets her ignore the infrastructure everyone else is tethered to.
