Riva calls the 58′ Capri the first of a new generation of open yachts, which in practice means the marque has stopped choosing between a sports boat and a weekender. The fixed canopy is the giveaway. It flows into the hull rather than sitting on top of it, shades the whole cockpit, and gives the profile the low, drawn-out look Riva has been refining since the Rivale.
Seventeen metres of hull carry fourteen people. The cockpit is the centre of the boat, with the helm forward under the canopy and a long social area behind it opening onto the bathing platform. Below, two guest cabins and two bathrooms make the yacht usable for a weekend rather than a lunch, and a separate crew cabin with its own heads sits apart from the guest space.
Twin MAN V8 engines of 1,000 horsepower each give 33 knots and a 27-knot cruise, with 210 nautical miles of range from 2,300 litres. Owners who want more specify the 1,200 horsepower version of the same block.
At 27.9 tonnes light the boat is substantial for its length, and that is where the ride comes from. A Riva of this size gets bought for how it looks on a mooring in Portofino and how it behaves crossing to Corsica. The 58′ Capri does not ask the buyer to trade one for the other.
Length
17.3M
Beam
4.7M
Draft
1.6M
Day Guests
14
Sleeping
Cabin
2
Crew
1
Cruise Speed
27KT
Max Speed
33KT
Fuel
2300L
Range
210NM
Engine
2 x MAN V8 1000 (1,000 hp each)
Option 1
2 x MAN V8 1200 (1,200 hp each)
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Her lines borrow from two different Riva open boats at once.
The 58 Capri sits between the 56 Rivale and the 68 Diable in Riva’s open range, carrying the Rivale’s long hull windows and raked stainless steel vents forward while picking up the Diable’s swept guardrails aft. A half height, tinted wraparound screen sits under an integrated hardtop, and a wide sunroof opens the helm to the sky without exposing the whole cockpit. The silhouette reads low and drawn out rather than stacked, the trademark Riva look since the Rivale first set it. Nothing about the profile feels borrowed twice over. It reads as a single, resolved boat rather than a composite of two others.
Thirty three knots is the headline, but the draught is the real number.
Twin MAN V8 diesels of 1,000 horsepower each give a 27 knot cruise and a 33 knot top speed, with a 1,200 horsepower pairing available for owners who want more in reserve. A 1.6 metre draught keeps her out of only the deepest-water marinas larger yachts need, useful currency along a coast where the best anchorages are shallow. Range runs to 210 nautical miles from 2,300 litres of fuel, enough for a run between ports without a refuelling stop built into the itinerary. The numbers point to a boat built for day running and short hops between anchorages, not long passages, and that is exactly the brief a 58 foot open yacht should answer.
Two cabins, not three, and that is the point.
The owner’s cabin sits amidships with a transverse bed and its own bathroom to port, the quietest and most stable position on the boat. A VIP cabin forward gives a second couple their own space, separated from the owner by a starboard lounge and a port galley rather than a shared corridor. A further bunk berth sits to port for a single crew member, kept apart from the guest cabins so the working side of the boat never intrudes on the owner’s. It is a layout built for two couples cruising together, with the crew quietly out of the way rather than a third family squeezed in.
The cockpit, not a saloon, is where this boat happens.
A long wet bar runs along the starboard side, with two separate seating areas to port, one for guests who want to sit with the skipper under way, the other a low, L-shaped dining area beside the sunbed settee aft. Electric biminis retract over both the sunbed and the bow lounge when the weather turns, and twin staircases lead down to a hydraulic aft platform. Behind it, the garage holds a Williams jet tender, launched and recovered without a crane or a davit. Fourteen day guests fit comfortably across these spaces, proof that an open boat does not need a flybridge to feel generous.
At 27.9 tonnes, she is built heavier than her open deck suggests.
Seventeen point three metres long on a 4.7 metre beam, the 58 Capri carries her weight low, which is part of why she holds a line at speed rather than skipping across it. She follows the 56 Rivale in engine choice and cabin layout but wears her own, more open deck plan, aimed at an owner who wants the brand’s build quality without the formality of a flybridge saloon above it. For a buyer stepping up from a smaller Riva, or across from another yard’s open boat, she offers genuine speed, two proper cabins and the kind of deck space that gets used every day out, rather than admired from the dock.
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