BK is a 2025 Azimut Grande 26M, and she wears her design credentials openly: exterior lines by Alberto Mancini, interiors shaped with Achille Salvagni. The result is a 26 metre motor yacht that feels bolder and more considered than her length suggests, a yacht built to be looked at and, more importantly, lived in.
The first thing guests notice is the glass. Mancini has wrapped the superstructure in deep windows that pull the Mediterranean indoors, and the main deck opens as a single bright volume. Salvagni’s hand shows in the restraint: pale sofas, a warm rug, a few sculptural pieces and nothing surplus. A dining table sits forward of the lounge on the same open plan deck, so the interior reads as one easy, social space rather than a sequence of rooms.
She is quick, too. A top speed of 26 knots means short transfers between anchorages and real flexibility in how a day unfolds, and the hull stays composed at a cruising pace when the plan is simply to find a quiet bay and stay there. For a 26 metre yacht the volume is unusual, and it is this combination of pace and space that makes her charter so well.
Outside, the decks are laid out for the Mediterranean. A foredeck lounge gives couples a private corner forward, the aft deck sets up for shaded dining and drinks close to the water, and the bathing platform brings guests down to sea level for swimming and the tender. Sun and shade are available at every hour, which is what a good charter week actually needs.
Below, five cabins sleep ten. The master is a calm, full volume room with its own en suite, and the guest cabins offer a flexible mix of doubles and a further cabin that adapts to families or groups of friends. Each is finished in the same quiet, contemporary palette, bright through hull windows and portholes, so the accommodation feels consistent from the owner’s room to the last guest berth.
A crew of three runs the yacht and looks after the party, enough to deliver proper service on a boat of this size without ever feeling like a crowd aboard. BK cruises the Western Mediterranean, at ease along the Italian and French coasts and among the islands through the season.
She is new Azimut at its most appealing: a design led 26 metre with the volume of a larger yacht, the speed to make the most of a week, and the kind of light, modern interior that makes coming back aboard each evening a pleasure.
The Grande 26M was conceived as a flagship for Azimut’s larger fly range, and BK shows why the model has been so well received. Mancini’s exterior gives her presence from across an anchorage, while Salvagni’s interior proves that contemporary need not mean cold: the materials are warm, the layout is generous, and the light moves through the yacht all day. It is a rare 26 metre that feels designed as a single idea rather than assembled from a parts list.
For a charter party, the practical appeal is just as strong. The open plan main deck keeps everyone together without feeling cramped, the fast hull means a long lunch ashore and an evening in a different bay are both on the table, and the five cabin layout flexes easily between a family and a group of couples. BK is the kind of new yacht that rewards a week aboard rather than a single photograph.
