BB Yachts / BB Yachts 44 Panarea
The BB Yachts BB44 PANAREA represents a perfect blend of elegance and performance, offering an exceptional experience for those seeking luxury on the water. Crafted meticulously in Italy, this open-style motor yacht is characterized by its sleek lines and modern aesthetics. The yacht stretches approximately 22 meters in length, providing ample space for relaxation and entertainment. Its design is centered around maximizing outdoor living areas while maintaining a high level of sophistication and comfort. The interior is adorned with high-quality materials and finishes, ensuring a luxurious ambiance throughout.
Powered by twin inboard engines, the BB44 PANAREA delivers impressive cruising capabilities with a top speed that ensures thrilling voyages. With a planning hull configuration, this yacht offers a smooth ride, even at higher speeds, making it ideal for exploring coastal waters and distant destinations. The yacht accommodates up to 8 guests comfortably, with two well-appointed cabins providing the perfect retreat after a day of adventure.
Designed by a renowned team of naval architects and designers, the BB44 PANAREA combines innovative engineering with timeless style. It features state-of-the-art navigation and entertainment systems, ensuring both safety and enjoyment on every journey. The yacht’s open layout enhances the connection with the sea, making it a favored choice for those who appreciate the allure of the ocean. Whether for family cruising or entertaining friends, the BB44 PANAREA offers an unparalleled yachting experience that is both luxurious and inviting.
Length
14.25M
Beam
5.5M
Draft
1.2M
Day Guests
12
Sleeping
8
Cabin
2
Crew
2
Cruise Speed
25KT
Max Speed
32KT
Fuel
3000L
Range
400NM
Engine
Twin MAN V12 1400hp
Option 1
Twin Volvo Penta IPS 1350
Option 2
Twin MTU 10V 2000 M96
Naval
BB Yachts Design Team
Exterior
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Interior
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New Starting From
€4,200,000
High Price Brokerage
€4,000,000
Low Price Brokerage
€3,700,000
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Her deck runs uninterrupted from bow to transom, and that is the whole idea.
A wide body hull gives the Panarea a cockpit with real depth, and rather than stopping there, BB Yachts carried that same flush, single level floor forward through an opening windshield on the starboard side. The result is a third lounging area at the bow, level with the cockpit deck and just as usable, where a more conventional layout would simply leave a sloping foredeck. At 14.25 metres long and 5.5 metres on the beam, she has the volume to make the idea work rather than feel like a gimmick, and the trade off, slightly less headroom in the forward cabin beneath, is one most owners buying for daytime entertaining will barely notice.
She is quick without shouting about it.
Standard power comes from twin MAN V12 engines, with Volvo Penta IPS1350 or MTU 10V2000 M96 pod drives available as alternatives, driven through a V-drive line shaft arrangement rather than the surface drives increasingly common at this size. Cruising comes in at 25 knots, with 32 knots in hand for when the conditions and the moment call for it, and a draught of just 1.2 metres keeps shallow anchorages and tight marina berths well within reach. A 3,000 litre fuel capacity underwrites a cruising range of 400 nautical miles, enough for a proper coastal passage without a tank top up along the way. It is a specification built for comfortable, confident cruising rather than outright speed, and it suits the character of the boat.
Below decks, the Panarea sleeps eight across two proper cabins.
The lower deck accommodation is arranged as two double cabins, each with their own berths, enough for eight guests to stay aboard comfortably rather than simply visit for the day. Twelve can gather on board for an afternoon on the water, with two crew aboard to look after longer stays or formal entertaining. The cabins themselves benefit from the same attention given to the decks above: good natural light, sensible stowage and a finish level that matches the yacht’s positioning as a proper cruiser rather than a stripped out day boat. For a 14.25 metre hull, carrying two cabins and crew accommodation alongside such a generous deck plan is no small achievement, and it is the detail that lets the Panarea work as a genuine second home afloat, not just a vessel for long lunches.
The cockpit is the Panarea’s real living room.
Wide body construction gives her a cockpit with genuine depth and width, rather than the narrow side decks and pinched seating common on sport cruisers of this length. Combined with the new forward lounge reached through the opening windshield, the result is three distinct social spaces on one level, cockpit, midship deck and bow, so a full guest list never has to crowd into one spot. It is a layout built around the way owners in this size bracket actually use their boats: short hops to a beach club, long lunches at anchor, an afternoon spent moving between sun and shade rather than racing to a destination. The flush floor connecting all three areas means that movement between them is effortless, even underway at low speed.
Her hull is hand built, not simply moulded.
The single skin hull is hand laminated in vinylester resin with quadri axial fibreglass, while the hull sides use a balsa core sandwich and the upper structure a PVC core sandwich with E-glass, a construction specification more associated with serious offshore boatbuilding than an open sport cruiser. She is certified to CE Category B, confirming her suitability for the open water cruising her range and tankage are built for. For a first generation model from a new yard, that level of construction discipline, paired with a design built around genuine deck space rather than badge appeal, suggests BB Yachts has set out to be judged on substance from day one.
Length
14.25M
Beam
5.5M
Draft
1.2M
Guests
8
Cabins
2
Cruise Speed
25Kt
Max Speed
32Kt
Length
13.4M
Beam
4.2M
Draft
1.2M
Guests
8
Cabins
2
Cruise Speed
28Kt
Max Speed
32Kt
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