WATER YOU DOING

Azimut S7 — 72 feet of sport-yacht design, built around the water rather than sheltered from it The S7 belongs to Azimut's sport line, and it shows in the proportions: a long, low profile, flowing deck lines, and a superstructure lightened by carbon fibre. That last detail is not cosmetic. Reducing weight high up is what allows this yacht to feel agile under way and settled at rest — the kind of engineering choice you notice in the handling long before you notice it on paper. Life aboard moves easily between inside and out. The main deck opens onto the aft cockpit with little to interrupt the eye, so the saloon and the sea remain part of the same space. Above, the sport flybridge is arranged for the two things guests actually want from it: somewhere to lie in the sun, and somewhere to eat in the shade of the afternoon. It is a straightforward layout, and better for it. Accommodation is arranged over four cabins for eight guests. The largest is fitted with a king-size bed, a second with a queen-size bed, and two further cabins each have twin beds — a configuration that suits a family group as comfortably as two couples travelling with friends. The cruising range is broad: the Virgin Islands, both US and British, the Bahamas, and the Leeward and Windward chains, with the Florida coasts and the American Southeast also within her programme. In practice, that means the S7 can follow the season — protected anchorages and short hops between islands in the Caribbean, coastal cruising when she is stateside. Your crew handles the rest. Provisioning, itinerary, the timing of a lunch stop so you arrive at the right beach before anyone else does — the small logistics that decide whether a week on board feels effortless or merely pleasant.