Chinese billionaire Richard Liu’s USD 700 million push into Sea Expandary claims to democratise luxury yachting at car-level prices, exposing a widening gap between rhetoric and reality.

Absolute debuts their biggest model in their planing Flybridge line, the 70 fly sports a full-beam hydraulic platform, toy storage and a spacious but airy and open saloon with the inclusion of sliding side doors.

Maiora’s 36 Exuma offers 295GT of high-speed luxury with alluring features like a covered pool, a secluded ‘Nest Deck’ and even netting in the bow like a sail catamaran.

The 54Metri is the new sub-500GT, all-aluminium flagship of the iconic brand and the largest Riva built to date.

Slovenia’s Greenline Yachts introduce a new hybrid-option model with the Marco Casali-designed Greenline 42, a world premiere in 2026 and the ‘Responsible Yachting’ shipyard’s most option-rich offering to date.

Azimut’s smooth-lined Fly 82 also benefits from being the series’ first model to feature the aft Deck2Deck™ system and the shipyard’s first motoryacht to include WatchIt Eye technology.