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Italian flair and British seakeeping go head-to-caput in our latest used boat circular-up, but which 50ft sportscruiser would you have?

In the summer months, at that place is no finer craft to ain than a really big sportscruiser. Certain, a flybridge gunkhole is arguably more practical most of the year, particularly in the Britain where the sitting room and patio system of the saloon and cockpit work so well in inclement weather.

Just boaters are optimists by their very nature, and when the sun is out the sportscruiser knocks the flybridge gunkhole into the cockiest of cocked hats. Big expansive cockpits to lounge in, sunpads to stretch out on, the shelter of the loftier windscreen rather than the buffeting of the short-screened flybridge, and the cosy enclosed cabin to slip down into when the sun slides beneath the horizon.

They're faster, they await more than stylish and there'south less to clean. And let's be honest, you can imagine James Bail slipping into Portofino at the cycle of a rakish sportscruiser, merely a flybridge gunkhole?

Cranchi Mediterranee 50HT

Built: 2007
Price: £199,950

Launched in the UK at the Southampton Boat Show in 2002, the Mediterranee 50 was originally a classic open-topped sportscruiser. Merely in 2006 Cranchi jumped aboard the difficult top bandwagon and began offer the HT (continuing for, y'all've guessed information technology) variant you meet here.

Interior

What marks this model out from many of its contemporaries is its 3-cabin layout. Despite being unashamedly a sports gunkhole, there are ii double cabins below plus a twin cabin with a pair of single beds. Two heads, likewise, making the ii double cabins en suite.

The high-gloss ruby-red and cream leather is very much of its era simply information technology all the same looks classy. This particular instance has been freshened up with new cabin carpets, AV equipment and LED lighting.

The Cranchi was built before full beam mid cabins became pop on 50ft sportscruisers

Exterior

That massive sunpad aft isn't just for lounging, information technology hides a surprisingly capacious tender garage capable of swallowing a 3m RIB. The inevitable dinette opposite a wet bar is forward, simply interestingly, ahead of that Cranchi eschewed the usual chaise longue and put 4 forward-facing seats backside the windscreen – brilliant!

The carbon-fibre nuance panel on this boat is a great impact, and the open-backed hard top features a sliding roof with a huge drinking glass console to continue this surface area light.

Performance

Twin Volvo Penta TAMD 75P engines at 480hp a side were the original choice, but by 2004 the more modern 500hp D9s were offered. No one chose them though, because the D12 775hp units were launched at the same time, giving a mid-30 knot acme cease that matched the looks.

Glossy woodwork in the lower saloon dates the boat but all the same looks very classy

Seakeeping

Twenty-seven knots is a very like shooting fish in a barrel 2,000rpm, displaying the characteristic directional stability of a good shaft-bulldoze boat. It's a good hull also, capable of treatment some rough conditions.

Specifications

LOA: 50ft 3in (15.3m)
Beam: 14ft 2in (4.3m)
Draught: 3ft 5in (i.0m)
Deportation: 15.9 tonnes
Fuel capacity: 1,950 litres
Engines: Twin Volvo Penta D12 775hp diesel
Lying: Poole
Contact: boats.co.uk

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Nosotros trawl the classifieds to detect a secondhand 50ft flybridge cruiser that won't interruption the bank

Princess V50

Built: 2002
Cost: £147,500

Whilst unashamedly a sportscruiser, the Princess V50 focuses on the latter – it is all well-nigh volume. It's a foot wider than Fairline's equivalent Targa 48 of the same era for example, and taller also. As a consequence there is a huge amounts of space for a boat of this size and style, both inside and out. But it's no floating caravan – it works on the water just likewise every bit information technology works in the marina.