TAKEN BY SURPRISE
LOA: 49' 2"
Beam: 13' 11"
Draft: 3' 11"
Displ: 30,975 lb.
Fuel: 317 gal.
Water: 122 gal.
Power: 2/435-hp Volvo Penta IPS 600s
Generator: Fischer Panda, 8-kW
Price as tested: $989,000
There’s a few things you need to know about Galeon to truly appreciate their new 485 HTS.
These guys have been serious about building great yachts for decades, they have a large share of the European and South American markets, and they’re now in the U.S. Naming its brand after Spanish galleons, Galeon Yachts is expected to be based in Spain but, no, these yachts are from Poland—way up in the north by the Baltic Sea in a suburb of Gdansk, which has been a byword for shipyards since the 1800s.
Galeon is a rarity: family owned in a corporate world, and yet it builds more than 6,000 yachts a year. At 30 years old, Galeon is one of the boatbuilding powerhouses of
