Selene 60 Classic Explorer

The yard's Circumnavigator: a new hull built on the Selene Deep Hull structure, sitting between the 54 and the 62 in size and above both in headroom.

The Deep Hull raises the sheer and lifts the deck, and the whole boat is drawn around what that buys: headroom. The cabins get it, and so does the engine room, which is full height — you stand up in it and walk round the machinery rather than lying across it.

Between the owner's cabin and that engine room sits a full-height commissary: storage, freezer, washer and dryer, and the way in to the electrical compartment. It earns its space twice, because a room full of stores is also the best sound insulation there is between an engine and the person trying to sleep next to it.

Aft of the engine room, an expansive lazarette takes tools, spares and diving gear, with room to fit a crew cabin and head instead. Crew quarters aft have their own transom door. The European transom carries an inset swim platform.

The flybridge is laid out around a U-shaped sofa that seats ten, with a built-in barbecue, a sink and a refrigerator; a moulded settee does the same job down in the cockpit. 2,500 nautical miles at 9 kn on 7,570 l, three cabins and two heads. First deliveries began in the autumn of 2006 and more than thirty have been handed over since.