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Guests
12
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Cabins
6
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Crew
10
| Length | GT | Built |
|---|---|---|
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60m
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497 GT | 2025 |
| Beam | Draft | Top Speed |
| 11.4m | 4.3m | 15.5 Kts |
Katana is a multi-award winning 60m sail yacht delivered by Italian shipyard Perini Navi in 2025. The yacht's exteriors have been penned by Perini Navi, while Remi Tessier has designed her interiors.
Key Features
- 2,097m² sail plan
- Retractable 12.3m keel
- Flybridge Jacuzzi and bar
- Freestanding teak owner's bath
Design & Construction
Designed around a full displacement aluminium hull and superstructure she features a 11.4m beam and a 4.3m draft. The yacht has an internal volume of 497 GT (Gross Tonnes).
Launched in November 2024 this yacht undertook sea trials over the following months. She was delivered to her owners in July 2025.
Exterior Design
Katana has a very clean profile for a 60m (196.9ft) sailing yacht. The long white aluminium hull carries relatively little structure above deck, with a low deckhouse sitting between the two carbon masts rather than competing with them. Long dark windows run through its sides, while the sheer rises gently towards the bow and leaves the rig as the dominant part of the silhouette.
Perini Navi designed the exterior and naval architecture, with the wider project developed alongside The Italian Sea Group's Centro Stile and Ron Holland. The proportions are recognisably Perini Navi, but Katana looks lighter than many earlier large cruising ketches because so much of the visual mass has been kept close to deck level.
The ketch rig uses carbon masts, spreaders, booms and a structural carbon bowsprit supplied by Southern Spars. Total sail area is approximately 2,097m² (22,572ft²), and the exterior photograph gives a good sense of how much sail is carried without an especially cluttered deck. Running rigging and deck hardware are kept close to the centreline, leaving long stretches of teak available for guests.
Aft, the main cockpit has a large sofa, two tables, its own bar and four chaise longues. It sits immediately behind the low deckhouse, so the sheltered saloon and open deck read as adjoining parts of the same level rather than two separate zones.
There is another guest area well forward with a large sunpad, a table and seating for eight. It is a useful counterpoint to the aft cockpit because guests can move away from the working and social areas around the stern without having to climb to another deck.
The flybridge is more substantial than the profile first suggests. A Jacuzzi is set into a teak sunbathing area, with two curved sofas, a bar and twin helm stations under an awning. It gives Katana a high outdoor viewpoint without adding another enclosed deck to the superstructure.
Interior Design
Rémi Tessier's interior is built around brushed cedar and natural teak, with leather, pale stone and metal used in smaller amounts. The combination is warm but quite restrained, and the main saloon image shows how little furniture is needed when the room itself has this much shape.
A huge curved sofa wraps around the aft part of the saloon, with the seating and central table appearing almost to float above the teak floor because lighting is hidden underneath. Long, low windows sit at eye level when guests are seated, while continuous indirect lighting follows the curves of the room rather than breaking the ceiling into smaller sections.
That curved geometry continues through the main deck. The saloon includes a lifting television, dining for ten, a curved bar, gaming table and another curved sofa with a coffee table. These are several different uses within one large room, but the furniture follows the same softened shapes rather than dividing the space with heavy cabinetry.
The materials become more detailed on closer inspection. Guest furniture is brushed cedar with teak inserts, leather panels line the walls and palladium leaf appears across the ceilings with timber details worked into it. Sliding doors use frosted glass with a metallic weave, while painted aluminium frames and stair details add a harder edge against all the timber.
Bathrooms change the balance again. Ivory onyx is used for basins and shower linings, walnut appears on vanity tops, and brushed cedar continues through the cabinetry. The effect is consistent with the saloon rather than creating a completely different palette in every cabin.
Accommodation
Katana accommodates 12 guests in six cabins, all on the lower deck. The arrangement comprises the owner's suite, four guest cabins and a dedicated nanny cabin.
The owner's suite is the most detailed of these spaces. Its bathroom has a separate shower, WC compartment and a freestanding teak bathtub surrounded by ivory onyx. Brushed cedar, teak, leather and palladium leaf continue from the public rooms, so the suite retains the same material character as the rest of the yacht.
Four further guest cabins provide eight berths, while the nanny cabin has another two. Five marble guest bathrooms serve this accommodation level.
Keeping all guest sleeping areas below also leaves the main deck almost entirely available for social use. The saloon, dining space, bar and wheelhouse occupy the enclosed portion, while substantial guest areas remain outside at each end.
Katana carries up to ten crew. The arrangement includes a captain's cabin, a separate chief engineer's cabin in the lazarette and four twin crew cabins with bathrooms. There is also a crew mess, professional stainless steel galley and a separate cold storage area below the lower deck.
Performance & Capabilities
Sail yacht Katana's aluminium construction keeps displacement under control despite her 60m (196.9ft) length, 11.4m (37.4ft) beam and 497GT interior volume.
The most interesting number is the draft. A retractable keel changes it from 4.3m (14.1ft) to 12.3m (40.4ft), giving Katana the deep underwater foil needed when sailing while allowing access to considerably shallower anchorages once the keel is raised.
The Southern Spars carbon rig carries approximately 2,097m² (22,572ft²) of sail, with carbon used for the masts, spreaders, booms and bowsprit. The reduction in weight aloft is particularly relevant on a large ketch, where the rig represents a substantial part of the yacht's vertical weight.
Auxiliary power comes from twin MTU 8V 2000 M72 diesels producing 720kW each, driving controllable pitch propellers through ZF gearboxes. Katana reached 15.5 knots during sea trials and has a quoted cruising speed of 12 knots.
She has a range of 3,500 nautical miles at 10 knots from 46,000 litres of fuel. Bow and stern thrusters are both 110kW Voith hydraulic units, while dynamic positioning allows the yacht to hold station without dropping anchor.
Two watermakers each produce up to 12,000 litres per day, giving 24,000 litres of potential daily freshwater production for the 12 guests and ten crew.
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