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Reviewed: Prestige Yachts 590S

• By Tom Serio
• Updated: November 11, 2020

The Prestige 590s, a midrange model in the builder’s s-line series, is sporty while maintaining a level of elegance. It has balanced exterior lines and comfortable interior spaces thanks to the builder’s engineers, Garroni Design Studio in Italy, and JP Concepts, a Slovenian company that handles Prestige’s hull design.

The salon has settees to port and starboard, sized for cocktails with guests or just lying back with a book on the hook. The settees have low-profile backrests that, combined with the side windows, create panoramic views and enhance ambient lighting. To port is a foldout, varnished-wood dining table. Across is a split seat that flanks a starboard side-deck door, handy for tending lines when shorthanded or accessing the foredeck when it’s time to grab a mooring ball. Skippers can open the door and the portside window for salty breezes.

Prestige blends ergonomic design and function at the helm to starboard, where the seat is sized for two with an angled backrest, a fore-aft adjustment and an integrated footrest. Operating the 590S from the lower station affords clear sightlines thanks to side and aft windows. Twin Raymarine Axiom multifunction displays fill the helm console, while Seakeeper and Cummins engine displays are to port of the wheel. The electronic throttles, joystick and ignition are to starboard and within arm’s reach.

Aft and to port is the galley with a Miele microwave, a Siemens three-burner induction cooktop, a Vitrifrigo fridge/freezer, a dishwasher and an ice maker. Countertops are Corian, and there’s enough stowage for a family’s summer-vacation cruise. One of the galley’s countertops, when not being used to prepare or plate meals, can become a walk-up bar when the aft bulkhead window is open. Open the salon’s sliding doors too, and the interior and aft deck become a single social area.

The standard aft-deck layout includes an L-shaped transom seat with a foldout teak dining table, a teak cockpit, a port staircase down to the swim platform, and another one up to the flybridge. An interesting option is the “relax bench” in place of the transom seat. It’s a sun pad (8 feet, 10 inches wide by 5 feet, 11 inches long) with an adjustable backrest and side cushions. It includes a second backrest for sitting at the table.

Coined the “Sportfly,” the flybridge deck is low and lean. The sleek centerline helm has dual 12-inch Raymarine multifunction displays as well as a joystick controller. A Venturi windscreen helps deflect wind and reduce noise when the skipper is seated. Taking up the acreage is a sun pad (6 feet, 6 inches by 6 feet, 11 inches) that has adjustable backrests. Extending the flybridge aft protects the cockpit below from weather. An electric sunshade extends from the overhang for additional sun coverage.

Belowdecks, down a dedicated staircase across from the galley, is the full-beam master stateroom. Hullside windows with opening ports enhance the stateroom’s openness, as does the 6-foot-6-inch headroom. A king-size berth on centerline is flanked by nightstands, wall sconces and reading lamps. Forward to port is a walk-in closet, and to starboard is an en suite head with a centerline shower stall and Corian countertops. This space also acts as a buffer from the forward guest staterooms. A vanity doubles as a work area or casual respite from the main deck; with opposing settees, this could be the owner’s favorite getaway spot.

The forepeak VIP stateroom has a double berth that converts to twins in a V-shaped layout. The VIP also has a walk-in closet and an adjoining en suite head with a shower stall and seat. To port is a guest stateroom with twin berths; it can have its own head if owners want to trade the space for the VIP’s walk-in closet.

In addition to the aft and flybridge lounge spaces, the 590S’s foredeck is a quiet oasis at the quay. An oversize sun pad measures 6 feet, 1 inch wide by 7 feet, 1 inch long—plenty of room for a couple. There’s an adjustable backrest and a removable center cushion to make room for bench seating around a high-low table. A four-pole sunshade covers the area.

Prestige gives owners choices for decor, including upholstery fabrics and colors, as well as soles and countertops. Some options include a lighter-gray oak, wenge with darker woodwork, and brushed soles. Owners can pepper in leather finishes, carpeting and exterior cushion styles to personalize the 590S.

Tropical-ready air conditioning delivers 87,000 Btu of cooling power, enough to deal with the warmest of environs. The yacht’s house electrical systems are managed via Prestige’s Ship Control system. Operated from the helm—on an iPad or with a smartphone—the system allows monitoring and actuating with a tap on a screen icon. Owners can control lighting, air conditioning, music and more.

Building on the Prestige Yachts DNA to make the owner feel at home on the water, the 590S is a residence ready to travel.

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Voyage 590 best charter boat, luxury sailing catamaran.

The ultimate, luxury sailing catamaran with all the comforts of home surrounded by panoramic views of paradise...

A modern design that offers exceptional accommodations integrated in beautiful hulls beneath a perfect sail plan. This charter yacht will leave you wanting to come back again and again...

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Providing spacious accommodations.

The VOYAGE 590 offers beautiful, modern deluxe accommodations, all with en-suite showers, walk-around queen beds, and heads for up to 14 guests.

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• 14 Passengers
• 0 King Beds
• 6 Queen Beds
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• 2 Single Beds

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• 13 Passengers
• 1 Single Bed

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• 12 Passengers
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Choose to work or play onboard this magnificent yacht that allows you the space to easily transition. Thoughtful areas for comfort & leisure, which can also inspire a productive day’s work. Scenic areas for fine or casual dining as well as shaded lounges and sun-tanning beds ... everything you need.

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If you love open plan living, plush appointments, ambient lighting a modern gourmet galley blended with oceans and beaches this yacht is for you!

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Sliding cockpit windows allow you to dine al fresco. Savor a simple meal in the comfortable, forward cockpit or relax in the warm sun on the upper deck, fly-bridge lounge. Large, forward opening windows allow the fresh, cool breeze to flow through this yacht, forward to aft breathing fresh air through the living space. Close everything up to enjoy crisp air conditioning, or even just for a quick squall!

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Enjoy deluxe queen walk around beds with pull out drawers and under-bed storage. These beautiful staterooms also provide soft plush headboards, ambient side and celling lighting and cool air-conditioning. Other features include, in-cabin basin & vanity plus double, inside lit hanging lockers. Towel rails are supplied below the large portholes that offer stunning views of the Virgin Islands. For extra comfort, each cabin offers black out shades and an en-suite shower with dry head.

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The VOYAGE 590: Best Charter Boat of the Year

• July 17, 2022

VOYAGE Yachts and VOYAGE Charters are not like other companies. In an alliance that has launched and delivered some 280 boats since 1995, the family enterprise encompasses boatbuilding, yacht sales, marina operations, marine-technical service and charter management. In 2002, the VOYAGE 440 was the first multihull to win Cruising World ’s top Boat of the Year award. Now, 20 years later, the company’s flagship VOYAGE 590 has won Best Charter Boat in the same contest.

Robin and Jo-Ann Downing are the owners and directors of VOYAGE Charters BVI and along with their three children and their spouses, they also run Soper’s Hole Wharf & Marina, the adjacent full-service West End Boatyard, and the sale of all new and used VOYAGE yachts. Robin was formerly the lead boatbuilder at VOYAGE Yachts in Cape Town, South Africa, where he remains a partner. VOYAGE Charters is the sole dealer for VOYAGE Yachts.

In 2022, as in 2002, CW ’s Boat of the Year judges were impressed by VOYAGE Yachts’ new-boat testing regime. Other companies typically run quality-control tests by dipping their newly launched boats into a pool and spraying them down for leaks. By contrast, every new catamaran built by VOYAGE Yachts is tested in emphatically real-world conditions; it sails on its own bottom from the notorious Cape of Storms across the Atlantic Ocean for more than 5,000 miles to the VOYAGE Charters base in Tortola. Once there, the new yacht undergoes final commissioning at the family-run service yard, correcting any faults revealed in the shakedown before handover to the new owner.

The VOYAGE 590: Six Sumptuous Suites in 60 Feet

Robin Downing’s conception for the VOYAGE 590 was a tall order to fill: six private en-suite cabins of equivalent scale, the requisite quarters and working equipment to retain two top professional crew, and state-of-the-art power-management systems to keep the spaces cool and quiet in the tropics—all in a boat with satisfying sailing performance and fetching good looks. Downing ultimately found the right partner to work out such knotty design problems, Cape Town yacht designer Phil Southwell.

“Phil has a fantastic brush,” Downing says.

The 590 is solidly built of two principle parts: the hull the deck, each hand-laid and vacuum-bagged glass fibers over closed-cell PVC foam core. Vinylester resin in the outer skin coat protects the boat against osmotic blistering. Interior furniture is pressure-laminated veneer over marine ply and composite structures.

It’s not only the private cabins that are well-designed to accommodate 12 guests, but also the open-plan public spaces. Four separate areas provide guests with the room to spread out separately or to gather socially, whether in the weather or protected from it. The flybridge design allows guests to join in the fun of sailing the boat—or to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

From Smart Tech to Quiet Comfort

The VOYAGE 590 comes in one of two packages: electric or diesel propulsion. In both versions, the boat is engineered for uncommon comfort and efficiency.

“This is a very techie boat,” says Ed Sherman, Boat of the Year judge and longtime education director of the American Boat and Yacht Council.

Again, Downing had set a tall bar for his design team: All six guest cabins must be air-conditioned without running the generator at night. How did they crack that nut? With a 43-kilowatt bank of lithium batteries, powered by two 16-kilowatt gensets. Frigomar variable-speed air-conditioning units deliver the efficiency to make it possible. “They’ll come down from 10,000 Btu to 3,000 Btu,” Downing says. “They don’t start and stop. There’s no ramping up. So, instead of running the genset 24/7, it typically runs four to six hours during the day when guests are off the boat.”

For ultimate quiet, VOYAGE Yachts offers the 590 with Bellmarine/Transfluid electric propulsion—and double the battery capacity.

The VOYAGE 590: For Sailing, for Investing, for Living Aboard

Since Hurricane Irma decimated the BVI charter fleet in 2017, VOYAGE Charters has experienced more demand than it’s had boats available. To fill that gap, the first 10 VOYAGE 590s have been sold into the charter fleet, as will the next five or so. “But there’s a growing market for a liveaboard version,” says Peter Jones, who manages yacht sales for the company. Look for that version with a larger owner’s cabin, and fewer cabins overall, toward the end of 2023.

In the meantime, VOYAGE Yachts and VOYAGE Charters have shown us what refinement can come from repeatedly working a design problem over and over again till the right answer shows itself.

VOYAGE 590 SPECS

• Length Overall: 57’6″ (17.60 m)
• Waterline Length: 57’2″ (17.50 m)
• Beam: 28’5″ (8.66 m)
• Draft: 5’3″ (1.60 m)
• Sail Area (working): 2,175 sq. ft. (202 sq. m)
• Displacement: 60,186 lb. (27,300 kg)
• Displacement/Length: 139
• Sail Area/Displacement: 22.7
• Engine: Two 80 hp Yanmar diesels or Bellmarine/Transfluid electric
• Designer: Phil Southwell and VOYAGE Yachts

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