Grandezza 37 CA
The Grandezza 37 CA is an 11.55-metre enclosed hardtop cabin cruiser introduced by the Kokkola yard around 2019. It pairs a full deck saloon with an aft cockpit, separated by a wide triple sliding glass door so the two can be opened into a single entertaining space. Below are a forward cabin, a mid cabin with twin or double beds and a bathroom with a separate shower, giving six berths and CE category B certification for ten persons. All engine options are twin sterndrive packages with joystick control, from Volvo Penta, Mercury Diesel or Yanmar. Concept, layout and styling are credited to the Finnish studio Idis Design.
The 37 CA is Grandezza's aft-cockpit cabin cruiser, the CA designation marking it out from the OC hardtops and the newer outboard-powered boats in the range. Its defining feature is a proper deck saloon on the main level with the helm forward and a dinette behind, opening through a wide triple sliding glass door onto an aft cockpit. With the door stacked open and the powered sunroof back, the saloon and cockpit read as one long social area, which is the argument the yard makes for the layout over a conventional sportscruiser. Accommodation below consists of a forward cabin with a double bed, a mid cabin with convertible twin or double beds, and a single bathroom with a separate shower enclosure and a seat.
Construction follows Grandezza's house method of a vacuum-injected glassfibre hull in a full sandwich laminate. The boat displaces 7,775 kg, carries 650 litres of fuel and 260 litres of water, and has a 160-litre holding tank. The yard quotes approximately 34 to 36 knots maximum and 24 to 30 knots cruising, at roughly 2.8 litres per nautical mile. The 37 CA won its category in the Motor Boat Awards 2021 and has been covered favourably in the Finnish boating press, where the emphasis has been on interior finish and ease of handling rather than outright performance.
Every engine option is a twin sterndrive package supplied with joystick docking control, which suits a boat of this beam and windage. Grandezza's current fact sheet lists twin Volvo Penta D4-270, D4-300 or D4-320 diesels on DPI duoprop drives; twin Mercury Diesel 3.0-litre 270 hp units with DTS controls on Bravo Three X drives with joystick piloting; and twin Yanmar 4LV250 or 8LV320 diesels with JC10 joystick control. The maximum offered installation is therefore 640 hp, from either the twin D4-320 or the twin 8LV320 package.
Two caveats apply to this record. The draft figure of 1.20 m is the drive-down value; Grandezza publishes draft as 0.70/1.20 m, and the 0.70 m hull-only number is what most brokerage and database listings show, which makes the boat look far shallower than it is with the legs down. The yard does not publish an air draft, so that field is left empty. The introduction year is also softer than it looks: aggregator databases give 2018, but Grandezza's own launch material, its first press coverage and the earliest boats offered for sale all point to 2019, which is the figure used here.
Specifications
Dimensions
- Length
- 11.55 m
- Beam
- 3.5 m
- Draft
- 1.2 m
Capacities
- Weight
- 7775 kg
- Fuel capacity
- 650 L
- Water capacity
- 260 L
- Berths
- 6
- Cabins
- 2
- Heads
- 1
Power
- Max power
- 640 hp
- Propulsion
- Sterndrive
Construction
- Hull material
- GRP (fibreglass)
Rating
- CE design category
- B
Engine options
- 2 × D4-270
- 2 × D4-300
- 2 × D4-320
- 2 × Diesel 3.0L 270
- 2 × 4LV250
- 2 × 8LV320
Reviews
- Kipparin kalenteri helmikuu 2020: Grandezza 37 CA - Hillityn edustava
Kippari · Feb 1, 2020
Sources
- 1. 37 CA — Grandezza
- 2. Fact sheet Grandezza 37CA (EN) — Grandezza
- 3. Grandezza 37CA — Idis Design
- 4. Kipparin kalenteri helmikuu 2020: Grandezza 37 CA — Kippari
- 5. 37 CA finalist for Motor Boat Awards 2021 — Grandezza
- 6. Grandezza 37 CA: Prices, Specs, Reviews — itBoat
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Specifications compiled from manufacturer sources.
