Grandezza 40 FLY

The 40 FLY was Grandezza's only flybridge boat and, unusually, it reached the market before the hardtop model it is now described as deriving from. The yard's own site was already presenting it as the new Grandezza 40 FLY in 2013, on the 12.30 m platform, while the hardtop flagship of the day was still the shorter 11.95 m 39 CA. The 40 CA followed in January 2015 on the same 12.30 m hull, after which Grandezza's later material simply called the FLY the gracious flybridge version of the 40 CA.

The attraction is the second deck. The flybridge carries its own helm station, a second alfresco dining table, extensive seating, a large sunbed and a wetbar, turning what is otherwise a deck-saloon cruiser into a boat with two distinct outdoor social areas. The main deck follows the 40 CA: a saloon with the helm forward and a sizeable dinette, opened into the aft cockpit through a wide triple sliding glass door. Below are a full-beam master cabin, a forward guest cabin, a well-equipped galley and a bathroom with a separate shower enclosure. The hull is vacuum-injected glassfibre in a full sandwich laminate, and the concept, layout and styling are credited to Idis Design of Finland.

The engine range is identical to the 40 CA's and is entirely twin Volvo Penta sterndrive on DPH duoprop drives: D4-225, D4-300 or D6-370, each offered with or without joystick docking and all with EVC-EC electronic controls. The extra weight and windage of the flybridge cost speed rather than options: on the same twin D6-370 package the yard quotes 35 knots maximum for the FLY against 40 knots for the CA, with both sharing a 22 to 29 knot cruising range and about 3.1 litres per nautical mile. Tankage is also shared at 920 litres of fuel, 273 litres of water and 177 litres of holding, and both are CE category B for twelve persons.

Two caveats matter here. Grandezza publishes draft as 0.80/1.50 m; the 1.50 m value recorded is the drive-down figure, while the 0.80 m hull-only number is what Nordic databases quote. More significantly for a flybridge boat, the yard never published an air draft, and that field is therefore empty — which is a real gap on the one model in the range where bridge clearance is the deciding question, so anyone planning canal or low-bridge cruising should measure rather than rely on this record. The end-of-production year is likewise an editorial call, taken from the October 2020 date on the yard's own fact sheet rather than from the databases.