78 Motor Yacht
The Ocean Alexander 70E is a 71-foot luxury flybridge motoryacht launched by the award-winning Taiwanese yacht-building firm Ocean Alexander in 2016. Designed for the North American market and constructed in Florida, the 70E boasts classic curves, cutting-edge pod-drive engines, an open-plan main-deck layout and the firm’s signature luxury finish. Designed in collaboration with naval stylist Evan K Marshall, this vessel may be the smallest flybridge currently produced by Ocean Alexander, but it has already made a huge impression with discerning Stateside buyers.
A hard-top canopy across the front of the bridge provides shade for an upper helm, an L-shaped dining sofa with a teak-lined table and a standalone Electri-Chef barbecue grill. Towards the rear of the bridge there is a walk-in wet-bar with Cambria stonework surfaces, a sink, a fridge and an icemaker, as well as room to aft for a hook-shaped sofa lounge or tender storage with a hydraulic davit.
A Portuguese Bridge sofa and a sunpad with an adjustable headrest surround a Hi-Lo cocktail table out on the foredeck, while to stern there is a teak-lined cockpit with a transom sofa, an extending table, a mini-bar and side steps down to a double-length hydraulic bathing platform that can also lift a PWC.
A breezy salon with visibility from the pilothouse all the way back to sliding glass doors impresses with masses of open space, cinema-screen side windows and a side-deck door to port. The interiors are straight out of a Manhattan penthouse: exotic wood cabinetry with a walnut trim and jewel-effect backlit ceiling panels contrast against lighter oak floors, topped off with steel fixtures and plush carpeting. A pair of sofas and a coffee table can be found to aft, while across the center of this space sits a walk-in galley with Jenn-Air appliances, a Fisher & Paykel American-style fridge-freezer, a Bosch dishwasher, a Franke sink, Cambria-stone surfaces and plenty of secure cabinetry.
At the front of the main deck you will find a forward seating lounge and the main helm, where a pair of Stidd piloting chairs face a dashboard with thruster controls, Penta joystick handling, a Dynamic Positioning system, Garmin touchscreens, KVH TracVision, a CZone iPad interface, a Ritchie compass, autopilot and vector-stabilizing fin controls.
Four lower-deck cabins for up to eight overnight guests occupy the below-decks portion of this boat, with three of the rooms benefiting from en suite facilities. A twin bunk berth to port sits across from a starboard twin, while nestled up against the bow is a VIP double with a queen bed, cedar-lined closets and strip glazing. The owner’s stateroom is located amidship, and this full-beam retreat features a king-sized island bed, panoramic hull windows, a chaise-longue, a work-desk, full-height, cedar-lined and backlit closets as well as a bathroom with granite counters, a pair of tempered glass sinks and a waterfall shower room with stone bench-seating and a crystal clear glass door. Crew quarters on this vessel are found to aft and can be accessed via a private transom door.
Twin 1350MHP Volvo Penta IPS2000 pod-drive diesel engines offer top speeds of around 30 knots with consistent cruising speeds of 26 knots. At a pace of 12.5 knots, however, you can expect a cruising range of some 380 nautical miles, more than enough to steer this semi-displacement yacht to distant horizons for days on end.
