Hatteras 70 Motor Yacht Test Walkthrough Video

Legendary Hatteras Yachts performance combined with modern style to create the new 70 Motor Yacht. The Hatteras 70 Motor Yacht has an impressive open-concept deckhouse salon and galley arrangement, surrounded by panoramic windows for views spanning 360 degrees.

The 70 M/Y features a large full-beam master suite along with a private VIP stateroom and designer-inspired twin staterooms for all your guests. The Hatteras Yachts 70 Motor Yacht also boasts a range of custom details to ensure the yacht bears your personal stamp.

Join us as BoatTest.com tests this comfortable and luxurious motoryacht:

The following opinions are solely those of BoatTest.com, and its test captain.

Hi, Capt. Steve for BoatTest.com, and today I’m going to conduct a sea trial of a distance cruising luxury yacht that can accommodate 8 in up to 4 separate staterooms, plus even though it’s able to be owner-operated; it’s still got accommodations for crew. Let’s get underway as I test the Hatteras 70 Motor Yacht.

As soon as we started off, I noticed immediately how well this boat handles, particularly at low speed. She responds instantly to the helm with excellent controllability. The Hatteras 70 Motor Yacht has a length overall of 74 feet 6 inches, a beam of 21 feet and a draft of 5 feet 3 inches.

With an empty weight of 155,000 lbs., 46% percent fuel and 4 people onboard, we estimated our test weight at 166,774 lbs. With a pair of MTU 1,800s turning 8-bladed props, we reached our top speed of 29.2 knots at 2455 RPM. Dialing back to the best economic cruise showed a speed of 18.6 knots at 1,750 RPM. That speed produced a fuel burn of 78 gallons per hour, which met a range of just over 471 nautical miles.

Dropping the Hatteras 70 down at displacement speed at 1,000 RPM and 10.2 knots, the fuel burn dropped to 20 gallons per hour, opening up the range to just over 1007 nautical miles. All while holding back at 10% reserve of the boat’s 2,200 gallon total fuel capacity.

As for her handling – rock steady and stable are the key words. Of course, while we try to get heavy handed, with something like this the yacht just won’t have any of it. Sure you remain docile regardless of what we did and she’s well stabilized.

There’s level turning, and I would speculate that she has a limited throw of the radar as she has a wide turning radius taking a full 60 seconds to come around 180 degrees, all of which speaks of a cruising yacht made for going relatively straight for long distances.

As expected, the staring can be used or adjusted to turn a tighter radius. And of course, we had a calm day but searching out wake still showed the typical Hatteras slice through the waves and little to no feeling of the transition.

It’s at the dock where her agility really comes into play. With a Xenta joystick, she can be easily maneuvered in any direction, and we had no trouble doing exactly that as we brought her in against a stiff cross-current. While her size may not make her a single-handed boat, she’s certainly squarely in the realm of any reasonably skilled owner-operator.

Now, let’s look over some of her operational features. Moving forward in the bridge deck, this is the only operating station on the Hatteras 70 Motor Yacht. Consisting of two 15-inch screens, of course the dual MTU displays are over to the starboard side. Now we have an electronic touch panel controlling all of the electrical functions on the boat.

But it’s also nice to have manual overrides for things you need quickly like bilge pumps, emergency lighting, things like that. Garmin is controlling the autopilot, Furuno depth. Engine controls are all clearly labeled, trim tab controls are next to the digital engine controls.

To the right-hand side, we have the Xenta joystick, additional joystick stations can be added as desired. Comfort at the helm is provided by a pair of Pompanette platinum series helm seats that are fully adjustable including flip-up arm rests and flip-down footrests.

16-inch cleats to both quarters lead through heavy duty stainless steel gear. Side decks are to both port and starboard. Right at the beginning, there’s a gate leading out to the dock. 16 inch width, 28 inches leading up to 31 at the top of the rail.

Coming up just ahead 16-inch cleats with plenty of chafing gear to the side. Now here’s a neat feature: fuel fills for both tanks and there’s a tank level indicator and then you know exactly how far you’ve got to go.

As we come up, the rails give way to increase bulwarks, this comes up to 36 inches. At the salon there’s a door leading out to the side deck and then directly to another gate, again with easy access to the dock. All the way forward the rail height is 35 inches.

At the working end of the bow, we’ve got a Maxwell windlass leading out to a stainless steel anchor roller. The anchor is the mounted through the stem, happy to see that there is a chain stopper and also a turnbuckle to keep the chain secure when it’s not in use. 16-inch cleats to both sides lead out to hose holes going through the top sides.

Over the port hand side, foot control switches for the windlass and of course we have easy access to the all-chain road so we can manage tangles.

There are separate 100 amp shore power connections to both port and starboard. And in the center of the transom have access to the crew quarters. Let’s take a look.

Just inside the door we have another electrical panel just like we saw at the helm. Just to the port hand side, there’s a bit of a galley with a microwave and refrigerator, a small settee, to the starboard side is a head with a separate walk-in shower. Just forward to both sides, single stateroom and then fully forward, we have a door leading to the engine room.

Well, we have a beautifully laid out engine room, AC panel over to the left-hand side, both the generators are flanking the entryway, plenty of space between the engines, the narrow spot between the large filters 21 inches and look at this headroom, I mean come on, 7 feet 1 inch. I love that just above is plenty of storage for filters and miscellaneous items.

Over to the side, plenty of ventilation leading out to the bulwarks. Exhaust risers are well supported. Couple of things that I’m impressed with, with MTU – notice servicing is easy, checkpoints are both to the inside of the engines and we can easily see the solenoids for the engine shut off, the throttle. Notice the beefy shock-absorbing engine mounts.

Coming inside we have a couple of more operational features starting with one more of the touch screen panels. Going down the companionway we have 1, 2, 3 sets of electrical switches, plus 5 outlet banks. Overall, it seems that Hatteras has succeeded in making a beautiful yacht that handles well both around and away from the dock. Moreover, it’s loaded with the Hatteras quality that we’ve come to expect, but that’s another video. Be sure to look for it.

That’s my sea trial of the Hatteras 70 Motor Yacht. For BoatTest.com, I’m Captain Steve. We’ll see you on the water.