| Price | Price on request |
|---|---|
| Availability | Build slot, specification open |
| Length overall | 56 ft |
| Beam | 14’8 |
| Max draft | 4 ft |
| Bridge clearance | 9’6 |
| Dry weight | 49,400 lb |
| Cabins | 2 |
| Heads | 1 |
| Engines | 2 x Volvo Penta D11 IPS 800, 625 HP, diesel pod drive, standard. IPS 950, 725 HP available. |
| Fuel capacity | 634 gal |
| Water capacity | 103 gal |
| Construction | Composite |
| Standard finishes | Synthetic teak with faded white caulking, Macadamia upholstery inside and out |
| Delivery | Landed Fort Lauderdale, US duties paid, commissioned |
You specify this one
This is not a boat sitting on a dock waiting for a buyer. It is a place in the build schedule, which means the boat gets specified around you instead of around whoever ordered it first.
Hull color, interior materials, layout and the equipment list are decisions you make. On a boat that is already built, they are decisions you live with, and you pay for someone else’s taste every time you look at it.
Talk to me before you sign a spec sheet. I run these boats and I maintain them, so I can tell you which options earn their money and which ones look good in a brochure and annoy you by the second season.
Broker’s note
The usual objection to a VanDutch is the bow. People line them up against other day boats that have a sunpad or seating up forward, they see a flush foredeck, and they walk away.
I read it the other way. No seating on the bow is exactly why you get so much more interior space out of the same length.
The new boats have also dropped the beds and put seating areas in the cabin instead. Nobody sleeps in these boats. It took a while for the layout to catch up to that, and on this generation it finally has.
The 56 also carries a hardtop, so you have somewhere to mount your equipment. Radar, Starlink, night vision camera, all of it.
This is a build slot, so the specification is still open. Call me before it is spoken for.
Specifications are supplied by the listing brokerage and believed correct, but are not guaranteed. Confirm anything that matters to you before you commit.
What the build price covers
The price I quote on this build is landed Fort Lauderdale, not ex works Italy. It includes the US configuration and export paperwork, US import duties, transport from the yard to the loading port with insurance, shipping to Fort Lauderdale, marine insurance in transit, propspeed antifouling on the running gear, and commissioning and preparation before loading.
That matters more than it sounds. Plenty of European build quotes stop at the factory gate, and the freight, duty and commissioning turn up later as separate invoices. Ask any builder you are talking to where their number stops. If the answer is the yard door, you are not comparing the same thing.
What you can change
Standard equipment covers Volvo trim tabs with Trim Assist, autopilot, six fenders with covers and mooring lines. On top of that the build sheet opens up:
- Paint. Non-metallic, metallic, or a fully custom color outside the sample book, hull and bootstripe.
- Deck. Synthetic teak in a different caulking, sunshade bimini extension, fully automated bimini, T-Top package, hydraulic swim platform, refrigerated deck table in the cockpit.
- Upholstery. Alternative fabric inside and out, or contrast piping on the standard.
- Interior. The optional Sleep layout, a wine cooler, or the single bottle Divino cooler.
- Engines and handling. Step up to IPS 950 at 725 HP, bow thruster, Volvo joystick control, Volvo Dynamic Positioning, X19 stabilizer, engine warranty extended from two years to five.
- Electrics and electronics. Four multi-color LED underwater lights, mounted TV aft portside.
The stabilizer and the dynamic positioning are the two that change how the boat lives at anchor and how it docks. They are also the two biggest numbers on the sheet. Call me before you tick either one.