Prestige 520 S Options List

Twin Volvo Penta IPS 650 (2x D6-480 HP) with joystick control

interior woodwork - White Oak

Teak cockpit table

Maindeck protective covers- cockpit seating and cockpit table covers

Stainless Steel bow protection

Electric trim tabs

Opening window to port

Freshwater/saltwater wash-down system in cockpit with dedicated pump

Dock water inlet

Glendinning cable management system

Interior Upholstery colour Dolce

Tender Garage Package: Transom garage for tender with electrically opening door

Combination sunpad/sofa relaxed seating in cockpit

Electric inflator for tender

Exterior Upholstery Iron Garage Version

Electronics Package: 2 Multifunction 12' screens

VHF Garmin

Garmin Autopilot for IPS

Volvo Interface

Stainless steel radar mount

Fantom 18 Radar

Bowers & Wilkins Sound Package: 2 B&W marine speakers in cockpit

2 B&W speakers in saloon with powered subwoofer

Atoll multizone receiver and amplifier with touch screen

Stainless steel anchoring kit with Steel Anchor, 40m chain & 50m rope

Electric retractable sun awning in cockpit

Fender storage racks forward

Bow Sun Mattress iron colour + protective cover

Bow Thruster dual prop 140kw

Battery monitoring system

Underwater Lights Blue

Electronic Safe

Cabinet drawers in lieu of sofa in MSR

Folding luxury table in saloon on electric pedestal

Saloon hardwood flooring

Cockpit docking station

Painted Awlgrip hull

Pre-Installation TV in saloon, MSR, amplified TV antenna, pre-wiring for satellite antenna

Transom camera day/night vision GC 200

AIS 800 transceiver Garmin

Mosquito screens for hull ports

Brushed wedge hardwood floor for entrance and saloon

Yachting Magazine Review

The Prestige 520 has big shoes to fill. She’s the model expected to replace the Prestige 500/500 S, a market leader for seven years with more than 450 hulls delivered. Most builders in Prestige’s situation would do little more than a face-lift. A tweak here and a tweak there. Why mess with success? To my surprise, the French builder did a whole lot more than tweak. To create the 520’s profile, Garroni Design (which also penned the interior) used 50 percent more glazing than Prestige had on the 500. The side windows extend nearly down to deck level at one point, 3 feet 7 inches from top to bottom on the inside, and there are hullside windows and a transom window. On the outside, all of that side glass is flush, so from a little ways off, each side looks like it’s built with one big pane. Another outside evolution is the foredeck, which is double the size of the 500’s thanks to the snubbing of the 520’s bow. The space allows for a sun pad that measures 6 feet at the head, 5 feet 3 inches at the bottom, and well more than 7 feet long, with a pull-up sunshade. Inside, the 520’s volume is said to be 7 percent bigger than her predecessor’s. Now, 7 percent may not sound like a lot, but it allows for headroom where it’s needed: 6 feet 5 inches at the after end of the salon by the galley, and 6 feet 9 inches over the raised midsection. With all the surrounding glass, the space feels large and the views are great.

And this may be a first, my writing a compliment about a sofa that is part of a dinette setup, but the seat cushion measures 26 inches from back to front. I’ve been banging on about silly seats for years. None of us sit for fun with straight backs, and knees and ankles together, the way smaller cushions assume that we will. I sprawl. You sprawl. We all sprawl. This sofa’s design allows for comfort. A glass sliding side-deck door is to starboard abaft the lower helm. It’s 21 inches wide and 41 inches tall — granted, not everyone’s idea of a proper door — but diminutive skippers will likely use it all the time, and those who are “bigger boned” will have fresh air amidships. I’m in the latter camp, and at one point I was looking aft from the helm seat with the back cushion reversed and had my feet outside because I could. Incidentally, the helm seat goes back and forth and up and down electrically, as does the dinette table. As for accommodations, the 520 has the same three-stateroom, two-head layout as the 500: a double-berth stateroom forward that shares a head with the portside stateroom, whose twin berths convert to a double, and an owner’s en suite stateroom with its own staircase aft.