Is this the best 50ft fast cruising yacht you may not have seen before? Meet the Pegasus 50

Packed with interesting features and a different layout, the Slovenian built Pegasus 50 is fast 50-footer for short-handed bluewater cruising. Toby Hodges spent two days aboard in the Gulf of Trieste. Full report in Yachting World July 2024
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[@earthman3000]

Toby does the best reviews in the business.

[@yachtingworld]

Thank you!

[@Sonnell]

Glad that there are still builders designers who dare to do something different. Wish I could own such a boat. They did a great job!

[@philip1470]

Why can’t you own such a boat?

[@Sonnell]

@@philip1470 Are you joking? :D Not many people have 1 million in their pockets...

[@philip1470]

@@Sonnell I’m not. Why don’t you have 1 million € in your pocket? What’s stopping you from getting it. Do it

[@Sonnell]

@@philip1470 I can't stop laughing, sorry. I mean, I am happy for you that you see this this easy. I do not know where you live, what are your possibilities. But where I live, making this amount of money is close to impossible. And saying that everyone can reach such impossible goals is a terrible myth this western culture is trying to spread. Since, I am not sure if you saw, 99.999999...% of the people on this planet can not make this much money, even if all they do just working for this. This is not a reality for most of the humans today, sorry.

[@philip1470]

@@Sonnell I hear you. I’m simply trying to change your approach to your dreams. Wishing is not a plan. Neither is blaming your environment. Change those thoughts to “one day I’ll own” and don’t ever let your surroundings stop you in living?

[@maritimetees2315]

Love the vessel. Game changer in my eyes. It's nice to see a builder thinking outside the box.❤

[@davorlencovic9700]

It just makes sense for Med performance cruising, and further of course. You only sleep in bunks. That's all. But cockpit, storage, sailing, saloon, galley... That's what's really important. Well done!!

[@marknachmias423]

Unless I missed it, you never spoke about the keel which you mentioned at the beginning of the video.

[@deanc685]

I have considered such boats as Amels and Hallberg-Rassy, but my dream boat is a Pegasus 50. The Pegasus is an ultra-long-range capable sailboat that is also friendly to me, a disabled vet, and my wife who has mobility issues. The two steps between levels are great. The ergonomics are great for single sailing. Safety is built in to include a fast cruising speed. The boat would allow my dream of circumnavigation while my wife would bask in the comfort and lifestyle at anchor. I sm only a lottery ticket win away!

[@veitwaltemath236]

Thank you Toby for reviewing the Pegasus 50, I've been waiting on this review. I like it as well.

[@Tetsaraku]

I never really got the point of having really big cabins in a what is essentially a boat for a couple with some friends or kids visiting occasionally. You don’t spend time in the cabin unless you are sleeping. So why waste space on that? This is a fantastic departure from the norm. Well done.

[@fifi23o5]

Exactly! For sleeping I need 6 by 2 ft but I need and want more space during the day.

[@bos6782]

Beautiful yacht Toby, thank you for the review.

[@yachtingworld]

Pleasure, thank you

[@captainblack1021]

Really nice design, my thoughts…with that open main cabin option you have a top contender couples luxury boat with kids or occasional guests forward and in the saloon. It offers that rear sporting helm position for the good days and then you can hide at the pilot station when tired. No wonder you liked it Toby 😊

[@laurentcorveleyn8765]

Hello Toby, I was on this very boat last year at Internautica, Portorož. Such an innovative breath of fresh air for an owner’s yacht compared to boats crammed with cabins and heads for charter. Reminded me a bit of the Beneteau Sense range but with more luxe.

[@yachtingworld]

Yes agreed!

[@drewj.1654]

I immediately saw the parallels with the Sense, which is by far my favorite production boat.

Layout makes so much sense.

[@tmhudg]

You had me in the first half. Cockpit and saloon look great. Cabins are bit sparse and ... open. Whomever gets stuck with the port side berth needs to be an exhibitionist!

[@Robert-og2kr]

I love the covered cockpit--that sun exposure is dangerous. Pegasus has managed to do this with a stylish look. So much better than the hideous looks of a certain (not to be named) "covered cockpit" 48-footer that was recently launched.

[@JohnJohn-cu7nk]

I LOVE the outside and living space aesthetics of the Yatcht IT looks sleak and modern. The cabins seem like an afterthought, though .Im not sure it would appeal to year-round liveaboards. IT would more likely suit wealthy weekend sailors or people who want to do some hard sailng for a few months each year.

[@zak_7354]

Beautifully designed, inside and out ❤

[@dennisdickson2892]

The inside pilot station sold me!

[@markjones3425]

Great display of this super boat!

[@johnny_123b]

Sick design

[@lionelgower6877]

Absolutely love this yacht, it is so amazingly well designed, from a maintenance point of view and liveable point of view. It even seems quite aesthetically appealing looking yacht. Can't get over the pilot station visibility 360° and main beam. All that's missing is one thoses tinny helm wheels to steer manually if owner wanted (😅). I would have liked a different colour behind the seating area instead of the white currently (which I realise is personal preference).

[@kenlinnington4771]

Wonderful Boat. Great video. Thank you once again. I would love to own this boat. Very nice! Keep up the great work.

[@mosca3289]

Love that layout.

[@agentdouble-osoul158]

Beautiful and well thought out yacht. And a bargain to boot.

[@josepla9797]

Pegasus needs a 55ft version of this boat to solve the issue of small cabins and heads. Similar to what Beneteau did with the Sense 50 and 55.

[@winstongsd4273]

We need to hear more about your experiences in a commercial kitchen.

[@yachtingworld]

Well it wasn't exactly 'The Bear' style but helped pay some bills a long time ago!

[@LoanwordEggcorn]

She sails very well in relatively light airs. Interesting layout ideas and some very good design. 1.1 million is actually a low price for the performance and full specification included. I personally have near zero interest in monohulls, but this is a very interesting boat. Some good ideas and good execution of them. Wanted to hear about the keel. Keels are critical for performance. Hope you got well quickly, Toby.

[@JorgeSantos-pn5ji]

Great yacht

[@kulaak-krii]

Me watching this video: volume goes up, volume goes down, volume goes up, volume goes down... 😂 I think I ran out my remote batteries!

[@andrewyork3869]

An amazing yacht

[@peterjohnfrancis8906]

My first choice by far , quality and quantity in one boat

[@markrockliff2742]

I agree it a good yacht. Really like the gimbled saloon area. I have been thinking for some time now, why don't yacht have a gimbled saloon and kitchen area. Gimbled beds would also be a good idea.

[@chikken_soup]

Took you long enough to review this boat

[@EdwardTilley]

That is a brilliant boat. So well thought out and the raised sun-saloon is all comfort and visability while not forfeiting the right-setting balance of the boat. Would love to see this design in Aluminum... so comfortable. If this company built a modern interior design for the bedroom areas - like your see on the new HH44 OC catamarans, it would fly off the shelf I would think.

[@donaldvanvliet9039]

The first ones were aluminium boats, this one apparently composite…

[@LoanwordEggcorn]

Agree with everything you wrote, but at the same time it's hard to fault them on prioritizing the living areas. At this point it's borderline unethical to be using more plastic. Aluminum is an ideal material for boats: durable but fully recyclable and recycled. Some of the French Aluminum boats have generally similar layouts.

[@psystealth]

great galley !

[@jbhann]

Absolutely love this boat, but why would they put the windlass controls just inside the v-berth? What if you’re in the process of anchoring while it’s raining or gusting, or have to lift the anchor while it’s raining, and then having to deal with the v-berth hatch being open to access the windlass controls?

[@ArcticSeaCamel]

This is amazing boat with many great features I like. For the accommodation problem would help to ditch the second toilet/shower. I have never understood the need for several toilets in a boat. It’s still very small space. It’s like having several toilets in single room house. And in boat the space is so limited.

[@Silvius.2]

Blady nice what spaced and all its build.... shelf and space to getting all cleared away.

[@luissergiodutra9572]

Belo veleiro !

[@ianscott3180]

What a boat, sorry Oyster and Hallberg. When I win the lottery I know what I am going to buy. And a big bonus, I can't invite too many friends to come cruising. Perfect, I love it. Anyone want to give me £1,000,080 for my old Beneteau?

[@user-oj6jn5ii6e]

Looks just like a Shipman 50 (which is a good thing).

[@lionelgower6877]

So Toby, when are you buying it from them? You'll probably get the dual cabin layout

[@yachtingworld]

Aha. Well, seeing as you asked, I've started saving and am only about €999k short now...

[@Rodrifuuu]

Great boat, almost as good as a multihull of the same price.

[@stevenfogerty2110]

You didn't talk about the keel.

[@yachtingworld]

Well spotted! Apologies, I had intended to try and show some images of the keel - and it’s in our magazine report. Pegasus have different keel options but favours a rather unique tandem keel with twin centreline fins connected by a bulb, which they calculate gives better directional stability, and less wetted surface for a low centre of gravity. Their studies have found it helps reduce leeway and brings better performance for its weight. It also helps keep the twin rudders to be kept relatively small.

[@stevenfogerty2110]

@yachtingworld I did a google search on her and read this. A very cool boat.

[@jameslochhead5950]

As an interesting concert boat but I think the Beneteau Oceanis Yacht 54 still looks better But if you replace the petrol motor with an electric one and just had a generator for we needed would probably change my opinion But if Beneteau match that it would still win

[@JulesGauthier-qk3nk]

A horizontal sliding door to the saloon? No safety lines on the transom? Weak mainsheet mountings? How could one possibly feel safe on this boat?

[@yannmonnier4291]

What is the price?

[@usefulcommunication4516]

He said 1.08 million. I'm assuming Euro

[@yachtingworld]

It's in the specifications slide at the end too

[@jd739]

Many great things about this boat! but for me the accommodations look too claustrophobic.

[@waterboy8999]

What, no Air-fryer?

[@intosound913]

great news, i can afford this boat at my current salary in only 3 more life times😅

[@Vik_spb]

Looks good, bit like beneteau sense for a bluewater cruise)

[@oliviervrai]

FREE AUNG SAN SUU KYI 😤 😊

[@evinwhiteson4902]

I like this design. It's the perfect response to catamarans. I would go for this over any cat. But I would want 2 yanmars. Twin engines Then it ticks every box. I would go 2 cabin layout.

[@user-us6vo1ig3s]

Keel?

[@yachtingworld]

Well spotted! Apologies, I had intended to try and show some images of the keel - and it’s in our magazine report. Pegasus have different keel options but favours a rather unique tandem keel with twin centreline fins connected by a bulb, which they calculate gives better directional stability, and less wetted surface for a low centre of gravity. Their studies have found it helps reduce leeway and brings better performance for its weight. It also helps keep the twin rudders to be kept relatively small.

[@zaharizahariev]

Trendy girl.

[@Trajectionable]

Tremendous boat but like the Allures, has the fatal flaw of that grossly tall hardtop. Why would anyone need all that headroom? Ruins the look and raises the rig.

[@fifi23o5]

Fatal flaw?

[@donaldvanvliet9039]

It’s not because the boom can be lower that it is too high…these cruising boats spend 80% of the time on anchor in the tropics or in the med…so a bit of headroom and shade in the cockpit is important. The silhouette of this boat isn’t bad either, compared to those flydeck catamarans with weird high booms.

[@fredread9216]

Very nice yacht. My only dislike is the exposure of the helm. Your butt is inches from the open sea. And no protection for the helm. This is why I like the Amel. Very protedtd helm. I am also not a fan of sail drives. A way to cheap out for an inferior system. But other wise I like it a lot. Perhaps inside joystick control for foul weather operation. I speak from experience. Having cruised tens of thousand of miles, and the skin cancer to prove it. LOTS.

[@Skippernick1957]

Its a caravan. KM build proper cruising yachts. Imagine being in that huge cockpit in a storm. Check out boreal, garcia ,km and enkhuizen for proper cruising yachts.

[@yachtingworld]

A caravan?! Yes agreed, KM and those other brands build excellent aluminium cruising yachts. But as with most designs, it's horses for courses, in this case if you after a bit more performance too. Perhaps you should ask how the owner of the third P50 copes in his huge cockpit - he won the OSTAR solo race across the Atlantic before then sailing it single-handedly around South Africa...

[@xiasage]

hh44 is much better

[@bitkong9445]

uu how european, they should name it Ursula..

[@donaldvanvliet9039]

We won’t discourage the attempt to humour, but what on earth are you on about?

[@bitkong9445]

@@donaldvanvliet9039 the blue fascist flag

[@donaldvanvliet9039]

@@bitkong9445 what does this boat have to do with politics?

[@bitkong9445]

@@donaldvanvliet9039 that you are morons using this flag for a boat and you don't buy boats from morons

[@Au_Ag_ratio5021]

Didn't watch, after camera spins like being on the tea cups ride, dizzy.