The 477 Evolution. It’s the biggest news we’ve ever had. Literally.

The 477 Evolution comes to life by way of 15 years of custom building in our Sport Yacht line. Over all of those years, we have had thousands of requests to customize these boats and a lot of those ideas really turned out well. Like we always say, “Our customers are our best designers”. And that holds true more than ever in the 477 Evolution.

Then, there are the new hull side windows. A completely new design along with an inset style line that connects the forward and aft sets of windows. This is much harder than it looks. In order to create these shapes in the hull, we had to create what we call detail inserts. Basically, these are pieces that we put in the hull mold in order to create the shapes in the hull side. The catch is, you cannot pull the hull with those inserts in the mold once the hull is built. It locks the part into the mold so, we have to then unbolt all of the inserts through the side of the hull mold and then pull the hull out. The inserts then come out with the hull. Then we have to remove all of the inserts from the hull and reinstall them in the hull mold for the next boat. It also means that all the finish and paint work in the inset style lines needs to all be done by hand because we can’t fit any tools inside of it. So, then you ask, “Why would you go through all of that?” You will be able to answer that for yourself when you see it. Some things are beautiful enough to where it is worth all the additional work and this is one of those things.

As we enter the aft cockpit, you will see a completely redesigned transom. Across the aft cockpit, we molded in the folding rear bench seat so that it now is flush with the gunwale cap and in each corner, we added port and starboard in deck wells that can be used for storage or, like in most cases, will be transom above deck bait wells with windows and internal well lighting plumbed with a Hooker Sea chest system with variable speed pumps to create pressurized wells.

The L-shaped seating has been reconfigured to be more of an actual “L” where we took the aft most bump out in the seating and integrated a hi-lo electric table in that space. This change allows you to have a table that doesn’t take up additional cockpit space that can disappear into the floor at the touch of a button for more room, hit the button again and it will go to a filler height and give you more space to sprawl out. We really took advantage of this space on the new 477 Evolution.

Down inside the cabin, one of the first things you will notice is the new soft goods in the headliner. We built an entirely new headliner mold with recesses in it for upholstered panels and inset mood lighting, similar to the 410 Evolution. A request we have heard many times. We also put additional mood lighting under the leading edges of all the countertops and they are all on dimmers. It really looks cool when you turn all of them on!

For more details, please call our sales office at (954) 922-7544 or better yet, come take a plant tour and see them in the process of being built.