The cook also gets a large window, which keeps the galley feeling open and well-lit. The galley is to starboard and has plenty of counter space to prepare meals. To port are the door to the sidedeck and the stairway up to the flybridge. It seemed like every nook and cranny held a storage compartment.Ī few steps up on the port side brings you into the galley and helm area. The demo boat also had beautiful custom cabinetry to safely hold stemware. Forward and to starboard is an entertainment center, with a wine cooler and flat-screen TV on an electric lift. The coffee table in front of the settee expands to full-size dining table. Moving forward from the cockpit, large sliding glass doors open to the airy saloon, with an L-shaped settee to starboard and barrel chairs to port. There’s a transom-mounted bench seat with a table in the aft cockpit, and the deck there includes the hatch to the lazarette and engine room. The aft cockpit is about half-shaded by the boat deck overhang above, although the test boat had a beautiful flybridge bimini and aft cockpit awning, custom made by The Canvas Lady in Warwick, RI, who also made the interior pillow and cushion fabrics. You can board the Symbol 60 amidships through a bulwarks gate or from the stern swim platform. With two good-sized couples’ cabins, a third stateroom with twins, lots of storage space, 1,000 gallons of fuel, and a 4’9” draft, this yacht can self-sufficiently host an extended family aboard on a cruise to Bermuda, island-hopping in the Caribbean, or up the Inside Passage in the Pacific Northwest. The Symbol 60 Classic, powered by twin Cummins diesels, is identical to the 59 Classic Raised Pilothouse shown here. The only real difference between home ashore and aboard the Symbol 60 is that this Jack Sarin-designed hull is simply a joy to drive, at any speed.

It has a collection of subtle design touches that amount to an impression that you’ve stepped aboard a comfortable family vacation home.

My recent sea-trial of a new 2008 59 Classic left me with the feeling that I could easily move aboard and happily wander the coastlines of any continent. The new Symbol 60 Classic of Symbol Yachts’ current production line is identical to the builder’s earlier 59 Classic Raised Pilothouse.

Flat starboard fishing ruler mount