Tony Castro Yachts x Motor Boat & Yachting

The Galeon Explorer 430 — a Tony Castro Yachts design — has been put through a full boat test in the August 2026 issue of Motor Boat & Yachting, and it’s the boat’s fearless approach to space that takes centre stage.

The review, based on a sea trial at Galeon’s test marina near Gdansk, digs into the design decisions that make the 430 unlike anything else in its class: a beam carried almost all the way to the bow, an asymmetric superstructure that trades a side walkway for genuine interior volume, terraces that fold down along more than half the hull’s length, and an aft deck arranged around a rotating dinette that reconfigures from dining space to sunbed to a clear route down to the high-low swim platform. Up top, a flybridge spanning the full width of the hull delivers the kind of entertaining space normally found on far larger yachts.

Alongside the design story, the test puts the numbers on record — from a 21.6-knot top speed with the twin Volvo Penta D6-480 test engines to a hull that rewards an unhurried, semi-displacement style of cruising. As the magazine put it, “it still beggars belief that this thing exists.”

None of it is conventional. All of it is intentional. Every one of these decisions was drawn in our studio, and seeing them tested and appreciated on the water is what this work is all about.
The full boat test appears in the August 2026 issue of Motor Boat & Yachting, on sale now.