Optimised to be owner-managed and owner-sailed courtesy of the finest design, engineering and outfitting in this luxury performance cruising sector, the new three- and four-cabin plan 19-metre Contest 63CS presents a whole new way to view top-level yachting operation and ownership. Superyachting conventionally tends to mean not just ‘super’ standards of luxury performance but also the complications at those upper sizes of sailing with paid professional crew, a practice that active sailing owners are increasingly downsizing away from. The Contest 63CS specifically addresses this shift. With this brand-new 19-metre model, family and friends can here now more easily enjoy all the benefits of ‘superyachting’ without the involvement or intrusion of additional paid hands. Although, for those wanting for reasons of charter or assisted passage making, there is still the option of an additional crew cabin forward in the bow without impacting the principal suites. And those suites are really quite something! MORE THAN GEOMETRY In this newly configured hull and interior arrangements, for the very first time at this size in this sector, naval architects judel/vrolik & co and the Contest design-engineering team have imaginatively and innovatively created shell-volume for two spacious identical double guest suites forward of the mast, these complementing the expansive, full beam and tall aft master suite. This is not just a show of great geometry, it’s a true rare treat, the owner now free to offer guests aboard equal luxury in two suites, so no-one ends with second best. Everyone’s a VIP! For younger families, of course, guest cabins can be bunked, too.