Fairly good basic equipment
The standard version of the Pardo is offered at 309,000 euros excluding VAT. At this rate, it is not possible to sail for a cruise, or even for a day. Of course, there are the electric toilets, the white Silvertex upholstery and the black carbon T-top, but you will have to resort to the options catalogue to equip your boat, ready to sail and in your image.
The essential options for navigation and look
As you don't see yourself launching your mooring by hand, let alone roasting at the zenith, you will inevitably have to order a number of options, but these are part of the charm of the model. If you have children, rear safety gates will be recommended. If you're not sure how to manoeuvre, the Volvo joystick will be ticked. Energy on board is also crucial and it is difficult to go on a cruise for a few days without a generator, converter, or other additional refrigerators and electrical outlets. Electronics are also part of these basic packages, as is the sound and television system that you can't do without. In short, the bill for our boat, which did not have all the options, was 519,620 euros excluding VAT, which is the minimum price that will have to be paid to sail comfortably. Fortunately, this post included the magnificent fenders with the effigy of the manufacturer. But for the sake of a very legitimate aesthetic and to match the standard of the icons of the concept, it is possible to choose a coloured vinyl covering (even if you don't have the sailboat that goes with it), paint the radomes in black and choose synthetic leather upholstery in the appropriate shade. And if you want the ultimate in anchoring comfort, a Seakeeper stabilizer is on the program. For minus 600,000 euros you will have a unique boat with very interesting qualities.
And the competition?
As soon as we talk about outboard motorisation and if we deliberately leave the RIBs aside, which in this size are a real flop, there is still a lot of competition on fibreglass composite walkaround boats. We can only tell you about some of the more prominent ones. First of all the Forjd 38 express is one of the first manufacturers to have industrialized the concept of the luxury tender. She has a convertible forward saloon, but only one very small cabin which classifies her as a day cruiser. It does not have an in board offer, only the 36 can have one. The higher-end Vanquish 40 offers very similar services, but the price is higher. Recently unveiled, the Nimbus T 11 and Oryx 379, both outboard-mounted, are less design-oriented alternatives than performance for the former and roominess for the latter.
