A 12.7-metre walk-around for full days on the water with up to 12 people on board.

Made for the way you, actually spend a day at sea

The Sport Tender 42 is a day boat for full days, made for the kind of day where the boat is the destination. A morning swim. Lunch in the cockpit at anchor. Friends arriving by tender for an afternoon. A long cruise back as the light shifts. The design exists for that day.

What makes for the best days on the water?

Throughout the design process, one question guided every decision: what makes for the best days on the water with the people you want to spend them with?

The answers were specific. Big, flexible socialising spaces. Plenty of room to move around. Sun protection that covers a real part of the boat. Several places to lie back and lounge or sunbathe. Refrigeration sized for actual food and drink, not a token nod to provisioning. A proper outdoor galley with a barbecue. A swim platform with room for several people at once. An aft stowage area generous enough for the gear and the toys, opened with a hydraulic mechanism so it stays accessible whatever you have on board. Every element on the Sport Tender 42 traces back to one of those answers. The boat is what those answers built.

Walk-around design that treats movement as a feature

The Sport Tender 42 is built around how people actually move on a boat. Wide passageways. Treading surfaces sized for two people walking past each other. Aft deck, foredeck, side decks: all dimensioned for movement, all linked.

The walk-around is a design discipline. Furniture sized for use. Decks sized for movement. Transitions sized for ease. The result is a deck plan that opens up the moment you step on board and stays open as the day shifts from cruising to swimming to lunch and back.

The boating experience

“In the design and development process, we deliberately focused on “simplicity” and “easy living” for everyone on board. This includes being able to easily and conveniently board or deboard the boat, to load, to travel, to stay aboard and to own the boat. Everything that has to do with your Nimbus should feel natural and easy regardless of activity. When things are easy, we quite simply feel more relaxed and can focus on the boating experience", Says Mats Jacobsson, Technical Director at Nimbus.

A social heart that adapts to how the day unfolds

The aft deck is the social heart of the Sport Tender 42, and most days on the boat happen here. The space is designed around how people actually spend time on the water, in every weather and at every speed.

The lounge has three sofas and a large table. Sofas, table, and canvas sun cover move with simple handles and reconfigure for the moment. Forward-facing seating for a fast cruise across the bay. A long sun pad when the anchor is down and the swim has just ended. A face-to-face arrangement around the table for a long lunch, the kind that stretches past coffee. The same space, three uses, no compromise.

The canvas sun cover does real work. It extends across a substantial part of the deck for the times the sun is direct, and folds clear when the day cools or the light is worth keeping. Shade for the bright hours, daylight for the rest.

A foldable side balcony on the starboard side, new for the 42 series, opens the lounge over the water at anchor. Folded out, the deck steps directly down to sea level and the social footprint doubles. Children can step from the platform straight to the deck. Friends from a neighbouring boat tie up alongside and step across in a single move. Folded in, the balcony returns to the hull line and the boat keeps its underway lines.

The outdoor galley sits aft, with drawers for cutlery and tableware, a sink with hot water, and space for a gas stove or electric grill. Refrigeration is sized for a full day on the water, with multiple compartments to separate fresh, cold, and frozen. Lunch on board is the kind of lunch that means something, an unhurried meal in the bay rather than the compromise lunch from a marina café two hours later.

The aft stowage, 2,500 litres on the outboard configuration, opens with a hydraulic mechanism accessible from the aft deck. Room for a stand-up paddleboard, a couple of sea bobs, wakeboards, an inflatable tender, the spare wetsuits, the towels, the everything-else for the day. The swim platform extends the social space toward the water, and the aft deck seating arrangement adds side cushions that turn storage into more seating when the boat fills with people.

A boat that gives you the morning, the midday, and the evening on the water, and the kind of day that becomes the story you tell on the way home.

Built to run dry and stable at 45+ knots

The hull is an air-lubricated twin-stepped design with a razor-sharp bow section and a low planing threshold. Built to run dry and stable in real conditions at 45+ knots and across the cruising range below. For the helm, two paths: Mercury Joystick Piloting with integrated bow thruster across the Mercury outboard range, or Volvo Penta inboard with the assisted docking package and joystick control. Both make close-quarter manoeuvring effortless. For owners who want more power, the Sport Tender 42 can be fitted with dual Mercury V10 425hp engines. Performers, sized for those who want it.