The place, the yard, the boat and its performance are all distinctively impressive and made for a superb boat test, which has been artfully captured and aptly distilled by Richard Langdon’s video here. We traveled to Istanbul to witness a young production yard called Sirena Marine in full swing using an industrial automotive approach, and took their end result, the mightily impressive performance cruiser – the Azuree 40 – out on a sail trial we didn’t want to end.

Find out more about this powerful Italian design and Turkish take on a production yacht in the November Yachting World, out today.