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Sport Tender 35
A good day on the water is rarely about the person at the wheel. It is about everyone who came along, the children, the friends, the one pouring coffee while someone else drops the anchor or takes a dip. The new Nimbus Sport Tender 35 was designed around that day, and everything else followed.
Today Nimbus reveals the first images of the Sport Tender 35, the signature first model of the new Sport Cruiser 35 series. It is the clearest expression yet of the Scandinavian design philosophy that has guided Nimbus since 1968. Design where every choice answers to the people onboard and the life they live there.
The Sport Tender 35 sets the future direction for the Nimbus Sport Cruisers, just as the award-winning 495 Flybridge does for the Coupé Cruisers. It is an all-new boat on a newly developed, air-lubricated twin-stepped hull.
The new Sport Cruiser 35 series comprises three models on a single hull: the Sport Tender, the Sport Weekender and the Sport Coupé. The Sport Tender 35 is the first.
This is what Nimbus means by Crafted for Living. A boat is measured by the life that happens onboard and around it, the mornings, the long lunches, the swim before the wind picks up, the evening when nobody wants to go in. The 35 is built to give that life room, and make those days a reality.
It starts with imagining the perfect day
Every Nimbus begins the same way. Before the hand sketches, before the hull line is drawn, the designers ask one question. How does a day onboard actually look and feel, from the moment you wake to the moment you turn for home.
Picture it. You load up the boat, top up the refrigerator, gather the family or a few friends, and head out to a sheltered bay or an island. If the wind picks up or the rain comes in on the way, you sit warm and sheltered thanks to the integrated canvas side canopies, with room to move inside and around the boat. You settle into a U-sofa with a backrest that holds you comfortably, and you can stand safely in the middle of the boat, where you might want to be if the waves pick up. When you arrive, the canvas folds away in seconds, the sun beds open fore and aft, the hull sides fold out into balconies down to the water, and the galley is a step away when someone wants a coffee or a cool drink. The way home is just as simple.
The day just feels easy and that ease is the hardest thing of all to design.
We never start with the boat. We start with the day. Where do people sit, how do they move, what do they never want to think about. Then we design with that vision in mind and take away everything that does not serve it. The hardest work on this boat is the part you will never notice.
Joacim Gustavsson
Chief Designer at Nimbus
Two decks that change through the day
The 35 has two living spaces, and both change with the day. Nimbus calls them multifunctional. In practice it means the boat you travel in on a cool morning and the boat you swim from at noon are the same boat, rearranged in seconds.
The fore deck is a work surface with wide and secure footing when you are boarding, loading gear and handling ropes, and two broad sun lounge areas when you are not, each around two metres across so you can lie along them or across them and follow the sun through the afternoon. Eight can sit up here. The Nimbus habit of turning the gunwales into seats is here too, lowered and shaped into proper places to sit, among the nicest seats on any boat. Channels drain every cushion so nothing sits in a puddle in rain or heavy seas, and the new click-fit latches hold the lockers shut without a sound underway. The lockers run all the way to the bow, long enough for the canopy poles, a fishing rod or the gear of a long day, and a fixed bow ladder, the same one proven on the 305 Coupé, makes stepping ashore or onto a low jetty easy and safe.
The aft deck is where you gather during the day and where it all comes together.
A large U-sofa seats six on a solid laminate frame, built into the boat itself, somewhere comfortable to sit and read, relax, dine with the family or hang out with friends. Its three-part backrest is the clever part. Fold the sections together for one large sun bed, fold them apart for a sofa, sit facing each other, or turn a section outward over the fold-out balconies and watch the water with your feet toward it. The balconies open from the hull sides and bring you right down to the water at anchor. Stowage is generous and easy to reach, under the sofa, forward of the engines, and extra-deep side lockers that swallow several fenders. The galley is split in two on purpose, so people can still move through the centre of the boat even with the canvas sides pulled out, and because it sits up in the cockpit with a 65 litre fridge, plus an optional 70 litre fridge under the sofa, you can pour drinks and feed everyone without going below.
For owners who fish, the 35 is ready for it. A live bait tank can be fitted in the port aft locker.
The foredeck
The foredeck works for boarding and ropes, then opens into two broad sun lounges, around two metres each, with quilted cushions.
Eight can sit up here, with the gunwales lowered and shaped into proper seats. Channels drain every cushion, so nothing sits in a puddle after rain. The lockers run to the bow, long enough for the canopy poles or a fishing rod, and a fixed bow ladder makes stepping ashore easy and safe.
The aft deck
The aft deck is where the day comes together, a U-sofa for six on a solid frame built into the boat itself.
The three-part backrest is the clever part. Fold it flat for one sun bed, apart for a sofa, or turn a section to maximise the use of the fold-out balconies, feet toward the water. The balconies open from the hull sides and bring you down to the water at anchor.
Helm and dash
The helm is kept clean, inherited from the award-winning 495 Flybridge, with twin 12-inch displays or a single 16-inch set into the dash.
The Nimbus wheel carries the buttons you actually use, with the wiper controls on paddles at your fingertips. The full-height windscreen is built into the roof, and a single laminate structure runs from behind the helm seat to the top, a stiffness you feel underfoot. Forward visibility stays open, and stainless grab rails frame the way below.
The galley
The galley sits up in the cockpit, split in two so the centre of the boat stays open and you serve drinks and food without going below.
That open centre lets people move from bow to stern even with the canvas sides pulled out, without climbing over anyone. A 65-litre fridge sits to hand, with cold water at the wetbar and the Nimbus crockery stowed in its place. Everyone is fed from up here, the part of the day you never think about.
Built around everyone onboard
Designing around everyone onboard is the one thing that sets the 35 apart from a class that often sells the person at the wheel a fantasy. It shows up differently for different people.
For a family, the cabin opens up real possibilities. There is room below for two cabins that sleep five. A full-length double forward, two full-length berths in the mid-cabin, and a sofa that takes a child. A family of five can spend the day here, and stay a few nights when they want to. The head is spacious, with a shower, a toilet and a washbasin.
Because the day belongs to everyone, so does the boat. The helm is built to be handled by anyone onboard, the decks are built to be moved through by everyone, and the freedom to go from bow to stern without climbing over anything or asking anyone to move aside is, in the words of the team, worth more than you realise until you are out there using it. Boating is so much more than getting from one place to another.
Buyers who have chosen quality across a lifetime, in cars, in homes, in the things they surround themselves with, recognise a boat like this. It holds up to a closer look, and the choices are clear: you see at once why each one was made. This is a premium way to be on the water, smart and discreet, and that quiet confidence is exactly what this buyer recognises.
Jonas Göthberg
Commercial and Brand Director
The Sport Tender 35 is something genuinely new to the market, a Sport Cruiser with the comfort of a Coupé. The boat is more Nimbus than ever, built on the DNA that has run through the brand since 1968. I am really proud to bring this boat to market.
Johan Inden
CEO of Nimbus Group
More Nimbus, by taking things away
More is the easy answer in this part of the market. The 35 takes the harder route. Anyone can add. Knowing what to leave out is the craft.
What remains is built to be felt. A single laminate structure runs in one piece from behind the helm seat all the way to the roof, with the full-height windscreen built into the roof, for a stiffness you sense underfoot when the weather turns serious. The T-top is standard and integrated, and its pillars are shaped with a facet that exists for a reason, to hold a handle exactly where a hand reaches for one. Its acrylic sunroof keeps the sun off while it keeps the space light and open, so the cockpit stays bright without the glare. The sound system is built into the roof, and the lighting is the kind of detail Nimbus has always cared about.
Ambient and courtesy lighting as standard, step lights over the surfaces you walk on, downlights over the galley and lights below the waterline, including under the balconies. Ventilation is integrated and out of sight, as on the 42 series. That is Scandinavian thinking, where the shape follows the function. Even the helm is kept clean, inherited from the award-winning 495 Flybridge, with the wiper controls on paddles at the wheel, the buttons you actually use built into it, and a choice of twin 12-inch displays or a single 16-inch.
I have been with Nimbus a long time, and I love the new exterior design, the volume and the height in the hull sides. This boat flirts with our history, and it is genuinely beautiful. The mid- cabin alone opens a market for families, at home across Scandinavia and far beyond it. And the freedom to move around the whole boat, from bow to stern without snagging on anything, is worth more than you understand until you are out there living it.
Jonas Göthberg
Commercial and Brand Director
The right engines for the boat
Nimbus has a clear view on power, the right engines for the boat. The 35 is offered with a single V10 or twin V8 outboards, with a propeller chosen for strong acceleration and usable range across the whole speed band.
It cruises comfortably between 30 and 36 knots and runs well over 40 at the top, around 45 with the twin V8. The verified figures follow once the boat has been on the water and Mercury has signed them off. The boat is built for the whole of boating, and for everyone on it.
Specifications
Principal dimensions
| Overall length: | 10.80 m (35.4 ft) |
| Hull length | 10.65 m (34.9 ft) |
| Beam | 3.20 m (10.5 ft) |
| Displacement, light craft | 4,524 kg |
Hull and construction
| Hull | Twin-stepped, air-lubricated |
| Construction | Vacuum-infused Divinycell sandwich |
| Structure | Single laminate from behind the helm to the roof |
Classification
| CE design category | C (10 persons) / B (6 persons) |
| Standard | RCD 94-25-EG, 2003-44-EG |
| Type examination | Module B+F, issued by HPI |
Engines, outboard
| Mercury V10 | 350 hp |
| Mercury V10 | 425 hp |
| Mercury twin V8 | 2 × 300 hp |
Systems
| Fuel | 620 L (165 US gal) |
| Fresh water | 80 L |
| Black and grey water | 80 L combined |
| Hot water heater | 40 L |
| Air conditioning | Blue Airco 12,400 Btu on the 600 Ah lithium (10 hours, or 36 hours in EcoMode) |
Accommodation
| Berths | 2 + 2 + (1) |
Standard Equipment
Mercury Verado V10 350 hp, with propeller and active trim, in Fusion White
Vacuum-infused sandwich laminate with a Divincell core
Hull in white gelcoat
Self-bailing fore and aft decks
T-top with an acrylic sunroof for UV protection
Skylight on deck with a curtain
Electrically operated side balconies
Anchor box with drainage
Bathing ladder
Pulpits and 6 bollards in stainless steel
Grab rail in stainless steel
Big U-sofa that converts to a sun bed
Big teak table on the aft deck
Split wetbar, laid out for easy movement around the boat
Galley with cold water and a CR65L refrigerator
Nimbus crockery and cutlery in a cooling bag, four pieces
Glass and bottle holder in the dashboard
Cabinet in the cabin
Carpets in the cabins
Cabin cushions
Nimbus décor pillows
Outdoor cushions with covers
Mooring canopy with doors, aft-deck cushion covers
Fresh water system
Electric toilet
Transom shower
Septic tank with deck outlet
Bow thruster
Zipwake dynamic trim control, 450 mm S-series Pro
Steering wheel with integrated buttons
Interval windscreen wiper with window wash
Simrad NSX 9-inch plotter
Compass
Full LED lighting, including courtesy lights
Extended courtesy lighting in the cabin and deck saloon
Step lights on the aft deck and sidewalk
LED navigation lights
12V electric outlet
Nimbus user interface
Battery shunt monitoring
Auxiliary AGM batteries, 2 × 95 Ah
Electrical panel with fuses
Manual and electric bilge pump
Manual fire extinguisher
Flagpole
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