Prepare for every journey
Named for what they do
The naming describes what owners already know. Nimbus owners spend time on their boats. They take care of them. They keep them. The names now match how the boats are actually used: Sport Cruisers for active days on the water; Coupé Cruisers for cruising, longer journeys, and living on board. Named for what they do.
Measured in feet
The 42 also reflects a change in how size is named. The 12 was a platform generation number. The 42 is the boat’s length in feet. Nimbus has named boats by foot length since the beginning: the 22 Spectra, the 26 Epoca, the 32 Ballista, the 33 Nova, the 43 Nova, the 230R, the 250R, and the 300R. Feet is the international measure for boat length, and it is the Nimbus lineage. The 42 names the boat by what it is.
Sport Weekender 42
The classic daycruiser line.
The 22 Spectra. The 26 Epoca, voted one of the ten most beautiful boats ever built. The 32 Ballista. The daycruiser line was open, social, and sized for active days on the water.
Sport Weekender 42 carries that line forward. Open social space, the proportions of a daycruiser scaled to a 42-foot platform, two cabins for the kind of weekend that carries past sundown.
Sport Tender 42
The Nova range.
The 22 Nova. The 26 Nova. The 29 Nova that appeared with the King and Queen of Sweden at the Düsseldorf boat show in 1999. The 33 Nova. The 43 Nova. The 230R, 250R, and 300R. The Nova range is the most versatile family Nimbus has built, the widest size spectrum, and the line that defined what a walk-around tender does.
Sport Tender 42 carries that line forward. Compact, capable, versatile. A 12.7-metre walk-around for full days on the water with up to twelve people on board.
Sport Coupé 42
The closed Nova variants.
The Closed 33 Nova. The Closed 42 Nova. The 27 Nova S and 30 Nova S. The closed Nova variants offered the Nova character with more protection and year-round capability, for owners who wanted the boat to do more days of the year.
Sport Coupé 42 carries that line forward. The walk-around platform of the Sport Tender, an enclosed cabin for shoulder-season and weather days, the same hull and the same handling.
A naming consistent since 1968
In a 1985 company catalog, co-founder Lars Wiklund described the two families plainly: "We design, manufacture and market 26-34 foot family and long-range cruisers, as well as 21-28 foot daycruisers." The 2026 naming carries that original architecture forward.
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Our DNA
Nimbus has always built two families of boats. The original catalogs called them Sportcruisers and Coupecruisers, because those names told the customer what the boat was designed to do. The current range now carries the same logic.
Jonas Göthberg
Commercial Director at Nimbus Boats
The Coupé Cruiser family
The Coupé Cruiser family comprises the 305 Coupé, 365 Coupé, 405 Coupé, and 495 Coupé. Designed for cruising, longer journeys, and living on board.
Sport Cruiser and Coupé Cruiser are the names these boats have always had. The design philosophy has been consistent since 1968. The naming now says so. More will follow in the same direction.
Johan Inden
CEO of Nimbus Group
