--- title: "Comfort under sail: by design, not by volume" description: "Pegasus 67 design explained: a protected cockpit, gimballed settees, an integrated bow and a integrated gangway, all built to make offshore sailing easier." image: https://pegasus-yachts.com/hubfs/_featured-image_BLOG_TEMPLATE---boat-within-the-square-2.jpg --- [Skip to content](https://pegasus-yachts.com/the-reason-why/comfort-under-sail-by-design-not-by-volume#main-content) [![Pegasus yachts logo](https://pegasus-yachts.com/hubfs/Group%2041-1.svg "Pegasus yachts logo")](https://pegasus-yachts.com/) - [YACHTS Show submenu for YACHTS](https://pegasus-yachts.com/yachts) - [Pegasus 50](https://pegasus-yachts.com/yachts/pegasus-50) - [Pegasus 67](https://pegasus-yachts.com/yachts/pegasus-67) - [THE REASON WHY](https://pegasus-yachts.com/the-reason-why) - [NEWS](https://pegasus-yachts.com/news) - [ABOUT US](https://pegasus-yachts.com/about-us) - [CONTACT US](https://pegasus-yachts.com/contact-us) - [YACHTS Show submenu for YACHTS](https://pegasus-yachts.com/yachts) - [Pegasus 50](https://pegasus-yachts.com/yachts/pegasus-50) - [Pegasus 67](https://pegasus-yachts.com/yachts/pegasus-67) - [THE REASON WHY](https://pegasus-yachts.com/the-reason-why) - [NEWS](https://pegasus-yachts.com/news) - [ABOUT US](https://pegasus-yachts.com/about-us) - [CONTACT US](https://pegasus-yachts.com/contact-us) ![Rupert Holmes, guest author](https://pegasus-yachts.com/hubfs/IMG_7758%202.jpg) Rupert Holmes, guest author Oct 01, 2026 ![Group 175](https://pegasus-yachts.com/hubfs/Group%20175.svg) # Comfort under sail: by design, not by volume Most large cruising yachts answer the question of comfort by adding volume: another cabin, a bigger saloon, a longer options list. The [Pegasus 67](https://pegasus-yachts.com/yachts/pegasus-67) takes a different view, spending its ingenuity on how the boat behaves at sea and how it is lived on. The results are surprising at first glance, and make perfect sense the moment you are offshore.  ### **Gimballed settees** The saloon seating is set on a lightweight carbon-fibre structure that pivots along the boat’s longitudinal axis to compensate for heel. At a touch of a button it can be pivoted 15 degrees in either direction. It’s a neatly-executed innovative system that reduces the physical effort needed to brace yourself and helps reduce the disorientation that can contribute to seasickness. This feature proved very popular in [Pegasus 50](https://pegasus-yachts.com/yachts/pegasus-50), so it will be featured also on the [Pegasus 67](https://pegasus-yachts.com/yachts/pegasus-67), along with a new, hinged design and a novelty: a gimballed navigation station, enabling one to keep watch in greater comofort. ![Pegasus-50-gimbaled-settee-petra-miha](https://pegasus-yachts.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Pegasus-50-gimbaled-settee-petra-miha.jpg?width=1920&height=1280&name=Pegasus-50-gimbaled-settee-petra-miha.jpg) ### **Integrated carbon fibre gangway** Pegasus addressed these elements at the concept stage of the design. The outcome is efficient, yet stylish, solutions that are inspired by the best of the superyacht world, but interpreted to work on a serious blue-water cruiser. The integrated foldable gangway is made of carbon fibre and easily deployed, creating a safe arrangement that works whether the boat is moored stern-to a low pontoon, or high quay wall. ![Pegasus Fuel System.00\_00\_37\_24.Still002](https://pegasus-yachts.com/hubfs/Pegasus%20Fuel%20System.00_00_37_24.Still002.bmp) [Click to play video](https://youtu.be/diQk3A3UUng)   ### **Longitudinal Tender Garage** Tender garages are often compromised by a desire to create more aft cabin space, with the result that an undersized dinghy must be specified, or complicated arrangements are needed to launch the tender sideways. However, the Pegasus 67 has a longitudinal garage that will take a hard-bottom tender of up to 3,5 m, with a 20 hp transom mounted engine. Easy launch and retrieval was a clear objective from the earliest stages of the project and is achieved at a touch of button, using a remote-controlled reversible Harken FlatWinder powered block. Both these features are examples of Pegasus’s long-standing commitment to making large yachts more manageable, civilised and surprisingly easy to operate, rather than merely adding accommodation volume. ![Pegasus Fuel System.00\_00\_59\_04.Still001](https://pegasus-yachts.com/hubfs/Pegasus%20Fuel%20System.00_00_59_04.Still001.bmp) [Click to play video](https://youtu.be/K0DfRnCi_Kw)   ### **Extended bow** The **extended bow shape, with** **integrated sprit,** is one of the more interesting Pegasus 67 design choices. The hull is extended forward by **integrating the bowsprit into the canoe body of the boat,** rather than adding a separate projection. The boat therefore has similar internal accommodation to a 60-footer, but benefits from a longer waterline, which boosts speed, confers a more comfortable motion, especially in terms of pitching and slamming, and adds extra on-deck stowage space. The integrated bow design also makes it easier to create space for handling the anchor and reaching/downwind sails than on a conventional foredeck with a separate bowsprit, simplifying anchoring and mooring maneouvres. In effect, instead of adding more cabins, Pegasus has used extra length at each end of the boat to improve comfort at sea, sail handling and **seakeeping, while also markedly improving the ergonomics of life on board.** **![7\_1\_16\_2026](https://pegasus-yachts.com/hs-fs/hubfs/7_1_16_2026.png?width=3840&height=2160&name=7_1_16_2026.png)** ### **All-weather cockpit protection** **This is closer to multihull thinking than conventional monohull practice and makes a huge difference to life on board.** Standard equipment includes a fixed glass windshield with a sliding central section and a hardtop over the cockpit. Side canvas panels protect against rain, splash and sun, and the cockpit can be fully enclosed as an option. It’s far less vulnerable to breaking waves when offshore than fabric sprayhoods and biminis, yet is also cleverly styled to blend seamlessly with the yacht’s lines. ### **Saloon** **and** **cockpit** **as** **one** **protected area** Pegasus yachts are designed around functional comfort at sea, which means shaping the boat around the places where the crew spends most of its waking time: the cockpit and the saloon. The level difference between the two is reduced to just two steps, and only a large glass companionway divides them, visually merging the spaces. The result is a spacious, ergonomic area for living and watchkeeping, with a full 360° view. Because the yacht is designed to be sailed by two people, the aim is for the person inside and the person outside to feel as if they share one space. ![Pegasus\_P67#25 (3)\_q40](https://pegasus-yachts.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Pegasus_P67%2325%20(3)_q40.jpg?width=6000&height=2940&name=Pegasus_P67%2325%20(3)_q40.jpg) ### **Other important innovations** These include the light displacement concept that allows for fast passage times, even though the boat has a rig of a manageable size that’s easy to handle. A heavier boat would need a larger sail plan to achieve the same passage times. In addition, redundancy, autonomy and ease of maintenance built into the design and the very comprehensive base specification. Read more about the [Pegasus 67 here.](https://pegasus-yachts.com/yachts/pegasus-67) ### PEGASUS 50 BASE PRICE EQUIPMENT & DELIVERY SERVICES Pegasus 50 is fully equipped, including all from navigation, communication and safety equipment to essentials for comfortable living on board. Explore the base price equipment. [EXPLORE ![Group 176@2x](https://pegasus-yachts.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Group%20176@2x.png?width=32&height=28&name=Group%20176@2x.png) ![Group 176@2x](https://pegasus-yachts.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Group%20176@2x.png?width=32&height=28&name=Group%20176@2x.png)](https://pegasus-yachts.com/yachts/pegasus-50/boat-equipment/) ### PEGASUS 67 BASE PRICE EQUIPMENT & DELIVERY SERVICES The Pegasus 67 has everything you need for bluewater sailing included in the standard specification and in the base price. Explore the equipment. 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