Reliant Yachts Limousine

LOA0.0m
Beam0.00m
Top Speed0kn
Guests0
Fuel0L
Engines2x Cummins diesel
Propulsionsterndrive
HullGRP

About this tender

Reliant Yachts Limousine - what we know.

The X40T Limousine is the guest-experience tender in the Reliant Yachts X40 trio. Same hull family as the Express chase boat, same MacFarlane and Ewing design hand, same metallic silver paint, but configured around a fully enclosed cabin for exclusive guest transfers in the kind of weather where an open tender stops being credible.

The cabin is the headline. Full standing room, bolstered ultra-leather seating for up to eight guests, climate control, integrated AV system, sliding glass roof, separate bathroom and a day galley for refreshments. Comfort spec includes zero-speed stabilisers, joystick docking, underwater lights and easy step-on step-off access. Performance still hits 35 knots under Cummins power, which is the spec line that separates a real limousine tender from a slow shuttle.

We have specified Reliant tenders to clients who wanted the matched-trio approach: Express for chase, Lander for utility, Limousine for guest transfer. The three boats were originally commissioned for a single megayacht and came to the brokerage market unused. The Limousine is the most distinctive of the three; few limo tenders combine the Reliant proportion discipline with this level of cabin specification.

Highlights

Built for the work.

The four details we'd point out first to a captain who hasn't seen one on the water yet.

01

Full standing-room cabin

Cabin specified with full standing room, bolstered ultra-leather seating for eight guests, climate control, integrated AV, sliding glass roof, separate bathroom and a day galley. Not a roof bolted onto a sport cruiser; a properly engineered limo cabin where the form factor reads correctly inside and out.

02

Stabilised guest transfer

Zero-speed stabilisers reduce roll at anchor when boarding, which is the moment of greatest discomfort on most tender transfers. Joystick docking simplifies coming alongside in cross-wind. Easy step-on step-off access in heels. The total package is engineered for the guest moment, not just for speed and weather.

03

35-knot performance

Cummins power gives 35 knots top speed, which is fast enough to keep arrival times credible from outer anchorages. Fuel capacity is 605 L, in line with the X40 Express. The performance ceiling is what separates the X40T from the slower limo tenders that struggle to deliver guests in time when the mothership anchors out.

The full specification

Every number, sorted.

Dimensions

Length overall
11.50m
Beam
3.59m
Dry weight
8,600kg
Year
2018

Performance

Top speed
35kn
Cruising speed
26kn

Power and Tanks

Engines
2x Cummins diesel
Power
425hp ea.
Propulsion
sterndrive
Fuel capacity
605L

Construction

Hull
grp

Hull and Dimensions

Designer
MacFarlane and Ewing, Reliant Yachts

Cabin and Features

Cabin
Full standing room, climate-controlled
Roof
Sliding glass
Stabilisation
Zero-speed stabilisers
Docking
Joystick

Specifications, prices, availability, and performance figures are supplied for guidance only and remain subject to confirmation by the yard, seller, broker, survey, contract, and final specification.

Questions, answered

Before you enquire.

What sets this apart from other limo tenders at this size?
Three things: zero-speed stabilisers as standard, which most limo tenders do not have at this length; the MacFarlane and Ewing proportion work, which makes the cabin sit correctly on the hull rather than looking grafted on; and the matched-trio context. Few limo tenders carry this combination of comfort engineering and design pedigree at 40 feet.
Is 35 knots fast enough for a guest transfer?
Yes, in most operating profiles. Limo tenders below 25 knots struggle to deliver guests in time from outer anchorages, which is where most owners want to be. 35 knots clears that comfortably. Pushing higher would mean compromising the cabin spec or the comfort engineering, which is the wrong trade-off for this brief.
Can it be used in heavy weather?
Within reason. The full enclosed cabin, the climate control and the stabilisation package make this one of the more weather-capable limo tenders in the segment, but it is still a 40-foot tender. We help captains plan operating limits during commissioning and we have not seen the X40T struggle in a typical Mediterranean working condition.

The yard

Reliant Yachts

Newport, Rhode Island, USA

Reliant Yachts is a Newport, Rhode Island design-and-build house founded in 2012 by partners Dave MacFarlane and Jim Ewing, with construction carried out at partner yards - the X40 programme was fabricated in Tuzla, Turkey. The firm targets the custom and semi-custom end of the market, from 40-foot harbour cruisers up to blue-water sailing and power yachts of 140 feet and beyond.

The X40 is the build we ask Reliant for when a single superyacht programme calls for a matched trio of tenders with a unified design language. All three hulls share a 12.26m (40.0ft) overall length and the same plumb bow, clean topsides, and metallic-finish paint scheme. The X40 Express is the chase-oriented platform: an epoxy, cold-moulded wood-laminate hull, carbon-fibre deck with classic teak surface, and twin Cummins QSB 6.7 480-hp diesels driving Konrad 660b stern drives - which retract to let the boat slide into a tender garage with a clearance of 2.9m. Sea trials recorded a top speed of 40.7 knots; comfortable cruising sits between 27 and 33 knots. The X40T Limousine shares the hull form, twin Cummins QSB 6.7 425-hp diesels, and the same carbon hardtop and saloon structure, hitting 38 knots in trials. The X40L Lander swaps to an aluminium hull and Hamilton jet drives to handle shore landings, and carries a stone-top dining table for fourteen that rises electrically from under the deck.

What distinguishes the programme is its garage-first engineering discipline: hull height, lifting points, and stern-drive kinematics are resolved at the drawing stage, not retrofitted on the hard. We'd put it alongside bespoke European tender programmes on finish quality, at a measurably lower price point.

Last call · Available

Enquire about the Limousine.

Reliant Yachts · Newport, Rhode Island, USA

Indicative price fromPrices on request
LOA
11.5m
Beam
3.59m
Top Speed
35kn
Guests
8

Tell us about your yacht, your programme, and the missions Limousine needs to handle. We come back within 48 hours with a written assessment - fit for the brief, lead time, and trade-offs against alternatives in the same band.

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