About this tender
The Axopar 29 Sun Top is the model we point captains towards when a programme needs something genuinely compact but still capable of covering open water at pace. At roughly 8.8 metres overall, it sits in a useful gap between a pure tender and a proper chase boat - small enough to lift onto a swim platform or fit a side garage on a 40-metre-plus vessel, capable enough to run guests independently to a beach anchorage or a town quay.
The Sun Top variant adds a fixed hardtop over the helm and forward cockpit, which changes the calculus for mixed-weather deployment. You keep the open-air feel of the Axopar 29 platform aft, while the helmsman and forward passengers have meaningful shelter in a Mediterranean squall or a brisk Nordic crossing. It is the practical middle ground between the fully open Spyder configuration and the enclosed cabin of the Cross Cabin variant.
Axopar builds the 29 series in GRP at their Finnish-supervised production facility, and the hull form is a proven deep-V design that handles short chop better than the beam-to-length ratio would suggest. The platform accepts twin or single outboard power; twin installation gives you the redundancy a superyacht programme requires. We would put it alongside the Williams TenderJet 520 and the Iguana 29 as a sensible shortlist for owners whose primary tender is already a dedicated limousine and who need a fast, light support hull to run alongside.
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The four details we'd point out first to a captain who hasn't seen one on the water yet.
The integrated hardtop provides shelter for the helm station and forward cockpit without adding the enclosed-cabin weight penalty. It is a practical configuration for deployments where weather changes quickly and the boat is running guests rather than sitting on davits.
The 29 series hull is sized to fit the side garages and swim-platform chocks found on vessels from around 40 metres upward. That makes it a genuine dual-purpose asset: day-running tender by day, stowed asset at sea.
The transom accepts twin outboard installation, which is the configuration a superyacht programme should specify. Redundancy matters when the boat is operating independently of the mothership, and twin-screw outboard rigging also simplifies close-quarters manoeuvring.
Axopar hulls are produced under Finnish quality supervision with a GRP construction process that has accumulated a strong track record across the 22, 29, and 37 series. Spare-parts availability through a wide European dealer network is a practical advantage for vessels running varied itineraries.
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Tell us about your yacht, your programme, and the missions 29 Sun Top 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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