About this tender
The Novamarine BS 200 is the flagship of the Black Shiver line - a 20.1-metre open platform built around the idea that a yacht tender at this scale should close distance quickly and still offer genuine on-water comfort rather than a bare transit ride. With a quoted top speed of 48 knots and a cruising speed of 35 knots from a combined 2,600 hp outboard installation, it sits in the same performance bracket as purpose-built chase boats while carrying up to thirty persons.
What Novamarine emphasise with this hull is the reduced draft and the low-slung waterline position, which makes shallow coastal exploration practicable and gives the on-board experience a directness that higher-freeboard designs cannot replicate. The inboard variant adds a surface-propeller drivetrain to the equation, which is the option we'd look at more carefully for mothership programmes where fuel range and efficiency matter as much as sprint speed.
Below deck the BS 200 carries a dinette that converts to a sleeping berth, a dedicated bathroom with separate shower, and a galley fitted with fridge, sink, and worktop. The bow section provides a large circular sofa, a sundeck, and a dining area shaded by a sun awning. At the stern, a wide swim platform with ladder and side-access showers makes the boat genuinely usable as a day platform rather than a point-to-point ferry.
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Novamarine quote 48 kn maximum and 35 kn cruising from the outboard configuration. At 20.1 metres this puts the BS 200 in the same sprint tier as purpose-built chase platforms; the combined 2,600 hp figure is the ceiling for the outboard variant as listed on the manufacturer's spec page.
The BS 200 is rated to carry thirty persons, which is a meaningful number for owners running large owner-party programmes or island-hopping with crew and guests aboard simultaneously. Few open tenders at this length offer that headcount in the published specification.
Novamarine specifically highlight the reduced draft as a design objective for the BS 200, enabling access to shallow anchorages and near-shore areas that are off limits to conventionally drafted vessels of comparable length. No numeric draft figure is published, but the hull form is described as purpose-optimised for this use case.
Below deck the boat carries a dinette-to-berth conversion, a bathroom with separate shower, and a refrigerated galley with sink and worktop. For an open tender of this type, having a self-contained below-deck space extends the vessel's range of use well beyond a standard day-boat brief.
Alongside the outboard configuration, Novamarine offer an inboard version with a surface propeller. The surface-drive option is worth considering for programmes where sustained cruising efficiency and a lower underwater appendage count are priorities, and it changes the centre-of-gravity calculus for heavier toy payloads on the stern platform.
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Novamarine · Olbia, Italy
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