About this tender
The Pascoe 8.6m DT is the build we recommend when an owner's brief is a multi-role yacht tender that covers guest transit, watersports duty and crew shuttle on a single hull. Pascoe's DT range is laid out for exactly that mix of duties, and the 8.6m sits at a useful sweet spot, large enough to carry sixteen guests comfortably, small enough to fit a 50 to 60m yacht's typical tender garage.
Driveline is a single mid-engine inboard diesel with jet or sterndrive output, configured to owner preference. The mid-engine layout gives the right weight balance for safe craning and a meaningfully quieter helm than a stern-engine package. Fuel capacity is 250 litres, enough for a long working day at cruise, with a typical top end in the 30 to 35 knot band depending on engine choice. The half-tube collar is unchanged from the smaller DT variants.
We would put the 8.6m DT alongside the Castoldi Jet Tender 9.6, the Hodgdon Limousine 28 and the Compass Tenders X-Tender 9. Pascoe at this length earns its keep on finish quality and on the multi-role flexibility of the deck plan, where a single boat handles guest, crew and watersports duty without changing kit. From around 495,000 GBP Ex-VAT, lead time eight to twelve months.
Highlights
The four details we'd point out first to a captain who hasn't seen one on the water yet.
The 8.6m DT is designed to switch between guest transit, watersports support and crew shuttle without reconfiguration. Walk-around side decks, generous freeboard, integrated boarding steps, and a flexible aft platform let the same hull cover the full range of yacht-tender duties through a typical season.
Sixteen guests is the rated maximum, with seating laid out for that load and the working freeboard to handle it in built-up Mediterranean conditions. That is a strong figure at this length and signals the boat's brief, primary guest tender for yachts where larger toy-rack space is at a premium.
Same half-tube collar and internal solid bulwarks as the smaller DT variants. Spray protection without deck-space penalty, durable rub-strake against routine knocks against the mothership, and the elegant Pascoe DT silhouette that has become a signature of British superyacht tenders. Service life is unusually long for a tender at this length.
Pascoe builds the 8.6m DT with the same finish discipline as the Limousine range, hand-laid teak, intricate upholstery stitching, custom hull colour. That finish is unusual at this length where most builders target a working-tender brief. For an owner who wants the working flexibility of a DT and the finish of a Limousine in one boat, the 8.6m is the right answer.
Gallery
The full specification
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
Last call · Available
Pascoe · Southampton, UK
Tell us about your yacht, your programme, and the missions 8.6m 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.
Prefer to talk? +44 (0) 77180 88055 · other ways to reach us
Check the Pascoe 8.6m against your tender-garage envelope — length, beam, height and crane limit — in seconds, then attach the result to your enquiry.
Check garage fit →From the library
