ABOVE AND BEYOND

THE 38-KNOT WALLYPOWER58 IS DIFFERENT BY DESIGN

- PHIL DRAPER

I DON'T NORMALLY PAY MUCH attention to taglines, but Wally's current one-"20 years ahead"-is an exception. Remember the Wally Power 118? It was Wally founder Luca Bassani's personal vision of what super yachting could be. It launched 20 years ago but still looks like it's only just dropped in from outer space. Then there are the various smaller wallypowers that have launched since, the new wallywhys that are phasing in now, and the various iterations of wallytenders, the first of which caused a stir more than 25 years ago. All carry the same futuristic design cues. And who would argue that the new wallypower58 doesn't look like it's 20 years ahead of the game too? The wallypower58 has a distinct aesthetic with a square stem; a clean, hard-chined hull; and a sharp, mostly glass superstructure.  The high foredeck has deck lighting and flush sun-pad inlays, and a cockpit Wally calls a semiopen salon. That last space has hardtop protection above as well as full side glazing to plug the gaps between the roof and deck. Overall, the hull volume allocates guest spaces roughly 50-50 inside and outside. Tanks, engines and pods are beneath the cockpit sole, and there's carbon-fiber detailing and teak decking everywhere. The decking is particularly impressive where it wraps over the after lip of the swim platform and where it lines the bulwarks. Their after sections fold down to add around 54 square feet of deck space. The whole open-deck area then provides something like 325 square feet of spac