Sport Cruisers and Coupé Cruisers

Sport Cruisers and Coupé Cruisers.Named for what they do.Measured in feet.

Starting with the Sport Cruiser 42 series.

Nimbus Boats has named its current range under the two product families it has built since the company’s founding: Sport Cruiser and Coupé Cruiser. The WTC range is now Sport Cruiser as a product family. The Coupé line carries its original name, Coupé Cruiser. The Sport Cruiser 42 series, being delivered to dealers now, is the first series named under the system.

Named for what they do

The naming describes what owners already know. Nimbus owners spend time on their boats.
They take care of them. They keep them. The names now match how the boats are actually
used: Sport Cruisers for active days on the water; Coupé Cruisers for cruising, longer journeys,
and living on board. Named for what they do.

Measured in feet

The 42 also reflects a change in how size is named. The 12 was a platform generation number.
The 42 is the boat’s length in feet. Nimbus has named boats by foot length since the beginning:
the 22 Spectra, the 26 Epoca, the 32 Ballista, the 33 Nova, the 43 Nova, the 230R, the 250R,
and the 300R. Feet is the international measure for boat length, and it is the Nimbus lineage. The
42 names the boat by what it is.

The Sport Cruiser family

The Sport Cruiser family comprises three model types, each tracing to a specific part of the
Nimbus design lineage.
The Sport Weekender 42 draws on the classic daycruiser line. The 22 Spectra. The 26 Epoca,
voted one of the ten most beautiful boats ever built. The 32 Ballista. Open, social, built for active
days on the water.
The Sport Tender 42 draws on the Nova range. The 22 Nova, the 26 Nova, the 29 Nova that
appeared with the King and Queen of Sweden at the Düsseldorf boat show in 1999, the 33 Nova,
the 43 Nova, and the 230R, 250R, and 300R. Compact, capable, versatile.

The Sport Coupé 42 draws on the closed Nova variants. Boats that offered the Nova character
with more protection and year-round capability.
“Nimbus has always built two families of boats. The original catalogs called them Sportcruisers
and Coupecruisers, because those names told the customer what the boat was designed to do.
The current range now carries the same logic.”

Jonas Göthberg, Commercial Director at Nimbus Boats

The Coupé Cruiser family

The Coupé Cruiser family comprises the 305 Coupé, 365 Coupé, 405 Coupé, and 495 Coupé.
Designed for cruising, longer journeys, and living on board.

A naming consistent since 1968

In a 1985 company catalog, co-founder Lars Wiklund described the two families plainly: “We
design, manufacture and market 26-34 foot family and long-range cruisers, as well as 21-28 foot
daycruisers.” The 2026 naming carries that original architecture forward.
“Sport Cruiser and Coupé Cruiser are the names these boats have always had. The design
philosophy has been consistent since 1968. The naming now says so. More will follow in the
same direction.”

Johan Inden, CEO of Nimbus Group