Yachts International Summer 2020

kwooton@aimmedia.com What a year it’s been, huh? One for the ages, to be sure, and one to put in the rearview posthaste. When we last saw you in print, Covid-19 was just getting traction in the United States. Who knew then that it would have such a profound impact on the way we function? Finding solace in routine pleasures—dining out, spending time with family and friends, and anything else that involves normal social interaction outside our own bubbles—has been hard to do. We’ve learned to get by on Skype, Zoom and a swarm of other virtual meeting platforms, which ultimately are far less satisfying than in-person, eyeballto-eyeball contact. We’re all paranoid about venturing out in the company of strangers. As we hear on TV ad nauseam, these are indeed challenging…

Guido Krass, owner of the Australian shipyard SilverYachts, aptly named his 280-foot (85-meter) sport activity vessel Bold. The yacht manifests a masculine, militarystyle profile that is angular, geometric and edgy. She is all aluminum and painted a cool anthracite gray, and is lightweight, fast and fuel-efficient. Inside, she looks like an urban loft: modern with an open plan and a lot of glass. Krass, a German industrialist with several companies in renewable-energy industries, created SilverYachts to build with sustainable practices. He developed a series of fast, fuel-efficient models sporting a signature design—long and lean—to stand apart from the majority of multideck white superyachts. “Initially, we wanted to build two yachts and stop,” Krass says. “Only after having established such a great team of 200 people from scratch did it become…

Bold is built to Passenger Yacht Code requirements. She can accommodate 16 overnight guests in eight staterooms. The owner’s stateroom is on the upper deck, while three VIPs and four guest staterooms are on the main deck. The lower deck is dedicated to a crew of 22. A massage room can double as a hospital in far-flung cruising locales. Other key guest areas include an “entertaining deck” with a 16-person dining table, bar and barbecue; and a sundeck with an eight-person Jacuzzi. The main deck aft is suitable for helicopters such as an AW109. With the chopper removed, this becomes a party space with a discotheque and cinema. The lowest weekly base rate to charter Bold is about $1.17 million. For charter inquiries: HillRobinson.com or your favorite charter broker.…

Custom Line 106 LOA 107ft. 8in. (32.82m) BEAM 23ft. 11in. (7.3m) DRAFT (full load) 6ft. 8in. (2.03m) CONSTRUCTION GRP GROSS TONNAGE 210 SPEED (max./cruise) 23/20 knots RANGE 450 nm at 20 knots NAVAL ARCHITECTURE Ferretti Group Engineering Department INTERIOR DESIGN Francesco Paszkowski Design/Margherita Casprini EXTERIOR STYLING Francesco Paszkowski Design BUILDER Custom Line When the Custom Line range, now part of the Ferretti Group, was introduced almost 25 years ago, it quickly became a favorite among owners looking for tailor-made, fiberglass yachts over 100 feet. Fast forward to this year, when 19 launches are scheduled across a five-strong fleet of planing yachts and semi-displacement navettas, not including the first Custom Line 140 due to hit the water next year. The original series was designed by Zuccon International Project, but more recently…

Race. It’s hard to think of a more appropriate name for a yacht owned by Piero Ferrari, son of the late Enzo Ferrari. The steel and aluminum displacement motoryacht, the first to emerge from the Ferretti Group’s Riva Superyacht Division, is not Riva’s first association with the famous prancing horse marque. Thirty years ago, a limited number of Riva Ferrari 32s were built. Painted bright red and sporting Testarossa-style air intakes, they had twin 390-horsepower Vulcano V-8 engines for a top speed over 50 knots. However, at 164 feet (50 meters) length overall, Race is the largest Riva ever built and clearly in another category. Piero Ferrari, as a shareholder in the Ferretti Group and head of its Product Strategy Committee, had a direct role in the yacht’s development. Riva’s…

You can make leather resistant to just about everything, but interfere too much and it won’t breathe or have the touch and profumo of leather. It has to be functional, but in a bespoke context it’s all about the emozione of leather.’—Marco Foglizzo Paolo Foglizzo has just emptied a huge suitcase full of leather samples onto the table. The variety is bewildering. The pieces range from full-grain cow leather (bull skins are preferred, as the hides are bigger and less elastic) to suede and nabuk (similar in appearance, suede derives from the less valuable underside of the hide, while finer nabuk is from the top grain). There are exotic leathers such as eel, stingray (known as galuchat or shagreen) and salmon skin. The most expensive sample is of interlaced strips…