Robust Kiribati 38 Yacht, From Floating Life & CCN

Few 127-foot (39-meter) motoryachts prioritize global range, opting instead to cater to island-hopping and coastal trips. The Kiribati 38 yacht, however, aims to attract worldwide-wandering owners and guests. Simultaneously, the small superyacht has the volume of much larger projects and some amenities not even a handful of bigger boats offer.

“With a range of 5,000 nautical miles, she offers exceptional autonomy,” says Filippo Rossi, chief commercial officer for Floating Life. A yacht-management, charter, and brokerage firm, Floating Life has conceived a few yachts purposely for sale, based on its experiences with clients. For this yacht, it’s working with CCN, part of the Baglietto fold. (Floating Life recently partnered with CCN for the Dream 42 project, too, for its fractional-ownership program.) Rossi adds that the chosen name for the project holds special meaning. “Her name is inspired by the Kiribati Islands, an archipelago in the heart of the Pacific Ocean, which has always been a safe haven for ocean explorers,” he says. He continues, “There could not be a better name for a project with these characteristics.”

the Kiribati 38 yacht can have an aft gym

Those characteristics also include abundant stowage for provisions while at sea and a steel hull. Computer simulations and scale-model tank tests confirm the hull’s hydrodynamic efficiency. The design is by Andrea Pezzini, the director and co-founder of Floating Life. Emilio D’Onofrio of Zero13, also responsible for naval architecture, says the hull is 10 percent more efficient to similar hulls with equal tonnage. Together, D’Onofrio and Pezzini tweaked the hull design to accommodate either traditional propulsion or fully electric power, while preserving the range.

Among the creature comforts, arguably one of the most interesting is the uninterrupted lower deck, with five staterooms. Francesco Viola of Satura Studio, handling interior design, notes that the Kiribati 38 yacht therefore is “capable of connecting the cabins directly with the beach area.” Though the gym (or tender bay, depending on choice) lies between the staterooms and swim platform, the layout is possible because the engine room is one level down, in a so-called under lower deck. Given the megayacht’s volume of 438 gross tons, the lower deck, along with four further decks, should look and feel spacious.

the tender can stow inside the Kiribati 38 yacht

Other prominent features include a main-deck master suite with a sitting area/office at its entry, cabins for eight crewmembers, and stowage space in the just-mentioned gym/garage for a toy to 20 feet (6 meters) LOA.

The starting price is €23 million (about $25.2 million at press time), with construction to take two years.

CCN cerricantierinavali.it

Floating Life floatinglife.com

Satura Studio saturastudio.it

Zero13 zero13.it