7 Oceanco Simply Custom Superyacht Designs Worth Your While

Although Oceanco has built its reputation on large, fully custom megayachts, potential customers progressively don’t want to get involved in granular-level details. Instead, they’d rather save construction time overall by relying on a proven engineering base. Simultaneously, this lets them focus their efforts on design details. Oceanco Simply Custom provides a set technical foundation along with the flexible creative fun, with 15 of the top superyacht designers. Specifically, the designs all start at 262 feet (80 meters) and can be upwards of 2,500 gross tons of volume. Here are several Oceanco Simply Custom superyacht designs to stimulate your imagination. Each notably can start construction with your input.

For his studio’s take on the Oceanco Simply Custom platform, Espen Øino arguably took a literal approach. “Clarity” means simplicity, and the resulting design avoids excess embellishments. Her simpleness doesn’t mean plainness, however. Amid the five decks, you’ll certainly notice elongated overhangs. They are as practical as they are pretty, giving owners and guests an escape from the sun while still outside. Additionally, Clarity incorporates solar panels on parts of the superstructure. Naturally, the panels feed electrical needs onboard, lessening—perhaps even largely eliminating—the need for diesel gensets. Finally, owners will appreciate the winter garden on the main deck. Instead of a traditional saloon, the big lounge opens up for cool, comforting breezes.

The British studio drew inspiration from the famous Italian city for its Simply Custom project. The Portofino design has timeless features like a flared bow, for example, and curved coachroofs. Furthermore, you’ll notice extended overhangs aft, with upward flair. Floor-to-ceiling glass complements the overall looks, lending modernity. More modern touches include a big pool running fore to aft on the main aft deck—perched partly on the extended overhang. In yet another modern approach, all of the guest staterooms can occupy the main deck.

Meaning “superlight” in Italian, Superleggera makes it clear that Hot Lab wants owners and guests to enjoy a light, bright ambience. The all-important full-height glass rims multiple decks, for instance. Floorspace is ample in staterooms, saloons, and other relaxation and entertainment areas, too. The concepts of light and space come together in one of the best ways, though, in the beach club seen here. It’s super-chic and super-bright, largely thanks to swaths of skylights. One of those skylights is the glass bottom of the big pool on the main deck. Of course, side platforms that open up to the seascapes helps amplify the sensations of brightness and space. Owners and guests can take it all in from a perfectly positioned bar or when working out in the adjacent gym.

Suitably, aerospace and earthly vehicles, real and imagined, inspired Igor Lobanov and his studio for Interstellar. Lobanov personally has had an affinity for automotive and airplane design for many years. He’s also one to push the boundaries of artistic design, at least in the relatively conservative yachting industry. Those all come together in Interstellar. Arguably, no other project puts raked, contoured looks like these out into the public eye. Yet, if you look closely, you’ll also see soft curves. Ultimately, the goal of Interstellar is to ignite a burning designer to pursue adventurous travel.

With a sweeping foredeck featuring a helipad to make a grand entrance or exit, the Domino design proposal isn’t subtle. That isn’t to say she’s ostentatious. Rather, the yacht leverages her long lines the same way that Nuvolari-Lenard has approached design throughout its career. Similarly, Domino makes good use of curves, flowing along each deck and especially at the transom (top of page). Twin stairways wrap around a beach club with a tinted glass wall and entry. In keeping with contemporary preferences, the rest of the owners’ and guests’ decks have glass walls as much as possible, too.

Not one to leave out its in-house design team, Oceanco has its own Oceanco Simply Custom proposal, Pegasus. The designers mix straight and sinuous lines, plus plays light off dark on surfaces. Like the other studios, the team incorporates must-have features like swimming pools and helipads. It’s most proud of its approach to the owners’ suite. The suite is a private deck—truly, an entire deck, not shared with the skylounge or wheelhouse as commonly seen. An impressive 3,014 square feet (280 square meters), evenly divided into interior and alfresco areas, is for you. Notably, that immense space doesn’t include the private owners’ crow’s nest that can include a sofa and sunpad.

Carinae is arguably the most unusual of all the designs. “We wanted to shy away from the typical deck stacking and styling exercise,” Kristian Pascoli of Pascoli International says. For starters, the main deck is within the hull. Next, when seen from aft, Carinae resembles centuries-old galleon vessels. Pascoli adds that the team drew further inspiration from 1930s ocean liners for the deckhouse and funnels. As for the name, it derives from Carina, the keel of the Argo Navis constellation. In Greek mythology, Argo Navis was the ship that Jason and the Argonauts used to retrieve the Golden Fleece. The gods helped build the ship, too.

Regardless of designer, each Oceanco Simply Custom project features the engineering work of Lateral Naval Architects. Furthermore, they all have a minimum of six staterooms for owners and guests and electric propulsion. Follow the shipyard’s Instagram page for weekly releases of new designs and video interviews with all 15 designers.

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