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PHOTOS: Stuart Pearce If you use Facebook or Instagram, chances are your feed is populated by pictures of pretty superyachts. We know of at least one instance where a Facebook post inspired someone to charter a yacht, too. However, we never heard of Pinterest playing a role in a new-build… until Mimì la Sardine cameContinue Reading
Over the past nine years, Cantiere delle Marche has sold its explorer yachts in Europe, Russia, and Latin America. The United States has been on its proverbial radar, with a marketing strategy reserved for rollout this year. Fittingly, a U.S. customer has already come forward. The first American-owned Cantiere delle Marche, a Darwin 106, isContinue Reading
Now in its ninth year of operation, Cantiere delle Marche is reaping the rewards of carving a distinctive niche in an already niche-oriented business. The shipyard recently signed its 27th explorer superyacht. She’s a real explorer, in keeping with the yard’s prior contracts, made for roaming the world’s oceans on their own bottom, even inContinue Reading
The “43” in the project name Deep Blue 43 signifies her LOA in meters. Why, then, does Vasco Buonpensiere, co-founder as well as sales and marketing director of Cantiere delle Marche, say about this 141-footer, “we are about to build the smallest 80-meter yacht ever built”? Well, to be fair, the comment is an insideContinue Reading
Due to nearly one-quarter of its customers being repeat clients, Cantiere delle Marche (CdM) knows these owners want to sell their current yacht before taking delivery of the next. In assisting several of them over recent months, the shipyard decided formally to add the service, the CdM Pre-Owned Sales Department. Naturally, the CdM Pre-Owned SalesContinue Reading
Since its inception eight years ago, Cantiere delle Marche (CdM) has focused exclusively on go-anywhere explorer yachts. Several customers have undertaken adventures as a result. The owner of Audace, though, might have them all beat. Not only does he want to go exploring, but also he plans to live onboard, year-round. The 140’4” (42.8-meter) megayachtContinue Reading