The Navetta 30 opens a new chapter in the story of Custom Line’s displacement yachts. Full of charm, she really is a sporty-chic vessel. Ninety-three feet (28.43 meters) long with a beam of 24 feet (7.3 meters), and with more than 3,445 square feet (320 square meters) of total space, she offers the comfort of…
“A family that didn’t follow the mainstream path,” according to Dynamiq’s founder and CEO, are close to taking delivery of their new yacht, Stefania. The 134’5″ (41-meter) megayacht, in build for two years, is the largest Dynamiq so far. Sergei Dobroserdov, the head of Dynamiq, credits the owners for being unconventional for a few…
A trio of Italian yachting companies will bring an American cruiser’s large-yacht vision to life. The owner is taking delivery of the first Extra X99 from the Extra Yachts brand of Palumbo Superyachts. Extra Yachts, which already has the Extra X76 and the Extra X86 among its models, provides owners and guests with more volume…
Claudio Lazzarini and Carl Pickering of Lazzarini Pickering Architetti had a challenge on their hands. Benetti wanted the studio to create the interior for a new design echoing some of its launches from the 1960s. Rather than a retro exercise, though, the megayacht needed to be thoroughly modern in appeal. The resulting 121-foot (37-meter) Benetti…
A number of superyacht shipyards trace their roots to the fishing industry, with Royal Huisman being no exception. So a 171-foot (52-meter) motoryacht poised to be the world’s largest sportfisherman shares something with the yard’s craft from the 1880s. Royal Huisman Project 406 is for an owner as passionate about wetting a line as about…
The Gulf Craft shipyard hosted a special celebration on November 26 for the launch of its largest-ever yacht. The Majesty 175 lowered into the water, with her owner on hand, additionally marking the largest all-composite, production-built yacht in the world. The ceremony was four years in the making, following the public announcement of the model…
With sporty styling by Marco Casali – Too Design, the code-named megayacht project Lady is the latest contract from Columbus Yachts. Just a hint of the look is available so far, along with other hints about what lies ahead. For instance, the shipyard promises that Lady will incorporate several eco-friendly solutions. In fact, it pledges…
Sometimes, conventional thinking is, well, too conventional. Witness the fact that five customers have already stepped up to commission a Sanlorenzo SD118, featuring an asymmetric layout from Zuccon International Project with a full-beam interior on one side and a side deck on the other. The asymmetric approach already applies to a few Sanlorenzo series,…
It’s no secret that COVID-19 has resulted in a boat-buying boom, in recognition that private cruising equates safe social distancing. Incat Crowther has taken notice, too. The naval architects and engineers see a way to adapt increasingly popular popular shadow boats to suit the ongoing need for maintaining health among crew and guests. The shadow-vessel…
Mavericks never settle for doing the same thing everyone else does. That sounds like the same spirit as the German sailor who has commissioned Maverick from Cantiere delle Marche. The 142-footer (43.2-meter) will make her way through the Northwest Passage, among other areas. Part of the shipyard’s Flexplorer series, the megayacht—a.k.a. Flexplorer 142—combines robust looks…
