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SHELL ISSUE - n° 18 - 2019 - € 10
The Art of Sailing
Custom Line Nav
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QUART ERLY - P.I. 31/03 /2019 Intern ationa l € 10, Spedizione in Abbon Chf 10,50 , UK £ 7,50- Poste Italian amento Postale e S.p.a. - 70% - LO/MI
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CRN’s new strategy of using actual designs to entice potential clients to the table saw it approach prestigious international designers with an eye to creating a string of uniquely exclusive new custom superyachts. And the strategy is already paying off...
A DISTILLATION OF IDEAS by Samuela Urbini
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RN is one of the world’s largest yacht builders and one of its greatest strengths lies in an ability to design complex naval platforms that straddle the needs of full-custom vessels. Its steel and aluminium megayachts are
built entirely in Italy and all unique. This is because extreme personalisation is part of the DNA of the Ferretti Group yard which has been based at the same Ancona headquarters since its foundation in 1963. “Meeting with an owner that brings along his own design and asks CRN to meld it with the yard’s design and construction experience would definitely be the perfect scenario,” explains Stefano De Vivo, Ferretti Group Chief Commercial Officer and CRN Executive Board Member. Just that situation arose in 1983, when Gianni Agnelli came to CRN with his designer and the yard built him what is essentially the first explorer vessel in the history of leisure yachting, the now-iconic F100. “Things are different now and owners often don’t have a precise idea of what they want. So we took a new strategic tack: we decided to work with the world’s leading design studios on developing projects with a different style to stimulate clients’ imagination. As a kind of hook that would get them in sitting at a table with us so that we could tease out what their dream is”. This approach has produced seven projects so far, each one with its own unique personality. The most recent were presented between the end of 2018 and the start of 2019 and included Begallta, a 75-metre that can also be built as a 65-metre or an 85-metre. “We asked Lobanov Design for a contemporary yacht with unexpected but very versatile lines – an approach the Russian designer really shared. You can see extreme innovation in the hard chines aft which are, however, designed to make it soft and flowing whilst simultaneously underscoring its decisive character. Another unique styling element is the angled line that traverses both hull and superstructure like ribbon, melding the yacht’s decks”. 58
CRN has been based in Ancona (Italy) since its foundation in 1963. It builds steel and aluminium custom superyachts. Right, Stefano De Vivo, Ferretti Group Chief Commercial Officer and CRN Executive Board Member
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Dynamic and leadingedge, the powerfully masculine Begallta is a 75-metre by Igor Lobanov (left). Her transom is unusual (top), while the sun deck (opposite) not only has
Another stunning project, this time from the CRN technical office and Vallicelli Design headed by Andrea Vallicelli and Alessandro Nazareth, is She, a name that instantly evokes a timelessly beautiful woman. CRN is delighted with the result as Stefano De Vivo confirms: “We wanted a classic yacht with large volumes but still very sleek. She has a unique elegance and her name alone conjures up images of the beauty of a woman with the kind of poise you’d instantly fall in love with”. This is expressed in her geometries and also in fluid decorative elements, such as the soft lines of the side gunwales which flow into 60
a pool but also a central table/fire pit
She is a classic beauty with large volumes (top and bottom). Her design by Andrea Vallicelli (right) sparked the sale of a 70-metre that is still at the development stage
two wings in the forward area of the upper and
explorer. Interest is very high indeed”.
owner’s decks.
A policy that seems to be yielding excellent
Lastly, we have AlfaRosso, a design available in
results because a previously-presented Nuvolari
a choice of three lengths: 45, 50 and 55 metres.
Lenard project led to the sale of a 60-metre
“We asked Francesco Paszkowski to reinterpret
and She has resulted in the announcement of
the whole explorer concept and take it to the
the sale of a 70-metre at the end of November.
next level because he has designed so many of
Aside from these two yachts which are still at
them. The result is surprising: an explorer with
the development stage, CRN is building two
the characteristic forms but better interior and
62-metres – M/Y CRN 137, for delivery this
exterior liveability and the forecastle, the living
coming summer, and M/Y CRN 138 – and also
area, is a much different position to a classic
recently splashed the 79-metre M/Y CRN 135.
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AlfaRosso is an explorer design that can be tailored to three different lengths: 45, 50 or 55 metres. The project penned by Francesco Paszkowski (bottom, left) plays with large volumes both inside and on deck. There is a magnificent flush deck pool aft on the main deck too
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