“We started from the idea of ‘high-powered car of the sea,’” says Ludovica and Roberto Palomba, the partners behind the Italian design studio Palomba Serafina Associati. Palomba Serafina Associati has now added megayacht design to its roster of services, which include furnishings and lamps. It’s all thanks to the firm’s participation in the Benetti Design Innovation Project.
Palomba Serafina Associati’s submission is Jolly Roger, with “automotive DNA that is in the structures, which release the decks from visual obstruction by giving back the relation with nature and the sea,” the partners explain. Jolly Roger is 213 feet (65 meters) LOA and has a beam of 38 feet (11.6 meters), based on Benetti’s proven hull form of those same dimensions. (As a reminder, for Benetti Design Innovation, Benetti left styling and interior arrangements up to each creative team to fashion as they wished, as long as the designs were based on the builder’s existing platforms. Those platforms range from 164 to 295 feet, or 50 meters to 90 meters, and have set beams and gross-tonnage levels.)
Jolly Roger’s profile is comprised of “ribs” supporting and framing each deck level. The design team chose this approach for less volume and more, larger windows–“a large deck that looks like a terrace overlooking the water,” they explain.
Jolly Roger includes a few features common among megayachts, such as a retractable balcony (to starboard, toward the bow), a transom beach club, a foredeck pool, and removable awnings over the pool and the full expanse of the foredeck. Some things, though, are unexpected. There’s the fact that the entire uppermost deck is devoted to the owner, and that it has a sliding roof. The main deck has a good deal of space devoted to just two guest staterooms—“diplomats,” as Palomba Serafina Associati refers to them. Meanwhile, the upper deck, where you’d expect a sky lounge, is shared by a spa (fully aft), a pantry, the captain’s cabin, and the wheelhouse. Another guest stateroom is at the waterline level, the same deck as all crew cabins, the galley, and the laundry.
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