SUPERYACHT #8
Spring 2006
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CERRI 86 FLYINGSPORT
Cerri, Carlo Cerri, is the owner of the shipyards of the
same name in Milan. Talking with him you note a certain
restlessness, an innate desire to press forward, beyond
the traditional schemes of naval architecture and
aesthetics. All of this is immediately reflected in his
latest creation: the 86 foot flyingsport. Flyingsport?
What is it?
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TECHNICAL DATA
LOA: 26.30 m
Beam: 6.35 m
Draft: 1.30 m
Displacement: 54 t
Fuel tank: 7000 litres
Water tank: 1500 litres
Engines: 2 x 2030 HP MTU M91 16 V
Twin Disk Inverters MG 6620 A
Transmission: Ameson ASD 16 with surface screws
Maximum speed: 42 knots
Range at cruising speed: 350 miles.
For further information contact Cerri Cantieri
Navali SPA - www.cerricantierinavali.it -
info@cerricantierinavali.it. Milan Showroom: Viale
Bianca Maria 41 - tel +39 02 76394484; fax +39 02
76394421 - Shipyard: Marina di Carrara Avenza, Viale
Zaccagna 6, tel +39 0585 856684; fax +39 0585 50287; web
site: www.cerricantierinavali.it; e-mail
info@cerricantierinavali.it - Business Office: Santa
Margherita Ligure (GE) Calata del Porto 9, tel +39 0185 285592;
fax +39 0185 285777; sito web www.smy.it; e-mail info@smy.it.
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This 86' is particularly innovative, so much
so as to deserve a new vessel category, the
"flyingsport" to be precise. What Cerri had in mind was
a boat different from the others: not a flying bridge
yacht, meaning with a very large upper deck; it wasn't
even a sports yacht, very aggressive and without a
flying bridge. His was a blend of the two: sporty and
aggressive in the general lines, but with a reduced size
flying bridge harmoniously set in the general context of
the vessel. But why this architectonic and aesthetic
choice? Because the idea was to give the best in terms
of airiness and lighting to the interiors, which are
high and with uncommon glazing. So seen from the outside
the 86 has a very flowing and harmonious line where the
main outstanding elements are the great, very elongated
Osiris eye window, the double sundeck of the aft and
flying bridge dinettes, and the forward area with a huge
sundeck and space for a table. But let's take a detailed
look. The aft bridge is completely floored in teak (as
are all the external decks). It is of a good size and
there is space for a small table with deckchairs for an
aperitif at sea. It can house, on stands, a 4.5 metre
tender (which may be a super-accessory luxury one) and
can also be used for launching the 3.5 metre tender or
the jet ski which are kept in the garage beneath the
dinette covering. As well as the sundeck, faced in
fabric by the American company Sunbrella (as are the
other sundecks and external sofas on the yacht), there
is a four-seater sofa. The dinette also has a low item
of furniture with icemaker and storage space for
tableware. A height-adjustable and extendable table in
teak, and a suspended Unopiù awning mean that a
comfortable breakfast or lunch area for 6/8 people can
be set up. Two broad gangways lead forward where there
is a sundeck on the deckhouse and a dining area with a
removable table and sunshade. Three lamps can be mounted
to light the table for dinner, in the privacy provided
by the position in the bow. On the flying bridge, whose
access stairway is from the internal saloon entrance
gallery, there is a sundeck and the outdoor bridge.
Let's go inside now: the special architecture amazes
immediately. The level of the external deck is halfway
between the main saloon below and the dining
area/galley/command bridge deck above. So an
architectonic dynamism is created that arouses well-
being in those who experience those spaces. A wooden
stairway leads to the saloon which is very airy with
great side windows. Here the idea was to play on warm,
comfortable materials such as dark ebony for the
furniture, and wenge, another dark wood, for the
borders, cornices, banisters, stairs and certain small
items of furniture. The walls are done in sectioned and
darkened bamboo and the floors are covered with special
moquette made of bamboo fillets mounted on fabric. The
effect is like a warm and welcoming embrace. The owner's
choice of decoration was ethnic, now particularly
fashionable. The day toilet, accessible from the saloon,
has a washbasin surface in wenge with the walls in
Vienna straw framed by fillets in the same wood. All the
bathrooms have teak floors with stainless steel edging.
The upper saloon features windows on all sides and also
a ceiling where a slightly smoked glass roof, occupying
almost the whole beam, gives the environment airiness
and light. A dining table with rounded sofas can seat 12
people in a privileged and panoramic position also with
regard to the exterior. Forward, by way of a boiserie
work ebony bulkhead, there is the galley and, curiously,
also the bridge. The galley is in metallic silver grey
lacquered wood, with Boffi appliances and work surfaces
in Corian synthetic marble. This naturally well-lit
galley has also been designed to isolate cooking smells
from the dining room: when the two doors and the central
opening are closed, two skylights are opened and the
powerful Gaggenau aspiration hood is switched on, no
cooking smells emerge from the galley. The rationally
designed and spacious bridge includes a round half-
foldable table for the skipper's meals. As for the
cabins, there are 5 plus the crew's cabin, sleeping a
total of 14. The guests and owner are at lower saloon
level while the VIP and skipper's cabins are on an even
lower level. All cabins have a private bathroom and all
rooms have portholes (the yacht has a total of 20). The
cabin walls and furnishings - excepting the skipper's
which are in wenge - are all in pickled oak of a light
honey colour, with light-coloured moquette and lacquered
ceilings. The bathrooms are in the same material with
selected marble surfaces and washbasins designed by
Philippe Starck. The engine room, painted white
throughout, is a single, fairly large environment with
space around the apparatus. From a technological
viewpoint the yacht has audio, video and hi-fi systems
everywhere indoors and also outside, in separated areas,
and LCD TV in every room. Important from a design point
of view is the fact that the cabins are separated from
each other by bathrooms, for increased privacy. Another
important thing is that the owner can choose the types
of wood, marble, fabrics, leather, curtains and
moquette, as well as the colours of the ceilings, the
finishes, door handles, bathroom accessories, electrical
grid systems, mirrors and the external fascias of the
hull and deckhouse. But we still haven't said anything
about performance, which is wholly respectable for a
vessel of this size: the two 2030 HP MTU M91 16 V
engines shift this 54 ton fibreglass hull - with biaxial
glass and isophtalic and vinylester resins with Kevlar
reinforcement - at a speed of no less than 42 knots,
with a cruising speed of 35 knots.
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