William: Hello and welcome to the boat show. Today we’re in Ancona on Italy’s Adriatic coast at the Country de La mancha Shipyard, or CDM for short. CM is a relatively recent shipyard by Italian standards and celebrates its 10th anniversary this year in 2020. But since the company was founded ten years ago, on average, it signed up a new contract once every two months.
Hello Vasco! can you tell us about your company and what made it’s undisputable success?
Buonpensiere: A lot of the success of the ship is due to the fact that clients, when they come here, they smell this atmosphere of people or all committed towards the same goal and passionate. So the great result in these ten years in terms of the shipyard and the team has been growing, maintaining the same DNA, which is not easy at all. And that’s why we’ve always said we want to become better and better, not bigger and bigger. We decided since the beginning that CDM should have been focused on one niche and we want it to be identified in the beginning with the Real Pocket Explorer, which epitomised our shipyard, which is like the defender for Land Rover, which is our Darwin Class.
The rugged Darwin class attracted a niche of hardcore owners. But to appeal to a broader swathe of clients, the shipyard followed up with a more contemporary series of explorers by now to design as well as a number of one our projects and more recently, the new IMG Line by Francesco Tarkovsky.
But we understood that the concept, the principle we brought into the market, which is an explorer, is an explorer because of its contents, not because of the look of it. And we push that concept forward. We started developing it with a client who wanted to go around the world with these kids surfing in the best surf spots in the world. The concept was very clear in our mind, but we couldn’t figure it out. We come from within you, from commercial shipping experience. The idea of a supply vessel is always appealed to us and we created the flex product line. This boat is what we really intended since the beginning, when we decided with NGO to merge super yachting and commercial shipping. This boat is as it was.
Designed by Sergio Cutolo of Hydra Tech, who incidentally is the naval architect behind the original Darwin Class. The first 129 foot Explorer is approaching completion in the yard and will be delivered to her owner later this year.
Her name is Aurelio and she’s just under 40 meters and 380 gross tons. In fact, her owner originally had a Darwin class 101 and the reason he upgraded was because he wanted a much bigger tender, but he didn’t want the whole yacht to start healing when the yacht was launched over the side of the yacht. And this brings us to one of the key design features of the Explorer series, insofar as that she’s equipped with a three tonne capacity carbon fiber A-frame crane, which, when not in use, disappears entirely into the teak decking on the aft deck here. And you can see the outline in grey, but when being used to launch, the tender does so directly over the stern, so there’s no healing there.
Another key design feature is that on the main deck here, the bulwarks are collapsible and you can see the locking pins here and on both sides they fold out to increase the size of the aft deck, which effectively becomes the beach Club.
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Aurelio has an interior, which I think has never been experimented by anybody before in terms of style, for example. A lot of what you’re going to see is something that you normally would find on a New York loft in terms of materials. So even in terms of cement or the electrical cabling, passing through copper pipes or things like that. Very interesting. And that was a very interesting and challenging experiment for us. The owner gave a brief and said, I want a boat, which looks like one of my mansions. When you go in there, there’s nothing you can find on a design magazine or in a showroom design all over the world.
The flexibility is in the build and in the designing it and engineering it, but also in the in the real use. And today, I think that’s very important because the great majority of our clients, they want to go to Northwest Passage, they want to go to Hawaii, they want to go, but they also want to be at the Monaco Grand Prix and they don’t want to get to the Monaco Grand Prix like they just arrived with a cargo vessel. And they like the idea of having the same boat, which makes everybody happy. Wives, kids and them and the crew. And that is a plus. It’s definitely a plus. You have a boat which fits well, whatever you want to do with that. What we normally say is it’s you setting the limits of what you want to do with the boat, not the boat.
