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Increasingly over the past several years, builders of custom yachts worldwide have been adding semicustom series to their offerings. It's a move that's paid off handsomely for some yards: Not only have they been able to retain more control over design and construction costs, but also they've fulfilled the desires of buyers looking for lower-priced yachts that can be ready months—and, in some cases, years—before fully custom builds.
Those advantages are undoubtedly among the reasons CRN unveiled plans for its Magnifica line of 46-meter (151-foot) yachts nearly four years ago. Having built more than 100 steel-and-aluminum yachts in Ancona, Italy, up to 70 meters (about 230 feet) since 1963, the yard recognized an opportunity to attract new customers and, hopefully, keep "growing" them through the range. With a set exterior styling from the celebrated team of Nuvolari & Lenard and major systems selected by the yard's own engineering department, the Magnifica series leaves just the interior to be planned out.
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While this is no different than any other yard's approach to series builds, CRN does take a different tack when it comes to that interior. Most builders present buyers with a fixed space plan and a limited selection of decorative elements (in some cases just one wood option for paneling, for example). This runs the risk of each yacht looking like a carbon copy of her predecessor, leading some observers of the trend to disparage building in series as semiproduction construction. CRN is avoiding this problem by permitting owners to truly inject their own tastes in the interior. Indeed, if you compare the interior of the first Magnifica, which features abundant mahogany and rosewood paneling, to that of Saramour, there's no doubt these are anything but semiproduction yachts.
In fact, the owner of Saramour has embraced the chance to put his own imprint on the yacht in a way that will surprise and perhaps inspire other owners, even ones of fully custom yachts. Through the selection of multiple woods, textures, finishes, and colors, all chosen to pay subtle homage to the paintings, sculptures, and sketches from various masters specifically chosen for each room, he's turned the yacht into a veritable art gallery.
Don't get the wrong idea; the owner didn't forsake the advantages of a yacht, ranging from emphasis on open-air spaces to stowage for watertoys, in favor of works from Salvador Dali, Giorgio De Chirico, Karel Appel, and others. Saramour is still in many respects a traditional private yacht, complete with teak underfoot across the entire sundeck, aft on the upper deck's alfresco dining area, and rimming the main deck. She also has the diversions you'd expect to find on a craft capable of a reported 4,200-nautical-mile range at 11 knots, ranging from a handful of sunlounges to an open-air hot tub and PWCs (stowed on the bow, as the teak-lined, fold-down garage houses the RIB). But the interior spaces were essentially built and designed around the artwork.
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