Notte Blu running at speed across a calm sea at sunset, three-quarter side view, with a headland and hills behind. A long, low hull in gloss deep navy-teal with a thin sand-gold line along the sheer and a sculpted crease on the hull side. A thin dark window slot sits low on the forward hull side. The flush foredeck carries a sand leather sunpad with two small flush skylights, two separate smoked-glass deflectors stand ahead of the low cockpit, and sand leather seating wraps the stern, with vents on the aft deck and spray trailing from the hull. Close to the brief. Off brief: the bow is raked and rounded rather than near-vertical, and the skylights sit in the sunpad rather than forward of it.

Cutaways and cross sections

Three watertight compartments, cabin forward, fuel amidships and engines aft, with the heavy items low and near the middle.

The card

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Cutaways and cross sections

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The notes

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The boat splits into three watertight compartments: cabin forward, fuel tanks amidships, engine room aft. Heavy items sit low and near the middle for balance at speed.

Section A shows the sunken floor that gives 6 ft 3 in at the entrance, with the galley and wet room either side. Section B shows the twin diesels side by side on bearers tied into the stringers, under the cockpit floor.

Drawings are to rough concept scale, not for construction.

The drawings

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Side cutaway, bow on the left. The raised V-berth with drawers under, the hanging locker, the galley with the wet room opposite in the dashed 6 ft 3 in zone, and the steps down from the hatch to the sunken floor. Two watertight bulkheads close off the fuel tanks amidships and the engine room aft, where the twin diesels sit under the cockpit with V-drives turning the shafts back to the props and rudders under the tail. Engine vents on the aft deck and the platform at the stern. — 01 · Side cutaway

Two cross sections at the waterline. A, through the galley and wet room: the galley on one side and the wet room on the other, the sunken floor giving 6 ft 3 in headroom, stringers under the floor and a double ply bottom, glass sheathed. B, through the engine room: the twin diesels side by side on engine bearers, under the cockpit floor and seats. — 02 · Two cross sections at the waterline