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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.

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Exterior design

A speedboat first, with no visible cabin: a flush foredeck, a near-vertical bow, a sculpted tail, and deep navy-teal with sand-gold.

The card

parts 01 of 07

Exterior design

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The notes

rendered

The boat should look like a speedboat first, with no visible cabin. Height for the cabin comes from a balance of taller hull sides and a deeper hull.

side profile

  • Near-vertical modern bow
  • Long, flush foredeck with no coachroof
  • Fairly flat sheer line with a thin sand-gold metal line along it
  • Sculpted crease along the hull side, rising gently towards the stern
  • One thin, dark, flush window slot on the forward hull side
  • Sculpted, tapering tail with no square transom
  • Small swim platform that folds out of the tail

deck from above

  • Sunpad on the foredeck with two flush skylights forward of it
  • Side walkways with low flush grab rails for mooring
  • Central cabin hatch between the deflectors
  • Split smoked-glass deflectors, one per front seat
  • Helm on the left
  • Two low front seats and a rear bench, sitting low in the hull
  • Engine vents on the aft deck

The side profile and the deck plan from above are still to come.

colour, materials and finish

The chosen scheme is Deep Ocean: classic shapes in a modern palette.

Element Finish
Hull Deep navy-teal, gloss
Accent line and metalwork Sand-gold, satin
Upholstery Sand leather
Deflectors Smoked glass
Chrome Minimal
Structure Marine ply, epoxy coated

The drawings

1 sheet
Front and rear views of the hull, on the waterline. Front: a vertical stem, the sand-gold sheer line, the crease along the hull side and two split deflectors over the foredeck. Rear: the rounded tail with two engine vents, the fold-out platform, and below the water two props and rudders lit by blue underwater lights.
01 · Front and rear views of the hull

The plates

3 · lift any one out
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.
01 · Notte Blu running at speed across a calm sea at sunset
Notte Blu idling in a Mediterranean bay in late afternoon light, seen from the rear three-quarter and slightly above, with a rocky headland, villas and two yachts behind. The sand-gold sheer line sweeps down the navy-teal hull into the tail. Two low split smoked-glass deflectors, a wooden wheel and dash at the helm, two sand leather front seats and a wrap-around rear bench, two vents on the aft deck and a teak swim platform folded out. NOTTE BLU is lettered in gold across the stern. Off brief: the tail ends in an upright, squared stern panel carrying the name, rather than tapering away with no square transom.
02 · Notte Blu idling in a Mediterranean bay in late afternoon light
Notte Blu from directly above on clear turquoise water, bow on the left. A long teak foredeck with a large sand leather sunpad, side walkways with low flush grab rails, and a flush hatch between two split smoked-glass deflectors. Two sand leather front seats, a teak cockpit floor and a wrap-around rear bench with navy cushions, two vents on the navy aft deck and a teak swim platform at the stern. Off brief: both front seats get a steering wheel, where the brief has one helm on the left, and the two skylights sit in the sunpad rather than forward of it.
03 · Notte Blu from directly above on clear turquoise water