Explorer yacht Acala (43m) launched at Cantiere delle Marche

Cantiere Delle Marche announced that Acala – full custom 43-metre explorer yacht – has been successfully launched.

A pure cus­tom yacht, Acala takes full ad­van­tage of Cantiere delle Marche ex­pe­ri­ence and its ap­proach to ex­plorer yacht build­ing. Acala has been com­mis­sioned by an ex­pe­ri­enced yachts­man who, over the years, owned yachts built by ship­yards such as Fead­ship, Lürssen, Blohm and Voss. He is a re­peat client for CDM, a yard which gained his full con­fi­dence hav­ing en­joyed the feel of com­fort and safety of his pre­vi­ous Acala, a Dar­win 102, cruis­ing in the Med but also sail­ing the ex­panses of the Pa­cific Ocean, the At­lantic and reach­ing the wild beauty of re­mote des­ti­na­tions and the best div­ing spots in the world.

“I am de­lighted and proud with this mile­stone launch”  Vasco Buon­pen­siere, CdM’s co-founder and sales & mar­ket­ing di­rec­tor, said. “The trust this owner con­firmed in CdM gives us the high­est rea­son of pride. It is a state­ment of ap­pre­ci­a­tion for both our yachts and our­selves as a team al­ways com­mit­ted to the Owner’s sat­is­fac­tion. The mu­tual trust es­tab­lished be­tween with this client and CdM team has been piv­otal to the good re­sult of the whole process that lead to the com­ple­tion of such a com­plex pro­ject.”

“The work on tech­ni­cal spec­i­fi­ca­tions has been ex­tremely de­tailed and it lasted al­most 12 months to achieve a dou­ble re­sult: to build a 43-me­tre yacht with the most de­tailed and com­pre­hen­sive specs we have ever drawn up and to pro­ceed with no need of ma­jor mod­i­fi­ca­tions as con­struc­tion pro­gressed” Vasco Buon­pen­siere further stated. “In the light of these ap­proach and pro­ce­dures, within the team we joke around say­ing that we have built the small­est 80-me­tre yacht ever built!” added.

Acala in­au­gu­rates a new col­lab­o­ra­tion with Ho­ra­cio Bozzo De­sign who de­signed her con­spic­u­ous and eye-catch­ing lines.

The shipyards explained that her se­vere pro­file with a raked bow and com­pact su­per­struc­ture cap­tures the very soul of an ex­plorer ves­sel com­bin­ing it with the el­e­gance of a lux­ury yacht that will stand the test of time. Large win­dows on the Main deck whose mul­lions seem not to join the su­per­struc­ture that are un­doubt­edly Acala pro­file’s sig­na­ture fea­tures. All shapes, vol­umes and lines com­pose a har­mo­nious geom­e­try while her roomy body en­com­passes lux­ury so­cial ar­eas and very large and com­fort­able crew quar­ters, as re­quested by the Owner whose plans in­clude long term cruis­ing to reach the far­thest cor­ners of the world.

Guest ar­eas are spread over three decks plus a Sun Deck. Acala fea­tures a nicely or­ga­nized in­te­rior lay­out that sleeps twelve guests in six suites. A large lobby sits in be­tween the main sa­lon and guest night quar­ters. The full beam Main deck, from amid­ship for­ward is ded­i­cated to guests and Own­ers. Three large Vip and ex­tremely com­fort­able Owner suite to star­board side are flooded by nat­ural light from large win­dows. Two twin cab­ins are lo­cated on the Lower deck.

An in­ti­mate sa­lon on the Main Deck and a large panoramic sky lounge on the Up­per Deck with din­ing area have been de­signed and dec­o­rated for in­door re­lax­ation and en­ter­tain­ment. A par­tic­u­larly large cock­pit fea­tures din­ing and loung­ing ar­eas, a swim­ming pool and lots of space to re­lax. A large and par­tially shaded Sun deck per­fectly in­te­grated into the pro­file pro­vides the so­cial hub for Acala’s guests with an al fresco din­ing, bar, vast sun­bathing area along­side a sec­ond swim­ming pool. A dumb­waiter con­nects the gal­ley lo­cated on the Lower deck to all deck, Sun deck in­cluded, to con­vey food and drinks and ease the work of crew.

Acala in­te­rior de­sign by Mex­i­can ar­chi­tect Si­mon Hamui, is lux­u­ri­ous and re­laxed at the same time.

She has a full dis­place­ment naval ar­chi­tec­ture by Ser­gio Cu­tolo/Hy­dro Tec of­fer­ing large vol­ume (440 GT) and the smoothest of travel even in rough seas en­sur­ing ex­cel­lent com­fort and to­tal safety. En­gi­neer­ing has been de­vel­oped by the yard tech­ni­cal de­part­ment in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Hy­dro Tec. Need­less to add that she, like all ex­plorer yachts built by Cantiere delle Marche, fea­tures a thick and ro­bust steel hull and light alu­minium su­per­struc­ture.

With a to­tal length of 43,10 me­tres, a beam of 8.60m, thanks to hull geom­e­try, 62 400-litre fuel tanks, and the ex­tremely fru­gal con­sump­tion of her twin Cater­pil­lare C32 Ac­ert en­gines 746kW each, Acala will have a range of above 5 000 nm at 10 knots and a top speed of 14 knots. The yacht’s en­gine room,, as all en­gine rooms built by CDM, is a show­piece that stands out for its clean­li­ness and func­tion­al­ity with all the yacht’s sys­tems and ma­chiner­ies set up to ac­com­mo­date easy main­te­nance. Acala is a pure breed ex­plorer there­fore she needs a high level of in­de­pen­dence. The en­gine room is one of the sources of that in­de­pen­dence as its re­dun­dant equip­ment al­low to sail far and wide and to reach re­mote ar­eas of the globe where it is im­pos­si­ble to ac­cess any sort of as­sis­tance. An ex­pan­sive lazarette pro­vides a very large stor­age area needed for many cruis­ing ne­ces­si­ties, wa­ter toys, div­ing equip­ment, etc. The main ten­der is stored on the Up­per deck for­ward. Crew quar­ters and ser­vice ar­eas are func­tional and well-ap­pointed, as re­quested by the Owner. Five cab­ins are on the Lower deck along­side a roomy crew mess op­po­site a pro­fes­sional gal­ley and the Cap­tain has his own cabin on the Up­per deck next to the wheel­house.

“CdM’s strat­egy to ded­i­cate one slot per year to fully cus­tom pro­jects proved to be suc­cess­ful and ex­tremely im­por­tant for the tech­ni­cal growth of the ship­yard. Build­ing these one-off ves­sels is a great op­por­tu­nity for our team to learn some­thing new and to work out of its com­fort zone: this is the only key to move for­ward and im­prove, in our opin­ion, and that’s why we opted for this strat­egy” said En­nio Cec­chini, Ceo of Cantiere delle Marche. “Be­ing cho­sen by ex­pe­ri­enced own­ers such as this gen­tle­man who de­cided to have his sec­ond yacht built by us, af­ter hav­ing owned yachts built by the most re­puted North­ern Eu­ro­pean brands, is the best pos­si­ble prove that our com­mit­ment, ded­i­ca­tion, tech­ni­cal skills and qual­ity are sec­ond to none.”

MAIN DATA:
› LOA 43.10m
› LWL 40.35m
› Beam 8.60m
› Draft 2.50m
› Gross ton­nage 499 GT
› En­gines 2 x Cater­pil­lar C32 Ac­ert 746kW (A rat­ing, Heavy Duty)
› Max Speed 14 knots
› Range @ 10 knots 5000 nm
› Bowthruster 85kW
› Gen­er­a­tors 2 x Kohler 80kW EFODS + 1 x Kohler 55kW EFODS
› Fuel tanks ca­pac­ity 62.400 litres

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