With her full-aluminium construction, Fabri’s – the 46th yacht bearing the logo of the Savona based Mondomarine Shipyard related to Gruppo Mondo of Gallo D’Alba – is the work result of a team composed by the Dutch Cor D. Rover for concept design and exterior styling, the Florentine Luca Dini for interior design and the Genova based SYDAC for naval architecture.

The external lines of the yacht, and specifically the oval shape of the large windows, were inspired to Cor D. Rover by the first aerodynamics studies concerning yachts – carried out in the thirties of last century – which originated the fast, and at the same time elegant, “speedsters”. And Fabri’s shape, with her strong and sharp bow extending to rakish and elegant stern, reintroduces, with a modern interpretation, look and fascination of yachts and cars of that period.

The interior lay-out includes: a large salon, with an attached dining-room fitted out for ten/twelve guests, and the Owner’s stateroom on the main deck; the Owner’s office and a little sitting-room behind the wheelhouse on the upper deck, whose stern cockpit is fitted out with a table for alfresco dinner; four large staterooms, two doubles and two twin-bedded, on the lower deck; and, finally, a wide solarium, with bar and jacuzzi, which extends over the whole sun-deck.

The Captain has at his disposal a double cabin behind the wheelhouse while three double cabins for the crew can be reached straight from the galley destined as crew-dinette too. The Owner’s stateroom is located forward on the main deck, where utilizes the large surface resulting by the wide-body area also for the bathroom fitted out with jacuzzi and shower in the same room, while sanitary appliances are separated by a sliding door. In the Owner’s cabin, fitted out also with a comfortable dressing-room, stand out large windows facing the sea.

Still on the main deck, going aft along the starboard corridor, there are the day-toilette, the fine stairway access crossing all decks and finally the large salon, characterized by fittings with unusual hexagonal shape, including the dining-room, fitted out with a richly inlaid table for ten/twelve people, a comfortable angular sofa and the bar near the stern entrance.

Going back forward, on the left side dedicated to the crew by tradition, after the dining-room, closed by a division door, you can reach a little access from which, through a stairway, you can go up to the wheelhouse on the upper deck or you can  walk into the galley/dinette for the crew. This place is very effective and distinguishes itself totally from Fabri’s general fittings as it’s entirely plated in brushed steel and characterized by fittings in Wengè; consequently this is a very technological and state-of-the-art area, with a cooking point in the middle and a crew-dinette for eight people side-on; from the galley, through a stairway, you can reach the crew’s cabins on the lower deck. Still on this deck there are the four guest’s staterooms, two of which are double – with bathroom, wardrobe rooms and a little sofa inside the cabin – and two twin-bedded.

On the upper deck, behind the wheelhouse fitted out with the most up-to-date instruments and three navigation chairs, is located the Captain’s cabin, in the typical position of ships and large motoryachts; to complete this deck’s lay-out a day-toilette, the elevator arrival coming from the galley, the sky-lounge, which is suitable to be used as a more informal sitting-room, and the Owner’s office, generous in space and particularly bright as the sky-lounge. The stern cockpit is fitted out with a table for ten or twelve guests for candlelit dinners.

On the sun-deck all – the large barbecue grill, the American bar and the dining table with a perimetrical sofa – turns on the jacuzzi surrounded by comfortable sun-chairs; an external steering gear (in addition to the two manoeuvre side-on winglets on the upper deck) completes this deck’s layout.

The fittings’ style is based on neoclassical, with a modern interpretation both for materials’ choice and fittings’ design. The usage of Blond Mahogany Wood and Madrona Briar has contributed to make rooms bright and very luminous; furthermore, the use of the briar not like a main wood but like a decoration makes spaces sober and elegant. The fittings’ design has been refined starting from the quite “pompous” initial approach and going on squaring all borders; the walls in boiserie have been lightened by putting silk panelling in the frames, with different colours according to each room, and the wall pilasters have been revalue too. The upholstery and decoration fabrics of sofas, bedcovers and curtains are in silk with chenille insertion, while taps and handles have golden finishes but only for decoration.

All these decisions – as illustrated by Luca Dini – are the result of the project philosophy the team wanted to adopt, started by a concept of very rich design and then reconsidered up to come to the use of materials with a touch that’s certainly more contemporary and suitable for our times. But it’s from technical and design point of view that Fabri’s appears more like a state of the art motoryacht.

The project of this Mondomarine’s yacht is the design evolution of the “fast displacement” bottom developed by SYDAC in cooperation with the Shipyard for this interesting market niche in the sector of large sized pleasure yachts. Marrying extreme hydrodynamic performances (maximum speed, cruising speed and a good range with fuel capacity cut to the bare minimum), a good seaworthiness and not least the weight reduction isn’t really easy. Only after plunged theoretical studies and experimental tests (as double check on real constructions) people come to an extreme project optimization that makes of Fabri’s a very interesting structure.

With little short of 33 metres of length at the waterline, an empty displacement of 185 tons and a fully loaded displacement of 245 tons, the yacht reaches the maximum speed of 20 knots at half load by using two engines MTU 12V396TE94 each of 2,255 hp by full power, while, at the economical speed of 12 knots, the range is over than 3,000 miles still owning 10% spare fuel. And all with vibration and noise levels included in the highest standard values.

The project areas where people put best attention are the hull structure, the bottom appendages, the transverse stability related to seaworthiness too and not least the screw project, carried out in harness with Detra Custom Propeller.

To get a weight reduction the hull is constructed, as well as the superstructure, in aluminium alloy. But this choice leads inevitably to the elevation of vertical position of the yacht’s global barycentre compared with the one of a construction with hull in steel. It were then supposed several lengths, correlated with several “targeted” weightings – to get the optimal metacentric height also according to a prospective MCA classification – and matched to a contained increase of beam dimensions. And the bow bulb has been optimized according to project speed too.

In the stern area were applied some bottom appendages that have modified substantially the distribution of bottom pressures, so as people could obtain, in regard to calculations, a light decrease in advance resistance and an improvement in seaworthiness, especially concerning rolling. This last positive aspect was also visually evident when Fabri’s was at the quay at Cannes Yacht Show; the yacht was moored stern-on at the dock located in front of the harbour entrance next to other yachts with similar rating class and it was the hull that moved less under the action of waves arriving from the entrance.

But, as these data, from the engineering point of view, can’t be reproduced scientifically, Mondomarine and SYDAC subject the ready-for-delivery yachts to a test of rolling damping by slow movement, during which people can register some significant data in order to determine the characteristics of the hull seaworthiness. People lead the examined yacht at a very low speed, under 6-8 knots, with extremely calm sea; at that point the stabilization equipment is activated in order to trigger a forced rolling motion with angles of heel of about 12-15°. By maximum heel people put the fins in rest position and observe the natural damping of the yacht by means of an electronic gyroscope. This operation is repeated more than once to obtain the necessary experimental reliability. This datum represents the aptitude of the hull for rolling damping and thus it’s able to give greater comfort and platform stability. In one roll and a half the rolling damping is completed. This is a really very remarkable datum and naval architects and Shipyard can be rightly proud of it.