Yachts

Social focus

Taking clear design inspiration from Bugatti’s land-based machines (the shoulder line from the Type 57 C Atalante, for example), the carbonfibre-hulled luxury yacht is the first product of Bugatti’s lifestyle partnership with Palmer Johnson. Bugatti’s founder Ettore Bugatti developed racing boats in the 1930s, and this new example will be aptly named Niniette – a pet name Ettore used for both his daughter Lidia and, incidentally, for one of his boats. 

Photos: Bugatti

Riverbreeze

It needn't remain a dream

The fifth in a series of 12 Russian ‘sister ships’, Aji Petri (as it was then named) ferried passengers and cargo between Odessa, Sevastopol and Istanbul until the early 1970s, when she was strategically placed in the North Atlantic by the Russian government, to (unofficially) ‘eavesdrop’ on other countries.

Not without reason is Corsica called the ‘Isle of Beauty’...

A yacht with a jet-set history

Calm before the storm