SANLORENZO SP110
Eyebrows went up when Sanlorenzo boss Max Perotti announced that he had brought Tilli Antonelli on board. Tilli’s initial thought for the SP110, Sanlorenzo’s rst coupé design, was triple 2400s and 50 knots. “But we decided that wasn’t very Sanlorenzo,” he smiles. e ‘SP’ stands for ‘smart performance’ and the thinking is that with a ‘fractional’ triple jet-drive installation you can run symmetrically on one, two or all three engines, to optimize the yacht’s performance and e ciency in any set of circumstances. According to Tilli, the most economical way to cruise in the 110 is at ten knots on the outer pair of engines—although, if you insist, running on just the xed-drive center engine gives seven knots, and you can steer the boat using the Humphree interceptors. e hull design has been optimized for fuel e ciency, with two chine steps reducing its substantial 27-foot beam to 21 feet 4 inches at the waterline, lowering drag and enhancing seakeeping. e bow sections present a remarkably incisive entry, while deadrise lessens as it runs a to a pretty deep-V 16.4 degrees. Augmenting the intelligence of its smart naval architecture, the structure of the 110 incorporates lightweight materials, while Sanlorenzo also worked with RINA, the Italian classi cation society, to adapt its window glass speci cation to allow the use of a thinner laminate. at led to a weight savings of ten percent, according to Tilli, which is not insigni cant on a total glass weight of some four tons. But let’s get real. is is still a 40-knot, hundred-ton, hundredfooter packing 6,000 horsepower. “At maximum she burns 294 gallons per hour,” says Tilli. “But at a sensible cruising speed, say 31- to 32-knots in calm conditions, the consumption drops to 233 gallons per hour.” e exterior forms, by Zuccon, are deceptively simple. e pro le shows just a hull with a deckhouse on top. As for the interior layout, the open a deck is broad, at and unencumbered—the tender hoist is a U-shaped gantry that disappears completely beneath the teak—and from there you can either head down to the low-level private a salon, or up to the raised main salon above. Both are open, so there is no impediment to the view a . And from the a deck seating you can still feel that you are in nominal touch with everyone inside, whichever level they happen to be on. It is a very clever piece of design—the balustrade gives the upper saloon the feel of a balcony and is quite unlike anything I’ve ever seen on a yacht before—because it not only looks absolutely stunning, it’s also practical and sociable. e remainder of the interior spaces are slightly more conventional. e galley lies athwartships, forward of the main salon, and leads on to a separate wheelhouse with deck access both sides. ere is also a small foldaway helm station up on the roof, which is fun, and the foredeck seating area is a generous expanse. As con gured on this rst example, the SP110’s lower deck layout provides a matching pair of well-proportioned VIP cabins amidships, each side of a central corridor, and a pair of additional cabins just forward. It’s always useful to have four cabins, but to complicate matters this area can be tted out instead as a large full-beam master suite, should you so wish. Which could be spectacular. But don’t sweat the small stu . e SP110 is spectacular anyway.