Going Places

With long-range capability and a custom owner’s deck with superyacht characteristics, Filippetti’s Navetta 30 rewards an adventurous owner.

An owner came to Filippetti with an unusual brief. He had a 30-meter berth in Montenegro, and he didn’t wish to part with it, but he had grown tired of planing boats. He wanted to go places and was now in search of the biggest yacht he could find that would fit the berth. He had come to the right shipyard. Filippetti’s approach to customization is accommodating if nothing else, and the designs it had prepared for the five-cabin, 30-meter (98-foot) Navetta were easily adapted to suit the client’s needs.

The Navetta 30 is a yacht built for going places, and she’s already been to quite a few. Her owner, from Bulgaria, took delivery from Filippetti’s Mondolfo, Italy, shipyard and immediately set off on a monthlong shakedown around the Adriatic and Ionian seas. There followed a cruise along the Mediterranean coast of France. Then he handed her over to his skipper for a charter before sending the yacht, at the shipyard’s request, to a couple of boat shows. Soon, you might well see her in the Caribbean.

With four en suite cabins below, the standard layout of the Navetta 30 shows the wheelhouse on the upper deck, which has commanding views forward over a secluded seating area, and a private salon aft. The master is shown forward on the main deck, behind a curved sweep of windows overlooking the bow. It is a sensible and serviceable arrangement— the kind seen on so many yachts in this class—but this customer needed more cabins, more space for his own suite and more privacy.

If you think foldout balconies are the ultimate option on a yacht, you haven’t yet seen this Navetta. With the custom upper deck composed entirely of the