You should be a mountain bike pro in the team of the "M Ocean" owners. Then you could float in the jacuzzi on the foredeck of the 35-metre Arcadia after strenuous training sessions on unknown trails and let the bubbles massage your exhausted muscles. A pleasant idea. The French owners, twin brothers with large families, love the mountainous Mediterranean island of Corsica. And for good reason. "The owners are keen mountain bikers and even have their own professional team, with whom they want to train a lot there," says Production Manager and shipyard captain Salvatore D'Ambrosi.
"The yacht anchors on one side, takes the athletes to the island by tender and then sails calmly to the other side to pick up the exhausted athletes again." In order to have enough space for the family and the occasional bikers travelling with them, the owners opted for a five-cabin layout instead of the four- or three-suite version envisaged by Arcadia Yachts.
The fact that the layout is nevertheless extremely comfortable was demonstrated during a short, but crisp joyride off the coast of Naples. Under a bright blue sky and with Mount Vesuvius to starboard, the captain manoeuvred the vertical bridge windows. In addition, there is an extremely favourable aerodynamic phenomenon called a windward stall, which ensures that there is absolutely no wind directly in front of the bridge windows. A cosy bench seat invites you to relax there. The shipyard from Torre Annunziata fitted all the glass panes of the roof with photovoltaic elements from solar cell manufacturer Schüco Italia, which generate up to 4.5 kW of power when the sun is shining and charge the battery banks housed in the engine compartment.
Martin Hager
Editor in Chief YACHT
