She looks a little different. Her designer seems to have moved her main mast bowwards. The foremast makes a somewhat too powerful impression. On the other hand, the silhouette is soft. The lines of the railing and bulwark form sweeping connections. Where other yachts have a bathing platform at the stern as an appendix to the lower deck, the stylist has obviously accommodated another enclosed aft deck.
Giovanni Zuccon and his Roman office Zuccon International Project are responsible for this unusual silhouette and the invigorating exterior details. Zuccon is an experienced architect and industrial designer who has already supervised many projects for the Ferretti Group and CRN, including CRN's 60 metre long "GiVi", also a premiere from this year.
Zuccon knows the trends. He knows that terraces on the foredecks have become popular with the right size of construction. Designers are therefore happy to extend a Portuguese bridge in front of the wheelhouse into a large open space with sofa and lounger arrangements, including a table and chair. Benetti's "Ambrosia" (issue 6/06) is one of the most recent examples. "Ability" also features this open space.
As if that wasn't enough, Zuccon has also integrated a detail that cruise ships like to embellish their first-class cabins with - a balcony. On the starboard side of the owner's bedroom, a sliding glass door closes off a small outdoor area with two deck chairs and a coffee table. This balcony cannot be seen from any position on board except from the owner's bedroom. However, the balcony caused problems, not so much in terms of the idea and integration into the design, but rather in terms of approval by Lloyd's and recognition by the MCA. The owner's balcony is the smallest but most intimate of the numerous and generous deck areas in the fresh air.
As usual, the sundeck has the largest number of square metres, 130, which is enough for a terrace with eight loungers, a seating area with armchairs and sofas, a dining table and a bar under the protection of the fixed bimini and a pool with a sunbathing area in front of the stairwell. The crew can transform the aft sundeck into a landing pad for a helicopter.
Like the owner's balcony, the "Ability" stern also has an unusual shape. Instead of a bathing platform with steps to the main deck and a garage door to the lazarette, a configuration that is common even on 100-metre formats, the CRN team designed the bathing platform as a deck with a bulwark, from which steps lead to the main deck, but no door to the tender or diving equipment. The CRN marketing team calls this almost 20 square metre outdoor deck the Beach Deck, and ahead is not a technical storage room for water bikes and compressors, but a sliding glass door to the fitness room with shimmering "torture instruments" and the shower with the adjacent sauna in a Japanese-style slate ambience.
