EPIC Endeavor

H How do you get all the amenities of a 30-meter [100ft] yacht into a hull that escapes the straitjacket of classification? Some would say that’s having your cake and eating it. Not Ferretti, though. The Italian boatbuilding giant believes there is a simple answer: you buy the new Ferretti Yachts 1000, the marque’s flagship.

“It’s the missing link between Ferretti Yachts and Custom Line,” says chief commercial officer Stefano de Vivo of the new flagship. “We’re giving Ferretti clients the possibility of going to 30 meters. Our competitors are still trying to figure out how we did that inside a 24-meter waterline length.”

At one level it is simple: a classic raked bow reduces the waterline length and the long bathing platform doesn’t count either, being just above the water. “That extra length at the back gives no buoyancy, and in displacement mode, it improves the angle of pitch,” de Vivo says.

However, the real trick is to have created a hull with enough volume and stability to fulfill all the requirements you might place on a larger yacht. At 22ft in the