Antonini Navi Launches Hanaa, 31.2m, Two Years Behind Her 2025 Date

When does Hanaa actually reach her owner?

Hanaa, Antonini Navi's 31.2m full-custom explorer, was launched at the yard in La Spezia and is now due to her owner in spring 2027. The yard's own January 2024 keel-laying release gave 2025.

BOAT International reported the launch on 5 November 2026: a private ceremony at the yard's build sheds, with the hull already carrying its name and the yard's logo. The keel was laid in January 2024, with the owner and Hydro Tec's head of marine engineering, Sergio Cutolo, present, and the contract had been signed three months earlier, in October 2023, according to PowerYacht's August 2024 report.

The yard's keel-laying release set out a tight sequence: structural steelwork finished by the end of June 2024, hull joined to deck in July, fit-out starting in August under Hot Lab, delivery in 2025. Nothing in the launch coverage says why the date moved, and Antonini Navi hasn't said. What the record does show is the gap, roughly 34 months from keel to launch and about two years of slip against the original delivery year. For an owner weighing a first-time yard, that gap is the number to ask about.

What is Hanaa actually like to live aboard?

Hanaa drops the main saloon and the bow owner's suite that a 31m yacht normally has, and spends the space on a central lounge, a bow terrace and a sundeck of more than 78 square metres.

BOAT International quotes the brief as an 'attractive and modern' explorer from a seasoned owner who wanted comfort, long range and seaworthiness. Hydro Tec drew the exterior, the naval architecture and the layout; Hot Lab of Milan did the interiors. The result is a four-deck yacht with a masculine profile, black accents and unusual glazing, and the main deck is one social space around a central lounge that opens to the aft cockpit.

At the bow, where most yachts this size put the owner, there is a private terrace built into the hull that can serve for dining, an office or meetings. The owner's suite moves up beside the helm and opens onto its own aft terrace with lounge, bar and jacuzzi. Four guest cabins and three crew cabins sit on the lower deck, with a side garage for a tender up to 5m, and the crew mess is on the main deck next to the galley. It's a layout for someone who entertains outdoors and works from the boat, and it gives up a formal indoor dining room to get there.

How far and how fast can an Evo 31 go?

The yard's figures for the Evo 31 are 12 knots cruising, 13 knots flat out and 4,000 nautical miles at 10 knots, on two 533 kW Caterpillar C18 engines and a gross tonnage under 300.

Autoevolution's launch report gives a maximum beam of 7.5m, a full-load draft of 2.4m and a hull built to commercial standards meeting MCA and Cayman Islands requirements. A Denison Yachting listing for an Evo 31, last updated on 25 October 2026, matches those dimensions and lists 299 GT, which is the ceiling that keeps the crew and survey regime lighter than a larger yacht would face. BOAT International's launch story itself gives no engine, speed or range figures.

The Denison listing also shows fuel capacity of 11,095 US gallons, about 42,000 litres. Our own arithmetic: 4,000 miles at 10 knots is 400 hours, so using the whole tank would mean about 105 litres an hour, a plausible figure for 1,066 kW installed run gently, but it assumes no reserve. These are the yard's figures for the model and not measured results from Hanaa herself, which hasn't been to sea. The listing also names CMC stabiliser fins and bow thruster, Kohler generators, Idromar watermaker, Furuno navigation and a Starlink dish.

Why would an owner pick steel at this size?

An unnamed yard spokesperson told BOAT International that steel can be a viable alternative to fibreglass even for yachts of this size, which is the argument Hanaa exists to make.

Most 30m yachts are fibreglass or aluminium, built for speed and weight. Antonini Navi is making the opposite case: a steel hull with an aluminium superstructure, a displacement speed of 12 knots, and range and robustness in place of pace. The yard says the Evo 31 offers the liveability of much larger vessels, and BOAT International calls the sundeck one of the most spacious in the category.

Hanaa is the yard's second full-custom yacht. The first, Matilde 7, the 33.5m Seamore 34, was due to have its keel laid within days of Hanaa's, according to the yard, and was launched earlier in 2026 and delivered in summer, ActuNautique reports. Whatever the order of the keels, the other boat reached the water first. The yard's family parent, Gruppo Antonini, has worked in La Spezia since 1943, and Antonini Navi was created in 2020 under Simone Antonini and Aldo Manna. Its newest sale, the first XPD95, is due in 2028, and ActuNautique reported on 26 October 2026 that Denison Yachting is now its exclusive representative in the United States and Mexico. The yard's range gives context. ActuNautique lists four models in the United States push: the Seamore 34, the semi-custom Evo 31, the 40m Lounge 40, which can be bought before completion so an owner keeps control of layout and finishes while shortening the wait, and the XPD95, an exploration yacht under 30m and under 200 GT with engineering by NAMES, lines by Sculli & Covini and interiors by Hot Lab. Four models from a yard that has delivered one full-custom yacht so far is a wide range, so a buyer should ask which build slots are firm.

What does an Evo 31 cost?

Denison lists a 2028-delivery Evo 31 at EUR 15m, while the price of Hanaa herself, and the identity of her owner, haven't been disclosed.

The EUR 15,000,000 asking price sits on a 102-foot Evo 31 with five cabins sleeping ten, a crew of six, an aft beach club and a jacuzzi, stock number B95463, in La Spezia. It is a different boat from Hanaa, which has a custom layout with four guest cabins and no main saloon, so the number is a guide to the platform and not what Hanaa's owner paid. The listing even notes a custom layout can add an on-deck master and sky lounge.

Anyone pricing a purchase should note what is still missing: no sea trial has been published for any Evo 31, the displacement shows as zero on the listing and needs checking, the tender and tank figures differ slightly between sources (a tender over 4.5m on the listing, up to 5m in the launch story), and the yard hasn't published a build slot list or a payment schedule. A buyer would want all of it in writing before signing.