Bluegame's BGX83 Is the Yard's First Yacht Over 24 Metres

What is the Bluegame BGX83 and why is it a first for the yard?

The BGX83 is a 25.6-metre, 99 GT crossover motoryacht unveiled by the Italian builder Bluegame in 2026, and it is the first yacht in the company's history to pass the 24-metre mark that the trade press and most brokers use to define a superyacht.

Bluegame built its name on the BGX line, a series of fast, owner-driven crossover day boats that borrowed their folding transom platforms, open cockpits and beach-club styling from the tender and chase-boat world and scaled it up into something a family could cruise on for a week. The largest of those, the BGX78, tops out just under 24 metres. The BGX83 does not: at 25.6 metres length overall and 99 gross tons, she sits over the line that most of the trade calls a superyacht, even though her hull form and her owner-operated ethos are unmistakably Bluegame.

The name follows Bluegame convention: BGX for the crossover series, 83 for her length in feet. She was designed by Zuccon International Project working with Luca Santella on the exterior, with naval architecture by Louis T. Codega and interiors by the Milan studio Lissoni & Partners. All three have worked on earlier BGX models, so the BGX83 reads as a scale-up of a proven formula rather than a new design language, which is itself part of the pitch to existing Bluegame owners moving up.

What powers the BGX83 and how fast does she go?

The BGX83 is built in GRP with a teak deck and is powered by three 900 hp Volvo Penta IPS pod-drive units, giving a top speed of about 30 knots and a cruising speed of around 26 knots.

Three IPS units rather than conventional shaft drives keep the engine room compact and free up volume below for guest and crew space, the same logic Bluegame has used on the smaller BGX models. The combined 2,700 hp is modest for a yacht this size next to a comparable planing motoryacht, but the crossover hull is lighter and the IPS pods are more efficient at cruising speed than shaft drives, which is how the yard gets a genuine 30-knot top end out of it. Beam is 6.3 metres and draft is a shallow 1.8 metres, letting her tuck into anchorages a deeper-draft 25-metre motoryacht cannot reach.

Layout keeps the crossover signature: folding waterline bulwarks that open the aft cockpit into a swim platform and beach club at anchor, a master suite that runs the full 6.3-metre beam, and an optional open-air show kitchen on the main deck aft of the saloon. Guest capacity is quoted at six to eight across three or four cabins depending on configuration, with a crew of three - a small crew for a 25-metre yacht, and a direct consequence of designing for an owner who still wants to drive and dock the boat himself rather than hand it to a full professional crew.

Who owns Bluegame and does that matter to a buyer?

Bluegame was founded in 2004 by the sailor and architect Luca Santella and has been part of the listed Sanlorenzo Group since 2018, which matters to a buyer because it puts a small crossover specialist behind the service, parts and resale network of a major shipbuilder rather than an independent workshop.

Santella built the first Bluegame himself and found financing through the offshore powerboat racer and entrepreneur Carlo Bonomi, who backed a production run of the early models; Sanlorenzo produced and marketed two of them from 2009. The relationship deepened into a full acquisition in 2018, after which Bluegame's revenue is reported to have grown roughly sixteen-fold over five years under Sanlorenzo Group management, with the day-to-day running entrusted to the group's own executives.

For a buyer that ownership matters more at 25 metres than it did on a 10-metre BGX day boat: a superyacht-length hull carries a heavier service and warranty obligation, and a buyer moving up from a smaller BGX or from another builder altogether is in effect also buying access to Sanlorenzo's build quality control, dealer network and, eventually, its used-boat market. It is also why the BGX83 can credibly claim a full show-circuit launch in one season - that kind of coordinated push across Cannes and Monaco is a group-level marketing decision, not something a standalone 22-year-old crossover specialist would normally fund alone.

How does the BGX83 compare with other crossover yachts near 25 metres?

The BGX83 competes less against 25-metre flybridge motoryachts and more against a small group of sport-crossover builds near the same length, such as Wally's wallytender line and Sanlorenzo's own SX range, all chasing the same owner-driven, low-crew brief at superyacht length.

Sanlorenzo's SX88 and Wally's larger wallytenders are the closest comparisons: all three builders are selling the same idea, a boat long enough to sleep guests and carry real range, but styled and crewed like a day boat rather than a formal motoryacht. Sanlorenzo has the deeper model range and more delivered hulls at this size; Bluegame's pitch is a lighter, faster, more overtly sporty hull, though the yard has not published pricing for the BGX83 and none of the three builders discloses hull-for-hull cost comparisons. That the SX88 comes from Bluegame's own parent group is itself telling: Sanlorenzo is testing the same owner-driven brief at two different price points and two different design languages under one roof.

The more consequential comparison for a buyer is not another crossover but a conventional 25-to-28-metre flybridge motoryacht from a yard like Ferretti or Sunseeker. Those boats carry more enclosed volume and a larger crew, but the BGX83 is aimed at an owner who has already decided he does not want that: more deck, less formal interior, and a running cost built around three crew instead of six or seven. Whether that trade holds up at superyacht length, rather than on the smaller BGX hulls where it was proven, is the open question the BGX83 is actually testing.

When and where will the BGX83 be shown, and is a hull available?

Bluegame plans to show the BGX83 across its full autumn circuit of European boat shows in a single season for the first time, according to chief executive Gianguido Girotti, ahead of first deliveries.

Girotti has said the yard will bring almost its entire range to one season of shows this autumn, a scheduling change from previous years and a sign the BGX83 is meant to be seen alongside the smaller BGX boats rather than launched on its own. That puts the model in front of buyers at the Cannes Yachting Festival and the Monaco Yacht Show circuit within weeks of each other, the two events where a European buyer is most likely to step aboard before ordering.

No independent sea trial or owner report exists yet; the yacht was only unveiled in the past week and every performance figure in this story comes from Bluegame's own press materials and the yard's naval architect and designers, not from a delivered hull or a third-party trial. That is normal for a boat this new, but it means the speed, range and efficiency claims above should be read as the builder's own figures until an independent trial is published.