CdM delivers Octopus, a 35m explorer with 5,500nm of range
Sold before she existed
Jamie Swaine of IYC's London office placed the first Deep Blue 115 with an American client in 2024, and construction started at Ancona the same year. She went in the water in April 2025 and was handed over on 20 July 2026. Roughly two years from signature to delivery is the number worth carrying away, because it is the figure a buyer is really quoting against when a yard offers a 2029 slot on a larger boat.
Vasco Buonpensiere, co-founder and chief executive, said working with clients who brought a clear vision and a deep understanding of yachting had been stimulating and rewarding. The yard says it has ten superyacht projects on order or under construction. Octopus is the first of the Deep Blue 115 line, so the model now has a delivered reference point rather than a rendering, which is what moves the second and third hulls.
299 GT, and what it buys
She measures 35 metres with a 7.55-metre beam and 299 GT. That volume figure is a deliberate choice in this size band, and it shapes everything above the waterline. Inside there are five cabins for ten guests, with the owner's apartment forward on the main deck rather than pushed down to the lower deck, and four crew cabins for seven.
Horacio Bozzo drew the exterior, Giorgio M. Cassetta the interior, and Axis Group Yacht Design handled naval architecture and engineering. The build is described as heavily customised rather than a series boat with an options list, which is the reason the delivery took the time it did. An owner comparing this against a 35-metre production flybridge is not comparing two versions of the same purchase.
Range is the whole argument
Twin Caterpillar C18 engines rated to IMO Tier III produce 533 kW each. Top speed is 13.5 knots, cruising speed is nine, and range is 5,500 nautical miles. That is a transatlantic crossing with margin, and it is achieved without hybrid drive, battery banks or any of the machinery that adds cost and service exposure to a modern build.
The cost of that range is time. A 35-metre planing yacht will do 24 knots and cover a Med season in short hops, while Octopus takes days to do what the other does overnight. What the owner gets back is a boat that can leave the Med in October and be somewhere genuinely different by November, which is a different use of the asset rather than a better version of the same one.