Custom Line's Navetta 35 Debuts at Cannes, Built to Stay Under 270 GT

What is the Custom Line Navetta 35 and why is it launching now?

The Navetta 35 is Custom Line's newest displacement-line yacht, a 34.5-metre built by Ferretti Group and shown publicly for the first time at the Cannes Yachting Festival on 8 September 2026, timed to the brand's 30th anniversary.

Custom Line announced the Navetta 35 on 4 September 2026 and gave her a world premiere at Cannes alongside the planing-hull Custom Line Saetta 106', a pairing that shows the yard now spans both displacement and planing designs under one badge, four days into a show that runs 8 to 13 September. The yard, founded in 1996 as Ferretti Group's route into semi-displacement yachts over 24 metres - the largest size Ferretti Yachts itself built at the time - is marking three decades of what it calls 'Made to Pleasure' and says it has built more than 400 made-to-measure yachts since. The Navetta 35 measures 34.5 metres with a 7.7-metre beam across three decks, built by the same Strategic Product Committee and Engineering Department that shaped the rest of the current Navetta range.

The yard's own release is explicit that the boat is 'positioned in the displacement segment under 270 GT' - a deliberate ceiling, not an accident of the hull shape. BOAT International's reporting on the related Navetta 38 explains why that number matters across the whole line: crossing 300 GT brings stricter crew, management and construction rules, raises costs, and forces a larger minimum crew. Custom Line has built its bestselling models - nearly 300 yachts over 30 metres since the brand began - around staying just under that line, and the Navetta 35 continues the same calculation at a larger size than the 33 that came before it.

How fast is the Navetta 35 and where can she actually go?

The standard Navetta 35 runs twin 1,400 hp MAN V12 diesels for up to 1,800 nautical miles in economy mode, while an optional pair of 1,622 hp CAT C32 engines is quoted at a 16-knot top speed on preliminary yard data.

Custom Line is offering a genuine choice rather than one fixed powertrain: the standard MAN V12 package prioritises range, at up to 1,800nm in economy mode, while buyers who want speed can order twin CAT C32 units instead. The yard's own figure for the CAT option is a 16-knot top speed, explicitly flagged in its release as preliminary rather than a trial-verified number - and Custom Line has not published a top-speed or cruising figure for the standard MAN package at all, an odd gap for the engine most buyers will actually order.

A full-load draught of 2.2 metres is the more practical number for an owner planning where to actually take the boat: shallow enough, Custom Line says, for sheltered bays and the kind of thin water found through much of the Caribbean, a genuine advantage over deeper-draught yachts of similar length. No independent sea trial has run yet on a yacht that was still being announced to the press a week before this story, so every performance figure here, standard or optional engines, is yard-supplied for now.

What does the layout actually give ten guests across five cabins?

The Navetta 35 sleeps ten guests in five cabins - a full-beam owner's suite on the main deck and four further cabins below - and removes the usual external aft staircase to turn the whole cockpit into open social space.

Guest accommodation runs to five cabins for ten people: the owner's suite forward on the main deck, and four guest cabins on the lower deck, a layout meant to keep guest and crew traffic separate without crowding either. Custom Line has not published a crew count for this model, unusual for a yacht this close to launch and worth asking about directly if a 300 GT-adjacent crew limit matters to a prospective owner's operating plan. Over 300 square metres of combined indoor and outdoor space are spread across the three decks, with full-height glazing from stern to bow that the yard says was designed to blur the line between the interior and the water outside.

The single most deliberate design choice is what is missing: there is no external staircase aft on the main deck, a decision Custom Line says frees the cockpit to work as the yacht's actual social hub rather than a walkway. Inside, ACPV Architects - Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel - designed the first hull's interior around what the yard calls a 'Light Mood' palette: ivory, beige and caramel tones, Pietra di Vicenza stone, pale wood floors and sand-coloured leather, with freestanding furniture by Antonio Citterio raised off the floor to read as lighter than it is. Exterior styling is by Filippo Salvetti, the same architect behind the Navetta 30 and 38.

How does the Navetta 35 fit into Custom Line's lineup, and what does she cost?

The Navetta 35 extends a Navetta 30/33/38/42 generation that Ferretti Group has built since 2014 into one of its largest revenue lines, and the only price attached to her so far is EUR 14.6 million for a single in-build hull currently listed for sale.

Custom Line has not published a base price for the Navetta 35 from the yard itself - not unusual for a full-custom launch at a boat show, but a real gap for a buyer trying to budget before speaking to a broker. The one figure on the market, per YachtBuyer, is EUR 14.6 million for an in-build hull currently offered for sale, a starting point rather than a confirmed base price, and the same tracker shows no pre-owned Navetta 35 on the water anywhere yet - consistent with a model Custom Line only announced to the press a week before her Cannes debut. That sits well above the resale market this desk has already tracked for the smaller model she replaces at the top of the range: a Navetta 33 sold this year at EUR 10.39 million and another, Tito El Patron, after a 21 percent cut, while a Navetta 33 Centurion returned to the market at EUR 4.9 million - all older, smaller hulls, but a real reference point for how much a buyer pays for three more metres and a from-new hull.

The Navetta 35 joins a line that has produced nearly 300 yachts over 30 metres since Custom Line's founding in 1996, and which Ferretti Group itself credits as one of its most significant revenue streams. The current generation - Navetta 30, 33, 38 and 42 - dates to 2014, and the 35 is the newest and, at 34.5 metres, the largest addition to sit inside that family without crossing into Custom Line's larger Navetta and flagship territory. For a buyer, that positioning is the point: this is the yard betting, again, that the space just under 300 GT is where its customers actually want to be.