Deep Blue 115

The junior Deep Blue, and the clever one

The Deep Blue line made its name at 43 metres with the award-winning first 141. The 115 is the same design language compressed to 35 metres by Bozzo with naval architecture and engineering by Axis Group Yacht Design, and it measures 299 GT, a bracket that keeps compliance, manning and cost structures a full step lighter than the yard's 400 and 499 GT flagships.

The signature is the bow the yard calls a beak, high, flared and confident, with deep bulwarks that shelter the side decks and glazing drawn with floating mullions so the superstructure reads as sculpture. Naval architecture from Axis Group keeps the engineering conversation inside the design team, while the yard's own technical office signs off construction as it does across the fleet. Among 35 metre explorers the profile is unmistakable, which is part of what the line's owners are buying.

Octopus, sold on renderings, delivered in two years

The first hull was sold in 2024 through IYC to American owners the yard describes as experienced enthusiasts, and construction began the same year. Delivery followed on 20 July 2026, a build tempo conventional custom yards struggle to match at this quality level, and a direct product of CdM's practiced platform engineering and its ten-shed Ancona production line.

The owners leaned into personalisation. Giorgio M. Cassetta drew an interior the trade press described as colourful and full of surprises, arranged for ten guests in five cabins with an owner's suite on the main deck, plus space for two more guests, and seven crew in four cabins, a service ratio rare below 300 GT. Her final months overlapped the busiest stretch in the yard's history, a 2026 in which Ancona put four yachts into the water inside four months.

A real pool, a foredeck cinema and 5,500 miles of range, on 35 metres and 299 gross tons.

A pool, a cinema, a side-loading garage

Octopus carries a real swimming pool aft with storage for treated water, a luxury normally rationed to much larger yachts, and her foredeck converts to an open-air cinema. The stored water means the pool can stay usable on passage instead of being pumped down and refilled at every stop. The tender lives in a garage with a side-opening hatch to port, keeping the aft deck free, a different answer from the Flexplorer's crane but driven by the same instinct to keep living space clear.

The swim platform is generous, and the whole aft end is organised around water access, diving and boarding from dinghies in rough anchorages. This is an explorer built for owners who get in the water every day, and every arrangement decision follows that priority.

Tier III engines, transpacific legs

Power is a pair of Caterpillar C18s, 533 kilowatts each and IMO Tier III compliant, pushing her to 13.5 knots flat out. At nine knots the range runs to 5,500 nautical miles, which covers the Atlantic with a wide margin and makes the long Pacific legs plannable. The arithmetic of small engines and big tanks is the whole CdM religion in miniature.

Fuel burn at passage speed is modest enough to change how an owner thinks about itineraries. Seasons stop being built around fuel docks and start being built around weather windows and anchorages, and the 299 GT tonnage keeps port costs and compliance overheads in the smallest bracket a yacht of this capability can occupy. Tier III compliance also future-proofs her against the emissions rules tightening across northern European and North American waters.

Where it sits in the family

Above it, the Deep Blue 130 and 141 add staterooms, volume and crew. Below it, nothing, this is the entry to the line, priced and sized where accomplished owner-operators and first-time custom buyers tend to meet the brand. Against the Darwin 115 it trades the trawler character for Bozzo's drama at identical length, a choice of temperament more than capability.

Hull one's timeline is the practical selling point. A custom 35 metre explorer, specified to a demanding American brief, went from contract to handover in roughly two years. For buyers weighing a CdM against a semi-custom production boat, that delivery speed narrows the argument for compromise considerably.

Pour qui: An owner stepping into full custom for the first time, or stepping down from bigger tonnage, who wants maximum capability and personality in the lightest regulatory bracket a 35 metre can occupy.