ISA Doubles Its 80-90m Platform With the Amarcord 86 Concept

What is the ISA Amarcord 86?

It is Nuvolari Lenard's second design for ISA Yachts' Large Yacht Collection, an 86-metre platform revealed on 27 August 2026 that gives each of five decks its own separate job rather than concentrating guest life on two or three.

ISA Yachts confirmed Amarcord 86 on 27 August 2026, the second design in the yard's Large Yacht Collection and the follow-up to Amarcord 82, revealed a month earlier. The design comes from Nuvolari Lenard and runs 86 metres overall on a 13.6-metre beam, built at ISA's Ancona yard. Rather than gathering guest life onto one or two big social decks, as most yachts in this size range still do, ISA has given each of Amarcord 86's five decks its own role. The lower deck carries a beach club with a massage room and a gym that looks out to sea, linked to the wellness area by a glazed corridor that runs straight through the engine room, a passage ISA describes as turning the yacht's technical heart into part of the architecture instead of hiding it. A fixed aft swim platform and two fold-down balconies, one at the stern and a second amidships, put three separate points of direct water access on one hull.

Guest accommodation runs to five en-suite cabins including one VIP suite, plus a twin cabin on the lower deck, while the owner's suite occupies more than 100 square metres on its own upper deck, positioned by ISA as a private residence rather than a stateroom. A circular staircase wraps a glass panoramic lift through every level, and the main deck's aft pool has a glass bottom that drops daylight down into the beach club entrance below. Forward on the upper deck, ISA has left a cockpit clear enough for touch-and-go operations by a medium helicopter, alongside a private pool and two lounges reserved for the owner's family. Crew are berthed separately, in eleven cabins that can sleep up to 21, with the captain given a double cabin of his own on the bridge deck, a crew count that signals ISA expects the yacht to run a full seasonal charter and owner-use program rather than sit idle most of the year.

How does Amarcord 86 differ from Amarcord 82, the first Large Yacht Collection design?

Amarcord 86 is four metres longer and built around distinct, deck-by-deck rituals rather than Amarcord 82's more concentrated social spaces, and ISA has been explicit that the difference is deliberate rather than a simple scaling up.

Amarcord 82, unveiled on 30 July 2026, runs 82 metres (269 feet) on a narrower 12.8-metre beam, with twin 3,004hp MTU engines giving a 6,200-nautical-mile range at 12 knots. She sleeps 12 guests in six staterooms plus an owner's suite of just over 100 square metres, and carries the same glass-bottomed main-deck pool and forward helipad that recur on Amarcord 86. ISA's own account of the second design draws the line clearly: Amarcord 86 is not a simple dimensional evolution of Amarcord 82, but a different interpretation of the contemporary large yacht, built around the idea that an owner and guests move through distinct moods across a day rather than settling into one or two social hubs.

What has not changed is the engineering underneath. Both designs sit on the technical platform ISA built up through its Custom 80, Gran Turismo 80 and Gran Turismo 100 projects, plus the know-how the yard gained finishing the Columbus Classic 80-metre Dragon. ISA frames the two Amarcord designs as proof that one proven hull-and-systems base can carry genuinely different yachts on top of it, rather than a range of fixed models an owner picks between. The platform changes the deck plan and the interior. It does not change the boat underneath.

Why is ISA betting on a repeatable platform instead of one-off custom builds?

ISA's parent group, Palumbo Superyachts, is scaling a large-yacht business that BOAT International valued at roughly EUR 1 billion in order book as of July 2026, and a proven platform lets it sell full customisation above the waterline without re-engineering the yacht itself on every contract.

Giuseppe Palumbo, sole director of Palumbo Superyachts, described the logic behind the Large Yacht Collection plainly: every owner envisions their yacht differently, and the group's task is to turn that vision into reality without compromise. The group is not starting from nothing in this size range. ISA already has a Custom 80-metre sold for 2026 delivery, a Gran Turismo 80 due in 2027, and a Gran Turismo 100 under construction, on top of the finished Columbus Classic Dragon. That is four hulls between 80 and 100 metres either delivered, sold or in build before Amarcord 86 was even revealed, which is the case ISA is making for why a buyer should trust an unbuilt platform: the underlying engineering has already been tested on paying contracts, even where this specific deck plan has not.

For an owner, the practical pitch is time and risk, not price. ISA has published neither. A platform with proven hull loading, tankage and systems routing should move faster from signed contract to sea trials than a fully bespoke 86-metre design started from a blank hull, and it should carry fewer of the engineering surprises that push large custom builds past their original delivery date. What stays negotiable is everything a buyer actually walks through: deck layout, materials, cabin count and the kind of experience-first choices Amarcord 86's five-deck programme is built to demonstrate.

What does an Amarcord 86 cost, and has anyone ordered one?

As of this story, ISA has not published a price, an engine package, a speed or a delivery date for Amarcord 86, and it remains a concept design rather than a signed contract, exactly the status Amarcord 82 held when ISA revealed it a month earlier.

Every fact in this story comes from ISA's own release and from trade coverage of it, and none of the outlets that have written about Amarcord 86, including Top Yacht Design and YachtBuyer, report a price, a propulsion package or a buyer. That is a real gap for anyone trying to compare Amarcord 86 against a built yacht: Amarcord 82's twin MTU engines and 6,200-mile range are public, but ISA has not yet said whether Amarcord 86 will carry the same powertrain, a larger one to match the extra four metres and added deck weight, or something else entirely.

That gap is not unusual for a first-reveal concept, and it does not mean the platform is speculative window dressing. ISA's Custom 80 sold on the same underlying platform logic before this second Amarcord was ever drawn. It does mean an owner reading this story today is looking at a design brief and a rendering, not a yacht with sea trials, an interior fit-out or a single independent report from anyone who has stood on her deck. No owner or captain has spoken about Amarcord 86, because nobody outside ISA and Nuvolari Lenard has been aboard one. It does not exist yet.

Where does the 80-to-90-metre bracket that Amarcord 86 is chasing stand right now?

The 80-to-90-metre segment already has established yards with hulls in the water and full reference lists, so ISA's platform has to win owners on delivery speed and price certainty rather than on the brand pedigree a longer-established large-yacht builder carries into the same conversation.

An owner shopping in the 80-metre-plus bracket today can choose a yard that has delivered dozens of yachts in this range, with sea trials, charter histories and resale records to point to, or a platform like ISA's Large Yacht Collection that promises a faster path to a similarly sized yacht built on proven engineering, but with no delivered hull yet carrying its name. Both routes lead to a genuinely custom yacht above the waterline. They differ in how much of the underlying risk the buyer is being asked to accept on the yard's word rather than on a reference he can go and see for himself.

ISA's answer to that gap is the two Amarcord designs themselves. A second concept revealed within roughly a month of the first, on the same platform, is either evidence the yard can turn out genuinely different large-yacht designs quickly, or a sign that custom here means custom within a narrower set of choices than a from-scratch build would offer. Either reading is available until ISA sells one and a hull goes into the water, which is the point at which this story will next have something new to report.