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Sirena Marine hope Italian design plus Turkish industrial knowhow equals a racy mass-production cruiser. Toby Hodges sees if the Azuree 40 adds up.

Class 40 with a cruising interior might he the easiest way to describe the Azuree 40, but that would do her and her builders a disservice. Some production boats now have the aggressive design of modern raceboats: flat bottoms, fat bums, twin rudders, chined hulls. But it’s not simply the reaching speeds and stability these elements bring that make the Azuree 40 modish. Her design and construction are so impressive they could make her Turkish builders a household name… continue reading

Yachting World November 2010 Issue

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Richard Langdon / Ocean Images

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The Arcadia 85, though neither extravagant not excessive, does not pass unobserved with her original look whose functional solutions could also be trend-setting from the design viewpoint

A yacht in which two distant worlds cohabit, is certainly the product of bold and courageous stylistic and functional practices. The Arcadia 85’ has been designed by architect Francesco Guida’s “Guida engineering + design”, a partner in Arcadia Yachts, a new shipyard which has carried out both the engineering and building of this vessel. From the idea of setting up a yard, therefore from start up to design and prototypes and right down to the launch, only two years have gone by, and time enough to present the yacht at the Dusseldorf Boot 2010 in January. At this point in time they’re currently fitting out the third 85 footer at the Torre Annunziata yard and the new 115’ twin deck, as well as laminating the fourth eighty fiver. Moreover there’s a project for a 135 footer in the Arcadia range to be launched in 2012… continue reading

Superyacht International Magazine Summer 2010 Issue

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