One Step in the Right Direction

A boat-wide beach club feel and cruising efficiency, thanks to a groundbreaking hull design, mean the oceanic yachts 76 will meet a variety of owner needs.

- Alan Harper

High bulwarks, a purposeful bow, and an aggressively stepped sheer sweeping back to a long aft deck—remind you of anything? The new Oceanic 76 certainly looks like she means business. Vaguely military in appearance she may be, or perhaps be faintly reminiscent of a tug—but the business she has been designed to transact is purely of pleasure.

The concept was first unveiled in the original Oceanic, a 90-footer launched two years ago, which toyed with the concept of the luxury motoryacht in an engagingly subversive way, placing more emphasis on outdoor spaces and tender-handling capabilities and less on the look-at me luxury of a capacious interior.

Following in the wake of the 90, Canados introduced the Oceanic 76 at the 2016 Cannes show. And while she obviously can’t quite carry 3 tons of tenders like her bigger sister, she can still accommodate a substantial RIB in her garage and a full-size PWC on the hydraulic stern platform, without encroaching on the wide-open spaces of her aft deck and substantial flybridge. Once you’ve had your fun with the yacht’s toys, these comfortably informal yet alluring areas invite you to relax. There’s seating up on the bow, too. Where some yachts essay a beach club ambience on the stern platform, the Oceanic encourages you to think of the whole boat as a beach club. It’s a unique proposition, unmatched by other motoryachts of this size.

Of course, the interior appointments of the 76 have not exactly been ignored—this is, after all, a yacht built in Italy. All Oceanic interiors are designed for individual owners by the Cristiano Gatto studio in Preganziol, near Venice, whose work can be seen in numerous notable Italian superyachts, not to mention at several swish residential addresses from Yekaterinburg to Dubai. Oak floors, silk carpets, white leather, and reflective black glass were features of this yacht’s interior; yours can be however you wish.