Source: Giorgia Gessner, Yachtonline.it
Azimut’s new Leonardo 100 has been described as a luxury sea-going loft. She’s a 30.75-metre yacht with the sleek, sporting lines of an open and the second helm station and relaxation area of a flybridge design.
“The Leonardo 100,” says Francesco Ansalone, head of marketing for Azimut Yachts,”is the first of a new line based on a philosophy of generous social spaces and a genuine continuity between interiors and exteriors. One example is the hanging staircase in the saloon. It leads to the upper deck, so that this no longer creates a separate world, as it does on many yachts. Another unusual feature of the Leonardo 100,” Ansalone continues, “is a design that offers special walkways for the crew so they can work outside and move around inside while the guests remain totally unaware of their presence.”
She is, in fact, a flybridge model in that she reflects a style that’s already well-known and popular, but offers lines and solutions that emphasise her modernity, especially in the way her spaces are used. It’s all complemented by elegantly simple furnishings, with teak flooring and furniture in mahogany-dyed zebrano, creating harmonious contrasts with light pearlised alcantara panelling. The main deck layout is especially original and successful, with an open space saloon. Immediately on entry, there’s a circular dining room, surrounded by semicircular windows that allow it to communicate with the deck. The conversation area with lateral sofas is in the centre. It’s furnished with a pop-up TV unit, which separates it from the internal deck without hiding it. There’s a roomy forward lounge with sofas and sunpad.
A garage that can hold a a good-sized tender and two jetskis is located on the extreme aft of the lower deck, followed by the hypertechnical engine room, with enough headroom to stand up in. Inside nestle two 1630 kW MTUs, powering the yacht to top speed of 32 knots and a cruising speed of 29 knots. Immediately forward there’s the zone comprising galley and crew quarters, a solution that has the advantage of insulating the owner’s cabin amidships from sound and vibration. This full-beam accommodation is lit and ventilated from both sides by rectangular “scenic windows” with opening sections, and has a spacious bathroom with white Sivec marble tops, two yellow blown glass washbasins and hydromassage shower.
The other guest cabins, two twins and a forward VIP cabin open onto the central corridor to forward. Although unobtrusive, the flying bridge is a sizeable feature (11 metres long) with a round Jacuzzi aft flanked by a sunpad and loungers, while the central section is reserved for socialising, with sofa and table, covered by an original hard top in glass and fibreglass.