It’s laborious to supersize a Riva. For anybody not within the yachting world, the model conjures up a picture of a mahogany-clad speedboat tracing elegant strains throughout a glassy Italian lake, mountains within the background, and a James Bond-style character behind the wheel. That sort of old-school glamour is what Riva is synonymous with, and that legacy continues to fare effectively for the heritage yacht builder, which varieties a part of yachting big Ferretti Group.
However as attractive as they could be, these shiny runabouts at the moment are simply part of the Riva fleet of choices, which embody the Open, Sportfly and Flybridge ranges, in addition to the 50m-plus metallic superyachts constructed on the Ferretti Group Superyacht Yard in Ancona.
In keeping with latest information, Riva delivered round 30 superyacht models in 2024, and the builder not too long ago introduced the 70Metri, which is able to succeed the 54Metri because the model’s flagship. Nevertheless, the model’s perennial downside has at all times been: how do you go greater whereas holding the Riva essence?
On the 112’ Dolcevita Tremendous, one among Riva’s a number of new fashions in 2025, the temporary was clear: preserve it easy. No fuss, no developments, no fanfare. Take the Riva silhouette and elongate it, and attempt to preserve the strains devoted to the early fashions, however with out sacrificing the ‘normal’ requests that purchasers require from their yachts.
Produced at Riva’s La Spezia shipyard, devoted to the model’s yachts from 70-130ft, the 112’ Dolcevita Tremendous had its world premiere on the 2025 Cannes Yachting Pageant.
WATERSIDE LIVING
Design of the 34m flybridge motoryacht is by Officina Italiana Design, which has been working with Riva since 1994, when the studio was co-founded by Mauro Micheli (Chief Designer) and Sergio Beretta (Gross sales Director). The studio will proceed its long-held partnership with the model till no less than 2030, following a latest renewal.
The 112’ Dolcevita Tremendous condenses all these years of collaboration with a specific nod to its predecessor, the 110’ Dolcevita, which hit the market in 2018. However there are some clear refinements at play right here, too.
One of many key evolutions is the seaside membership. On the stern, a beneficiant 35sqm waterfront space folds out over the water, with lateral platforms on port and starboard that present each sunbathing space and water entry.
The three-sided waterside zone has been designed to take a seat ‘ultra-low’, guaranteeing the best-possible connection to the water, and advantages from a sweep of sunpads that create a veritable chill-out zone that extends effectively past what you’ll be able to create with unfastened furnishings alone.
This is among the greatest makes use of of alfresco areas on the yacht, however Riva doesn’t overlook all the opposite waterfront residing alternatives out there.
On the bow, purchasers are invited to decide on whether or not to have a second couch or to put in a jacuzzi, and the jacuzzi will be well hidden away when not in use.
In the meantime, up on the two-level flybridge, your entire deck has been rethought to really feel like an open-air saloon.
Up right here, there’s a big residing space aft, a central part with a cocktail bar, barbecue, stools, a drop-down tv, and a eating house. All of that is shaded by an attention-grabbing hard-top with louvred slats for airflow and a snaking section of glass that lets pure mild stream down throughout the day.
INTERIOR OPTIONS
Huge home windows and pure mild had been a consideration from the get-go. “Now we have a whole lot of mild all through,” factors out Massimo Jannone, Ferretti Group’s Gross sales Director for Serial Enterprise.
In the primary saloon, full-height glass flanks either side of the saloon.
Riva “enhanced the home windows on the bow, not solely to strengthen and spotlight the outside design but additionally to have way more mild inside,” Jannone explains.
As you enter, you’re greeted by the formal eating space aft and a lounge ahead, a flipped model of what you may predict. That’s as a result of the hull displayed at Cannes (and which is pictured) reveals one of many two predominant format choices Riva affords for the saloon, together with the extra typical aft lounge and midships eating.
It’s “at all times a private selection,” confirms a Riva spokesperson, and “on this case, the homeowners determined to have the eating space aft”.
The chosen possibility works effectively because the midships lounge features a forward-facing couch and two longer, dealing with sofas, with the realm benefiting from the breeze and views supplied when sliding doorways to port are opened. Within the non-obligatory format, the aft lounge contains an L-shaped couch within the port nook.
In one other play with conventions, the galley is on the starboard facet. Surprisingly vibrant and beneficiant, it leads all the way down to the crew space. The crew mess options an extendable desk in a cushty mess and three cabins for a complete of 5 crew.
For company, the cabin depend is 5, together with a main-deck proprietor’s suite that sprawls throughout a single stage with an aft-facing berth and a well-sized en suite. It’s accessed through the port-side hall, the place you may often anticipate finding the galley entry, however on this mannequin, the format was inverted “to create a much bigger space on that facet, for the proprietor’s cabin,” explains a Riva spokesperson.
RIVA SIGNATURES
Throughout the yacht, high-gloss rosewood, black hammered leather-based trims, and lacquered surfaces work alongside traditional Riva accents like stainless-steel, turquoise linens, and mahogany touches.
The Riva emblem is engraved within the door handles, the tabletops, and the treads of the doorways, including an class and stage of element that reminds you why Rivas are nonetheless so extremely regarded. It’s the sort of component, just like the glass part on the sundeck, that doesn’t essentially add any sensible use, however serves as a purely aesthetic contact.
Elsewhere, acoustic consolation has been addressed. The bulkhead between crew and visitor zones has been strengthened on the decrease deck, and the flooring has been redesigned to scale back vibrations and slamming.
Below the hood, the usual propulsion bundle includes twin 2,638hp mtu 16V 2000 M96L engines, which energy the yacht to a prime pace of 25.5 knots and a cruising pace of round 23 knots. Alternatively, for homeowners topic to tighter emissions or just in search of the non-obligatory spec, twin MTU 16V 2000 M97L models with SCR system can be found.
The 112’ Dolcevita Tremendous is a cleverly scaled translation of Riva’s DNA, however executed with a lightweight hand. This boat isn’t flashier, nevertheless it’s definitely extra beneficiant in its volumes and extra snug in its collection of areas.
By ticking all of the packing containers that at the moment’s yacht homeowners are on the lookout for, however with the added advantages of efficiency and pedigree, the 112’ Dolcevita Tremendous delivers. And does so with the sort of quiet confidence that claims: “Sure, it is a Riva – however greater.”
Phrases: Katia Damborsky; Pictures: Ferretti Group
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