For the house owners of the primary hull in Maiora’s 36 Exuma collection, constitution isn’t on the horizon. Their focus is on non-public cruising, which is what they’ve been doing since taking supply in August 2025. Their itinerary has largely featured the Mediterranean, together with essentially the most intimate ports and shallow sea beds that the yacht’s 1.45m draft permits for.
Powered by a triple waterjet propulsion system, the yacht’s zippy 33-knot prime pace is one other robust level.
Nevertheless, “the true added worth of this challenge is its inside quantity”, says Alessio Merciadri, co-founder and Co-Chief Designer of Acube Design, which penned the inside of the 36.9m, 295GT motoryacht.
In accordance with Maiora, a model of Subsequent Yacht Group, the challenge had twin targets: to convey the 36 Exuma in-line with the Italian yard’s new design path for extra sporty, dynamic, explorer-led yachts, and to extend onboard liveability and substantial bespoke choices whereas holding the yacht inside the 300GT restrict.
“At Subsequent Yacht Group, we construct round 19 models per 12 months, permitting for vital customisation. We see ourselves as a real ‘yacht boutique’,” says Stefania Delmiglio, Chief Advertising and Communications Officer.
“Our focus is on delivering real customisation and uncompromising high quality in each yacht we construct. Fairly than pursuing excessive manufacturing volumes, we’re dedicated to creating extremely personalised yachts that replicate every proprietor’s imaginative and prescient. Quantity won’t ever be our power – craftsmanship, exclusivity, innovation and a focus to element are what outline us.”
QUARTOSTILE DESIGN
At 1.91m longer than its predecessor, the award-winning 35 Exuma (4 hulls delivered), the 36 Exuma advantages from a flush deck profile extension that stretches to a sharp-angled full-beam plumb bow penned in collaboration with Quartostile.
“The total-beam bow posed a major problem when designing the yacht’s exterior,” says Andrea Sartori, certainly one of three founding companions of the Turin-based design studio. “Defining the precise steadiness between closed and open areas, and creating a brand new ‘measurement impression’ with out compromising dynamism was key.”
The 36 Exuma was not conceived as a mere train in exterior styling however was “born from a want to present form to concepts and visions that we imagine ought to outline the design of a Maiora,” Sartori provides.
The profile is outlined by a vertical, blade-like form that tapers alongside the hull in the direction of the multi-level aft seashore space, the place a big central sunpad and two elegant built-in teak-clad chaise longues are set into the aft bulwarks.
Above the sunpad is a placing curved teak characteristic that hyperlinks collectively the seashore space, cockpit and saloon. It’s one of many hallmarks of the 36 Exuma, notes Sartori, including that the strict space elongates the primary deck like a cascading floor, whereas the chaise longues, like stones embedded into the structure, provide unique moments of rest.
“With a lot house out there, we approached the format with the identical logic and expectations of a bigger vessel,” he says. “That is why the association follows the ideas of larger yachts.”
Extra seating is discovered on the raised aft cockpit, which leads into the primary saloon through a sliding glass door that Maiora has coined the ‘Infinity Door’ system.
“The Infinity Door is likely one of the Maiora’s strongest options,” says Matteo Broglia, one other Quartostile founding accomplice. “When it opens and disappears [into the bulwarks], the boundary between inside and exterior merely vanishes.”
The Italian studio labored with massive, steady glazing and sliding doorways that combine surfaces with out interrupting the outside profile. Gentle penetrates deeply, enhancing areas and creating a way of openness.
Different exterior areas of be aware embrace the ahead higher deck, which incorporates a coverable pool, comfy sofas and a rest netting space – a characteristic generally discovered aboard crusing catamarans however used on the Maiora to maintain inside the 300GT threshold.
“The voids needed to be usable house,” explains Franco Carone, one other of Quartostile’s founding companions. “The web maintains liveability and permits pure gentle into the proprietor’s suite beneath.”
ACUBE INTERIORS
The format within the full-beam proprietor’s suite, ahead on the primary deck, pivots round pure gentle and sea views. A living proof is the proprietor’s headboard, which options a big, natural opening that channels gentle immediately into the grasp toilet behind, the place a central bathe is flanked by two sinks and two bogs.
The master bedroom contains an workplace space that results in the full-beam bed room
There’s additionally a personal research by the doorway, a walk-in wardrobe and huge home windows on three sides with views onto the foredeck. Ahead vistas within the suite are partially obstructed by mounted stairs that lead from the bridge deck to the foredeck mooring space, though the second hull (launched in June 2026) incorporates a retractable stairway that may ‘roll up’, so giving the house owners a transparent view from the mattress.
Earlier Exuma fashions included a aspect terrace door for proprietor entry to the bow. Nevertheless, the house owners of the primary 36 Exuma – who stepped into the challenge simply six months after the yacht’s construct commenced – determined towards this, preferring to maintain the suite as a comfortable indoor sanctuary.
The center of onboard life centres across the protected, climate-controlled ‘alfresco’ skylounge on the higher deck. It’s additionally outfitted with Maiora’s Infinity Doorways, totally retractable aspect home windows, teak parquet flooring and a flush threshold.
Whereas the 35 Exuma featured a retractable roof within the skylounge, the primary 36 Exuma house owners elected so as to add a pocket sundeck, described by Maiora as a ‘Nest Deck’, which options massive sunpads and a 360-degree view. It’s an open but intimate house and essentially the most non-public space onboard.
A number of components have been developed particularly for hull one, together with bespoke recessed furnishings handles to keep away from visitors snagging garments when passing, and a dumb waiter rather than a central double staircase. The remaining single staircase is designed with huge openings alongside the handrails so gentle can go via.
“We handled the 36 Exuma as if it have been a 45m yacht,” says Merciadri of Acube Design. “The circulation between areas is due to this fact clear, beneficiant and intuitive, reflecting the consolation and usefulness usually discovered on yachts a number of metres longer.”
One of many key advantages of the 36 Exuma’s further size is the inclusion of two aft tender garages that allow house owners to hold a critical assortment of toys onboard.
One transversal storage can accommodate a 6.25m tender, and an aft storage comfortably homes water toys and a jet-ski plus a crane. Each are strategically positioned beneath the raised cockpit to scale back noise transmission between the engine room and visitor areas.
In parallel, the additional house supplied by the vertical bow has been used for beneficiant crew cabins, sometimes accommodating 5 crew. On hull one, the captain shares his cabin together with his spouse, the chief stewardess, so growing the full to 6.
The Maiora 36 Exuma’s beneficiant volumes contains correct service areas and considerable storage. They’re but extra strings within the yacht’s bow, underpinning two components which are at all times appreciated in each non-public cruising and constitution operations, in response to Merciadri.
“It creates a format that adapts naturally to totally different life, whereas sustaining a excessive customary of consolation for everybody on board.”
Phrases by Julia Zaltzman; Photographs: Leonardo Andreoni & Gionata Xerra
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