Riva Reveals the 112′ Dolcevita Tremendous

It’s exhausting 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 properly for the heritage yacht builder, which kinds a part of yachting big Ferretti Group.

However as beautiful as they might be, these shiny runabouts are actually 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 lately introduced the 70Metri, which is able to succeed the 54Metri because the model’s flagship. Nevertheless, the model’s perennial drawback has at all times been: how do you go larger whereas retaining the Riva essence?

On the 112’ Dolcevita Tremendous, one in every of Riva’s a number of new fashions in 2025, the transient was clear: maintain it easy. No fuss, no tendencies, no fanfare. Take the Riva silhouette and elongate it, and attempt to maintain the strains devoted to the early fashions, however with out sacrificing the ‘customary’ requests that shoppers 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 at the least 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 seashore 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 sit down ‘ultra-low’, making certain the best-possible connection to the water, and advantages from a sweep of sunpads that create a veritable chill-out zone that extends properly past what you’ll be able to create with unfastened furnishings alone.

This is likely one of the finest makes use of of alfresco areas on the yacht, however Riva doesn’t overlook all the opposite waterfront dwelling alternatives accessible.

On the bow, shoppers are invited to decide on whether or not to have a second couch or to put in a jacuzzi, and the jacuzzi might be well hidden away when not in use.

In the meantime, up on the two-level flybridge, the whole deck has been rethought to really feel like an open-air saloon.

Up right here, there’s a big dwelling 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 fascinating hard-top with louvred slats for airflow and a snaking phase of glass that lets pure mild stream down through the day.

INTERIOR OPTIONS

Massive home windows and pure mild have been a consideration from the get-go. “We have now a variety 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 each side of the saloon.

Riva “enhanced the home windows on the bow, not solely to strengthen and spotlight the outside design but in addition 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 would possibly predict. That’s as a result of the hull displayed at Cannes (and which is pictured) exhibits one of many two fundamental format choices Riva provides for the saloon, together with the extra standard aft lounge and midships eating.

It’s “at all times a private selection,” confirms a Riva spokesperson, and “on this case, the house owners determined to have the eating space aft”.

The chosen possibility works properly because the midships lounge features a forward-facing couch and two longer, going through sofas, with the realm benefiting from the breeze and views offered when sliding doorways to port are opened. Within the optionally available format, the aft lounge consists of an L-shaped couch within the port nook.

In one other play with conventions, the galley is on the starboard aspect. Surprisingly brilliant and beneficiant, it leads right down to the crew space. The crew mess options an extendable desk in a snug mess and three cabins for a complete of 5 crew.

For friends, the cabin rely is 5, together with a main-deck proprietor’s suite that sprawls throughout a single degree with an aft-facing berth and a well-sized en suite. It’s accessed through the port-side hall, the place you would possibly often anticipate finding the galley entry, however on this mannequin, the format was inverted “to create an even bigger space on that aspect, 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 basic Riva accents like chrome 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 magnificence and degree of element that reminds you why Rivas are nonetheless so extremely regarded. It’s the sort of factor, 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 package deal contains twin 2,638hp mtu 16V 2000 M96L engines, which energy the yacht to a high pace of 25.5 knots and a cruising pace of round 23 knots. Alternatively, for house owners topic to tighter emissions or just in search of the optionally available 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 achieved with a lightweight hand. This boat isn’t flashier, nevertheless it’s definitely extra beneficiant in its volumes and extra snug in its choice of areas.

By ticking all of the containers that immediately’s yacht house owners are searching 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 larger.”

Phrases: Katia Damborsky; Photographs: Ferretti Group

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