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Santasevera Yachts

THE RANGE

Life lived well, on a deck designed for it

Spend time aboard a Santasevera and the priorities become clear quickly: the aft deck is where the day unfolds, the hardtop keeps things honest without closing anything off, and the lines that caught your eye in the bay look just as considered up close.

Francesco Guida drew those lines with a career that ran from Sanlorenzo and Arcadia to superyachts pushing 260 feet, and he brought all of it to bear on something more personal: a range of Italian motor dayboats built to order, designed against the trends so they age without dating.

The range · Day Cruiser · Flagship

Two Italian motor dayboats — the Santasevera Yachts range.

Santasevera Yachts 42

42

Santasevera Yachts 52

52

THE VALUES
Santasevera 52 profile shot at anchor in Mediterranean bay, clean side-on view
01A Clear Vision

Superyacht thinking, in a dayboat

Francesco Guida spent years resolving the tension between beauty and how a boat actually lives, on projects from Sanlorenzo and Arcadia through to superyachts that dwarf most marinas. When he founded Santasevera Yachts, that accumulated instinct went into something far more personal: a range of Italian motor dayboats where every decision, from the forward helm that frees the cockpit to the hardtop that shelters without closing the sky, serves the way real people spend a day on the water. The Santasevera 42 and the 52 are the result of that clarity.

Interior cabin of a Santasevera with Italian joinery, upholstery and natural light
02The Open Life

Space that moves with everyone aboard

The Santasevera range is designed around a simple conviction: a day on the water goes better when nobody is corralled into a corner. A flush main deck with no steps to negotiate, a C-shaped dinette that draws people together, loungers that ease you forward, a bow sunpad wide enough to disappear into. From swim platform to bow, the whole boat opens up and flows, and every person aboard finds their place without thinking about it.

Group of friends relaxing on the aft deck of a Santasevera 52 at anchor
03The Lineage

A lobster boat redrawn from scratch

There is a working-boat honesty to the Santasevera profile that no amount of styling trend can replicate: the semi-arched windows, the compact deckhouse set well forward, the sheerline that drops low and clean toward the stern. Francesco Guida took those proportions from the traditional Neapolitan lobster boats he grew up around, stripped away every affectation, and redrew them in a modern geometric hand. The result is a silhouette that reads instantly as Italian, ages without apology, and looks nothing like anything else on the water.

Santasevera 42 at speed with bow wave, Mediterranean coast in background
04Made in Italy

Built to order, finished to a standard

Every Santasevera leaves the yard as a single commission, not a production run pulled from stock. The furnishings are resolved in oak and natural upholstery, the cockpit galley fits a grill and an ice maker without looking like one, and the details that don't photograph well, the handhold angle, the ergonomic headrest, the Champagne drawer set flush in the joinery, are given the same care as the sheerline. Italy's craft tradition is not a marketing claim here; it is the reason each boat is built to order in the first place.

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FAQ

Frequently asked about Santasevera Yachts.

Santasevera Yachts is a new all-Italian marque founded by Francesco Guida, a naval architect whose pedigree runs through Sanlorenzo, Arcadia Yachts and 260-foot superyachts. The brand builds to order in Italy, and every boat carries the design language and considered detail work that Guida brings from the top end of the industry.

The Santasevera range currently spans two models: the 42 and the flagship 52, both crafted in Italy and built to order for individual owners. The 52 launched the brand and sold ten hulls in its first year on the water; the 42 followed and carries the same open-air design language in a more compact footprint.

Santasevera Yachts deliberately designs against the trends, so the styling stays timeless rather than chasing each season's fashion. Francesco Guida draws on a hint of classic lobster-boat line alongside a thoroughly modern sensibility, and the result is a boat you will not be looking to update in five years.

A Santasevera is built around open-air living: a generous aft deck flows uninterrupted under an elegant hardtop, with space to eat, lounge and swim without the boat ever feeling crowded or compartmentalised. The flush-deck layout on the 52 means everyone moves freely from the swim platform to the bow sundeck, and the helm seats three so guests are always part of the passage, not passengers waiting for it to end.

Santasevera Yachts sold ten hulls of its flagship 52 within the first year of the model reaching the water, a strong result for a new Italian yard building at this level. The 42 has followed with hulls already under construction before its public debut, and Carbon Yachts commissions and sea-trials every boat on arrival in local waters, backed by the maker's own service and warranty program mirrored here across Australia and New Zealand.
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