Cantiere delle Marche opens Australian dealership

The decade-old company with deep roots in commercial shipbuilding has established a temporary base at the Sydney Superyacht Marina at Rozelle while it looks to establish a more permanent base. 

The CDM Australia showroom, headed by Domenico Giuffrè and Paul Milella, will connect customers with the three explorer yacht lines on which the brand is building its reputation: the all-weather Flexsplorer featuring an extra-large cockpit with space to take up to an 8.5-metre tender; the more traditionally shaped Darwin Class featuring a high bow and bulwarks; and Project MG, a new line of luxury long-stay expedition yachts that will stretch to 45 metres in length.

Both Giuffrè and Milella have previous experience helping CdM buyers.

The opening of the remote office comes as the Italian shipwright works to fill a number of orders for Australian customers.

“We already have many Aussie owners who are making the most out of our explorer yachts' qualities and we have witnessed a growing interest from a clientele who lives and travels in the southern hemisphere,” CdM sales and marketing director Vasco Buonpensiere said. 

“This is why we have decided to strengthen our presence in that area by creating Cantiere delle Marche Australia.”

One of the new boats coming to Australia is a Darwin Class explorer due for delivery to its new owner in Greece. Another Darwin Class boat is due to arrive in Australia this month before making its home in Melbourne.

According to CdM, Australia offers some of the world’s most beautiful and unspoiled coastline, yet lacks marinas and ports, “so a long-range yacht with lots of storage spaces is what you actually need”.

“CdM explorer yachts are the ideal vessels to reach the South Seas, to sail to Indonesia, the Fiji, Thailand or Bali just to name some of the most beautiful destinations in that part of the world, or to head through the expanses of the ocean to reach the most distant archipelagos of both Pacific and Indian oceans.”

One of the CdM boats arriving in Australia is the 2016 Darwin 102 Babbo, going to a new Australian owner who will rename the ship True Blue.

The Italian boatbuilder’s latest commission is a 43.2-metre Flexsplorer 142, named Maverick, which has sold to a “young German owner” who is also a keen sailor.

Once completed, Maverick will carry a Super Air Nautique G25 tender and an A-Yachts A27 sailboat launched into the water using a carbon-fibre A-frame hoist that hides away flush in the deck when not in use.