OVAL reached the charter market for the first time only after her 2021 refit, and that late arrival is the most useful thing to know about her. Cantieri di Pisa delivered her in 2006, and she spent the following fifteen years in private hands. The refit found a hull in unusually good order and interior volumes that the yard’s sport-cruiser reputation does not prepare you for.
She measures 31.10 metres of Italian GRP, and her proportions do something clever. The Pisa profile is long, low and raked, the shape of a boat built to move. Inside, the accommodation carries the beam and the headroom of something noticeably larger. Vivai Del Sud shaped the original interior, and the 2021 work kept that architecture intact while sharpening it: dark figured timber runs through the saloon and dining room, cream upholstery holds the light, and the colour arrives through art rather than through fabric. It is a confident room, and it does not look its age. Be clear about the scale, though: the saloon and the dining room are her two interior spaces, running as one continuous volume with a bar console at the aft end. On a 31-metre sport hull that is the honest trade, and the deck areas are where she spends her generosity.
Two master cabins is the layout’s real headline, and at this size it is rarer than it sounds. Most 31-metre yachts offer a single owner’s suite and ask everyone else to accept the compromise. OVAL gives two couples equal standing, then arranges three further cabins around them for ten guests across five rooms. The senior of the two answers her name directly: the bed is a true oval, set on a curved plinth with the en suite beyond it and a dressing chair turned to the window. The second master takes a conventional king but loses nothing in floor area. For two families travelling together, or for a group in which nobody wants to draw the short straw, that removes the negotiation before it starts.
Above deck she is organised around the sun. The sun deck carries a jacuzzi set into the teak, a shaded lounge and bar behind it, and sunpads to either side, with enough clear deck to keep the two zones from crowding each other. The aft deck seats the full charter party around one table beneath the overhang. The foredeck is left deliberately plain: sunpads, a rail, and the view. Moving between the three is easy, which counts for more than raw square metres on a yacht this length.
Her season runs the eastern Mediterranean and the Adriatic, summer and winter alike, based out of Greece. She cruises at 18.5 knots with 24 available, and the range that implies is the point of it. The Cyclades become a morning rather than an afternoon. The Ionian opens up without surrendering a day to the passage. A crew of six runs her, and the feedback that follows her is about their consistency rather than any single flourish.
The transom opens directly to the water, and the toys live behind it: a Williams 3.85 jet tender, a Seadoo RXP 300RS, two Seabob F9S, two Jobe SUPs, waterskis, a wakeboard, towables and snorkelling equipment. It is a working set-up rather than a display, assembled around what guests actually ask for.
What OVAL offers is a yacht privately cared for across fifteen years and then prepared properly for guests. The refit is recent enough to feel new and old enough to have been tested across four seasons. She is quick, she is settled at anchor, and she sleeps ten in genuine cabins rather than in cleverly counted berths. In the Aegean, at a size that still gets into the harbours the larger boats admire from outside, that is a strong hand.
