Fiorente belongs to a category the modern market has almost forgotten: a proper 1990s classic, steel hulled and displacement, drawn when a motoryacht was meant to look like a ship rather than a sports car. Built by Ferronavale in 1990 with naval architecture and exterior lines by Studio Peterlin, she carries the low, purposeful profile and deep bulwarks of a real sea boat, and a warmth that newer yachts spend a great deal of money trying to recreate.
A refit budgeted at more than four million euros in 2018 brought her systems, finishes and comfort up to contemporary charter standard without stripping away her character. Little of the original woodwork was lost, because the refit was about renewal rather than reinvention. The interior, styled by Alberto Pinto, is a study in warm mahogany, cream leather and soft light. The main salon opens to a formal dining room, and a separate sky lounge with its own television gives guests a quieter room to retreat to. It is a layout built for long, unhurried days aboard rather than quick weekends.
She sleeps ten guests across five cabins, served by a crew of seven, a generous ratio that shows in the standard of service. The master is a full width room panelled in mahogany with a private dressing area, and the further doubles and twins are finished to the same quiet, traditional standard. Each cabin has its own bathroom, and the lower deck stays cool and hushed even at the height of summer. Where many yachts of her length feel tight below, Fiorente feels solid and settled, the product of a steel hull and an era that valued volume over speed.
On deck her classic layout comes into its own. The shaded aft deck is set for formal dining with a round table and the coastline as a backdrop, while the foredeck and an upper sun deck offer sunpads, loungers and, unusually for a yacht of this vintage, a proper gym with a treadmill and cross trainer set out in the open air. Her tender and toy locker is well stocked for relaxed cruising: a jet ski, paddleboards, a kayak, wakeboard, water skis and full diving and snorkelling kit.
Fiorente cruises at a gentle eleven knots, the natural pace of a displacement yacht, and that is the point. She is built for owners and guests who want to arrive calmly, sit low and steady in the water, and spend a week moving between the harbours of the French and Italian Riviera without hurry. Her range is long and her fuel appetite modest, so a two week itinerary is comfortably within reach, and evenings at anchor stay flat and quiet thanks to a hull built to sit heavy and stable. Cannes, Monaco, Portofino and the islands off Naples and Sicily are her natural territory.
In a fleet dominated by white fibreglass and hard edges, Fiorente offers something increasingly rare: genuine provenance, a designer interior with a name behind it, and the reassuring feel of a steel ship that has been loved and maintained. For a charter party drawn to character and craftsmanship rather than top speed, she rewards the guest who slows down.
