L’AS BLEU

L’AS BLEU is a Riva 82-foot Diva delivered in 2025 and offered for charter for the first time this season. She is the newest boat on this fleet page by a wide margin, and the Diva is the model that finally gave the 82-foot Riva a proper beach club: the transom opens into a teak bathing platform with a terrace hinging down on each side, putting close to the full width of the hull at water level. It is the single feature that changes how the boat is used at anchor.

Above that, the flybridge runs to roughly forty square metres under a hardtop, a laid dining table to starboard, a wet bar and grill inboard, a large sunpad forward and lounging on the aft coaming. On a 25-metre hull that is an unusual amount of open deck, and it is why the Diva reads as a considerably bigger yacht than her length suggests. The main-deck aft cockpit, shaded by the flybridge overhang, adds a second outdoor sitting room with facing sofas and a teak table.

Inside, the main deck is one open volume handled in two levels. The saloon takes the forward half: a deep white sectional to port, a low glass table, high-gloss rosewood cabinetry outboard, and full-height glazing on both sides with a glass aft bulkhead, so the room is lit end to end without artificial light. Two steps up and aft, a Calacatta marble table stands against a matching marble island fronting the galley. The change of level and the sheer mass of the marble give the dining end its own identity without a bulkhead.

Eight guests sleep in four ensuite cabins below. The owner’s suite runs the full beam amidships, with a king berth to port, a long rosewood desk and console opposite, a sofa under the hull window and a walk-through to the ensuite forward; hull glazing runs the length of the cabin at berth height. The VIP is in the bow with an island berth on the centreline and opening portholes both sides. Two further cabins amidships take twin berths, one of them convertible. The owner’s bathroom is the one space that leaves the dark-timber palette behind entirely, finished in book-matched white marble with a glazed shower and a twin-basin rosewood vanity.

She is powered by twin MAN V12 diesels of 1,900 horsepower, with a published cruise of 20 knots and a top speed of 27, and she carries stabilisers that work both underway and at anchor, which on the Ligurian and Corsican crossings she is set up for matters more than the numbers. Two 27 kW generators, watermakers, air conditioning, Starlink, smart televisions in every cabin and a Bluetooth audio system are all aboard.

Her toy list is short and current rather than long and tired: a Williams SportJet 395 tender, two 2026 Seabob F9s, an inflatable stand-up paddleboard and snorkelling gear, with more available on request. She is based in Monaco with a crew of three and is offered through the South of France, Corsica, Sardinia and the Italian coast. For a group of eight who want a genuinely new boat, sea-level access and a flybridge big enough to live on, she is about as current as the Mediterranean charter market gets.