“I

had been thinking about this boat for

a few years,” says Sergio Cutolo of Hy-

dro Tec when we ask him about the

Flexplorer. “After designing so many

pure explorers, I felt the need to create

something more evolved so when the

Cantiere delle Marche came to me with

a client that wanted something similar, I decided the time

had come to do it”.

The Flexplorer is the evolution of a project created by Hy-

dro Tec more than a few years ago for an owner that want-

ed a very unusual support vessel. Now Sergio Cutolo and

Vasco Buonpensiere have re-used it as the springboard for

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on the market today. The Flexplorer has all the trademarks

of its ilk: robustness, superb seakeeping, a plumb bow, a

strong masculine appeal. All the conventional explorer box-

es ticked, in other words. And yet it is still brings more to

mix. Just for starters, is its asymmetry.

“To increase the volumes I went for an asymmetric saloon

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loon is wide-body on the starboard side but not on the port

side because there is a walkway outside”. This design device

has resulted in more useable communal areas. The sofas

have been moved to the wide-body area and this means that

anyone coming in and wanting to move forward has a sort

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Il Flexplorer è l’evoluzione di un progetto disegnato anni fa

da Hydro Tec per un armatore che voleva un support ves-

sel con caratteristiche decisamente particolari. Ed è stato

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Right, the central cockpit.

When the tender is in the

water, it converts to a 115 sqm

lounge. Note the six skylights

in the sole that provide

light for the gym beneath.

Page opposite, the Flexplorer

underway.

A destra il pozzetto centrale.

Quando è libero dal tender si

trasforma in una lounge di

115 metri quadrati. Si notano

anche le sei fi nestre a pagliolo

che danno luce alla palestra.

Nella pagina a fi anco il Flexplorer

in navigazione.