RAPH SEVEN II

About M/Y RAPH SEVEN II

The Riva Signature

RAPH SEVEN II is a Riva Corsaro 100, thirty metres of Italian craftsmanship conceived to hold everything of a far larger yacht within a hull that still slips easily into the old harbours of the Riviera. Her silver-white profile carries the long horizontal glazing and low, tensioned sheer that have defined Riva for a century. Five cabins receive ten guests below; above, a shaded flybridge opens onto the sea. She is quick, quiet, and entirely at ease between Cannes and Portofino.

The Corsaro 100 was drawn around a single idea: to build a flybridge yacht that concedes nothing to a maxi yacht while staying just under the thirty-metre mark. That restraint is what makes RAPH SEVEN II so usable on the Côte d'Azur. She berths where thirty-five-metre boats cannot, clears the Saint-Tropez quay in season, and still offers the volumes, the crew service and the sea-keeping of a far heavier vessel. Twin MTU 16V 2000 M96L engines deliver a combined 5,276 horsepower to a planing GRP hull. She reaches 28 knots and holds a comfortable 24-knot cruise, which puts Monaco within an hour of Cannes and the Iles de Lerins within twenty minutes of the Croisette. Stabilisers work both underway and at anchor, so the long lunch off Pampelonne stays as steady as the passage that preceded it. The main deck belongs to the master stateroom, placed full-beam and forward, with its own marble ensuite and windows that sit almost level with the water. Aft of it, the salon runs uninterrupted to a glazed transom: pale upholstery, warm oak veneers, and a dining table for ten that faces the open aft deck. Four further cabins on the lower deck, three doubles and a single with a Pullman berth, each have their own bathroom. Outside, the yacht offers three distinct places to spend the day. The fore deck carries a broad sunpad and a facing seating area, sheltered from the wake and the best spot underway. The main deck aft is where lunch is served, shaded and open to the sea on three sides. The flybridge, the largest single space on board, combines a bar, a dining table and sunbeds beneath a retractable awning, and it is where most charters end up at sunset. A Williams 400 tender and a Seadoo Spark jet ski live in the garage, alongside paddle boards, a donut and water skis. The crew of five, led by a captain who knows these waters, handles the tender runs into Saint-Tropez, the beach club bookings and the provisioning without being asked twice. Weeks aboard typically run west to Cannes, Antibes and the Lerins islands, or east through Monaco and Villefranche toward the Italian Riviera and Portofino.