With a record-breaking, carbon fibre windshield and “avantop”, the brand new Itama SeventyFive, scheduled to be unveiled in June, is already notching up “firsts”.

The spring is full of expectation and preparations at Itama where work goes ahead at full speed on the shipyard’s latest major project: the new 75 footer flagship, scheduled to be unveiled in June with a series of exciting events. The first and foremost being the new “tour” edition of the Itama Power Circle that will be stopping off at no less than 3 prestigious Mediterranean marinas.

The brand new SeventyFive is a yatch that will take Itama’s classic and time-honoured combination of style and power to new heights with a peak speed of 45 knots and unprecedented liveability. The design approach adopted focuses on enhancing the brand’s love of refined luxury while retaining its hallmark style of sober, clean-cut taste. This includes a vast cockpit covering over 60 square metres that offers both a revolutionary organisation of the area’s various functions and a remarkable level of privacy; an exquisitely comfortable night zone in both the 3 and 4 cabin version; and prestigious materials and details boasting, on one hand, top quality craftsmanship and on the other, highly advanced onboard technology.

The first of the SeventyFive’s prestigious luxury open yacht sector records is, in fact, an impressive technological achievement: the largest carbon fibre structures ever built in Europe.

The craft’s design, in fact, boasts a glass and carbon fibre windshield and avantop designed by architect Marco Casali and built by the Itama technical department and the Ferretti Group AYT - Advanced Yacht Technology – division who have worked closely together with the ATR design centre. ATR is a leading European company that specialises in the manufacture of parts made of composite materials, such as carbon fibre, for the luxury automotive and racing motorbike sectors and the aerospace and aeronautics industries. A truly exceptional supplier whose standards of performance, resistance and style produce results that clearly demonstrate the company’s ability to satisfy such a vast range of projects.

The new SeventyFive’s windshield is a genuine record-breaker. Constructed in autoclave-moulded carbon and glass, the windshield is no less than 10.70 metres long on one side and 4.50 metres wide. The entire windshield is therefore almost 26 metres long, a highly innovative feature in terms of both its unique golf club-shaped window section and its spacious front opening that marine slides away with a pantograph movement. The decision to use carbon fibre has resulted in a 60% weight reduction compared to a steel windshield of the same size. This feature, therefore, guarantees improved performance in terms of speed and fuel consumption, both fundamental aspects for a craft with such a marked sports personality.

The innovative structure of the avantop allows it to slide forward and cover, in just a few seconds, the whole front of the cockpit when navigational.
The cockpit is highly innovative too, and features a helm console with a vertical design suspended on a central upright, which separates the cockpit’s living area from the second, more intimate, dinette to the fore of the console.

The helm station is protected by the fixed structure of the avantop that stretches over it thanks to an boat umbrella, covering 14.35 square metres. Thanks to an electric drive, the front shell of the top can slide forward as far as the windshield to cover an incredible 19 square metres.
Tilli Antonelli, the Itama President, commented on this achievement as follows: “We have chosen carbon because over the last twenty years this material has produced extraordinary results in sectors that we look to for inspiration in terms of advanced technology. From the mid 90s carbon has created new frontiers for the luxury yacht sector to explore. It has, for example, already revolutionised the mast production field for sail boats. So with this material and our future projects we are counting on setting new standards of excellence that will become landmarks on the open yacht panorama.”


A brilliant combination of design, weight distribution and engineering enables the avantop to be both stylish and highly efficient. Its fixed structure, which acts as its base, is supported by two carbon fibre columns that rest on the deck and two carbon fibre guides that connect the structure to the windshield. Of particular note are the central uprights that have been deliberately designed to improve visibility.
Great care has also been taken over the style of the retractable bimini dodger that boat covers the dinette. This opens by stowing away the fabric in a special carbon housing that closes automatically.
Both the windshield and the avantop clearly express the incredible design talent of architect Marco Casali in recovering and restyling the typically 70s angles and contours of these parts of the boat boat.

The decision to include carbon fibre structures of this size on the Itama SeventyFive is real proof of the huge technical investments that the company has been making in recent years. Using carbon-fibre parts, in fact, requires a perfect knowledge of every stage in the construction process in order to take full advantage of the very special combination of lightness and strength that only this extraordinary material can offer.