Holland collaborated with Dan Lenard of Venice’s Nuvolari & Lenard on Felicita West, with Lenard designing the interior. (It is not uncommon for designers to team up on specific projects, depending on their expertise. Andrew Winch, for instance, designer of the Feadship Solemates and Cakewalk, among many others, has worked with other designers and naval architects on many projects.) Lenard had the distinction of being the first outside designer Perini Navi used, and he has raised his reputation a notch or two by designing the complete package of CRN’s 141-foot Magnifica, the first of that company’s three-yacht series. “Nobody would build a single custom yacht like this because there is so much exterior detailing,” he said. “But with a series, you take much of the cost out of the detailing and the boats get better as each one is built.”

A few designers, such as Lenard and Francois Zuretti, have also designed a semicustom series of yachts (Zuretti for Benetti and Lenard for Carver); as ShowBoats’ Gilbert observes, this adds to an owner’s bragging rights while keeping the costs down. “It’s like Karman Ghia did with Volkswagen, but we’re talking about dozens of units instead of thousands,” he says. Still, to see Lenard’s name on a traditionally American production yacht like the Carver Marquis 59 shows the international reach of the most sought-after designers.