Blue Game

Bluegame is an Italian builder founded in 2004 by Luca Santella, an architect and Olympic sailing champion, with the stated ambition to produce boats that refuse easy categorisation. The yard operates from Ameglia, in the La Spezia province of Liguria, and has been part of the Sanlorenzo Group since 2018, when Sanlorenzo acquired it and brought CEO Carla Demaria on board to scale the brand.

The range runs from 42 to approximately 83 feet across five series: the walkaround BG line, the crossover BGX line, the twin-hull BGM series, the foil-assisted catamaran BGF range, and the BGH, a hydrogen-powered foiling chase boat developed in collaboration with NYYC American Magic for the 37th America's Cup. Hull forms across the BG and BGX series are the work of naval architect Lou Codega, deep-V planing hulls with a Carolina-sportfisher lineage, running Volvo Penta IPS pod drives throughout. The BGH is the build we watch most closely in this segment: a 10.0m all-carbon catamaran hull, foil-assisted from around 24 knots, targeting 50 knots at the top end with zero-emission hydrogen propulsion.

What makes Bluegame recognisable in a support-boat context is the BGF45, which carries the foil technology developed for the BGH into a production catamaran platform with two cabins and a beach area, the kind of brief that sits between a day-charter cat and a genuine tender-carrier. We'd put it alongside the emerging Italian and French foil-assisted production builds as the most technically progressive semi-production option in the 13-to-15-metre class today.