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Living in Direct Contact with the Sea Open-style boats provide total immersion in the marine environment, from feeling the wind in your hair to being just a few steps from the water at anchor. Namasté does. This is much more difficult to achieve on a tri-deck displacement yacht, creating a challenge for both the designer and the shipyard. The study of natural and artificial light was an essential part of Mancini's approach. By using glass, both transparent and mirrored, to bounce light around the interior and reduce visual barriers to the outside world, Mangusta has succeeded in reducing the divide between the interior and exterior spaces so that guests always feel close to the water. At bow there is what is perhaps the most characteristic feature on the entire yacht, a design element indeed, but what is also a lifestyle choice in keeping with the very best of Mangusta tradition. The area is marked by an infinity pool, the only one of its kind --at least on a yacht of this size-- which comprises two sunbathing "islands" and a waterfall at extreme bow. It's a glass- bottomed wading pool that creates rippling, azure patterns in the owner's bathroom on the main deck below. Mirrored partitions between the bathroom and the full-beam stateroom ricochet the natural light around the interior, especially when the fold-down balcony is open. Another highly distinctive element is featured astern. Most beach clubs are windowless spaces designed for use at anchor with the swim platform deployed. But Namasté's beach club is a real one, not just a convertible garage that normally fits tender and water toys. It's also welcoming underway thanks to strip glazing in the transom that lets in sunlight. And when the transom door is lowered, the glass panels provide underwater views for guests relaxing in sun loungers. This is possible having moved the tender garage forward a nice piece of engineering designed by the Overmarine Technical department. A steel-and-glass coffee table on the main deck aft, positioned above a skylight in the deck, provides further natural illumination for the beach club below. In fact, skylights connect all the deck levels.