Our Story. The new Species Appears.
Luca Santella, a yacht designer and Olympic sailing champion, designed an original never-seen-before motoryacht for the owner of the 50' sailing boat he was skippering. It was a one-of-a-kind 55' very original project, totally far from any traditional known shape, out of the ordinary, full of ideas, stylistic and functional innovations, new forms and original suggestions for life on board.
The boat in a single example, called Luja 55', had appeared at the Monaco Yacht Show and was published by all the major boating magazines and had aroused some curiosity to the most attentive observers of nautical facts. One of the most attentive was Carlo C. Bonomi, who had seen the boat in a magazine. Entrepreneur, financier, with vast economic interests in Spain and Italy, majority shareholder of Seatek the Italian company that produces the only high performance diesel engines designed specifically for yachting, he contacted Santella to deepen the outlines of that boat and decided to start with him a production. In this way Bluegame was born.
From the original design, with the help of Louis T. Codega, better know as Lou, a well reputed naval engineer, designer of many a successful hull among which the Ales Trophy record winner 222' Destriero built by Fincantieri and sponsored by Gianni Agnelli and Prince Karim Aga Khan, Bluegame developed its first modela 47'.
Later came the production and the conception of other models.