Designed for KARDIS shipyard to stand out from what the modern design styles are at the moment for other shipyards, the K8 APACHE yacht tender is the revolutionary RIB developed by the Italian design studio KEYFRAMESTUDIO. The first boat created by KFS to have strong, rigid, masculine lines, the semi-rigid K8 APACHE yacht has an adventurous soul.
K8 APACHE yacht tender by KFS Photo by E. Bertolacci
K8 APACHE yacht is an “Open” layout RIB made to be a “real-man’s” boat. With no fancy frills to be sold to a fashionable customer, this boat represents only absolute power and a whole load of guts!
DESIGN
To bring out this sensation KEYFRAMESTUDIO elaborated a style which is a mix of 1980’s lines and the Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopter. Hard, sharp and aggressive lines define the spirit of a real warrior.
The real task for the design studio was to optimize the layout and to insert underneath the console (without compromising the lines of the boat) a functional, large, independent and livable space with a toilet. This is why the studio decided to design a larger, elongated console that was to be the pivot point of the RIB, around which all other spaces revolve around. The K8 APACHE yacht has a large bow sun-bed and an innovative aft dinette area.
K8 APACHE yacht Photo by E. Bertolacci
TRASFORMABILITY
A strong point of the K8 APACHE yacht is the possibility to transform her spaces so as to optimize every area according to specific uses. The central console opens, rotating its frontal part upwards (like a giant mouth), to give access to the interior space which has the function of being a comfortable independent toilet or a huge storage area.
The aft dinette can, with a simple movement of the table, transform from a comfortable couch/lunch area into a small “piazza” sunbed. Under the bow sunbed is a small “berth” that can, thanks to an incorporated tent, become a useful cabin for nautical camping.
K8 APACHE yacht Dashboard Photo by E. Bertolacci
PERFORMANCE
Fruit of the careful design with which the K8 APACHE yacht tender was thought and its consequent amazing length to weight ratio APACHE can reach mind-blowing speeds of up to 65 knots, marking it not only a functional, comfortable and attractive boat to buy but also the fastest commercial RIB of this size!
Main Characteristics of the K8 APACHE yacht
Year: 2009
Customer: Kardis srl
L.o.A.: 8,9mt
W.o.A.: 3,14mt
Speed: 65knots
K8 APACHE yacht - a functional, large, independent and livable space with a toilet Photo by E. Bertolacci
