The Riva 96′ Argo Super, a 28.79-metre flybridge yacht featuring an updated layout with enhanced natural light and a main-deck day head, has officially launched at the La Spezia shipyard in Italy. Powering the vessel are dual MTU 12V 2000 M96X engines, with a public debut scheduled for the Cannes Yachting Festival in September.
Riva has launched the first hull of its new 96′ Argo Super flybridge yacht at the builder’s La Spezia shipyard in Italy, an evolution of the popular 90′ Argo built around a reworked layout, more natural light and a stronger connection between indoor and outdoor spaces.
The launch took place at Riva’s La Spezia shipyard on 20 July 2026, where the yard builds models in the 70 to 130-foot range. Ferretti Group CEO Stassi Anastassov attended, along with the designers from Officina Italiana Design, who worked alongside Ferretti Group’s Strategic Product Committee and Engineering Department on the project, the same trio credited on Riva launches for the past thirty years.
The new 28.79-metre flybridge yacht features a GRP hull and superstructure finished in an aluminium-coloured paint with Bright Black detailing. Updates include a restyled stern with integrated garage storage, a modified swim platform, and a revised cockpit layout with enhanced seating and a new bar unit on the flybridge.
The standout layout change is a day head added to the main deck, a first for the range, freeing up space below for guest accommodation. The standard lower deck now runs to three guest cabins, including a full-beam VIP cabin aft sized comparably to a second master suite. An optional layout swaps that for three VIP cabins plus a twin-bed guest cabin. Interiors pair polished wengé wood with pale matt oak, alongside mirrored surfaces and polished steel detailing.
Power comes from a pair of MTU 12V 2000 M96X engines rated at 2,000 HP each, backed by Seakeeper NG18 and NG10 gyroscopic stabilisers, a Watchit collision prevention system, Xenta’s X-AID manoeuvring aid and virtual anchor system, and a stern thruster.
“History does not make a brand iconic,” Anastassov said. “The courage to reinvent it, generation after generation, does.” The new Riva 96′ Argo Super continues this tradition with a yacht that is unmistakably Riva: innovative, liveable and with an unprecedented connection to the sea, he added.
The first Riva 96′ Argo Super will make her public debut at the Cannes Yachting Festival in September.
