MICAD

The Creative Engineering Company

22/10/2026

After seeing Ondia36 on the water in Genoa, we’re taking you aboard for a closer look.

These photographs explore the boat’s layout: seating gathered around the cockpit table, side walkways leading towards the bow, a forward sunpad and the helm console with its displays and controls. At the stern, the aft seating and bathing platform complete the tour.

Together, they offer a more detailed view of the spaces on board and how they connect.

MICAD was responsible for the hull's naval architecture and the complete exterior and interior design, alongside engineering, prototyping and testing. The project was developed in collaboration with Comav and SPIN360, with the contribution of outfitting shipyard .

Explore Ondia36 with us, one detail at a time.

17/10/2026

Alongside the boats, it’s the people and conversations that make our time in Genoa memorable.

We would like to thank Roberto Poli and Tonissi Marine for their valuable feedback on Ondia36, and Gabriele Brivio and B.Cool Engineering for their valuable support on the project.

We were also pleased to welcome Giuseppe Meo, President of SNIM – Salone Nautico di Puglia, to the Ondia36 stand.

Thank you for your visit and the appreciation you expressed for the boat.

Our thanks also go to and for their valuable feedback on the Ondia36 project.

It was a pleasure to meet in Genoa and share a project that means a great deal to our team.

13/10/2026

Seeing Ondia36 on the water at the Genoa Boat Show was a proud moment for our team.

The scale model and the completed boat, both featured in this carousel, offer two perspectives on a project we have helped develop through engineering, prototyping and testing, in collaboration with Comav and SPIN360.

Behind the finished vessel, the work of those who took part in its development.

Discover more about our projects at www.micad.it.

02/10/2026

A well-designed helm should feel natural from the very first moment.

Long before the owner takes the wheel, every detail has already been considered: visibility, ergonomics, the position of the controls, movement within the space and the integration of the onboard systems.

These decisions shape the way the yacht is handled and the confidence felt at the helm. When the work is done well, the complexity stays in the background and the experience feels effortless.

Which detail do you notice first when you step up to the helm?

25/09/2026

After studying design in Turin, Nicolò De Vittorio returned to Puglia and joined MICAD through an internship.

Today, as Product Designer, his work begins with the first sketches and continues through close collaboration with engineers and technicians. Every line is developed according to the character of the yacht and tested against function, structure and the demands of the marine environment.

In our latest interview, Nicolò talks about his professional journey, the role of freehand drawing and the experience of developing international yacht projects from Southern Italy.

Read the full interview on our website.

22/09/2026

Some ideas are worth revisiting. “Less is more” is one of them.

Last December, in an interview with Barche a Motore, our founder Amedeo Migali spoke about conscious simplification: reducing unnecessary complexity while preserving functionality, performance and the quality of life on board.
The principle remains highly relevant to our work today.

Access to the sea is often developed through side terraces, fold-out platforms and complex moving systems. These solutions can also increase weight, cost and maintenance requirements.

Our approach begins with a simple question: can the same result be achieved through a more direct solution?

One of our current 30-metre projects is being developed with fewer moving systems, exploring how simplification can create more usable space and greater efficiency.
Where do you stand: more features or greater simplicity?

17/09/2026

Designing a yacht means designing an experience.

Ask someone about a yacht they love and they rarely begin with the length, the engines or the beam. They talk about a moment: dinner on deck as the sun goes down, the quiet of a bay reached after a long passage, the feeling of stepping off the stern straight into the sea.
That’s the real object of our work. Specifications, materials and engineering matter enormously, yet they serve a purpose beyond themselves. Behind every line we draw there’s a question that comes first: how will this make someone feel, here, on this water, on this day?

It’s the idea that guides everything we do, and over the coming weeks we want to show you what it looks like in practice, project by project and decision by decision.

Read the full article on our website www.micad.it to see where this idea began.

15/09/2026

The most successful design on board is often the kind you never consciously notice: the handrail exactly where your hand expects it, the step that meets your foot without a thought, the light that softens at just the right hour. None of it announces itself, and that’s the whole point.

We put a great deal of effort into things no one will ever list as features: proportion, balance, the rhythm of a space as you move through it. They appear in no specification, yet they decide whether a yacht feels right.

In the end, an owner carries away the way the boat made them feel, far more than anything on the technical sheet.

Have you ever stepped aboard a boat that just felt right? Tell us about it.

09/09/2026

The sea is where every project we draw will spend its life, and that gives us a responsibility we take seriously.

Every project that leaves our studio is meant for the water, and that simple fact carries real weight. Designing a yacht is not only a question of how it looks or how it performs, but of how lightly it can move through an environment that was never ours to begin with.

It’s why efficiency is never an afterthought for us. A hull optimised to travel further on less fuel, a displacement hull built for long distances, propulsion that wastes less energy: these are engineering choices, and they’re also a way of giving something back to the water that makes our work possible.

Today we simply want to say thank you to the sea: for the work, for the beauty, and for the standard it holds us to every single day.

What does the sea give you? We’d love to read it in the comments

04/09/2026

From 8 to 13 September, MICAD will be at the Cannes Yachting Festival 2026.

The event will be an opportunity to meet clients, partners and professionals from across the yachting industry, share our latest work and exchange ideas about design, engineering and the future of life on board.

If you are attending the Festival, get in touch with us to meet the MICAD team.
See you in Cannes.

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