What do you get when one of the world’s leading yacht designers is called in to create a bespoke Aston Martin Vanquish Coupe and Vanquish Volante? Two cars named Above and Beyond with subtle but unmistakable nautical references—including the port and starboard colors on a boat’s lights, along with design motifs of several famous superyachts.

Above and Beyond were presented yesterday at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show on the docks at the Denison Yachting stand, since the brokerage firm acted as a facilitator between Bannenberg & Rowell Design and Aston Martin Fort Lauderdale, part of Homan Motorcars Fort Lauderdale, which commissioned the one-offs.

Aston Martin’s Q division, responsible for bespoke projects, worked with the design team. “We pretty much had free rein within what Q would permit to spec these cars,” says lead creative Dickie Bannenberg. “We’ve given them as many discrete and not so discrete but loving cues as we could.” Bannenberg is the son of famed yacht designer Jon Bannenberg, considered the father of superyacht design for a half-century, and he employed some of his father’s most famous yachts to create details on the Aston Martins.

The Lightning Silver color of Above and Beyond (also the names of two Turquoise yachts the U.K. firm has designed) is similar to his father’s Project Thunder, with a silver hull. It gives a subtle blue reflection in direct sunlight. Other details include glossy blue-tinted carbon fiber panels on the lower body which is split by a Lightning Silver pinstripe that emulates the boot-stripes of a yacht’s hull. On the mirror caps, Bannenberg’s team placed a graphic on each of the mirror caps—the red on the passenger’s side is green, while the driver’s side is red—to represent port and starboard on a yacht. “I’m surprised they let us get away with that one,” Bannenberg told Robb Report.

Other details include chrome side strikes with glossy black V12 Badging, Scintilla Silver thermos louvres, and fender infills that resemble polished deck hardware on the profile of a superyacht.

The younger Bannenberg drew elsewhere from his father’s portfolio, taking a famous bow-on shot of Corinthia and introducing the V-shape patterns into the quilting of the leather seats, and across the doors and armrests. Satin and gloss blue-tinted carbon-fiber trim are meant to symbolize contemporary yacht interiors.

The design project took about a year, says Bannenberg, with much back and forth between his office and Aston Martin’s Q division. “It’s similar to yacht design in that the same parameters apply to the quality of the materials, deciding on the color of paint, gloss levels and other details,” he explains, noting that Q may have vetoed some feature ideas. “They police their brand values, so some of our wild excesses were kind of toned down.”

Bannenberg particularly likes the V-shaped embroidery in the interior, a design motif that Aston-Martin devised. “I like the connection with Corinthian, but not everybody will know that,” he says. “Otherwise, it’s just a beautiful design.”