Builder Perini Navi

History of the company

Fabio Perini, founder of the company, joined the business very early and was a successful inventor. At the age of 17 Fabio Perini invented and patented one of the mechanisms for the production of paper and at the age of 26 he founded the company to produce equipment for the paper industry Fabio Perini.

In 1982 Perini set out to build a large sailing yacht that could be operated by a small crew. Failing to find a suitable project, he set about building his own business in the yachting industry. Perini Navi was initially an engineering studio for large yacht projects, but by 1988 the company had started building yachts on its own designs. In 1994 Perini sold Fabio Perini S.p.A. and fully focused on the yard's business. In the early 2000s Perini Navi bought two shipyards, the Italian Picchiotti and the Turkish shipyard Yildiz. In May 2017, a third-party investor, Fenix Holding, joined the company and the company was given a new impetus for development, having decided to combine all production under a single brand name Perini Navi.

Status

Fabio Perini has retained 50.1% of the company's shares, but has moved away from direct management.

Production

The company's head office is in Viareggio. In Viareggio and La Spezia, the repair divisions of Perini Navi are located. The main production base is located in Turkey, Tuzla, on the outskirts of Istanbul. During its operation the shipyard has built more than 65 yachts. The company has charter, brokerage and refit divisions.

Model range

Italian Perini Navi builds custom sailing and motor yachts in aluminium with lengths of 25-70 meters.

Features

«The most beautiful thing about a boat is the sea around it»," says Perini Navi founder Fabio Perini. However, the boats of this shipyard look like a work of art themselves. Perini Navi's distinctive feature is the use of unique engineering solutions, such as swing kiel, automated sailing system or hybrid installation, some of the innovations used on the yachts of the shipyard were invented and patented by Fabio Perini himself. The yachts of the shipyard occupy one third of the list of sailing yachts over 50 meters in length. Perini Navi's largest and most famous yacht is the 88m three-masted Maltese Falcon launched in 2006 and carrying the avant-garde DynaRig rigging.Other well-known projects of recent time became 60-meter Perseus, 3, 75-meter carbon mast of which was one of the highest in the world at that time.