North, Latin, and South Americans interested in the Admiral and Tecnomar brands of megayachts can meet with the yard a little closer to home. The Italian Sea Group now has a Fort Lauderdale office.Francesco Carbone (left), who has been vice chairman of the Group for the past several years, is now based there, located at…
Every year that a yacht builder has a delivery is special. But 2016 promises to be extra special for Overmarine Group. Renowned for its maxi open megayachts, it’s launching its first steel displacement yacht, to address the long-range, fuel-efficient-focused crowd. This, along with hull number 10 in its Mangusta 165 series, its most successful megayacht…
Sunrise Yachts has a new controlling-interest shareholder. It’s a Hong Kong-based fund, Diamond Living Private Investment Fund.Diamond Living Private Investment Fund is a real estate fund focused on acquiring hospitality assets. These include high-end hotels, resorts, and real-estate developments globally. Furthermore, it emphasizes opportunities related to another business its manager, Diamond Capital Management, owns. That…
Since being acquired by the Gavio Group three years ago, Baglietto has undergone a rejuvenation. Its facilities, located in La Spezia, Italy, have been expanded. The sheds are filled with new-build yachts and megayachts, a mix of planing and displacement designs. Customers’ megayachts are back, too, for winter service.It’s also quite a change from the…
Entering the reception area of The Italian Sea Group is unlike walking into any other shipyard. Numerous sculptures (above) and paintings are carefully placed around the room. The room itself is further dramatically set with several-story-high curtains and awash with marble. It’s akin to walking into an exquisite art gallery, which just so happens to…
While it’s still restructuring, Moonen Shipyards has begun work again on one of the two megayachts whose builds were suspended this summer.Last weekend, a 98-foot (30-meter) Matica model, set for a 2016 delivery, saw her hull and superstructure joined together (below). She’s the first of the Moonen Caribbean series superyachts to be signed by a…
A 591-foot (180-meter) drydock in Martinique can now be dedicated to megayacht refit and repair. It’s thanks to an agreement that International Marine Management (IMM) recently signed.IMM brings together project managers to oversee refit projects of megayachts measuring 262 feet (80 meters) and larger globally. It does so by selecting a site solely devoted to…
Four months after Henry Luken, a former co-owner of Christensen Shipyards, took full ownership of the builder, the facility now employs 105 craftspeople, and four yachts are in various stages of construction.When Luken closed on the acquisition in July, following a court-appointed receiver approving the sale, Christensen Shipyards’ workforce totaled about 90 people. He told…
Six years after its founding, Filippetti Yacht is formally focusing efforts on attracting American megayacht buyers. It has opened a Filippetti USA office in Fort Lauderdale.Filippetti Yacht was created in 2009 to build cruising- and performance-oriented yachts and megayachts, to 115 feet (35 meters). The yard is located in Mondolfo, Italy, and run by the…
Austria-based Dominator Yachts may be a new name to you. Established in 2000, the builder has been quietly marketing its all-custom, sporty craft inside American borders for a short while. Hull number one of its Dominator 800, for example, debuted in Miami earlier this year. With hull number two having hit the water in springtime,…
