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The Gulf of La Spezia in Italy is home to a number of major shipyards, including megayacht builders. One more has joined the mix, an offspring of a yard focusing on the offshore and onshore energy sector since the 1940s. The family-run Antonini Navi plans to build megayachts under its own brand, plus perform refitsContinue Reading
Pershing buyers expect high performance, and high style. The largest model yet, the Pershing 140, continues the tradition, though in a first for the builder, in an all-aluminum body. Recent sea trials for hull number one, Chorus Line, confirm thoroughbred-like speeds. Longtime brand designer Fulvio De Simoni and the Ferretti Group’s in-house team, meanwhile, giveContinue Reading
The infinity symbol is an endless loop, balanced at both ends. Yacht designer Fulvio De Simoni draws inspiration from this very same symbol. He incorporates it into each of the four megayachts comprising the new Infinity series from Rossinavi. Not just a design element, the loops frame two important areas of the yachts. What’s more,Continue Reading
About a month before she makes her international debut at the Monaco Yacht Show, Cecilia is ticking all the boxes for her builder, Wider. With sea trials nearly complete, the shipyard says she’s exceeding expectations in some key ways. The all-aluminum megayacht, measuring 163’10” (49.98 meters), sprang from the builder’s own ideas, combined with navalContinue Reading
The French shipyard Ocea does more than build yachts. Its primary business, in fact, is constructing military ships—ships that need to go out in varying seas and weather. The yard brings that tough-minded philosophy to its yachts. Fittingly, a number of its deliveries over the past decade have completed circumnavigations. So, the shipyard and designerContinue Reading
When is fast just not fast enough? When you can coax 5 knots more out of an already-swift superyacht. Pershing went back to the drawing board to do that with the Pershing 82 VHP. It’s the new name—and new configuration—for a model having met with success for the past five years. That model is theContinue Reading