1st Maestro 88 Yacht Gipsy VI Moves Apreamare into Large Luxury Yachting

Cataldo Aprea, the president of the Italian yacht builder Apreamare, has all the time had huge concepts. He created the shipyard in 1983 to construct pleasureboats in numerous methods and with completely different designs than his household’s longtime boat-building enterprise. Forty-one years after that founding, Aprea has as soon as once more made a mark on historical past with the launch of the Maestro 88 yacht Gipsy VI. It’s the largest-ever undertaking from Apreamare, for a loyal buyer who’s owned a couple of earlier Apreamare fashions.

In truth, the proprietor requested that every one the craftspeople who contributed to the brand new yacht’s creation attend the launch on August 3. Suppliers have been invited, too. Together with his household and the construct and design groups, the proprietor, a fellow Italian, loved a personal christening ceremony. Fittingly, the yacht then slipped into the water whereas the Italian nationwide anthem performed.

“We concerned our whole provide chain of suppliers and artisans from Campania, the identical ones who’ve supported the expansion of Apreamare because the starting,” Aprea says. That features the earlier Maestro vary of smaller boats, which curiously originated as a sketch Aprea made in 2005. The idea for the sequence was a long-range motoryacht able to cruising in varied circumstances. Much like the opposite vary fashions, the 89-foot (27-meter) Maestro 88 yacht has a semi-planing hull that delivers good efficiency. Particularly, she ought to see a high velocity of about 28 knots with the owner-requested non-compulsory MAN engines. (The usual MANs ought to allow a most of twenty-two knots.) The yacht additional ought to be able to 1,000 nautical miles at 10 knots.

Design-wise, though she is a Maestro mannequin, the brand new launch has variations. For example, Marco Casali styled her exterior strains, imparting modern aptitude whereas preserving conventional navetta attraction. Umberto Tagliavini, in the meantime, dealt with naval structure and engineering to make sure the above-mentioned efficiency. Moreover, the Maestro 88 yacht Gipsy VI incorporates photo voltaic panels atop the flying bridge. For the reason that inside is semi-custom, the proprietor requested a seaside membership on the water’s edge, together with a galley and wetbar on the flying bridge.

“We celebrated a dream come true, because of an proprietor who really believes in us!” declares Rita Pollio, CEO of Apreamare (pictured with Cataldo Aprea above). She considers the launch the most recent steps “in our journey of fixed progress.”

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