Ferretti Yachts

Ferretti Yachts was founded in 1968 by Alessandro and Norberto Ferretti and produced its first yacht, a motor sailor, in 1971. The prominent yachting company now focuses entirely on the powerboat / motor yacht sector, and specializes in luxury motor yacht production. Ferretti Yachts is a division of the Ferretti Group and the company produces stylish, modernistic and well designed fly bridge motor yachts from 14 to 27 meters in length. You can see some of the Ferretti yachts available for charter below.

The Ferretti Group head office is based in Italy and is one of the leading companies in the world of design and construction of luxury motor yachts and sport boats measuring from 7 to 80 meters long. They have vast experience in the luxury yacht market and company employs 2,800 people directly. Over 100 of these are specialised engineers who make up the Ferretti design team.

Ferretti Group includes the following brands/divisions:

• Ferretti Yachts – as above.

• CRN Yachts - luxury superyachts made from composite materials from 39 to 43 meters with 3 decks and also larger steel super yachts from 46 meters and up.

• The Custom Line - super yachts in composite materials from 30 to 34 meters with two decks.

• Pershing - high performance open style sport yachts from, 11 to 35 meters.

• Itama Cantieri Navali – open style motor yachts from 13 to 23 meters.

• The American based Bertram Yachts - sport fishing motor yachts from 12 to 22 meters.

• Riva Yachts – classic inspired open and fly bridge motor yachts, 10 to 35 meters, sometimes used as tenders to large mega yachts.

• Apreamare, in Sorrento yacht from 7 to 20 meters)

• Mochi Craft - classical 'work boat inspired' luxury fly bridge yachts.

Ferretti yachts (Ferretti S.p.A.) is one of the leading Italian companies in the design, construction and sale of smaller superyachts. Founded by Norberto Ferretti in 1968, Ferretti S.p.A. is in the forefront of the nautical industry due to its penchant for constant product and process innovation and continuous technological research. Ferretti Luxury yachts are developed by a team of around 90 engineers and designers and built in the group’s 25 production units. Over 3,000 employees, led by Chairman Norberto Ferretti and CEO Salvatore Basile, share the same continuous strive towards quality, technological excellence, top performance, exclusive, and innovative design, maximizing comfort and attention to details. The group is surely changing the yachting industry with its vision to make customer’s dream come true. It works with a mission to achieve excellence before, during and after the purchase of the world’s best flying bridge motor yachts.

The history of the Ferretti shipyards begins in 1968 when Norberto Ferretti's passion for the sea inspired his brother Alessandro. They together began an adventure that would lead them to become one of the most prestigious shipyards on the world stage. They began with selling well-known boats such as Chris Craft, San Lorenzo and Italcraft, to the decision to begin a company of their own. The boats they sold were beautiful, but they did not fully express that sailing philosophy of Norberto. In the year 1971 Ferretti manufactured its first 10-meter wooden “motor sailer” boat but the wish of innovation, limited to the features of sailing boats, led Ferretti brothers to seek to fulfill their desire of improvement. At the beginning of the 1980s the Ferretti brothers decided to embark upon the world of motor yachts.

The era of 1990s were characterized by a series of commercial and financial activities designed to affirm the name of Ferretti on the seas all over the world. Ferretti Yachts division was created in September 2002, a historic brand of the group, production and marketing fibreglass fly bridge boats from 47 to 88 feet. Since 1st of September 2006 the team Ferretti Yachts has also been dealing with the management of the brand Custom Line. And with this in the year 2008 Ferretti Yachts celebrated its 40 years of history.

Ferretti shipyard focuses on the evolution, innovation and design of new luxury motor yachts. It also introduced the ARG system, developed with Mitsubishi, and the large open-view window of the ship owner's cabin in almost all models in the range is the company’s forte. Within the Group, a specialized team follows the creation of each vessel, assisted by the AYT Division - Advanced Yacht Technology - that deals with new concepts and fine-tuning extremely innovative solutions. In addition, the Ferretti fleet is also renowned for being the first to adopt the new revolutionary generation of Common-rail engines. A new, important technological innovation: FAIR (Ferretti Analysis Integral Recorder), is the very first integrated system for monitoring the performance of group yachts during testing, enabling not only simultaneous acquisition of operating data, but also their analysis and processing.

Two Ferretti superyachts — the Ferretti Yachts 510 and the Navetta 26 Ferretti Custom Line — received the Millennium Yacht Design Award (MYDA) at the Italian shipbuilding show Seatec 2008. Ferretti Yachts 510 was chosen by the MYDA jury as the best model in the "New 15m-24m (49ft-79ft) motor/fly craft" group, while the Navetta 26 took the award for the over 24m (79ft) range.

Today, the Ferretti yacht sales are international and inludes Europe, the USA, the Middle East and the Far East. The constantly developing foreign markets are safeguarded by a widespread network which continues to expand and represents one of the strategic strengths of Ferretti Yachts. Here is some Ferretti Yachts news.

Here are some of the Ferretti yachts available for charter worldwide: