Piacenza Cashmere Yacht Capital Award 2011 given to Fabio Perini

Viareggio, 07 October, 2011
 

Fabio Perini, founder of the Perini Navi Group, has won the Piacenza Cashmere Yacht Capital Award 2011, a special award granted in recognition of the commitment, the involvement and the determination with which the Perini Navi Group in specific and shipbuilding in Italy in general have today earned high regard worldwide. The award ceremony was held Saturday October 1 at Genoa’s Yacht Club Italiano’s prestigious clubhouse.

“Thanks to all of you,” said Cavaliere Fabio Perini during the award ceremony, “even though I think that the shipyard workers and the staff are really the people who deserve this award”.

Fabio Perini is the founder of the Perini Navi Group, world leader in the construction of large sailing yachts. Since the 1980’s the company has been specialized in the designing, engineering and marketing of large sailing yachts built for “easy sailing”. This Perini Navi philosophy calls for large yachts that can be handled easily by minimal crew thanks to a series of innovative systems that allow for totally automated sail handling. In 2007 the Group also began to build motor yachts with the brand name Picchiotti.

The award ceremony, organized by the Italian magazine Yacht Capital, a publication that has always kept the promotion of Italian shipbuilding abroad as a high priority, was planned to coincide with the 150th anniversary of united Italy to empathize the commitment, the involvement and the determination with which the Italian shipbuilding sector has pursued the high levels of worldwide regard that it enjoys today.  

With a fleet of 52 yachts on the water- 50 sailing yachts and two motor yachts- the Perini Navi Group is the world leader in the design and construction of large sailing yachts. In 2007 the Group also began to build motor yachts with the brand name Picchiotti and the series name Vitruvius, thus re-launching the historic Picchiotti shipyard acquired in the early 1990’s. The Group is made up of the Perini Navi shipyard in Viareggio, founded in the 1980’s by Fabio Perini who invented and developed a revolutionary automatic sail control system. Another division is the Picchiotti shipyard in La Spezia where the Group constructs its motor yachts and concentrates most of its refitting work, and the Perini Istanbul shipyard in Yildiz, Turkey where its hulls and deck structures are produced. Perini Navi USA is a commercial division of the Group through which owners of Perini Navi Group yachts can arrange charters and find brokerage services for both new and previously owned Perini Navi Group yachts.

For more information contact:

Perini Navi Group Press Office
Tel +39 0584 4241
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