Perini Navi | Yacht Builder
Italian Innovation, Sailing Reimagined
Perini Navi is one of the most influential names in modern sailing yachts. Founded in 1983 by Fabio Perini, the shipyard changed the perception of large sailing yachts by proving that size, elegance, and advanced automation could coexist without compromising the purity of sailing.
Headquartered in Viareggio, Italy, with additional facilities in La Spezia, Perini Navi draws deeply from Italy’s shipbuilding tradition while remaining firmly focused on innovation. From the beginning, the brand set out to solve a clear problem: how to make large sailing yachts easier to handle, safer, and more enjoyable for owners and guests alike.
The result is a legacy that has shaped the entire sailing yacht market, influencing not only aesthetics, but also engineering standards that are now widely adopted across the industry.
Perini Navi’s Mission
Perini Navi’s mission is to create world-class sailing yachts that combine technical excellence with understated luxury, allowing owners to experience true sailing without operational complexity.
The brand prioritises innovation that serves the owner experience. Automation, reliability, and intelligent systems are developed not to impress on paper, but to ensure that large sailing yachts can be handled with smaller crews and greater confidence.
Rather than focusing on speed records or visual excess, Perini Navi builds yachts designed for long passages, comfort at sea, and timeless elegance.
What Makes Perini Navi Unique
Perini Navi occupies a category of its own. It is not simply a yacht builder, but a pioneer that redefined what large sailing yachts could be.
Groundbreaking Sailing Technology
Perini Navi revolutionised sailing with advanced furling systems, captive winches, and automated sail handling, allowing yachts over 60 metres to be sailed efficiently and safely.
Engineering-Led Design
Every Perini Navi yacht is built around performance, balance, and seaworthiness. Naval architecture plays a central role, ensuring that comfort never comes at the expense of sailing capability.
Timeless Italian Aesthetics
The exterior lines are elegant and restrained, designed to age gracefully. Interiors are refined rather than ostentatious, with materials and layouts chosen for long-term comfort.
Proven Global Cruisers
Perini Navi yachts are known for serious cruising. Many have crossed oceans repeatedly, making the brand especially appealing to experienced owners who value capability as much as beauty.
Perini Navi Yacht Ranges
Perini Navi’s portfolio is focused exclusively on large sailing yachts, with both semi-custom platforms and fully custom builds.
Motor Sailing Yachts
Perini Navi’s motor sailing yachts combine powerful auxiliary engines with advanced sailing systems. This hybrid approach ensures flexibility, allowing owners to cruise comfortably regardless of wind conditions.
Typical size range: 56–70 metres
Sailing Yachts
Pure sailing yachts remain the heart of the Perini Navi identity. These vessels are designed for long-range passages, stable performance, and refined life on board, with layouts tailored to private use or charter.
Typical size range: 40-88 metres
Fully Custom Projects
Perini Navi is also known for landmark custom builds that push the boundaries of scale and innovation. These yachts often involve collaboration with leading designers and represent the highest level of craftsmanship and technical ambition.
Typical size range: 60 metres+
Perini Navi and the Yachts and Living Perspective
Perini Navi speaks to a different kind of yacht owner. One who values the journey as much as the destination, and who understands that true luxury at sea is found in silence under sail, balance in open water, and confidence in engineering.
For Yachts and Living, Perini Navi represents authenticity in sailing, a brand built on innovation that serves experience rather than spectacle, and a benchmark for what large sailing yachts should be.
The Italian Sea Group S.p.A. was awarded Perini Navi S.p.A. for 80 million Euros.
It consolidates its market presence and activates significant synergies and benefits for the Group
The Italian Sea Group S.p.A. (“TISG” or the “Company”), global operator in the luxury yachting industry, through its 100% subsidiary New Sail s.r.l., won the Auction held by the Lucca Court for the bankruptcy of Perini Navi S.p.A., at an overall price of 80 million Euros.
As indicated in the previous press releases, the auction includes the industrial and real estate assets of the shipyards in Viareggio and La Spezia, the building complex in Pisa, one vessel under construction (project n. 2369), trademarks and patents, the social participation (100%) of Perini Navi USA Inc. and the existing legal relationships with employees and third parties.
TISG will finance the operation through cash availability, re-investing a significant portion of IPO proceeds collected at the beginning of June, as well as bank funding lines.
The Company is extremely satisfied with the acquisition, operation that it has followed ever since the beginning and that perfectly integrates with its growth strategy and its competencies in the sailing yacht sector, already widely recognised by the market, which will allow the Company to properly enhance the Perini Navi brand.
In particular, TISG leverages on:
➢ A strong internal know-how in the sailing yacht business;
➢ A proven track record in the enhancement of assets and brands, as demonstrated by the strong growth achieved through the Admiral and Tecnomar brand relaunches. Additionally, in Perini Navi’s case, the relaunch possibility is favoured also by the fact that the financial crisis which led to the bankruptcy did not involve the value of the prestigious brand, which has remained intact, as demonstrated by the prices recorded in the most recent transactions on the second-hand market;
➢ A considerable number of professionalities / people who had worked for Perini Navi, recruiteded by The Italian Sea Group in the last year, who factually contribute to create and cement an internal culture in the construction and refit of sailing yacht projects: the integration of additional employees from Perini Navi will therefore be quick and effective;
➢ Unparalleled track record in the refit of Perini Navi sailing yachts, with around 50% of the brand’s yachts having passed through The Italian Sea Group shipyard.
It is expected that Perini Navi S.p.A.’s integration could bring several benefits to the Group:
➢ Expansion of production capacity which will allow the order intake for the refit to double and will lead to the acquisition of new contracts for the construction of 90-130 metre motor yachts;
➢ Growth in marginality for the refit.
“I am very proud of this operation. We wanted to push forward with the investment, but we have approached the auction with absolute determination to acquire all of the asset considering our consolidated competence and the new contracts, in particular in the segment of large sailing yachts.” commented Giovanni Costantino, The Italian Sea Group Founder & CEO. “The new production spaces will allow us to increase incoming order for the future in a very dynamic segment, as proven by the two orders for sailing yachts that we signed in December. We are therefore confident to have made the right decision, driven by an incoming order that has exceeded expectations by 50%.”
The Perini Navi acquisition represents an achievement with exceptional strategic importance for the Company’s future, as it continues to expand its horisons in an objective to increase production capacity to accommodate the growth in new orders and a significant increase in demand.
With this need for growth, partially covered through the two investment plans TISG 4.0 and TISG 4.1, there is also the great strategic opportunity represented by the prestigious Perini Navi brand, which will allow the Company to expand and strengthen its positioning in the large sailing yacht segment, in which it is already strongly active.
In December 2021, TISG has signed contracts for two sailing ketches with a length of 56 metres, which add to the project under costruction Art Explora, a sailing catamaran among the biggest in the world, a project with high cultural level and sustainable innovation.
The Company had already acquired from the Perini Navi bankruptcy two projects in progress, which are going to be completed through the NCA Refit division, which 3 has already operated in the refitting of Perini Navi vessels, as demonstrated by the four yachts currently present in the shipyard.
Considering the growth in demand, and the renown competences, the Perini Navi brand constitutes a significant opportunity for The Italian Sea Group.