| Ferretti yachts are the Ferraris of the yachting world | | | | From Ferretti yachts rocketing success they then |
| and to buy could set you back a lot of money. Here | | | | developed their own engineering division. This new |
| is a brief history of the success of Ferretti Yachts. | | | | centre was all about advance research into material |
| Ferretti yachts are a yacht building company which | | | | and new ideas for the production of the yachts. Of |
| are based in Italy. The company was founded in 1968 | | | | course this leads to the developments of some fine |
| by the Ferretti brothers Alessandro and Norberto | | | | motor yachts, and also a new technology called an |
| Ferretti. Ferretti yachts was originally set up as a | | | | Anti Rolling Gyro (ARG) system which will give a |
| yacht brokers who sold other company boats, but | | | | yacht a more powerful and smoother ride through |
| after two years of service the decision was made to | | | | rough waters. |
| start building their own boats. In 1971 Ferretti | | | | From Ferrettis research into better materials and |
| produced its first boat; this was a motor sailor which | | | | production for their yachts they began entering |
| was released at the Genoa Boat Show to become | | | | within races which led to victory in 1994, 1995 and |
| Ferrettis first great success. | | | | 1997. Although this was great for the Ferretti name it |
| From this Norberto Ferretti starts to take control of | | | | also gave them the opportunities to try out their |
| the design and production of their yachts while | | | | new equipment within these races and also make |
| Alessandro Ferretti takes care of the commercial | | | | critical improvements to their almost perfect yachts. |
| side. In 1982 the Ferrettis present their first engine | | | | In the early 90s Ferretti became one of the leading |
| only yacht, and decide to reduce the production of | | | | companies in he production of flybridge yachts of up |
| yachts with motor sails. This is the decision that | | | | to 25 metres. In the 90s Ferretti went under a huge |
| helped them create great success, and the Ferretti | | | | expansion which increased their sales abroad. |
| name began to create a great reputation throughout | | | | After the sudden death of Alessandro Ferretti, and |
| Europe and Italy for a high quality product. They then | | | | with Norberto Ferretti becoming older a 70% share if |
| gained a new shipyard in Forli in Italy which in its first | | | | the Ferretti group was sold to a private equity firm. |
| season produced over a 100 boats. | | | | |