Natural selection 08.03.2013 Natural selection Specialising in custom-designed yachts for value and image-conscious buyers, two-year-old yard Cantiere delle Marche has quickly gained a well-earned global reputation for quality, as Diane M. Byrne discovers when she inspects the impressive new percheron. To start a yach…
Natural selection 08.03.2013 Natural selection Specialising in custom-designed yachts for value and image-conscious buyers, two-year-old yard Cantiere delle Marche has quickly gained a well-earned global reputation for quality, as Diane M. Byrne discovers when she inspects the impressive new percheron. To start a yacht building business in the midst of the worst economic recession of recent times may seem like madness. But, as the saying goes, sometimes there’s method to the madness. In the case of Cantiere delle Marche (pronounced ‘mark’), that method is filling a mostly untapped niche, specifically 20-to-45-metre metal displacement yachts meant to go globetrotting on their own bottom. With the 26.1-metre Percheron, a brawny beauty with a cruising itinerary that will surely make many owners envious, Cantiere delle Marche is proving it’s as sane as its yachts are sober. In 2010, the Cecchini family, well established in commercial shipbuilding in Italy, became interested in branching out into yacht construction. It owned a facility in Ancona that CRN had initially leased but was no longer occupying, due to the economic downturn. Skilled construction and engineering teams were availa
This article summary is based on the official Cantiere delle Marche news archive. It has been added to Superyacht Guide as an official-source industry news record.
Source: Cantiere delle Marche official news archive. Category: launch_or_delivery.
Original source URL: https://www.cantieredellemarche.it/news/natural-selection/