SUPERYACHT #517
May 2005
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THE F.LLI ROSSI YARD
Steel buildings in Versilia
A so appreciable production entity surprising in size or
organization, a staff of skilled experts who faces building a
yacht as if it were a mission, a very actual quality indeed, whose
skills and eye is not to be doubt and who is not so used to be
under the spotlight. This is the first good impression received
while visiting the F.lli Rossi yard, a firm working in Versilia in
both two offices: one of them in Viareggio and the other one right
round the corner of Pisa.
What's about its specialization? Of course building steel or light
alloy superyachts either for its own customers or mostly for very
blazoned yards who choose to entrust their designs to the F.lli
Rossi's yard above all else for the quality this team can give to
each single unit produced.
The firm was born in the '70 years in
Viareggio and has years on years specialized in shipbuilding. To
this period date back the first steel buildings on third parties'
behalf and realizing crafts addressed to siliceous sand digging in
the Massaciuccoli district.
In the '80s years, after a long experience in building units
exclusively addressed to the inland navigation, the F.lli Rossi
yard improved its skill in treating traditional and high strength
steels, light alloys and stainless steels thanks to which this
yard could begin building steel hulls with fibreglass
superstructures as well as realizing merchant vessels for either
coastal or internal navigation.
So the venture between the F.lli Rossi society and the most
prestigious yards began building yachts that let this entity
extend its great skill to the leisure craft field too. In this
period the F.lli Rossi yard built important crafts like the motor
ship "Freccia del Giglio" the light alloy "Andrei 2000" moved by
an hybrid propulsion system, the passenger vessel "Lini Beccati"
and some catamarans, among which the "Freccia del Giglio II"
stands out.
Beginning from the?90s years the yard in Viareggio started working
at four new production segments specializing in treating stainless
steels, in building superyachts, in putting together mechanical
components and hydraulic installations as well as in working in
either repair or refitting sectors.
Following these new improvements the yard set up a working
collaboration with Azimut concerning machinery, components and
installation outfittings on board fibreglass yachts over 24 metres
in length.
Still in this period, in order to give more space to the
noticeable yard's activities, the F.lli Rossi company bought a
shed of 800 sq/m with a forecourt of 500 sq/m lying in the
industrial area of Viareggio, an office in the Italmaco Centre,
become its financial and entertaining office today, a concession
at the wet dock of the Canale dei Navicelli, provided with an
enclosed area of 7.000 sq/m and a quay of 300 metres in length,
where yachts up to 62 metres in length are actually built.
Today this yard can boast about wholly building of more than 12
steel yachts ranging between 24 and 45 metres, of 12 units in
fibreglass, of quite a number of 60 hulls and superstructures from
20 up to 70 metres and eight fully refitted yachts.
The yard wants to assert it has no intention to sit on itself
ãlaurels, but, instead, it purposes to go on pursuing itselves
aims, namely its hard politics, power and professionalism,
correctness of its working, which together with constant
researching refining over the years and the last investments in
infrastructures will lead the firm to improve further innovations;
however, the yard is strengthening as one of the most appreciated
entity working in the superyachts building field.
For further information please contact: Fratelli Rossi
Cantiere Navale; I - 55049 Viareggio (LU), Via Vetraia 11, int.
19; phone number and fax: +39 (0)584 387062;
web site: www.cantierefratellirossi.it; e-mail: info@cantierefratellirossi.it
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