Yachting Partners International and FIPA host seminar in Monaco

Yachting Partners International has staged the second YPI Yacht Builders Seminar at the Monaco Yacht Club.

Following the success of the Feadship reunion last year, the company took the event as an opportunity to introduce those in attendance to FIPA Italiana Yachts. The Italian ship builder has been in operation since the 1970s but has remained a family-run business.

For the event in Monaco, five of FIPA’s executive team were in attendance: Technical Manager, Bruno Bonini; Alessandro Greco, naval architect on the AB166; Rudolph Berglehner, Head of Marketing; Giacomo Benelli, Sales & Marketing and the Group’s charismatic Owner/Founder Francesco Guidetti.

The Group - which is comprised of AB Yachts, MAIORA, CBI Navi and Intermare - builds custom yachts from GRP, steel and aluminium, Kevlar and carbon up to 80 metres.

“The Group is responsible for some truly inspired designs and constructions,” says YPI Senior Consultant and Seminar organiser Eric Althaus. “Intelligent acquisitions over the years have resulted in a team with a vast and far-reaching experience in
yacht design and construction.”

Today we have to do things differently,” says Bertrand Vogèle, YPI Group CEO. “Yards need to communicate more with the brokerage world and vice versa. I am proud and pleased our YPI Seminars are taking significant steps in that direction.”


The seminar consisted of a presentation from FIPA’s head of sales, Luca Guidetti and an exclusive look at the much anticipated AB166. This is one of a number of models that YPI Brokerage has become the exclusive central agent for.

This was followed by an address from the Secretary General of the Superyacht Builders Association (SYBAss), Theo Hooning. “SYBAss is a body that is genuinely working hard to make a difference for yacht builders and the industry as a whole,” says Head of YPI Management Franc Jansen. “This whole area of yachting is going through some monumental changes today; focusing on these changes and ensuring the industry is protected has to be top priority for all of us.”

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