All articles by Phil Draper – Page 2

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    Yard and Yacht | CRN & GiVi: Busy platforms

    2007-04-01T13:48:00Z

    Ancona, Italy-based CRN continues to go from strength to strength as a ‘multi-brand’ shipyard. Including the top-end contract building it carries out for the Ferretti Group stablemates, it has sold 31 semi-custom and custom yachts over the past two years — a mix of 23 Custom Line and CRN composite ...

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    BUSINESS REPORT | Italy

    2007-02-01T16:05:00Z

    Italy’s marine leisure industry, arguably the second-largest in the world in terms of production, appears immune to its country’s current lacklustre economic performance and continues to drive forward both at home and abroad.

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    Project breakdown | Arcadia: Sail Power

    2006-09-01T14:32:00Z

    The fact that the Royal Huisman Shipyard rates as one of the world’s best builders of large sailing yachts is not an obvious credential for anyone choosing a yard to build their next motoryacht, but it obviously hit the spot as far as Arcadia’s US owner was concerned.

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    Project breakdown | Ambrosia III: Food for thought

    2006-09-01T14:22:00Z

    At 65m (213ft) Ambrosia III is not only the biggest Benetti for a number of years, but she’s also one of the most advanced technically, not least for a DEP (diesel-electric propulsion) system that includes ABB’s new Compact Azipod ‘propulsors’.

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    Cover story | Sessa Marine: Capital employed

    2005-11-01T12:33:00Z

    In terms of production boatbuilding, Sessa Marine now numbers among Italy’s top five companies. Phil Draper looks at where the Cividate al Piano-based builder has come from and, more importantly, where it hopes to go.

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    Sealine International | Instinctive innovation

    2005-07-01T11:28:00Z

    Despite the fact that it is owned by the world’s largest boat and engine building conglomerate, Sealine International is firmly positioned among Europe’s Top 10 motorcruiser builders in its own right. And, moreover, it has the strategy in place that will keep it there.

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    Development Strategy I | Innovation management at Azimut-Benetti: Boundary game

    2005-07-01T10:58:00Z

    Phil Draper looks at Azimut Yachts’ extensive innovation programmes and the way the company has reorganised its R&D function to avoid interferences with production.