Interview to Rossinavi General Director Federico Rossi.
We can build any type of boat
this is because of our know-how, our history ...
the same people have been doing this kind of work in our company for thirty-five years.
It all began with my father and my uncle, two brothers sharing immense passion for work and love for what they were doing,
a love which was passed on to the following generations;
it is a passion which they have passed to the collaborators of the company: we have people who have worked here for thirty, thirty-four years, we have people working for us who have brought their children into our company.
Know-how is within us, we are all natural-born boat makers.
Sometimes we stop and think, we look at what surrounds us and realise we have the luxury of having something which is not for everyone: first we learned to make boats, we had huge experience, enormous, of all the different possibilities of navigation and then we started building our own yachts.
Our focus has always been never to disappoint any expectation, and that our reputation must always stay very high; from the times when we were making bolts, manholes, or when we were just installing an engine, we wanted to be acknowledged as the best.
When we were dealing with simple carpentry we wanted to be acknowledged as the best.
In 2007 the shipyard was ready for a further step, an important and decisive step: to start working under our own brand, under the Rossinavi brand, where the Rossi family could express themselves to show the world what they could do: boats
There are not many customers who own a Rossinavi,
not many units are produced annually; our business platform is not based on quantity, it is based on quality.
We’re talking about one-offs, boats which are destined for a mature public, knowledgeable about boats, who know that everything that’s nice and shiny but is not based on a functional platform is worth nothing.
We rely on the best designers on the market to fit out our boats
and every time it’s a different boat, every time a different style
ideas also vary inside the boat, aesthetic-functional ideas.
When an architect pictures a Rossinavi, he has to think of a boat in which each functional part is integrated in the design.
Bollards are integrated, fairleads are integrated, the mooring station is integrated. Everything is integrated, even the wipers.
Everything has to be thought about, and has to be beautiful
each hull is made for that boat, has been planned for that boat
performances are measured, to understand if the contractual speed figure is met, but we also measure comfort levels.
Comfort standards are not written anywhere in the contract, there is no line requesting how comfortable it should be:
it is down to the maker’s sensitivity; the maker’s taste in choosing the best-performing materials, the maker’s sense defines every detail on the boat, something which is often not written in the specifications but lies within us, within the Rossi family’s knowledge and good sense.
The owner of a Rossinavi today is a customer who truly has something different from all other boats, different as regards a cultural approach to the making of it, a cultural approach to the use of the boat, which is beyond the “I have a 55-metre boat, mine’s 50, mine’s better because it’s 5 metres longer than yours”
saying, “I have a 50-metre boat but it was well-build”
and I had it built by the Rossi family.
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