sailboat

Petrel 28 was my second project as a boat designer, after idea19, and the first one that I developed totally from scatch. We sold several plans, mostly in Italy, three boats were launched and I know for sure that at least two of them are still sailing after about 18 […]

Petrel 28: aged like fine wine

Fredrick and his mates bought the IDEA21 plans about 4 years ago; as I normally do when I see a new order, the first thing I did was to check in which corner of the world I was going to send the plans; in this case it was a really […]

The Arctic IDEA21 story , from the builder

It has been a looooooong time since the last time I published something new in the website , but we have a fresh array of contents ready to be published, so let’s start ! The Barbamasu have launched their Hirundo 750!!! On a warm and sunny September day, “Macallè,” the […]

New Hirundo 750 launched !

Good news from Brazil : the first Hirundo 750 has been launched !As you can see form the pictures, this boat pushed the project in the direction of a small but capable cruiser, with a sheltered cockpit, transom beach platform , very rational and roomy interiors , keeping the boat […]

Hirundo 750 launched !

Hi everybody !!! We have currently a lot of boats in the building stage all around the world ; here are the links if you want to follow the progresses of some of them on the social media, and several pictures —Idea21 built in Sweden : https://www.instagram.com/mycklekajakvarv/?hl=it —Hirundo 750 built […]

New boats on the run !!

Escapist 24 is a mid sized sailboat suited for family cruising, sporting a classical look and several features specially adopted to make her the perfect choice to sail in lagoons, shallow water areas and coastal environments; she is trailerable, with her 2.5 meters of maximum beam and lifting keel; plans […]

Escapist 24

Hi everybody, we are back on track with the usual work and with the website too. We spent the last two months in almost total lockdown mode here in Italy for covid19; as I guess everybody of you knows, Italy has been beaten quite hard by the pandemy, but we […]

back on track !!! Escapist 24

Hi everybody, an upgrade to the blog section after alot of time of of silence, I apologize for this. I just came back form Germany where I took several pictures of the almost complete IDEA21 cruise built by Milos and Kristine, I have been still there one year ago for […]

IDEA 21 cruiser : the HUGE small boat

Hi everybody, I just got back form Germany, where Milos is building his own Idea 21, cruise version;   first thing,  I have to super thank him for inviting me to take a look at the boat during the hull rotation. The construction is going really fine, neat and clean, […]

Idea 21: upgrades from Germany

Petrel 33: widen your horizons     I just published a new page in the project section of the website; the page dedicated to my new project: Petrel 33. Basically Petrel 33 is a sturdy comfortable fast paced 33 footer cruising sailboat suited to be built in a very smart […]

Petrel 33: widen your horizons !!!!

Hi everybody !!  I’m sorry I’m posting few news here lately, but I’ll promise you this is going to finish , since we have several new projects coming in the very coming weeks. Yesterday a buoy racing sailor wrote me showing interest for Haiku 700 project ; he usually races […]

Haiku 700: how about putting some spice in her ???

“Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry featuring simple language, with no title, a poetry which cuts needless terms and rhetoric speeches, getting its strength from fascinations coming from the nature through its different seasons. Composing a Haiku requires a great capacity of synthesis of thoughts and imagination since most of […]

Haiku 700