286: Big BOAT Interview: Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna on why the car marque is going to sea

BOAT International's editor Caroline White sits down in Milan with Benedetto Vigna, chief executive officer of Ferrari, to discuss why his engineers are designing a sailing yacht and what the carmaker stands gain by doing so. The Ferrari Hypersail project is a 30-metre flying monohull and experimental platform designed to operate at the edge of what's currently possible in energy management, aerodynamics, and control systems. Vigna discusses what the car company is bringing to offshore open ocean racing and a world that’s already defined by specialist naval architects; what Ferrari thinks it can learn from a project like this; and how it plans to translate those lessons back into road cars.

This episode of BOAT Briefing is sponsored by Amico & Co, a Genoa-based, family-owned refit yard with more than 200 years of maritime heritage, renowned for its full-service refit expertise on large yachts, delivered through highly specialised in-house teams.

Read more: 

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/exclusive-interview-ferrari-hypersail-sailing-yacht

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/ferrari-hypersail-racing-yacht-in-build