Pedrini Yachts

Pedrini? or Perini?

Hmm, that's what i'm wondering...

Yes I have been in touch with Andrea several times last year when he was planning for the new California shipyard. But not recently so I can not say if they are up and running for real yet...?

From what I was told, he had financial backing but no shipyard experience. The plan was to take over a former military site and build yachts in all sizes, especially with a new composite method. Big plans and I know he has approched some other designers as well, but since a couple of months I have not got any update.

If you have been contacted recently it could mean that the project is still going and if all of his plans are to be realized I guess he must be very busy...

I did a little poking around on the internet. I found a little info about the Pedrini Renewable Energy Group here:

http://www.bulkoil.com/scripts/bulk_item.asp?p_com=6367

If his plans of annual revenues in excess of 400M us are accurate, then he will no doubt be a wealthy man. I then found this link detailing his desire to find a suitable location in California to build yachts in excess of 30M here:

http://www.panamcham.com/business_center\businessOffers.asp

While it would be really, really cool to have company building megas and eventually supers in southern California I just can't imagine where that would happen. The only places that comes to mind right away are the port complex in Long Beach/Los Angeles but you would almost certainly have to work something out with the longshoreman's union (read: good freakin' luck!) or in the channel islands area around the Pt. Magoo naval station (once again-- good luck snatching up land-from the gov't).