Benetti FB269 Sold To Loyal Owner Mr John Staluppi
Benetti is pleased to announce that Mr. John Staluppi – one of the most loyal Owners ever – renewed its confidence in the yard signing a contract for a semidisplacement hull of 66 meters, full custom, code name FB269.
Although Benetti will release further details on the yacht over the upcoming months, this project promises to be extremely interesting, involving Frank Mulder for the naval architecture – in collaboration with yard engineering team and Giorgio Cassetta Design for exteriors – along with Benetti in house design team.
For FB269 – steel and aluminum – Mr. Staluppi required a highly efficient and performing hull with a top speed of over 20 knots.
Vincenzo Poerio – Benetti CEO reports: “We are delighted of John coming back, especially with such a request, we can define as a very exciting “new challenge”. This relationship – with a so faithful client give us a responsibility even heavier than our usual. We are sure to meet once again with his desires. By the way is an unrivaled signal of Benetti’s great commercial success – based on customer listening in addition to our working teams unmatchable capabilities to realize any kind of Owners’ request”.
John and Jeanette Staluppi states: “We are very happy to be building our new yacht with the Benetti team as my wife, Jeanette and I were extremely pleased with “Diamonds are Forever”. The new venture will be of a much higher standard with new modern day high tech systems, and once again working with Frank and Bas Mulder. With the combination of expertise between Benetti, Mulder and our design team, we believe this will be our greatest project.
