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the yachtsman
luca bassani
Founder
Wally
Photo by CARLO BORLENGHI
At age 10, Luca Bassani received his first boat, a
gift from his father. He learned to sail on the blue
waters off Portofino, a small fishing village on the
Italian Riviera, and before long he was hooked.
What started as a hobby grew into a multimilliondollar business when he founded Monaco-based
Wally in 1994, one of the most creative high-end
builders of sail and motor yachts.
Carbon-fiber construction (a first in the
industry when the company debuted its boats)
complements the luxurious interiors of Wally's
more than 45 sail yachts and 120 powerboats.
Here, Bassani discusses his company's origins,
innovations, and its own regatta series.
What did you want to create with Wally?
Being a longtime passionate yachtsman and
avid sailor (I started sailing when I was a
child), when I looked in the market for a large
sailing yacht for me and my family-at the time
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with two little children-I realized the racing
boats had hulls with a lot of volume, while the
cruising boats had old hull shapes with much
smaller volumes-a true contradiction. All the
technologies and new materials already existed
but were not yet exploited because nobody had
the courage to do so. I decided to conceive and
build my first custom sailing yacht, pioneering
innovative technologies, such as the carbonfiber construction. This revolutionary yacht, an
83-footer named Wallygator launched in 1991,
changed the entire concept of sailing boats. I
decided all the passionate owners of sail yachts
like me deserved a better product than what the
market offered, and I founded Wally to create this
new generation.
something fresh, amusing, and a bit crazy. The
name reflects the true soul of the Wallys: Boats
made to have more fun and fewer problems.
What do you offer that others don't?
In the sailing yacht side, no other yacht brand
offers the real possibility to cruise comfortably
and to race at the highest level of competition.
This is what our clients want, and only sailing
provides this double function, especially if
you are no longer a young guy and extremely
busy. Regarding the powerboats, we are
the only brand that offers boats designed to
have comfortable rides-to run smoothly
on the waves even in rough seas-while our
displacement line offers more volumes than
any other boat of the same size.
What does the name represent?
Besides the Hanna-Barbera cartoon origin [the
Wally Gator character], I wanted to communicate
In 2012, you added VIP suites to the
Wally Casa, a new layout with direct
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