When passion for the sea meets the awareness of the craftsmanship’s value, together they can make the history of yachts.

    Gobbi, well-known as Cantieri Nautici Gobbi, is one of the historical brand in the yachting field, specialized in motor yachts’ construction.    

The story of the brand

  Cantieri Nautici Gobbi was founded at the end of ‘60s by Angelo Gobbi in the province of Piacenza (Italy). The shipyard was specialized in the construction of motor yachts and it was famous because it was the first one to launch the mass production model in the nautical environment.   During the ’80 the company changed its name in Cantieri Nautici Gobbi Hobby Craft S.p.A. and in 2001 it was sold to the Azimut Yachts Group. After the acquisition, the Gobbi brand changed completely starting by its naming which became ATLANTIS. In 2012 the shipyard was transferred in Avignana, headquarters of the Azimut Yachts Group.   In 2002, Angelo Gobbi started working in a new shipyard, Absolute Yachts, founded by Sergio Maggi and Marcello Bè, who were respectively the first designer and industrial efficiency expert of the Gobbi shipyard.    

The brand’s philosophy and its main hallmarks

  Gobbi was the first Italian shipyard to apply the assembly line structure in nautical constructions and it was also the first to apply the mass production model. It realized two main motor yachts lines in which each customer could choose their own (internal) optionals. When the shipyard was founded, this kind of yachts production was absolute new: all the other brands were producing unique boat patterns.