Moana Shipyard

Moana Shipyard has been founded in 1982 by Franco and Vittorio Malingri. Since then father and son produced over 130 series blue water cruisers and some ocean racing and cruising full custom one off. The series of Moana Bluewater Yachts is highly appreciated by long range sailors that used them for cruising, round the world voyages and ocean racing. Today the Moanas, all afloat, sailing and crossing oceans owner after owner and well known for their sailing abilities, seaworthiness, reliability, high quality building, finishing and professional plants, are a “cult” among sailors, expert navigators and globetrotters.

Since Moana Shipyard stopped his own series boat production started to refit classic Swans and Baltics, and other top quality works as making teak deck for high luxury maxis produced by Adria Sail Custom Yachts or building full carbon daysailers for B-Yachts, all still actual yard Vittorio's brother Enrico and his company Malingri Marine,.

Moana Shipyard choice is to remain a small artisan yard and bring on tradition. Today are the very hands of Vittorio Malingri in person, and those of his old team, that continue to design and buildat the state of the art also what you do not see, without industrial tricks and using quality materials. This is the secret for a safe and practical use at sea, at the anchor or moored to a dock, as it is for comfort, reliability and finally and for speed and fun. The global quality at Moana Shipyard is achieved through a designing and engineering process strong of an extraordinary "in house” know how about sailing and boat building, the use of the better materials and building process.

The Malingri's, known as the "italian sailing family", are a reference in blue water cruising and ocean racing since three generation. Their sailing and boatbuilding experience begun in the late 60' with uncle Doi making the first Italian modern transatlantic crossing aboard the Arpege “Nina Boba”. Later he took part in the first Cape to Rio and, with his brother Franco, in the first Whitbread Around the World Race, followed by Clipper Race and Ostars. The sailboats they used for ocean racing where often conceived by the two brothers and lately became series production. In the early '00 Franco used a series Moana 39 and a Moana 27 in two OSTAR editions. During those years all Moana's models, 45', 39', 33' and 27', where uses for OSTARs and other transatlantic races by various Italian skippers, as Franco Manzoli who arrived third in the 30' class in '92 aboard Moana 27' "Alberobello".