COSSUTTI

YACHT DESIGN

Maurizio Cossutti is one of the most representative Italian yacht designers. He was born in Udine and graduated in 1986 in Naval Engineering from the University of Trieste. In the same year, he joined Studio Starkel in Trieste and became a partner. In 2003, with Alessandro Vismara and Freek Koppelmans, he created the "Marine Technologies Boatyard" at Villesse, near Gorizia, which then became “2M Marine”, specialised in cruising and racing yachts built of composites. In 2008 he set up his own studio, Cossutti Yacht Design, collaborating to varying degrees with yacht owners such as Brava and Mascalzone Latino. Alessandro Ganz, born in Valdobbiadene, is a naval engineer who graduated in 2008 from the University of Trieste and in Yacht and Small Craft from the University of Southampton. He started working with Cossutti Yacht Design in 2009, and became a partner in 2013.
The CYD team: Maurizo Cossutti, Alessandro Ganz, Luca Pazzocco, Paolo Brizzi, Enrico Burello. (p.c. Nicola Brollo)

Italia 13.98, a luxury cruiser yacht built by the Venice-based Italia Yachts, won the prestigious" European Yacht of the Year award"  in 2013. (p.c. Nicola Brollo)

Katariina II, the racing boat developed for Ridas Yachts based in Tallin, Estonia in 2015. CYD works in partnership with major shipyards. As well as for Italia Yachts, it has completed new projects for Salona, More Boats and the German yacht builder Bavaria Yachtbau. (p.c. Piret Salmistu)

2017 saw the presentation of the Bavaria C57, the first racing yacht designed by Cossutti Yacht Design for the German boatyard, which chose CYD to design its flagship. This photo shows a detail of the interiors.

The C45 and C50 fast cruisers built by Bavaria Yachts in 2018 to a design by Cossutti Yacht Design, regarded as one of the most interesting and esteemed design studios in the world in the last 20 years for both racing and cruising boats.