Power & Motoryacht

CUT & RUN

LOA: 57'2"

Beam: 15'22"

Draft: 3'9"

Displ.: 58,000 lbs.

Fuel: 713 gal.

Water: 184 gal.

Standard Power: 2/1,200-hp MAN V8 with Arneson Surface Drives

Optional Power: 2/900-hp Volvo Penta

IPS1200

Price: Upon Request

Giovanni Filippetti didn’t have a typical childhood. The 38-year-old can still remember leaving behind the pretty hamlet where he grew up. In northeast Italy, Mondolfo retains an Old World, fairy tale charm, complete with a castle on a hill and ramparts that look down on the Adriatic Sea. It’s the sea that entranced Filippetti. Cruising both day and night around the boot, from the Adriatic to the Tyrrhenian Sea, Giovanni accompanied his father, Fausto, on deliveries to farflung locales. Fausto wasn’t just a company captain, but co-founder of Pershing, in the heady days of the Italian sport yacht company’s meteoric rise. “It was a unique and very formative experience,” says Giovanni of those early days. “It was this path, our father who mostly sent us

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