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    At Riva’s helm

    Jul 16, 2021 4 minutes
    WORDS CLAIRE GRIFFITHS
    PHOTOGRAPH
    MARCO BUCCO

    “What’s most difficult is striving to keep the quality at the same level as the maestro of yesteryear. I still sit at the desk he had in 1971 and I feel his pressure and the responsibility of the legacy.”

    So says Alberto Galassi, CEO of the yachting group Ferretti that took over Carlo Riva’s shipyard in 2000. The desk sits in the ‘plancia’, (‘main Bridge’) designed by Carlo Riva, on the shores of Lake Iseo, near Bergamo in northern Italy.

    It’s up to Alberto Galassi to nourish the brand’s reputation as the builder of the most beautiful motorboats in the

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