Yacht Wallycento Tango continuous innovation

Wally is the brand created by its creator Luca Bassani who has developed a series of innovations in sailing yachts and very popular engines in the yachting world.

 The name originates from its first creation the sailboat Wallygator designed then together with a young Italian architect Luca Brenta for his father in 1991. This boat according to what was asserted by Bassani himself represents the mother of all the Wally. An 83-footer made of wood and carbon, the first in the world on a cruising boat, of any size, to have a carbon mast.

From there the Wally experience is born with the creation of modern boats that are clean and fresh, fast and easy to drive. Whoever approaches the boats Wally wants a very fast boat to have fun competing in sailing competitions and at the same time making comfortable cruises. Tango is a sailing yacht of the Wally brand that has these characteristics. Launched in the summer of 2017, it is a 30-meter boat, where there are many innovations with a lot of hardware on deck that helps with the boat. It was built at the important Italian shipyard Persico Marine that stands out for its advanced technology, applied to the construction of the hulls chosen as a builder for the Volvo Ocean Race, a sailing race around the world thanks to the experience gained having worked a lot for the oldest and most important sailing competition in the world, the America’s Cup. The project is by the Mills Design studio while the interior layout is signed by Pininfarina.

Luca Bassani in a recent interview with the journalist Antonio Vettese of The Boat Show a well-known channel dedicated to those who love boating, both sailing and motor present on You Tube describes the characteristics of this boat:

” Tango as a fourth Wallycento wants to be the evolution of everyone else. The design was born a bit from our idea that we had already developed on Esense 143 feet then on a 130 feet that is on a flush deck boat with the classic type boats thronged by tradition. However it remains the spirit of a very fast boat that can make beautiful cruises. The blanket is very similar to those boats we say, historically speaking, once so smooth and free, something very special is a sign of real boating. It resembles the great classic boats because it is a bit ‘this the goal at the bottom are the boats that have taught us to understand what is the beauty of a boat. Moreover, it is also very convenient because you can move the sails in the race and the crew maneuvers very easily on a free bridge. While on the cruise you then put yourself where you want to take a large table of chairs under the awning in the bow aft in the center and you put, wherever you want and you do not have to stay instead in that small and typical cockpit that the draftsman has drawn you once For all life”.

 In this interview, the concept that characterizes the Wally boats, ie the cockpit substituted by two or three zones, has been reiterated so that the guests and the owner can choose to share an area together, or at certain times of the day to spontaneously separate and occupy different areas to enjoy a little privacy while continuing to live life on board, always in the open area, enjoying the wonders of the sea.
Inevitably then the interview with Luca Bassani, creator, founder and president of Wally expands on an initial balance in all these years of activity and on what has given the Wally brand to the yards that produce  boats of large series in general. Below are just some steps that are considered the most indicative.

Luca Bassani “I would say that there is a very positive balance because all our customers have remained, very happy with our boats we have customers who have rebuilt two three up to four times the boats with us in different sizes. Then I would say that the whole world has appreciated the first few years a bit ‘difficult but it is always like that when the whole world is innovated, has appreciated what we did I believe that all the shipbuilding has taken a lot of massage Wally and I dare to say that they have also copied a lot for which the deck plans have been changed for example, they are much more comfortable for cruises that are normally done when once the boats were studied only for the famous perfect storm that then maybe one did not even take in his life. We talk about the boats of Stevens no that were studied, to be safe in case of storms, but on the cruise was done much more than going to take the storm. The exterior deck layout and interior layouts have changed a great deal the boats have become really more comfortable and faster at the same time. Many times you exaggerate you want to change just to draw a different sign. Pulling a different sign is not necessary, I have always said that first of all you have to start from the best functionality, comfort, better performance, better maneuverability and then design is a consequence of these new functions. But do not start from design. These are not paintings are working objects that have to work. “

Surely Tango incorporates these peculiarities represents a high performance yacht built with the most advanced technologies of the moment and being a Wally has an elegant yet functional minimalist style.