- Founded
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- Headquarters
- Via Brera 6, 20121 Milano, Italy
- Shipyard location
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- Official website
- https://advancedyachts.com/
Brand Overview
Milan-based Italian sailing-yacht atelier building a few semi-custom performance cruisers a year — the 18.6-metre A62, the 20.5-metre A66 and the 24-metre A80, the latter two drawn by Reichel/Pugh with design by Nauta Design, and the 22-metre AC72 catamaran whose first hull is in build.
YachtCodex Analysis
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What this builder is
Advanced Yachts calls itself an authentically Italian bespoke sailing atelier and 'a company of sailors' who have been sailing for more than forty years; it builds only a few boats each year, each designed around its owner in what the yard calls a semi-custom approach, and every Advanced is built in Italy by artisans and small specialist firms, with the company's office at Via Brera 6 in Milan. The range is three monohulls and a catamaran: the A62, the A66 — whose first hull One Shot was followed by Botta Dritta and by Salt, the first A66s, with the A80's racing deck plan — the A80, built as Apsaras for a Hong Kong owner, Jikan for an English owner and Mindfulness, now offered for crewed charter, and the AC72 'maxi-cat', announced in 2025 with Reichel/Pugh naval architecture, Cassetta Design interiors and pivoting centreboards. Hulls are vacuum-infused epoxy sandwich with glass and carbon reinforcement from CNC-machined female moulds, decks and superstructures are carbon, and hulls are painted rather than gelcoated; an 'Eco' option stores alternator power in house batteries and adds hybrid drives. Each boat page prints length overall, waterline length, beam, draft, displacement, ballast, engine, generator, watermaker and tanks.
Who sails them
Advanced owners are experienced sailors who want one yacht for long Mediterranean or ocean cruising and for club regattas — a couple sailing privately or a family with crew — and who value Reichel/Pugh performance, an Italian interior chosen down to fabrics and timbers in the yard's showroom, and a small builder that guides every decision from concept to delivery.
Signature models
The A80 is the flagship: Apsaras, the first, won the cruising class of the ARC and sailed on round the world, including the Sydney–Hobart; the A66 took a Boat of the Year award for interior design, and the AC72 catamaran is the yard's new 'masterpiece'.
Strengths
Advanced is known for Reichel/Pugh hull lines and Nauta Design styling, light-wind performance, vacuum-infused epoxy and carbon construction with carbon decks and painted hulls, semi-raised saloons with large hull windows, tailor-made interiors including an eco materials range, alternator-based eco power and hybrid propulsion options, and lifelong owner support from a small Italian team.
Considerations
Production is a handful of boats a year and each is customised, so figures describe the model as printed on the built boats' pages; no cabin, berth or head counts and no CE category are published; the A66 prints its displacement with no load condition and its Volvo Penta D3-150 without a horsepower figure; the A80 page gives the fixed-keel draft only; the A62 is shown in renderings and its designers are not named; and the AC72 was in construction when read, so its figures are design figures.
Analysis generated 10/17/2026
Part of
Fleet at a Glance
Calculated from the models in the YachtCodex catalog, not from the builder's claims.
- Models in catalog
- 4
- Length range
- 18.6–23.98 m
- Hull forms
- Sailing Monohull 3 · Sailing Catamaran 1
Models by this brand
4 models
History
Advanced Yachts presents itself as a company of sailors who have been sailing for more than forty years and as a true sailing-yacht atelier: limited production, each yacht made to measure for its future owner, every one built in Italy by artisans and small specialist firms, from shipbuilding and carpentry to teak decks, lighting, engineering and fabrics. Its boat pages tell the story of the range. The first A66, One Shot, was built for an experienced owner who spends long periods aboard and has since sailed the Mediterranean and the Atlantic; the second, Botta Dritta, for a racing owner who wanted both long Mediterranean cruises and competitive regattas. The first A80, Apsaras, was built for a Hong Kong owner who had fallen for the A66 but wanted a larger boat; presented at the Monaco Yacht Show, she won the cruising category of the ARC, spent a season in the Caribbean and set off round the world by way of South Africa, Madagascar, the Philippines and Australia, racing the Sydney–Hobart on the way. Jikan, the second A80, was built for an English owner with a furling boom and self-tacking jib for short-handed sailing, and Mindfulness, the third, combines the two with a shoal-draft keel and is offered for charter. Salt, developed after the first A80s, became the first A66s. In 2025 the yard announced the AC72 catamaran, its first boat entering construction, and moved to the advancedyachts.com address.
History written fromadvancedyachts.com/about-advanced-yachts/· Who we areread 10/17/2026