Tullio Abbate New Web Site

 

Tullio Abbate presents its new web site.  Tullio Abbate was started in 1969, a continuation of the Abbate boating name which was founded in 1873 by Giuseppe Abbate and followed by his son Guido in 1940.  Third generation Tullio Abbate, was the older of the three sons of Guido and enters boating in 1962, as he builds Il Cinque, a plywood built red coloured racing boat of five meters in length which will go on to win the Centomiglia race of that year.  A year later in 1963 Tullio will join father Guido in the Abbate family boating business, famous in that time for building classic fast runabouts in wood with sleek lines.  In 1965 while racing at the six hours Paris race, Tullio Abbate sees a reinforced plastic British build deep-Vee speed boat, and decides he wants to build a similar craft.  The decision to build boats in fiberglass will angry father Guido as he foregoes him out of the family business, with Tullio founding his own ship yard in 1969 and building the Sea Star, the first Tullio Abbate boat.  With the shipyard founded Tullio Abbate will keep on racing and setting records retiring in 2001.  In his career Tullio has won eleven Centomiglia races from 1962 up to 2001, becoming Offshore Class Two Champion in 1975, and set a record for a diesel engine powerboat in 1979 reaching 107 knots or two hundred kilometres per hour on 23 May of that year in Tremezzo.  Mostly known for fast powerboat cruisers up to about fifteen meters, Tullio did build a few large sport yachts over twenty meters, the fist being the Exception 70 in 1989, which is followed by the Exception 90 six years later what is still today the largest Tullio Abbate build to date.  The Exception 90 is an interesting super sport yacht, and is to date the largest yacht build near a lake, which powered by quadruple 1500hp engines with surface drives reaches a speed of fifty knots.  Tullio Abbate was also the boat builder of the personalities who apart customers also become friends; Alain Prost, Aryton Senna, Gilles Villeneuve, Bernie Ecclestone, Björn Borg, Diego Maradona, Didier Pironi, Giacomo Agostini, Gianni Versace, Gilles and Jacques Villeneuve, Jacky Ickx, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Nico Rosberg, Niki Lauda, Matteo de Nora, Rene Arnoux, and Riccardo Patrese.  Aryton Senna also build a special dedicated special fast cruiser with Tullio Abbate, the Senna 42 Evolution launched in 1995 and produced till 2001. Unfortunately for Senna he will not get to see it following his dead on first May 1994 during the San Marino Grand Prix at the Autodromo Enzo and Dino Ferrari in Imola.  Tullio Abbate Junior will join the father family business in 2002 following in the Senior's footstep of building boats and racing, and winning two world championships this far in his career, and takes over the family business in 2012.  Tullio Abbate Senior will die at age 75 at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan on nine April 2020, after being infected by COVID-19 during the pandemic in Italy.  Currently Tullio Abbate builds twelve models divided into three line ups; Classic, Comfort, and Sport, with the offer starting from the seven meter Flash 755, and go up to the Superiority 52.  Tullio Abbate new web site takes you around with the following buttons; Home, Our History, Boats, Vintage, Special Projects, and Contact.  Tullio Abbate is also on social media with a right top button taking you to its Instagram page.

www.tullioabbateyachts.com

Production History;
Sea Star m 6.05 1970-

Sea Star Super m 7.00 1979-

Offshore 42 1979-80

Offshore 27 1980-

Offshore 42 S 1981-83

Elite 25 1982-86

42 Executive 1984-

Champion 41 1986-

Elite 25 (ii) 1987-

Elite 32 1988-

Offshore 33 1988-

Exception 70 1990 (1)

Exception 33 1991-

Exception 90 1995 (1)

Senna 42 Evolution 1995-2001 (50+-)

Mito 45 2010-

Mito 23 2011-

Mito 33 2011-

Beat 42 2012-

The Sea Star 6 meter, Tullio Abbate first boat.