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"Now boats are always a fascinating topc for me because find it highly interesting to discover naw trends or further development of design-features, like discussed in my past articles on inverted bows or hard chines. talian high-end inter del Pardo recently astonished the community with the release ofthe frst renderings oftheir latest boat. he all new Grand Solel 44 seek, very sexy, very flat and very tempting design and especially the stern section of this yacht isa signature design of one man: Yacht designer Matteo Poll "Know Matteo since three years now and approached him shortly ler starting this ailing magazine after fllin Jove with a plain white bos by Raia Yachts on my fst Hamburg boat shew. Visiting hie in Waly Treceivad a fll tour ofthe tala Yachtsyard and we Kept on talking about yacht design and some details ike appendage design. Seeing the great renderings of the naw Grand Salel end reading the news that he was the mastermind bend that bat, approached him w get to know his view on this projet. Here we g>. Talking to Matteo Polli on his own yacht-design company {are Reicher | NO FAIS SAILING com: "Mate, in short, describe when and why you "ll Malia Yachts to start your ‘own business and which motivations dd you have to undertae this tep?™ “Mattoo Poli: eft alia Yachts as an employee about two years ago but have continued working for the yard as an ‘independent designer to complete the 1 and some keel variants. The reason for this was mainly that I wanted to face new challenges. wanted to work for different cliontson diferent projects and ofcourse having the fesdorn of running my own business” [NFS.comr "That is big step can imagine — where is your company based? Are yeu working on your own or do you hhave any employees?” “Mattoo Poli: My company is basa near Monfacone. That is my home tow situated on th North Asiatic, There ‘work with team of collaborators which I choos atthe bepinning of evry project according to the specific needs, Having done this step was the right decision as this enabled me to focus more on developing my own skis as a yacht

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