Naviglia Yachts — the company · Aprilia (LT), between Rome and Latina
We are
Naviglia
Yachts
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Italian brand · NAVY RIBs · direct sales · made to order, one at a time
An Italian boating brand, young and clear about what it does: we design and fit out the NAVY rigid inflatable boats, six sizes from the NAVY 4.80 to the NAVY 9.50 Cabinato, and we sell them directly to the people who will take them to sea. Here is our story, stage by stage, with the dates we can document: nothing more, nothing invented.
PLATE 02
Who we are, on one page
One brand, six sizes,
a single signature
Naviglia Yachts is the Italian boating brand of Michelessi Corporation Srl, based in Aprilia (LT), between Rome and Latina. It designs and fits out the NAVY range of rigid inflatable boats: six models from 4.80 to 9.80 metres overall, with a fibreglass hull built to increased thicknesses and tubes in ORCA fabric by Pennel & Flipo, in Hypalon-neoprene. Every NAVY is built to order, one at a time, powered by a Honda, Yamaha or Mercury outboard of the customer's choice, and delivered to the harbour of their choice or straight to their home.
PLATE 03 — Our story
A few stages,
all documented
We are a young brand and we do not pretend otherwise: here you will find only the dates that sit in a register, in a document or in a photograph. The course draws itself as you scroll; the last buoy is still in shadow.
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The company sets sail
Michelessi Corporation Srl, the Aprilia-based company behind the Naviglia Yachts brand, is incorporated.
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The website goes online
The navigliayachts.com domain is registered and the brand's first website goes online the same day.
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Two days in front of the camera
Two-day photo shoot in Aprilia (26–27 May 2025): the NAVY 7.60 and NAVY 6.00 photographed in detail, from the embroidered upholstery to the teak deck.
FIG. 02 — Aft dinette of the NAVY 7.60 with tan upholstery and Naviglia Yachts logo -
The 7.60 photographed at sea
Photo shoot at sea of the white NAVY 7.60 powered by a Honda 250.
FIG. 03 — White NAVY 7.60 at anchor in the golden hour, warm reflections and a granite coast -
The new price list and the flagship
New NAVY range price list: the NAVY 6.60 and the NAVY 9.50 Cabin join the range, the NAVY 7.00 is discontinued.
FIG. 04 — Naviglia vision: the NAVY 9.50 Cabin at dusk -
The last buoy stays in shadow
NAVY P40 takes shape: it will be a power catamaran of about 12 metres.
FIG. 05 — Naviglia vision · teaser image of the NAVY P40
PLATE 04 — Sardinia, 18 August 2025 · real photograph
This photograph is one of the stages of our story: the white NAVY 7.60, powered by a Honda 250, at anchor in a stern three-quarter view on a late-summer day. It is not a set: it is the boat we use for sea trials, with the bimini folded and the scrub-covered hills behind. This is where the real images on this website come from, and where we would like your story to start too: by stepping aboard.
PLATE 05 — Our values · Naviglia Yachts
The luxury of boating
lies in the details
Boating is not just moving across the water: it is feeling it, living it, handling it with elegance. That is why we do not build batches for a warehouse. Every NAVY is built to order, one at a time, with no assembly line: you choose the tube colour among the 29 of the ORCA fabric, white or black fibreglass, one of the 24 shades of teak-effect decking, the Standard upholstery or the quilted Luxury line in 14 colours. Then the logo is embroidered on the backrest and engraved in the deck: the boat is yours before it ever touches the water.
We sell directly, with no local dealers and no intermediaries. That means the person who answers the phone on day one is the same person who hands you the boat and who answers you the year after. It means a written quote, item by item, with the price + VAT, the engine you have chosen and the transport cost already included. And it means you see the final figure before you decide, not afterwards.
The design and the fitting-out of every NAVY are ours; the materials we choose from people who have made them for a lifetime, and we name them. The tubes are in ORCA fabric by Pennel & Flipo, a French company with over a hundred years of experience, in 1.3 mm Hypalon-neoprene from the NAVY 4.80 to the NAVY 7.60. Hull, deck, stern platforms and console are in fibreglass built to increased thicknesses, on moulds designed by Italian engineers and designers. At the stern, Honda, Yamaha or Mercury: the brand is your choice. Because true luxury is not about appearance: it is about feeling.
Naviglia Yachts — Italian brand
«The sea makes no concessions,
and neither do we.»
Chapter 01 — The design
Before the boat,
there is a drawing
Moulds designed by Italian engineers and designers · shipyard vision
A NAVY starts as a line on paper: the deep-V hull that cuts the wave, the run of the tubes, the position of the console, the lockers under the sundeck. The moulds from which hull and deck are taken are designed by Italian engineers and designers, and every measurement you read in the data sheets comes from those drawings, not from an estimate.
In the image, the NAVY 6.00 in transparency: beneath the deck you can see the structures nobody will ever see in person, and which matter to us as much as the upholstery does. Care for the details, visible and invisible, is the phrase we started with: here you can see what it means.
Chapter 02 — The materials
Fibreglass below,
ORCA fabric all around
Increased thicknesses · marine gelcoat · 1.3 mm Hypalon-neoprene
Hull, deck, stern platforms and console are in fibreglass built to increased thicknesses, protected by marine gelcoat, hand-laminated or infused, in the white or black you choose. Around them runs the tube: ORCA fabric by Pennel & Flipo, Hypalon-neoprene on a polyester core, 1.3 mm thick from the NAVY 4.80 to the NAVY 7.60; the NAVY 9.50 Cabin has ORCA Hypalon-neoprene tubes too.
Every tube is cut, bonded with two-part adhesives, hand-welded with double or triple seams where the fabric works hardest, then pressure-tested and visually inspected before it goes onto the hull. The sea makes no concessions: that is why we check every single piece, not a sample.
Chapter 03 — The fitting-out
We engrave the name
under your feet
Teak-effect decking in 24 shades · embroidered upholstery · stainless steel
The fitting-out is the part you touch every day, and we do it ourselves, configuration by configuration. The decking is synthetic EVA teak, chosen among 24 shades with a coloured seam; solid natural teak is fitted on request. On NAVY models up to the 7.60 you get as standard the console complete with instruments, the roll bar with navigation lights, the stern platforms, the stainless steel boarding ladder and the standard upholstery; the diamond-quilted Luxury line is an option.
The compass rose with the word ITALY, which is our symbol, is engraved in the decking and embroidered on the seat backrest: it is not a sticker, it does not peel off. It is the simplest way we have of saying that this boat carries our signature.
PLATE 10 — Who works with us
The NAVY carries our name.
The best come aboard.
We do not build outboards, we do not weave Hypalon, we do not design chartplotters: for these three things we rely on people who have done them for decades, and we write their names in the quote. Yamaha, ORCA Pennel & Flipo and Garmin are among our partners; Honda and Mercury are, together with Yamaha, the outboards we fit on the NAVY range. The engine brand is your choice: we tell you how it behaves on the water on the size you have in mind.
Outboards · four-stroke
Mercury on the NAVY 02
Outboards · four-stroke
Honda on the NAVY 03
Outboards · four-stroke
Yamaha on the NAVY
All the brands, with what each one signs aboard: the brands page.
PLATE 11 — For real · NAVY 7.60
Nothing to
hide
This is real footage, shot at water level around the bow of the NAVY 7.60: the grey band on the tube, the chain running taut into the water, the dark sea moving slowly. Wherever on this website you see a vision of how a fit-out will look, we say so beneath the image; wherever you see the real sea, we say that too. With us you always know what you are looking at.
PLATE 12 — The company in four true numbers
6
NAVY models
in the price listPlus the NAVY P40, coming next.
4.80m
the smallest,
the NAVY 4.80With a 40 hp outboard it can be helmed without a licence within 6 miles of the Italian coast (legal limit 30 kW, 40.8 hp).
9.80m
overall, the largest:
the NAVY 9.50 CabinatoCabin with berths and a separate heads compartment.
15
people aboard
the NAVY 7.60It is our sea-trial boat at Nettuno, powered by a Honda 250.
PLATE 13
How you buy a NAVY, from us
Six steps,
one single person
Our catalogue puts it in a sentence we like: we are not just builders, we are a point of reference for everything that concerns your boat. In practice it works like this.
- 01 · Choosing the model. You tell us how many people you carry, where you keep the boat, whether you hold a licence and what you like doing at sea: the right size follows from there. The advice is ours, the choice is yours.
- 02 · Made-to-order configuration. Tubes, fibreglass, decking, upholstery, options and engine: you compose your NAVY on the real samples, or with the configurator, and we put it down in black and white.
- 03 · Sea trial. Before signing, you step aboard: how it enters the wave, how it turns, how dry it stays is understood on the water, not on a screen. Book the trial and we set the day together.
- 04 · Quote and order. A written quote with the price + VAT, the chosen engine and the transport. Payment by bank transfer: deposit on confirmation, stage payments during production, balance on delivery.
- 05 · Production. Stock boats within 7 working days of order confirmation; made to order, about 3 months up to the 7.60; for the NAVY 9.50 Cabin lead times are agreed on order confirmation.
- 06 · Delivery. To the harbour of your choice or straight to your home, outside the Lazio region and on the islands too: the transport cost is already written in the quote, it does not turn up afterwards.
PLATE 14
The company pages
Everything you
ask yourself first
Warranty, delivery, lead times, trade-in, financing: these are the questions that reach the office every week. We have given each one its own page, with only the answers we can keep.
Company 01
How we build a NAVY
Hull, mould, fibreglass, tubes, bonding, teak, upholstery, stainless steel: layer by layer.
Enter the yard
Company 02
The warranty
Up to 15 years' warranty: what it means and how to ask for assistance.
Read the warranty
Company 03
Delivery and lead times
To the harbour or to your home, all over Italy; the real lead times from order confirmation, model by model.
Delivery and lead times
Company 04
Trade-in of your boat
We assess your RIB or your boat: the year, where it is kept and a few photographs are enough.
Trade-in
Company 05
Financing and leasing
The boat can be financed, including through marine leasing: we discuss it together with the quote.
Financing
Company 06
Prices, in full
The list prices of the six NAVY models, VAT excluded and included, and the items of a quote.
All the prices
Careers
Do you like to dream big?
Come aboard
We do not publish positions that do not exist. If the sea is your trade, or you want it to become one, send us a spontaneous application: we really do read it.
- The brands aboardHonda, Yamaha, Mercury, ORCA and Garmin: who signs what.
- The buying guidesPrices, licence, horsepower, materials: the answers with the real numbers.
- Frequently asked questionsThe ones that reach the office, with the answer we give in person.
- RentalA NAVY for a day, in Costa Smeralda or on the Pontine coast.
PLATE 15 — In person · real photograph
The story goes on
aboard
A page can tell you who we are; a boat is understood by stepping onto it. Come and see the NAVY range in person, then try them at sea. We set the day and the way together, by phone or on WhatsApp.
FIG. 12 — Grey diamond sundeck, teak-effect deck and console seat with logo on the white NAVY 7.60.
Questions about the company
Who we are,
in brief
The questions you ask about us, even before the boats: who is behind the brand, since when, where, with what guarantees. One at a time: open one and the other closes.
Who is Naviglia Yachts?
Naviglia Yachts is the Italian boating brand of Michelessi Corporation Srl, based in Aprilia (LT), between Rome and Latina. It designs and fits out the NAVY rigid inflatable boats, six models from the NAVY 4.80 to the NAVY 9.50 Cabinato, and sells them directly, with no dealers. Coming next is the NAVY P40, a power catamaran of about 12 metres.
How long has Naviglia Yachts existed?
We are a young brand. The company was incorporated on 10 September 2024, the website has been online since 21 February 2025 and the current price list dates from 9 September 2026. We do not claim decades we do not have: we tell the stages we can document, one by one, in the timeline on this page.
Who designs and who builds the NAVY boats?
The design and the fitting-out are ours: the moulds are designed by Italian engineers and designers, and every NAVY is configured and fitted out to order, one at a time. The tubes are in ORCA fabric by Pennel & Flipo, a French company, in Hypalon-neoprene; hull, deck, stern platforms and console are in fibreglass built to increased thicknesses, white or black. We name our suppliers, because they are a guarantee for you too.
Where can I see the NAVY boats in person?
Book your visit, or go straight for the sea trial: we set the day and the way together, by phone or on WhatsApp. We are in Aprilia (LT), between Rome and Latina; if you live far away, you start with a phone call and come once your ideas are clear. For sea trials we have our NAVY 7.60 powered by a Honda 250.
Can I buy a NAVY if I live far from Aprilia?
Yes. We have no local dealers and you do not need one: sales are direct and we follow them ourselves, from the first phone call to delivery, wherever you are in Italy. The boat reaches the harbour of your choice or your home, and the transport has its price in the quote, before you sign and not afterwards.
What warranty do NAVY boats have?
Up to 15 years' warranty on NAVY boats: it is also written in the terms of our price list. We go through it together with the quote, item by item, so you know beforehand what to expect and whom to call after delivery.
Why buy a RIB from Naviglia Yachts?
For five concrete reasons: the boat is built to order, one at a time; you buy directly from the people who design it, with a single point of contact from day one to delivery; the materials are declared by name and thickness, 1.3 mm ORCA fabric and fibreglass built to increased thicknesses; you choose the engine among Honda, Yamaha and Mercury; and before deciding, you try it at sea.
Do you also rent out NAVY boats?
Yes: we rent NAVY boats in Costa Smeralda and on the Pontine coast. It is a way to try a RIB for a whole day before buying one, or instead of buying one. The bases, the boats and the conditions are on the rental pages.
PLATE 17 — You choose the course
The rest of the story
is yours to write
This far, our part: the brand, the dates, the materials, the people who answer you. The part that matters begins when you step aboard and take the NAVY wherever you like. Live the sea with us, every day: what size do you have in mind?
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