Posted on 3/4/2016
In 1906, Augusto Pedrazzini, age 22, left his Lake Como home to try his luck working for the boatyards on Lake Zurich, in Switzerland. Augusto had learned his trade in Italy with master builder Giu-seppe Abbate and was a prized recruit. Eight years later, in 1914, he founded a boatyard near Zurich; today, his grandson, Claudio Pedrazzini, continues to build mahogany runabouts, continuing a century of Italian creativity imbued with Swiss stability.
Under the direction of Augusto’s son, Ferruccio Pedrazzini, the yard maintained the highest standards in selecting and assembling the wood, as well as in every visible and invisible detail. After the successful small dinghy Super-leggera was introduced in the mid-1950s, he launched the larger Capri runabout with its trademark rounded stern, and the model is still availab...