Like many yachtsmen, legendary tenor andrea bocelli grew up in a boating family. His father kept a small outboard-powered vessel for outings. “early in the morning, my brother albert and i would load the heavy engine that my father always kept safely in the cabin at night, on our shoulders,” he recalls fondly. These days, the avid cruiser is enjoying downtime with family on board his 70-foot, vripack-designed, built-in-holland gamma yachts 20 (no motor-carrying here). Bocelli discovered the yacht, called Libertas, after his son, Amos, who also runs the vessel, saw her in a magazine and gave his father her specifications. Having owned larger vessels that offered handling challenges and smaller, built-for-speed performance yachts, he says he really likes that Libertas is well laid out to accommodate his extended family…
