Fratelli Aprea is based in Sorrento, Italy. The company’s family boatbuilding tradition is closely tied to the Sorrento maritime area.
What type of boats does Fratelli Aprea build?
The brand builds gozzo-style boats, including cruisers and custom leisure craft. Its boats are designed around the traditional Gozzo Sorrentino form.
What is Fratelli Aprea known for?
It is known for traditional Sorrento craftsmanship and hand-built gozzo boats. The brand is especially associated with artisanal construction, classic lines, and Mediterranean-style day and cruising boats.
Fratelli Aprea is a family boatbuilder from Sorrento, Italy, known for handcrafting Gozzo Sorrentino-style boats since 1890. The company says it has passed through six generations of the Aprea family and remains based in Sorrento. Its boats are built around traditional Mediterranean working-boat forms adapted for leisure use.
History and shipyard
Fratelli Aprea traces its origins to 1890, when the family shipbuilding tradition was established in Sorrento. The brand presents itself as a long-running artisan yard rooted in local seafaring culture, with the craft handed down across generations of the Aprea family. Company materials describe the yard as continuing this tradition today from Sorrento, where the family’s boatbuilding identity was formed and refined over more than a century.
Boats and design
The builder is best known for gozzo-style boats, especially the Gozzo Sorrentino, a classic Sorrento fishing-boat form adapted into modern leisure craft. Its range includes custom-built cruisers and motorboats that keep strong visual links to traditional wooden working boats, while later models incorporate modern materials and equipment. Boat press describes Fratelli Aprea as a maker of artisanal fishboat-styled cruisers, with an emphasis on woodwork and bespoke construction.
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