Ferretti Group has added one year of limited warranty cover to eligible new-yacht purchases. The Ferretti Quality Promise applies to contracts signed from 1 September 2026, a week before the group announced it. The conditions are narrower than the headline suggests.
An owner comparing new-build proposals should file this next to the specification and the delivery date. The question worth asking is what happens after the first season, once the boat has stopped being a show debut and a technical problem starts eating the weeks it was bought to protect.
The published eligibility test
The announcement of 8 September, issued from Forlì, calls the mechanism the “+1 Year Ferretti Quality Promise”. These are the limits it publishes.
| Point | Published position |
|---|---|
| Contracts | New-boat purchase contracts signed from 1 September 2026 |
| Size | Yachts up to 45 metres, stated in metres only |
| Construction exclusion | “Excluding units in aluminum and/or steel” |
| Scope | Core engineering and onboard functional systems; purely cosmetic matters excluded |
| Maintenance | Activation procedures and scheduled work at official Group service centres must be observed |
It runs “across all Group brands”, though the release names none of them individually. Note what is absent: the standard warranty’s own length is never stated, so nobody reading the announcement can work out what the total comes to. One extra year on top of an unpublished number.
Why the material exclusion matters
Do not stop at the length. A 40-metre yacht clears the size test and still fails if it is built in aluminium, and the two conditions share a single footnote in the release, which suggests they were written as one test rather than two. A Ferretti badge on the transom proves nothing about the hull beneath it.
What you want is a written confirmation tied to your yacht: model, hull number where one exists, contract date, and the extension named. This matters most when the order changes during negotiation, or when a dealer offers a boat already sitting in stock with a contract date you did not choose.
We are reading a press release, not your contract. Have the documents looked at properly. A release identifies the offer; the contract decides the claim.
Maintenance belongs in the ownership plan
The servicing condition has teeth. The release makes the extension valid “provided that all scheduled checks and maintenance services are carried out at official Ferretti Group service centers”, and then gives no interval at all. No months, no engine hours. So before signing, ask which centre takes the boat, when the checks fall and how each one gets recorded.
A yacht planning consecutive seasons in different seas needs that route agreed in advance. Whether a technician can reach the marina is the easy question. Who is authorised to do the work, and to write it down in a form the programme accepts, is the one that decides a claim two years later.
Ferretti’s network page counts “over 55 distributors” reaching “more than 70 countries”. Read that carefully. Those are distributors, and the warranty clause names service centres; the group nowhere says the two lists are the same. Get the centre names from the dealer in writing.
What to have clarified in writing
Build a handover file the captain can use, not only the buyer. Start and end dates, activation confirmation, the maintenance schedule, named contacts, and the process for reporting a fault. The person who signed the contract is rarely the person standing on the dock when something fails.
The release is silent on a great deal. It says nothing about whether the extension survives a resale, nothing about charter or commercial use, nothing about travel or yard costs, nothing about third-party equipment, and nothing about geography. Silence is not permission and it is not refusal. It is a list of questions for the dealer.
The boundary between functional and cosmetic needs explaining in the contract too. Ferretti covers “core engineering elements and on-board functional systems” and excludes “purely cosmetic issues”, which leaves a wide grey band. Photographs, inspection reports and dates will serve you better there than an owner’s impression that something looks wrong.
None of this needs to sour the purchase. It is just easier to settle a process while choosing a yacht than while trying to leave on one.
The value is continuity
Stassi Anastassov, the group’s global chief executive, framed it around “the precision of installations, the quality of workmanship and the robustness of our engineering solutions”. That is a narrow and quite specific promise, and a more honest one than a blanket year would have been.
It is not proof of fault-free operation, nor a replacement for insurance, nor a guarantee of resale value. What it offers is narrower: a defined extra period in which an eligible problem has a route back to the builder.
Worth understanding before you choose the fabrics, then. An extra year only counts if you know how to keep it.
The Luxury.it perspective
The interesting thing about this announcement is the footnote. Ferretti drew its line at 45 metres and at composite construction, which means the yachts most likely to develop expensive problems, the big metal ones, are the yachts outside the scheme. That is a commercially sane decision and it deserves saying out loud rather than being read past.
We would also note what the release chooses not to publish: the length of the standard warranty it extends. Without that figure, “+1 year” is an increment on an unknown base, and an owner cannot compare it with what another yard offers.
Our advice to anyone signing this autumn is simple. Ask for the total in years, in writing, alongside the service centre that will keep it alive. Both answers exist; they are just not in the press release.
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