Wally to Build M&M Design

Although typically associated with large, sleek, maxi-daysailers, Italian yard Wally and its 300-by-40-meter shed in Ancona, Italy, has signed on as the builder for the Aeroyacht 110 — a cruising maxi cat designed by the Huntington Beach firm of Morelli and Melvin. Expected to reach speeds of 35-knots under sail, the boat will be neither the fastest nor biggest designed by the Southern California firm that is responsible for everything from the late Steve Fossett’s record-breaking PlayStation to breakthrough A-Class catamaran designs. However, it will be the first to be built of the Aeroyacht range — which also includes a 95-footer and a 125-footer — and getting something like this off the ground in these times is pretty freakin’ cool.