I was born in Chioggia, in the province of Venice in 1954, where my mother's family had a boatyard that built every type of local boat: sandoli, batei a pisso, bragossi, trabaccoli, but also large motorsailers, yachts and fast rowing boats. My father was a naval mechanic with a workshop, also in Chioggia, where he installed and repaired the motors of fishing boats. 

The nautical world was in my blood, with its beauty and toughness, with its pragmatism; but above all I absorbed the taste for making, by which I do not mean only execution, but also the creation of a project or  the solution to a problem and bringing these to completion with one's own hands, without intermediate steps, dead time and useless chatter, 

In these years of activity I have tried, in a completely independent way, to unite practical know-how with theoretical knowledge, to bring dignity to a world seen, at best, as a folkloristic backdrop. My objective is to save the last traditional boats and the memory of the techniques used to make them. Recording this world, now largely lost, in my books I hope to answer not only the questions posed by the well-read historian, but also the simpler and sometimes more arduous questions that nowadays only children know how to ask: What's it like inside? How does it work? How can I build it?