Our history and our staff

A business born from Angelo and Martino’s experience, passion and determination

Sail maker, Italian design

Angelo Costa:
a full life on a sailing boat

Angelo’s sailing began in Forte dei Marmi at the age of 8, following in the footsteps of his father Gino Costa, a six-time Italian champion in the Alpa “S” class. Gino trained Angelo in sailing on several classes: Flying Junior, 420, Alpa S, Flying Dutchman and finally on the Olympic Finn where, at only sixteen years old, Angelo joined the Italian national team.

In 1988 Angelo decided to make sailing his full-time profession, abandoning the Olympic classes and devoting himself to offshore racing as a skipper. He worked for the most important Italian sailing companies, developing many projects for the design of new sails and testing them on racing yachts as skipper.

In his career as a sailmaker, yachtsman and racing sailor in many Olympic classes and on offshore boats, Angelo has also built his knowledge and experience in designing sails to specific customer requirements using different design software for racing and cruising sails. Angelo learned to use the best performing design software tools to create cuts and shapes innovative, selecting a wide range of hi-tech materials, from Dacron to the latest and most sophisticated membranes of carbon.

Angelo made use of his strong background to gather a long list of successful results over the years, both as a skipper and as tactician, participating in the most important national and international offshore races: Championships World and European Championships, Swan Cup, Sardinia, Copa del Rey, Giraglia, 151 miles and many other racing circuits, winning numerous trophies.

Sail maker

A business born from Angelo and Martino’s experience, passion and determination

Sail maker, Italian design

Angelo Costa:
a full life on a sailing boat

Angelo Costa: a full life on a sailing boat Angelo’s sailing began in Forte dei Marmi at the age of 8, following in the footsteps of his father Gino Costa, a six-time Italian champion in the Alpa “S” class.

Gino trained Angelo in sailing on several classes: Flying Junior, 420, Alpa S, Flying Dutchman and finally on the Olympic Finn where, at only sixteen years old, Angelo joined the Italian national team.

In 1988 Angelo decided to make sailing his full-time profession, abandoning the Olympic classes and devoting himself to offshore racing as a skipper.

He worked for the most important Italian sailing companies, developing many projects for the design of new sails and testing them on racing yachts as skipper. In his career as a sailmaker, yachtsman and racing sailor in many Olympic classes and on offshore boats, Angelo has also built his knowledge and experience in designing sails to specific customer requirements using different design software for racing and cruising sails.

Angelo learned to use the best performing design software tools to create cuts and shapes innovative, selecting a wide range of hi-tech materials, from Dacron to the latest and most sophisticated membranes of carbon. Angelo made use of his strong background to gather a long list of successful results over the years, both as a skipper and as tactician, participating in the most important national and international offshore races: Championships World and European Championships, Swan Cup, Sardinia, Copa del Rey; Giraglia, 151 miglia, and many other racing circuits, winning numerous trophies.

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Martino Giannini:
a passion for sail and sailing.

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Angelo’s experience and expertise, meet the passion and determination of his young and faithful
mate Martino Giannini.

Together they started a new sailing business, creating their own workshop “Sail
Design.”
Even so, Martino Giannini has many years of experience in the world of sailing and motor boating.


His great passion for sailing led him to participate as a sailor in major regattas and he is also a sailing instructor.
In “Sail Design” Martino works with determination combining, in unique and high-quality products, the highest design and manufacturing technologies with the utmost care that only an experienced craftsman can provide.

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Come visit us in the Sail Design workshop specializing in designing sails customized to the customer's needs, the type of use and the boat! We are located at Via di Mezzogiorno n. 13, loc. Bicchio Viareggio, in Lucca!