Kaléa is a Mediterranean superyacht of her time, built with no expense spared and Italian through and through.

Commissioned in 1965 by a wealthy Genovese entrepreneur, VAL III was built to exacting standards
by Cantieri di Pisa, launched in 1965, and was to be the last sailing yacht built by this famous yard.

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In 1985 she was bought by the Milanese lawyer and his wife, Paola and Salvatori Trufiro, who undertook a substantial modernisation at the Valdettaro Shipyard, Le Grazie, renamed her Kaléa, and owned her through until 1992.

 

Paola and Salvatori have gone on to own a number of
other notable Italian superyachts, and in 2013 were thrilled to see their “Italian masterpiece”, Kaléa, in Sardinia.

In 1992, Kaléa was bought by the former Italian Naval Officer, Sergio di Lazzaro. She was based in the
Tyrrhanian Sea at Cala Galera and Riva di Traiano, and cruised the Mediterranean extensively. She
underwent a full refit in 2002 at Cantieri dell’Argentario. In 2005, Sergio died and Kaléa continued to be managed by the family through a company Azzurro Yachting, used for family cruising and chartering covering the extensive area from Barcelona to Turkey.

In 2015, apart from a limited amount of family use, Kaléa was laid up, put on the market and finally discovered by the current owner, Tim Blackman, who shipped her to Cowes in the UK for a restoration after which she was finally commissioned in June 2022.  

 

She will initially spend some time in the Solent and South West before returning to a mooring at Le Grazie in Liguria for her next lease of life.