Born in 1969 in New York, currently residing in Italy. He designed Shining and was part of the team that designed the Prada boat for the America's Cup 2000 and Swedish Victory for the 2002-2003 challenge. He graduated in Yacht Design from the Southampton Institute in Great Britain and, since 1992, he has been manager of the design firm Studio Frers in Milan. He has contributed to the Stealth, Boomerang, Wally 77, Genie of the Lamp, Ten PF, Este 24 and 3 design projects, in addition to the design of the Volvo 60 “Amer One” for the Nautor Challenge boatbuilders, which took part in the Round the World Volvo Ocean Race 2001-2002, as well as to projects for various racing and high-speed cruising boats.
He is involved in sporting activities as a sailor on maxi-yachts and IMS regatta boats.

In 1998, the design firm Studio Frers - and more specifically, Mani Frers - was commissioned to design an innovative open-hulled yacht, and was told not to hold back when it came to experimenting. Frers developed something that was extremely high-tech and high-performance, and could easily stand comparison with the America’s Cup yachts in terms of technological research. The end result was an elegant finned hull, as innovative as it was aggressive, a prototype whose potential, as well as the difficulty encountered in finding the most appropriate ranges and trims, make it an ongoing affair for the designers. A boat you can only really start to understand when you climb aboard and experience its speed when driven by the wind and gliding.

Progettista Victory Challenge - Coppa America 2002-2003

ANDREJ JUSTIN

Naval architect, he graduated in the United States from the Westlawn Institute of Marine Technology and boasts extensive experience as director of the charter headquarters in Primošten. His first works date back to the late eighties: the Elan 23 PWF motor boat and Val 302 sailing boat.
He then designed a 19-metre motor boat followed by another 9.5-metre model, very popular in Australia today. Returning to Slovenia in 1994, ha embarked on the Just in Ten project, which ended two years later with the presentation of a fleet of ten boats used for the prestigious Slovenia match race Cup at Koper. The design was then developed further when an Italian customer commissioned the Evolution version of these same boats.
Following this, he designed a 12-metre sailing boat for a Hungarian customer, for whom the twin boats Viharnik and Pozejdon were built, winners of various regattas in the Adriatic. In 1998, Justin designed Fast Wave 30. The following year, it was the turn of Light Wave 37 and Nautik 33.