At the wheel of the Rizzardi….

Nicola Giordano is the Royal Group Hotels & Resort’s captain and skipper of the Rizzardi 50 Top Line, the new exclusive luxury charter yacht  which joined the historical Neapolitan  hotel chain this year. 

Giordano’s career started as a tuna fisherman in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, he then sailed on some large boats like the 40-metre Croce del Sud  and the 60-metre Altair.  He also sailed on the historical Amerigo Vespucci on its cruise campaign to Leningrad.

Today Captain Giordano can say he is a “well-sailed man” and to have spent more than 20 years on exclusive yachts, taking part in ocean crossings that brought him as far as the mysterious and fascinating South American seaboard.  
 
Mediterranean, Red Sea, Baltic and Atlantic crossings, are just some of the routes that his ships have sailed and which his guests have enjoyed.

Apart from being a skilled skipper he is also an excellent cook who delights his guests with refined specialities, using the local product that can be found in the various ports in which his ship docks.

Born in Italy on 25th September 1968.
Speaks good English and French and some Spanish 

He graduated from hotel school and then got his STCW95-3000GT  nautical licence for Commercial Cargo and Commercial Yachts. His navigation licence n. 10598 was issued in 1983 by the  Capitaneria di Porto in Salerno, He has also taken courses in medical first aid,  GMDSS, PSSR, radar and the harp.

Professional CV

October-November 2007	Capitan – Boat: S/YPuritan, 36 metres
April – October 2005	Capitan – Boat: Itama, 60 feet
February – April 2005	Sailor, 1° Assistant – Boat: Altair, 60 metre
October 1998 – November 2003	Sailor, 1° Assistant – Boat: Te Vaga, 45 metres
From 1994 to 1996	Sailor, 2° Assistant – Boat Croce del Sud, 40 metres
April 1992 –January 1994	Sailor – Boat: Karima
October 2001 – April 1992	Sailor – Boat: Croce del Sud, 40 metres
August 1987 – January 1989	Military service on the Amerigo Vespucci
March 1984 – August 1987	Ocean tuna fisherman