The Perini Navi Group is delighted to present Dirk Johnson as a new member of the team at Perini Navi USA. Johnson will promote Picchiotti brand motor yachts and will work from the new Perini Navi USA offices, which have been recently transferred to 2 Marina Plaza, Goat Island, Newport, Rhode Island – the capital city of US sailing.

Dirk Johnson

Dirk Johnson, born in 1960, earned his BS degree from the New York Maritime College. Over the years he has acquired a vast amount of experience in the maritime world, serving as a deck officer aboard tankers, freighters and tugboats in the US Merchant Marine ( he held a 1600 ton Captain License) and establishing a successful career as a yacht broker.

Dirk has sailed around the world and has competed as Navigator in many important international regattas such as the Rolex Fastnet Race, the Sydney Hobart Race and the Rolex Transatlantic Race. In 2002 he won the St David Light trophy in the Newport-Bermuda Race.

He has often crewed as Navigator aboard Perini Navi luxury vessels such as charter yacht Parsifal III, charter yacht Andromeda la Dea, charter yacht Antara and charter yacht Freedom during the Perini Navi Cup and the St. Barth’s and the Newport Bucket Regattas.