ItalCraft S51- Winter project for someone ?

[Divemaster1]

Killing some time @ lunch and came across this one ....

£48K

http://www.yachtworld.co.uk/boats/1986/Italcraft-S51-(M74)-2593181/Limassol/Cyprus#.ViD88H6rTct

50 foot and 40 knot + with 2 x 580 hp .... ItalCraft did some clever stuff in the 80's ....

Video of one running here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76j6nmL-ARc

 

[PowerYachtBlog]

Yes they did. Sonny Levi and Franc Harraurer are the most famous.
If I remember well the M74 was a Levi project, and with it he launched the prop tunnels with surface drive system.

The Rome and Neopolitan area had some clever people coming in the sixties and seventies, which put the way forward.
It's a pity that some of the innovative ideas created in those times by some of the designers still to this day do not get the credit they deserve.

 

[Portofino]

No where to sunbath and lacks outside space .
How ever agree "true Classic"
I,ll stick with one of Mario Amati,s 23 degree dead rise - deep V opens with MAN power.
Yup 60's + 70 's must have been golden years for boat design /build in Italy .
Often copied not matched ----yet .

 

[PowerYachtBlog]

No where to sunbath and lacks outside space .
How ever agree "true Classic"
I,ll stick with one of Mario Amati,s 23 degree dead rise - deep V opens with MAN power.
Yup 60's + 70 's must have been golden years for boat design /build in Italy .
Often copied not matched ----yet .

Amati invented the underwater exhaust system, think it was Genoa 1980. Copied by someone on the same boat show, in day two.
Fair to say though the hulls of the Itama opens was inspired to the Magnum 38, and the Itama 38 was launched with slightly flatter 22 degrees deep Vee versus the Magnum 24.

 

[Portofino]

If you really fancy DD,s nice 680's In a more open Italien classic
Here's another winter project .
Sure it needs a bit of internal refit to bring up to date .Wood floor it + reupholster + new Galley --- But @£30 K and a bit of time on your hands in a sunny climates
http://www.mondialbroker.com/Barca.aspx?pk=7dcb0df0-858b-4818-9bf1-042b9f3e589a

 

[PowerYachtBlog]

This is the best 45 I ever saw, (one of the last builds and looks nearly a 46) http://www.mondialbroker.com/Barca.aspx?pk=a6afb3d3-4c98-4c6b-a766-3ea42d27362c
Saw her in Croatia in 2006, then she sold to a football player of the Naples squad in 2007.

 

[Divemaster1]

If you really fancy DD,s nice 680's In a more open Italien classic
Here's another winter project .
Sure it needs a bit of internal refit to bring up to date .Wood floor it + reupholster + new Galley --- But @£30 K and a bit of time on your hands in a sunny climates
http://www.mondialbroker.com/Barca.aspx?pk=7dcb0df0-858b-4818-9bf1-042b9f3e589a

Not really the DD's in the ItalCraft above.... just inventive and incredible how they managed to get that speed out with relatively low hp... That is the speed of a modern Pershing....