opinion/info on Piantoni (hurricane) 32-35 flybridge

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hello all,

newly registered to the forum, being following for a few months, spend more than a few long nights reading but now it's time to ask a few Qs :)

Saw Divemaster1 mentioning Piantoni's and since I've being looking for half a year now to get a 33-36ft mobo from the 80ies preferably on two inboard diesels and two individual cabins (one for us and one for the two kids 9, 11yrs old) I've not many options down here in Greece at my budget of 25 (max30K) euro. Mind you for legislative reasons I'd prefer a waterline length of max 10.5m but it all depends...
Seen a couple of (overpriced imho princesses 33 mk2 on sterndrives), seen a lovely italcraft aermar on surface props, leaking teak decks (that is a full restoration project and I'm still thinking about it) and now about to see two piantoni's hurricanes tomorrow and over the w/e.

Q time:
Is there anywhere in the web a history of this brand? No luck so far, not a single plan, no other info whatsoever!
Are they to be expected to have decent grp construction? (mentioning 9tons for a 34ft craft so it's got to be a beefy construction...) Not too bothered with the fittings and wooden/whatever panels since I'll enjoy working on her and rewire (going LED), add photovoltaics, some smart home automation stuff for remote monitoring & alarm, etc.
I assume they are seaworthy, any probms in this dept? Will be used for soft med cruising, few 1week excursions on 40-60miles away from home on reasonably easy seas hopefully (August excluded...)

cheers

Vas
 
Hello,
we have a couple Piantoni's here (32 OndaAzzurra, 32 Onda Blu (open version), 35, and 45 Fiantasy. I can honestly tell you they are good boats and in my experience they suffer from nothing. The Hurricane should be the 39 model?
The 45 Fantasy in my opinion is among the best boats in its class and size for the period (eighties), and only the old Mochi 46, or Ferretti 44 Altura S where better.
I know of a 45 Fantasy which has been through anything, also crushed and sank a sailing boat with its bow and even there it needed anything expect for repair and reallignment to its shafts.
Generally quite heavy, very well built, and have better hardware then to English boats of the same vintage, see stainless fittings and so on. This mostly on the larger models.
Piantoni where closed in the early nineties I think 1993, before opening and closing down in not so nice buisness circumstances. Being brothers the boats where also built as Cantieri Lombardini in the time frame 95 till 2000.
They used to be built in the La Spezia region.
 
thanks for the welcome and the info.

Looks like the 32ft one I'm checking tomorrow is indeed an OndaAzzurra in very good nick, but imho overpriced..
The one I'll vew over the w/e is a 35ft hurricane, similar layout just almost a meter longer with inboards and (unfortunately) a petrol portable gen and a split installation a/c (I wonder how he managed that...) That's enough to drop 5grand off the price, so we'll see.
Thanks for the overview of the company, would be nice to have some drawings of the various crafts produced at the time, if not only to figure out if the manufacture year quoted is right or covered up...

Bart, the Bertram is way off my budget not considering I'd have to spend at least 5grand on fuel to get it to north Aegean and pay unbelievable taxes to start with. So I'm looking at the local market (which amidst the crisis is a buyers market) and there are a few craft to look at.
Another Q, should I expect most 80ies Italian crafts to have dense cross members on the hull upon which the superstructure is organised as in glued/bolted (as for example in the Italcraft which had members every 60-70cm)?
Does a full grp hull, deck et al imply a different (better?) structural and constructional methodology?

cheers

V
 
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