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First season for Walcon marina in Italy A


s Italy begins to contemplate life after COVID-19, Walcon Marine’s latest project in the


country will be one of countless leisure facilities that can look forward to welcoming visitors. The new public marina managed


by CM Nautica is located in a stunning location at Castelletto


Ticino on the Southern end of Lake Maggiore, one of the largest and most beautiful of the famous Italian Lakes in the North of the country. It has been built as part of the development of a contemporary, new lakeside headquarters complex designed by leading architects Piuarch for Techbau SpA, a major Italian construction and civil


engineering company, and sits directly in front of the building. Walcon’s Italian partner, Walcon Marine Italia (operating as the Sistema Walcon brand), was responsible for the supply of the marina and it has been engineered by Walcon to make full use of the lines of an existing, curving, breakwater that protects the location from swell and wash. The mooring facilities are comprised of a walkway 190 metres in length that runs along the inside of the breakwater and provides stern-to mooring for around 40 boats up to 12 metres in length and then, projecting out into the harbour, a second, straight, 68 metre walkway for stern-to mooring on both sides for a similar number and size of boats. Access to each walkway is via two 10 x 2 metre bridges with aluminium handrails. The marina has been built using


Antares aluminium pontoons, a Walcon Marine Italia variant of Walcon’s System 2000 range. Two metres in width, they have polyethylene floats and feature


wood plastic composite decking from Italian manufacturer Novowood of Ferrara. Novowood WPC is supplied in an attractive copper-brown colour. “This is a project of the highest


quality build to complement both a remarkable new building and the beautiful location looking across the lake to the mountains beyond,” said Sara Lanzoni of Walcon Marine Italia. “We are proud to have been selected to fulfil this project and are confident that our products will give many years of safe and dependable service.”


Dry stack entrepreneur boosts boat sales


A scheme to help all boat brokers, dealers and manufacturers incentivise their boat sales was recently launched by Trafalgar Drystack. A free boat storage space inside the vast, indoor dry stack, with unlimited launches and recoveries, was made available for anyone selling brand new RIBS and motorboats of 6-9 metres to offer to their customers until the end of June. The collaborative scheme was the


brainchild of Jonny Boys, Managing Director of The Trafalgar Group based in Portsmouth Harbour on the South Coast of England. In 20 years of selling boats, he thought he’d experienced every up and down the industry had to offer. Yet, despite Government assistance, with loans and furlough schemes helping some businesses, the impact of the lock-down on many boat sellers meant immense


MARINA INDUSTRY • JUNE 2020


pressure to sell boats simply to stay in business. Just prior to lock-down, the


dry stack’s interior racking was expanded by 50% and it received


a brand new roof. On the recent Spring Bank Holiday, the Drystack team lifted, launched and recovered 100 boats in a single day. The boat storage space extends


not just for the Summer, but for the whole of 2020. Brokers, boat sellers and buyers can sign up to the scheme at: www.thetrafalgargroup. co.uk/free-drystack-spaces


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