Technology


Always extreme


When a client has an ambitious, pioneering, performance-orientated vision, PersicoMarine can bring real value to the project and is eager to be involved


Persico Marine has been hitting the headlines recently. In last year’s America’s Cup, you’ll have noticed the company’s name proudly emblazoned on the deck of the impossibly sleek Luna Rossa but you may not know that Persico built no fewer than four of the Imocas in the last Vendée Globe. Most recently, the big noise


has surrounded two new Persico- branded yachts, both with electric propulsion. One is the Verdier- designed 100ft (30.48m) performance cruiser Magic Carpet e, delivered late last year. The other is the 72ft (21.95m) catamaran Extreme H2O, a Swiss army knife of a multihull designed by Morelli & Melvin with 23ft (7m) righting moment foils, daggerboards and rudders with elevators. Currently being sea-trialled by American


72 SEAHORSE


Magic, she is rumoured to be capable of 26kts upwind and 40kts down, flying eight inches (20cm) above the water. Both of these yachts were built


at the Persico Marine facility in La Spezia. ‘We have two different facilities,’ says company president Marcello Persico. ‘La Spezia specialises in custom cruising yacht build, assembly, systems, interiors and fit-out, while here in Nembro we have the composite expertise to build racing projects like the AC75 Luna Rossa, Imocas and foils. We just started a 75ft mini-maxi a few weeks ago. We have these two facilities with different skills and assets but they all work together as part of the same company taking the yachting world to extremes. ‘Here amid the hills of Bergamo in Nembro we have the seven-axis


Above: the 100ft Magic Carpet e is a recent example of just how far Persico can push the boundaries of yacht


construction in a luxury performance cruiser


eight to 25-metre giant milling machines, the Coriolis tape placement machine and the autoclaves, and we can laminate in clean rooms. The milling machines are fully dedicated to marine and are built for complex shapes and sizes. If we need to move faster, then we can up-scale with nine more machines at our automotive plant, or even tap into 20+ machines through our sister companies. It’s a process that requires all this equipment. You may start shaping the mould with the CNC machine then prepare the laminate with the plotter. Maybe you run the stock on the tape placement machine then plug into the mould? It’s a synergy of all these assets. ‘The two units join forces when


we have projects like Magic Carpet e and Extreme H2O, as we did for


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