projects like My Song, when both sets of expertise are needed. For boats with interiors and systems we generally use our facility in La Spezia. We opened our waterfront yard in 2014. ‘We built the 100ft V, former


Tango, in 2017 (she won the Maxi Regatta in the British Virgin Islands in March 2024), then the 145 Kauris IV in 2020 and a 100ft motoryacht Anadyomena in 2021. In La Spezia we have an entire organisation with a team of people who can deliver performance cruising yachts driven by our composite experience and more than just that. Our people in La Spezia can also develop and install systems and interiors and deliver a complete boat. ‘With the Persico Cat 72, for


example, we built the seven-metre foils, the two daggerboards and the two rudders with elevators. We use the tape placement machine all the time, for the flat laminate in the stocks of the daggerboards and


Top & above: very extreme weight targets were required for Magic Carpet e. Persico has all the skills and all the machinery already in house


the rudders, the bulkheads, anywhere we have a lot of layers. It means increased productivity, consistency and quality - the robot won’t leave a piece of plastic in the laminate. At the end it’s cured in the autoclave but you don’t have to do all the debulking that you need to do if you do it manually. Our NDT facility is fundamental to checking the quality at every stage of the process because we don’t want to find out at the end that there are mistakes. The implications in terms of cost and time could be huge.’ ‘In both cases, for Extreme H2O


and Magic Carpet e, we had very extreme weight targets so we needed to engineer a solution for every element, from the ceiling to the doors, anything to minimise the weight but at the same time leave enough space and features. From the galley to the toilets to the sofa, everything was engineered down to


the minimum possible weight. Based on his experience, the designer estimates the boat’s target weight. In the early stages of the project, we discussed this with him to see what was achievable and what wasn’t. We know there are some areas where weight saving is easy, others less so. ‘For example, in both projects the


most difficult area to achieve the target was the interiors. We spent most of the time engineering all the elements the owner required to find the lightest possible solution. With these lightweight interiors I would say that we built around 80 per cent of it internally. Most of the panels are composite, we developed the hinges, we developed the ceiling solution, which uses clips to minimise weight. All of it was developed and built internally. ‘We also have an agreement with


a yard at Le Grazie, just across the bay from La Spezia, for any after-


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