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sales and servicing activity. It’s a nice waterfront set-up with a 200- tonne travel lift and more than five metres of depth. So when a boat comes back for some performance upgrades, to the keel, daggerboard, whatever it is, we do it there. It’s also our base for sea trials.Magic Carpet e was done there, Anadyomena too.’ Cutting-edge yacht construction is


Persico’s meat and drink but its expertise with composites has other applications. ‘We’ve been building


parts for aerospace projects over the last couple of years,’ adds Persico. ‘We’re developing a reusable spacecraft capsule. We’re also working on different composite structural components for launchers to take satellites into space.’ Nor is its work confined just to


composites, as Persico points out. ‘We can also take on pure cruising projects. For example, now we have a 43m aluminium sailing yacht in La Spezia.


Above & left: quite likely the fastest offshore cruising yacht on the planet, the foiling Persico Cat 72 Extreme H2O was being sea- trialled by American Magic as we went to press. Below right: new CNC milling hub for high-


performance composite structures


‘Obviously this isn’t a composite


yacht but the customers still come to us because, after almost 10 year’s experience of making performance cruising yachts, they want our quality and the reliability to deliver these very premium projects. The categories are pure racing machines, America’s Cup yachts, Imocas and Maxi72; performance cruisers like Magic Carpet e, Extreme H2O and My Song; and cruising yachts like Kauris IV, Anadyomena, La Toscane and the aluminium yachts.’ How has Persico found himself


with such a diverse portfolio of projects? What unites them all? ‘They’re all high-end custom projects,’ he concludes. ‘The point is, if someone is looking for a more traditional fibreglass yacht without a focus on innovation or performance, we might not be the ideal partner. But when a client is seeking a premium, high-end, performance- oriented project – like Extreme H2O, Magic Carpet e or My Song – that’s where we bring real value and are eager to be involved. www.persico.com


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