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Historic Ligurian boatyard Giorgio Mussini takes its first step towards the ecological transition and announces the launch of the electric Corvetta, its first completely green boat. Construction of the new hull of one of Portofino’s most iconic boats, equipped with an innovative electric engine, will be completed by the summer. This is a real revolution for the Mussini shipyard, which has always been synonymous with Italian craftsmanship and know-how thanks to its long experience in building all-wood boats: if this is already the ecological material par excellence that distinguished Giorgio Mussini’s marvellous creations, now the power supply will also be clean energy.The official presentation of the new electric Corvetta, announces Marketing Manager Emanuela Bertullo, “will take place in July in the Portofino marina, where our yard is based and where an electric recharging station, supplied by Aqua, will be installed for the occasion. The electric Corvetta will also be premiered at the next Cannes Yachting Festival”.Elegant and sophisticated, the Corvetta 24 has always been associated with the summer dolce vita of Portofino. It is a luxurious and enjoyable 8-metre day cruiser that combines comfort, speed and easy handling with seaworthiness. In particular, the mahogany and teak finishes give the unmistakable handcrafted feel that only wood can provide. This is precisely why the Mussini yard’s project is an absolute first in the boating sector: so far, in fact, projects for electric or hydrogen-powered boats have only focused on superyachts and large vessels, while the electric Corvetta will be the first recreational boat with a clean engine 

designed for families, day trips and slow tourism on the seas and lakes. 

From the smallest to the largest foresail furler or cylinder, the brand is always the same in all the sailboats of the best brands in the world. We are talking about Bamar, a reference company in the field of design and production of boom furlers, jib furlers, RLG-CODE, EVO options, hydraulic cylinders, deck equipment, mainsail furlers and captive winches. “A wide range of products designed to suit any type of boat, from 25-foot sailing yachts to the largest boat in the world, and that’s not a figure of speech,” says Francesco Tamburini, Italy Sales Manager at Bamar. “The largest sailing yacht in the world we are talking about is in the Sailing Yacht A of Russian oligarch Andrey Melnichenko, whose three 90m+ masts are held together and handled precisely by Bamar, which made the furling booms, the kicking straps, the boom handling control cylinders, the mainsail trusts and the captive winch for the halyard and mainsheet.”A multi-faceted, dynamic and international company, Bamar has a plant of 18,000 m2 including a mechanical workshop in Villa Selva, in the province of Forlì, where it moved in 2010 following a real commercial explosion of the company, which does not only produce for the boating industry but also offers its “mechanical solutions” to other sectors, to quote the company payoff. “Bamar has evolved over the years,” explains Mr. Tamburini, “and especially in the last decade it has become more structured, putting all the know-how accumulated over forty years of experience to good use. The growth has taken place with the expansion of a range of numerical control machines that work for the industry on behalf of third parties, while for the boating sector we work on products that we design, plan and market directly”.Not surprisingly, the geographical location of the Bamar network covers the entire Italian territory and extends, through strategic sales and service points, all over the world. A comprehensive service that starts from the customer’s simple request and ends with the finished product, covering all the needs of sails and their equipment. In short, Bamar is the real guarantee of Made in Italy experience and know-how that, once again, is expressed in the boating industry as in few other sectors.

source:superyachtnews.com