1981 Custom SCIARRELLI MARCONI CUTTER 45'LOD16m

Designer:

Carlo Sciarrelli - Drawing No. 84 

 Construction

Craglietto Shipyard - Trieste

 Launching November 1981

ITALIA is registered with the Port Authority of Trieste

            Registration code and number: TS 1941 D

           Rina Safety Certificate valid until 8 April 2023

           Unlimited authorization from the coast for 8 people 

 

In his well-known book Lo Yacht, Origine ed evoluzione del veliero da diporto, published by Mursia, in editions since 1992, in which the drawings of Italia appears, Carlo Sciarrelli writes on page 415: 

The last boat I present is something else. It arose from the statement in Chapter xvi of this book that "in my opinion, the Dyarchy is the most beautiful cruising boat still afloat". Well, the client asked me for a boat of that type, and more beautiful than the Dyarchy. 

It was made in Trieste, by Craglietto, it's called Italia and it was launched in November 1981.

It's a traditional boat made with great finishes, a high modern level. This type accepts it, it's a type of boat that can be thought of in any era, because the external rudder takes away that 'yacht-like' quality that makes a design age. Without features peculiar to a particular period, such as a plumb or clipper bow, without decorative motifs, but also without the rails on deck, the marconi mast but in wood, tiller rudder. In varnished wood, mahogany and teak. A boat that is yacht and boat at the same time, from all eras. A  "zeitlose" shape.

At the club's berth, it is visited by people who have never seen it before, like a monument. It always has a small crowd commenting on it. Everyone finds that she is wonderful but that in some detail she could have been different. I tried to imagine this boat being praised by everyone without the details being condemned and nothing remained, the boat disappeared.

To expose a boat that is too beautiful to the public's judgement is a brazen challenge, one has to bow one's head and silently endure the intransigence of those who dinghy around. 

History

 Carlo Sciarrelli was awarded an honorary degree in Architecture by the University of Venice in 2003. The motivation reads: 'His creations have brought naval architecture design closer to the threshold of art'. During the lectio magistralis he gave on that occasion, Sciarrelli presented the designs of Italia saying: "This is one of the most beautiful I have done".

 

Italia was designed and built as a pure cruising boat, fast, elegant and sober. It is very sailable, has few berths and a perfectly usable interior when sailing.

The construction is classic, planking courses in kaja mahogany on steam-curved acacia frames. The planks are copper riveted and not caulked, but glued. It is extremely solid: the planking is 28 mm and the battens every 20 cm, and the stringers are galvanised steel.

Originally, the deadrise was clear-coated and the deck was teak. The deck was redone in 2014 in ivory-painted plywood and it was decided to forgo flatting on the sides in 2017, when they were enamelled in Awlgrip's oyster white shade. 

The superstructures, gunwale and masting (such as the curved gangway and swim ladder) are transparent.

Italia was built in one piece 

The model of Italia is kept at the Museo del Mare in Trieste 

The yacht, as is to be expected given Carlo Sciarrelli's design inspiration, proved to be extremely well balanced, powerful and fast, especially in strong winds and seas, balanced and gentle to steer, manoeuvrable even in light breezes, comfortably habitable both at sea and in port. Sciarrelli recognised one of his teachers, perhaps the main one, in Bruno Veronese, one of the proponents of the metacentroid hull theory, which he applied in the design of cruising boats.

Construction 

The construction is classical, planking courses of kaja mahogany on steam-curved acacia stringers. The planks are copper riveted and not caulked, but glued. It is extremely solid: 28 mm planking and frames every 20 cm, galvanised steel stringers.

 

Deck

 The deck is plywood from the year 2014

The superstructures, cockpit bulwark, coachroofs and skylights are solid mahogany

 

Interior

 Interior is solid mahogany.

 

 

 Accommodation:

6 berths in 3 cabins

Entrance:

to starboard, large chart table with holding belt, chart pouch, bookshelves, instruments, electric panel and waxed wardrobe; refrigerator and drawers below table;

to port, full galley with holding strap, drawers, lockers, sink with hot and cold water mixer tap and seawater tap, both electrically and foot operated; gas oven and cooker

 

Saloon: 

two sofas and two high bunks with anti-roll sheets, table, lockers.

 

Bathroom 

with two entrances, from saloon and master cabin, includes washbasin, shower, electric and foot operated, hot water, Baby Blake toilet, mirror and lockers.

 

Master cabin

 with two bunks with anti-roll sheets, hanging locker, bedside table, chest of drawers, settee with locker under seat, bookcase, lockers.

 

This is followed by

a bulkhead with no openings behind which is the forward cabin - formerly the  fo'c'sle , which actually had the first two owners - with access from the deck, with two bunks, sink, chain well, ample stowage space. Only one berth and toilet appeared in the plans, but this was never installed.

 

All the interiors are varnished, in the saloon the ceilings are ivory coloured, in the cabin and foc’sole  they are varnished.

 

Rig

Cutter Rigging with a single row of spreaders, quartered shrouds, bow thruster  

 Mainsail mq 52.00 gr 350/sqm

Foresail square metre 14.30 gr 350/sqm

Yankee sq.m. 50.00 gr 325/sq.m.

Flying jib sq.m. 14.50 gr 350/sq.m.

 Normal sail area sq.m 116.30

 

Sails

 5 bags of sails, :

Mainsail Olimpic two reefs high, as per Sciarrelli's plans

Yankee Olimpic

Foresail Olimpic

Flying jib new  Be Sails 

Gennaker with Hood sock

Hood furler for the yankee with new 8 mm line

 Small jib made of heavy fabric and cut flat to be strung on the backstay to hold the bow in the wind at anchor in the event of a swinging motion 

 

 Winch

 In the cockpit:

2 for yankee sheets 

On the mast

1 for mainsail halyard

1 for yankee halyard

1 for foresail halyard

1 for mainsail reef

On the boom 

2 old type 

 

Motor 

 Installed new in 2016

Yanmar 4JH5E diesel 53 Hp 

Indirect cooling (heat exchanger)

Engine hours 819

Max Prop three-bladed propeller 

Stainless steel fuel tank 350 litres

Cruising speed at 2,100 rpm over 6.5 Kt, at 2,300 rpm over 7 Kt

 

Electrical system 

 6 x 110 Ah batteries 

Alternator on engine

220 V battery charger

Electrical panel with circuit breakers

Deck and tricolour masthead lights, deck lighting, instruments

Autoclave

Boiler (220 V current or engine heat exchanger)

Refrigerator 

 

Fresh water 

 2 stainless steel tanks totalling 600 litres

Water pessure for cold and hot water in kitchen and bathroom

All taps are also powered by foot pumps

Shower with hot water in bathroom and cold water in bow toilet

20 litre boiler connected to the engine or 220 volt mains

Waste water tank with automatic drain 

 

Instruments

 Cassens & Plath binnacle course compass 

Sailor vhf

Furuno Gps

Furuno Radar

Navtex Furuno

Echo sounder 

Log

Windex

Raymarine tiller-mounted autopilot with control unit in a cockpit locker

 

Safety

 2 electric bilge pumps, one of which is automatic directly connected to the batteries without going through the electrical panel 

Manual bilge pump operated by helmsman

Equipment within 50 miles for 8 people

Arimar raft unlimited from the coast for 8 people

Two horseshoe lifebuoys with light buoy and floating line 

4 safety belts

Safety World jack-lines

 

Anchor

 Lofrans 1000 Watt horizontal electric anchor winch

75 m 10 mm chain 

Various thick cables and chain sections 

Anchors

Spade anchor 35 kg

Delta 25 kg

Anchor 10 kg

 

 

 

Other

 National flag pole at stern

Varnished mahogany ladder from the water 

Clear-coated arched wooden gangway

Cockpit cushions

Fenders: 6 cylindrical and 2 round, all with cream-coloured soft wing covers 

Hatch covers

Sprayhood 

3 awnings

Complete companionway 

Pioneer stereo with four speakers, two in master cabin, two in saloon

Seawater hose in bow with electric pump for washing chain and deck

Seawater faucet in galley with electric and foot pump