1941 Baglietto Motorsailer

SELLER DESCRIPTION

Integral restoration in the yards Of the Carl di Viareggio ( 2000 )Great History surrounds this vessel.Read all about the owner s story about the vessel below.After an accurate refurbishment, this vessel has become a beautiful antique sailboat that represents a perfect compromise between the charm typical of ancient boats and new technologies that respect ecological standards. The navigation equipment: computers, internet, the weather reports updated by fax make the journey secure and comfortable, worth of the most modern and sophisticated sailboats. The valuable teak deck offers wide spaces and the possibility to lie down on the sun or have a rest in the shadow of our huge awning. In the below deck the atmosphere is magic, taking you back in time. The cabins are furnished with ancient oak furniture, the pictures and the original brasses create a unique atmosphere and the feeling to experience again the period of great sail navigations. Three bathrooms, two showers, the fully equipped kitchen and the heating system allow long navigation to be comfortable in all world seas. This vessel, as all the ancient boats, have their own story. Vessel s hull has been set up in Baglietto, Varazze shipyard, between 1942 and 1943. During and just after the war, pleasure navigation was facing an important crisis and Baglietto shipyard decided to set up some fishing boats and three military hulls, nearly twins, meant to minesweeper, in order to avoid the dismissal of their plurispecialised workers. Right after, for unknown international political reasons the Military Navy suddenly decided to urgently build up in Baglietto s shipyard 4 warship of the length of 50 mt each. For this period they were very modern and it was unknown, for military reasons, why they were built for, but they were probably meant to the interception of enemy ships in the Mediterranean Sea. The ships were sold because of the urgency of clearing the building shipyard. Mr Fassio, at the time ship owner of about 30 merchant ships, had been very interested in buying one of those hulls, in order to transform it, providing proper equipment, into a private sailboat. He addressed himself to one of the most popular naval architects of the period, the British J. Laurent Giles who personally cured the design aspect and the management of work, that terminated in Genoa, in Sturla s shipyard. A few years later it was launched with the name of Chrisor, in Greek mythology it was the name of the first sailor who put in the sea some lopped tree-treks in order to form a rudimentary hull by which Chrysor has navigated for the very first time in the world. After about 20 years Fassio Family sold the boat in England and nobody knew anything about it for a long time.The first time we saw it, it was berthed in La Maddalena s port ( north Sardinia near Porto Cervo), there it was, like an old woman, submitted to the oblivion