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CAMUFFO MOTORYACHT C60 FB
Testing any yacht designed and built by Camuffo means spending a whole day with some of the most experienced people in the yachting community. When we came back from sea, before the inescapable sundowner, Marco Camuffo remarked: "we never go out looking at boats as they really are; we are always fiddling with cameras and lenses". And then he took me to watch the immense creature beautifully gliding past the docks and privileged me with two of his ideas on what "boat" means (it is remarkable that the last descendant of a family that build boats since 1438 still has the love and the genial inspirations to build such a perfect craft as this C60).
Camuffo, what do you mean by a "lifting hull"? "A lifting hull is where it carries the weight, a hull with variable ribs and certainly not a single-angle Hunt-type hull. Ribs are the heart of the hull, they are individually built, each and everyone different form the other". You told me that from midships aft there are no weights
You spoke of weights and superstructures as a craft's enemies: "They are not only my crafts' enemies, but everyonès.. Today's trend is to build house-boats, yachts that navigate in harbours; but when they go to sea, especially in the Adriatic where the short swell demands a low centre of gravity, there comes the problem. I don't want to impose myself, but having designed 45 types of hulls, each different from the other, and considering my father first conceived the variable geometry hull in 1910, I believe I know my business, and results are here to prove it. Competitors world-wide, today, for a weight of 30.000 kg. use engines burning 400 to 600 litres per hour. Any boat of that size from my yard would burn 160-170 litres per hour, and this is due to the shape of the hull and the weights being positioned at the right place, depending on the construction of the yacht itself". What if a customer wants something which does not conform to your ideas? "You see, these are hard times for the yachting world: we try to better understand one another with a bottle of good, dry white wine from Veneto Then he goes his way, and I go mine: but my way to the sea is six centuries old".
Yacht designer: Marco Camuffo |
"Most yacht-builders always consider weight simply as a mean to
level the boat. On the contrary, weights are essential. They make
the boat plane, determine the boat's centre of gravity, which
generates balance in high swell: this is why weights must be
placed where the hull is lifting."
"One cannot distribute weights haphazardly as with a slope at the
sides of the hull in the area of the centre of gravity larger
than 25°, one can obtain phenomenal results on planing speed
as long as there are no weights abaft"
This is quite an unusual test for a yacht, but when one speaks of
a craft designed by Camuffo it is hard to recite data and
materials: yachts manufactured by Camuffo (and this C60 is no
exception) are as unique as their hulls are: navigating on courses
and performance, as far as speed and consumption are concerned,
that baffle any technical speculation. They are incredible boats
and, as for this, a yacht conceived by Camuffo must be felt and
experienced as a whole: in the comfortable and healthy environment
created by the most attractive timbers, carved and refined by the
most talented master craftsmen. Reader can go on looking at the
specifications, especially the ones regarding the performance and
consumption: these are just some of the several keys one has to
fully understand a yacht conceived by Camuffo.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Displacement: 43,49 tons
Building height: 2,45 
Hull: V-shaped, planing Camuffo hull, with offset ribs with centre
of gravity at 25° 
Layout and specifications: erable burr, mahogany, khaya,
upholstery at owner's choice
Sea quality: C60 is another "Camuffo boat". Stability,
manoeuvrability, sea-worthiness and waterlines: it all conspire to
give a unique sensation of power and tameness combined , where
safety and manoeuvrability blend to give birth to a "one-off"
motor yacht
Deck: beautiful teak decking, activity is favoured by the
uncluttered spaces; deck hardware is perfectly positioned| WHAT WE LIKED MOST The unique impressions and sensations one feels on board a Camuffo boat. Exceptional combination of power, stability and planing |
WHAT WE LIKED LESS More than a remark this is a wish: we would be intrigued to see a yacht designed by Camuffo in a less traditional way but nevertheless built with the same timbers and expertise for which the Portogruaro-based yard is known |
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