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PERINI NAVI "SQUALL"
"Squall" is the twenty-ninth boat to be built by the Perini Navi
boatyard. Her English name was chosen by the yard to highlight the
performance this pleasure boat is capable of, thanks to design
details meaning fast, safe sailing. "Squall"'s design is based on
the requirements of her owner, who requested a sailing boat with a
high level performance when sailing, not only speed therefore, but
also to be able to sail into the wind and therefore to be close-
hauled. "Squall" has a 52-metre aluminium hull with a maximum beam
of 10.30 metres, fixed keel and 90,000 kg bulb, combined with two
carbon masts on which up to 1,441 sq/m of canvas can be raised.
She has a maximum speed of over 17 knots under sail and with her
powerful 1,398 HP engine reaches a maximum speed of over 14.
Perini Navi entrusted the design of this impressive ketch to the
well-known English studio of Ed Dubois, working in synergy with
the boatyard's own team, to produce a yacht that would be the
forerunner of a whole series of high level performance sailing
super-yachts. The interiors were designed by the French studio
Dernier Etage along with Perini Navi, and are mainly in walnut and
wengé, woods that manage to make each room suitably
welcoming and elegant. The generous bridge house in the bows has a
full beam control station, where we can find a great deal of new
generation electronics in a warm, cosy environment, communicating
with the bar zone in the bows to port, with the dining area to
starboard and with the lounge towards the stern, all in modern
style wood furnishings plus inserts in steel and leather. The same
style runs throughout with plenty of light streaming through large
windows in the upper works and, although accessible, these
relaxation areas are ideally separated from the bridge and its
navigation equipment by walls and a glass door. All the interiors
have been designed for ideal living by the owner and his guests
even during long cruises: therefore, lots of cleverly furnished
room with no lack of areas for relaxation and privacy. Even
outside there is plenty of space everywhere, for example, the bow
area includes the double external wheelhouse complete with
navigational instrumentation repeaters forward of which there is a
relaxation zone covered by the extension of the wheelhouse roof
that contains two tables, sofas, bar unit and other elements. This
Italian boatyard produces pleasure sailing boats that always have
high levels of performance and an avant-garde technological
content. Thus the yard has announced that it is studying the
production of a boat with a sail layout similar in shape to that
of the sailing vessels of old, in other words, a sailing boat
equipped with three masts, raising not Marconi but square sails.
Naturally, even in this case and despite rigging practically
dissolute nowadays, Perini Navi will be developing solutions for
noteworthy performance on a level with the boatyard's worldwide fame.
For further information: Perini Navi, via M. Coppino 114; 55049 Viareggio (LU) Italy; tel. +39 0584 4241; fax +39 0584 424200; sito web www.perininavi.it; e.mail info@perininavi.it.
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