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EUROCRAFT C.N.
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These yards are
generally called contractors who usually work for different
brands unless, of course, a single brand were to take up all of
their production line. One of these shipyards which works and
prospers keeping out of the limelight is Eurocraft Naval
Constructions, founded in 1989 together with two other companies
belonging to the same group. In the course of its history it has
built its own boats but, above all, it has worked for Italian
and foreign important brands and shipyards with success and
credibility. The big change, however, occurred in 2000 when the
three companies merged into one becoming a boat factory in real
terms, called Eurocraft C.N. The expansion process reached its
peak a few months ago, clearly looking at the super yacht
category, with the inauguration of a 60,000 m3 warehouse
designed to build custom made yachts in between 20 and 60
metres. This is why room was made big enough to host all of the
production process with space for : a 55 by 20 metre hull centre
with two 16 ton bridge cranes, a 55 by 35 by 20 metre area for
fitting out the big yachts, a 5 metre deep water basin for
static tests and an 11,000 square metre carpentry area.
In its interior, as proven by its recent varied and articulated
production, yachts may be built according to the project in
composite or in other materials with displacing hulls or not,
with a classic or futuristic design and in short, yachts are
really custom made. After the launching of an 18 and 28 metre
hi-performance composite yacht, the shipyard in Vado Ligure is
busy building a 30 metre "fly" in grp and a 37 metre open in
alloy whose launching is scheduled for spring, in 2007. These
will be followed by a 42 m. semi displacing light alloy yacht
and by a 52 m. steel and light alloy motor yacht whose design is
being completed by the yard's technical office. Eurocraft C.N.'s
development programme foresees in the upcoming future, so as to
offer refitting services too, an expansion of its waterway at
sea to 20,000 sq. m, 5,500 of which will be covered and a slip
area to lift yachts with a displacement of up to 1,000 tons out
of the water.
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