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Above: MarcoBernocchi now ownsthe San MarcoMaserati.Right: MarioBernocchi, 1964European Champion,at the wheelBelow: the presidinggenius at Maserati,international prestige with its 3500 model whose GTdriving qualities with high-end torque for everydaydriving are preferred by many compared to theflamboyance and high-revs of Ferrari.For more than 10 years Maserati’s Orsi brothers hadput the engineer Giulio Alfieri in charge of the technicalpart of the firm and he was to reach dazzling heights tobecome the very soul of Maserati from 1953 to 1975.He was responsible for the development of the famous6-cylinder 2-litre engine, later 2.5 litres, which enabledGiulio AlfieriJuan Manuel Fangio to win the world Formula 1 title in1957 driving the legendary 250F single seater. Hiswonderful 1955 350 S Corsa with its double overheadcamshaft was the model for the Tipo 101 and variantsfound in all six-cylinder 3500cc to 4000cc Maseratis,from the 3500 GT to the Mistral.He was also the first to adopt the fuel injection inproduction cars, as soon as 1961 with the 3500 GTI.The correlation between the racing track and the roadwas so dear to him, that he realised his dream of a truegran turismo. He often told his family and closecollaborators: “With one of my cars, I can leave theModena factory early morning, arrive in Paris late in theafternoon, have time to take a good shower at the hotelbefore going out to dinner without being tired... None ofmy competitors’ models can really do the same thing.”And he had reason to be proud when the shortlist ofhis true competitors included names like Ferrari, AstonMartin or Jaguar. In 1963 a Maserati coupe was at leastas expensive as the models of its prestigious competitorsbut offered the superior comfort and performance of a66 CLASSIC BOAT APRIL 2013Oscar Scarpa, driver and boatbuilder, founder andowner of the San Marco boatyard always maintainedexcellent relationships with Maserati. Not only did hisboats win many circuit races with Maserati engines, buthe won no fewer than three world speed records in thefastest categories. Powered by the extremely powerfuland brutal Maserati 450S V8 engine with more than550hp, Scarpa’s three-point racers were tuned speciallyby the legendary factory “sorcerer” Guerrino Bertocchi.In December 1960, Oscar Scarpa survived aterrifying accident during one of these record attempts.His raceboat took off from Lake Iseo at over 250 km/h,flying high in the sky in front of TV cameras. Scarpawas ejected from the cockpit and rescued safe andsound while the boat plunged into the lake some 100mfurther on. The boat and her precious Maserati 450S V8were recovered too, and made ready for a new attempta few months later with the same driver at the wheel.true grand touring car. Therefore, to get from Modena to Above: The San Angera, near Lake Maggiore, at more than 75 km/hParis the fast and easy way, with a motorway network Marco boat is average. This was how he came to be crowned Europeanstill in its infancy and in even better driving conditions unique, but its champion of runabouts in Class 3 limited to 4500 cc.than at the wheel of a 3500 GT, Alfieri entrusted Pietro engine, lower left, is And the invisible links are getting more defined yearFrua the task of designing a new modern body; theidentical to the after year. After the death of Mario Bernocchi, hisMistral Berlina 2 Posti model made its appearance at the Mistral car’s brother Michele, also winner of many races, decided to1963 Turin Motor Show.maintain this unique boat in a state of near perfection.Michele put the boat into the water several times toTHE JEWELLER’S MISTRALintroduce his son, aptly named Marco, to the joys ofWith such an engine, how could the Mistral fail to catchpowerboat racing, including the great classic Pavia toSan Marcothe attention of young Dody Jost, already impassionedVenice, founded in 1929, a kind of Mille Miglia in lineby automobiles and speedboats? And here’s where fate Maserati along the River Pô, right down to famous San Marcocomes into play and engineers an unexpected encounter. LENGTHSquare waterfront in Venice.A friend of his father, a famous Milanese jeweller, bought 17ft 4inTime passes and friendships are formed andhimself a sumptuous Mistral, commissioned in 1964 andstrengthened as if guided by an irresistible force. Michele(5.3m)delivered a few months later in a unique mouse-greyBernocchi and Dody Jost – who inherited the beautifulcolour with cognac leather interior. Following the BEAMmouse-grey Mistral – became the best of friends,example of Giulio Alfieri, the owner intended to go 6ft 6in (2m) carefully maintaining the flame of remembrance but also,regularly to Paris with some precious jewels, for whichand above all, the joys of fast rides, whether on the roadhe had the bodymaker build a small secret safe, hiddenDISPLACEMENTor on the “liquid track”, a term coined by Michele in thebehind the driver’s seat under the thick carpet. 2,161lb sixties. But very soon Michele passed away too.However, health problems intervened and the brand (980kg)And so, in the true tradition of passing on beautifulnew Mistral entered the Nautilus motel’s garage, to thevalues of knowledge and the sharing of great momentsENGINEdelight of the young Dody, more impatient than ever tofrom father to son, Marco, the son of Michele, decidedfinally pass his driver’s licence.Maserati to carry on the flame. Thus, the glistening Mistral andDuring this time, and since the fateful visit to the San 3500 GTI the roaring San Marco Maserati find themselves side byMarco boatyard in 1963, the Bernocchi Maserati 290 hp at side, at the Nautilus, for gentlemen’s driving sessions,runabout had by no means been idle. Indeed, since its 5600 revs with so many tributes filled with vitality where sharedlaunch in 1964, its first owner, Mario Bernocchi, hadmemories, woven invisibly for almost 50 years, happilywon several important between-circuit races on theSPEEDtake the form of a vibrant homage to the man who madewater, as well as a few lap records, including one in c92 km/h all this possible, the ingegnere Alfieri.CLASSIC BOAT APRIL 2013CB 298 Maserati.indd 66 25/02/2013 17:30 CB 298 Maserati.indd 69 25/02/2013 17:30CB 293 Damsel 3.indd 34 01/10/2012 12:18M A G A Z I N E SM A G A Z I N E SMASERATICB 293 Damsel 3.indd 35 01/10/2012 12:1969YACHTSYACHTINGM A G A Z I N E SYACHTINGM A G A Z I N E SCB 292 Integrity V2.indd 8 03/09/2012 18:56DESIGNERSparkman &StephensBUILT1937LENGTH ON DECK53ft (16.2m)BEAM12ft (3.7m)DRAUGHT7ft 7in (2.3m)DISPLACEMENT45,725lb(20,741kg)SAIL AREA1,981 sqft(184m 2 )30 CLASSIC BOAT OCTOBER 2012CB 292 Integrity V2.indd 9 03/09/2012 18:56Previous spread:Celebrations onGriff’s Argy lAbove: Skylarkwas shipped tothe Med in 2011Left: Her interiorwas rebuilt to theoriginal plansAbove right:Skylark spentseven years inrestoration atRhode Islandhen you are from a billionairefamily with a surname like Getty,the size of your sailing yacht isfairly immaterial. So it was quiteintriguing to see the 53ft (16.2m)Sparkman & Stephens yawlSkylark alongside Tara Getty’s recently restored Blue Bird(CB271/272), in St Tropez, last October.And, for CB, I’m going aboard to race her! It’s for anew perpetual cup – the Blue Bird Trophy for SpeedUnder Sail, which Tara intends to challenge for each yearhere. In a twist of synchronicity, the silver art deco trophyby Garrards was first awarded to Malcolm Campbell inGeneva in 1937 – the year Skylark was launched.St Tropez in the first week in October feels like aprivileged place to be. The nautical society (and the mayor)move all the ugly, slab-sided, plastic motor cruisers out andreplace them with low-slung classics, opening vistas acrossthe pretty stone-quayed port. It’s pretty crammed too, with200 yachts in harbour, but the effect of all these swept teakdecks, this gleaming bronzework and deep lustrous varnishis electrifying, and brings crowds in from miles around.There are boats of all sizes, from the 1923 26ft 5in (8m)Solent Sunbeam Dainty, up to the sleek 95ft 4in (29.1m)lines of Mariquita (plus her 30ft/9.1m bowsprit, of course).The whole pantheon of wooden yacht design is here, and agood many spirit of tradition boats, too. The disparate mixcomes together in one of classic boating’s most fabulousdisplays – Les Voiles de St Tropez, which started life 30years ago as the Nioulargue series.SKYLARK AND ARGYLLWith its free quayside parties, it is as much for thecrews as for the owners, and that helps to keep theatmosphere surprisingly real. A lot of people here arevery down to earth in the way of wooden boat sailingeverywhere. But down to earth people can party…Skylark is a new boat on the scene. Built in 1937 andwell known on America’s west coast, with a Transpac in1947, she was restored on the east coast, first atLoughborough Marine Interests, Rhode Island, then atEast Passage Boatwrights, Bristol, RI. It was a thoroughjob – more of a complete rebuild, although her masts andmizzen boom are original. Everything else has beenreplaced to the original plans.And that was one of the reasons Tara Getty wasattracted to her. She had had a sympathetic rebuild,although her teak deck is laid over ply and epoxy forstrength. He bought her over the winter 2010/2011 andshe was shipped to France.The day before this race, she and the other S&Sinboard yawls, present including Stormy Weather, Argyll,Manitou and Cometa, had sailed in company creating amarvellous spectacle. But today is Thursday – traditionallythe one-on-one challenge day, and we have challengedGriff Rhys Jones in his recently acquired 57ft 4in (17.5m)1948 yawl Argyll… however there’s no wind.We jill around in the bay to the west, but there’s not apuff. In the end the sailors are invited to lunch aboard theGetty family yacht Talitha G – acting as our committeeboat today. It’ll probably be the only time most of ushave a glass of chilled rosé followed by superblyCLASSIC BOAT OCTOBER 2012CB 292 Skylark V3.indd 30 04/09/2012 13:52 CB 292 Skylark V3.indd 31 04/09/2012 13:5331SOLENT SUMMERA new mixed, or ‘revival’ class brought together 10 “one- off” designs,including two 6-Ms, the Half-Rater Winifred and a Memory called Sepia,with 90-plus boats in Darings, XODs, Loch Longs, Bembridge OneDesigns, Solent Sunbeams and Squibs. There were also two 12-Ms – Italiaand Richard Matthews’ Crusader bringing some big boat pizazz.Organisers Royal Thames, the Island Sailing Club, Royal Corinthian andRoyal Victoria managed to run eight races over four days that wererelished by competitors. Classic Boat’s Concours d’Elegance trophy waswon by Bursledon-based David Hopkins, in his 1927 gaff sloop Chough.Top: Medway One Worlds, the Metre and Keelboat Regatta, the Superyacht great year for prestigious yachts in UK waters. He laidDesign Mizpah Cup and the Taittinger Royal Solent Yacht Club Regatta. part of the credit at the tie-up with Italian luxury watchAbove mi dle: 100 Britain’s dismal summer brought clouds, rain and maker Panerai, which has pulled in some big yachts.keelboats had strong winds at first, though race crews still seemed to But he stopped short of comparing the Med and thegood racing. thrive on the complicated tidal conditions. Then a rally Solent. “They’re different kettles of fish,” he told CB.Above: Chough at the end of July bathed the Solent’s emerald waters “In the Med, the emphasis tends to be on the biggerO posite page: with an almost Mediterranean warmth.ketches and cutters, moored stern-to, so you can’t seeRichard Gerve’s Rufus Gilday of the British Classic Yacht Club, which them so well. We’re all about the boats. We have our8-M Sposa; Glana organises Panerai British Classic Week, said it had been a own unique footprint.”14 CLASSIC BOAT SEPTEMBER 2012CB 291 Solent summer V3.indd 14 31/07/2012 11:44CB 293 Adventuress.indd 6 28/09/2012 15:33SOLENT SUMMERPETER MUMFORD BEKEN OF COWESfrom as far as Canada. Closer to home, France, Germany, Switzerland, Norway andFinland were also represented. Great Britain’s Lafaye te, owned by MurdochMcKillop took first place, followed by Canada’s Raven (the only 1930s winner),owned by Mark Decelles, and Finland’s Luna - belonging to Harry Roschier.CLASSIC BOAT SEPTEMBER 2012 15CB 291 Solent summer V3.indd 15 31/07/2012 11:44CB 293 Adventuress.indd 7 03/10/2012 09:44FREJAows had been bombarding the British Isles logo on my jacket, was quizzing me about this Oldwith the measured rhythm of a wellmannedtrebuchet for weeks, hurling know which song, I thought.Gaffers’ song she was trying to find the words for. I bet Iswirls of gales and rain. For the new,“It’s a parody of an American folksong,” she wasliveaboard owners of Luke Powell’s explaining, “only it’s about plastic boats in marinas.”freshly-launched Pilot Cutter Freja, it can “Ah,” I said. “You mean ‘Little Bathtubs’?” “That’s it!”hardly have been the most cheering conditions in which she cried, and we joined in a quick chorus. “There’s ato acquaint themselves with their new boat – nor, indeed, white one and a white one and a white one and a whi-itefor Luke himself to go out with them, as is his habit, one, and they’re all made out of ticky-tacky and they allintroducing them to the management of the boat and look just the same.”noting snags to be fixed as he went along.“I was trying to find it on the internet,” addedFor a journalist from up-country trying to organise a Marion, “but I think they must have decided it wasFalmouth photo-shoot it was pretty hopeless. The boat offensive and taken it down.” (They hadn’t – try www.was going out, but reefed down, which we don’toldgaffers.nl/vereniging/little-bathtubs.htm).consider photogenic, and in any case, the light wasLuke’s Freja – we were then still at the stage where hedismal. We’d cancelled one date already, and the best hadn’t let go, and still thought of her as his – is not thepart of a fortnight had gone by when Luke called to say same as the previous Pilot Cutters he’s designed and builthe’d spotted a break in the weather – just a short one at Working Sail on Gweek Quay, Cornwall. There arePrevious spread: – the coming Friday and how about it? I wasn’tseven of them, all hand-built and different, althoughA williwaw convinced, but I thought “what the hell?” – and in due there are family resemblances, most notably the openpresaged the course I set off down the familiar trail of the A303. ‘lute’ sterns, typical of the old Scillonian Pilot Cutters onarrival of some When I arrived in Falmouth early on the Thursday which he models his designs. And, it hardly needs to bewind and Freja evening, they were in the pub, Luke and the owners, added, they aren’t made of ticky-tacky, whatever that is.heeled gently who are a Swedish couple called Anders and Marion, Oak for the frames and topside planks, larch for theAbove: Working late 50s, both hospital doctors given to working in New underwater planks and opepe for the keel and the deck.Sail makes its own Zealand in the European winter and coming back to sail Nor are they white. This one is essentially dark blueblocks; only the in the summers. Within five minutes of meeting,and turquoise, but when I ask Luke for the paint-chartlines are synthetic Marion, who had noticed the Old Gaffers Association colours, he explains that’s not how it is. “The paint is my42 CLASSIC BOAT SEPTEMBER 2012Above: Luke mixeshis own paintblends to achieveunique coloursRight: Luke Powelland his team’seighth boat, Frejais also consideredthe most beautifuloored stern-to at St Tropez – the annualend-of-season regatta, which usually hasenough sun to banish thoughts of winter.See the classics from 1 to 7 October. Photo by KosCB 292 Big Pic2.indd 6 03/09/2012 19:02 CB 292 Big Pic2.indd 7 03/09/2012 19:02CLASSIC BOAT SEPTEMBER 2012CB 291 Freja.indd 42 25/07/2012 18:31 CB 291 Freja.indd 43 25/07/2012 18:3143LEADINGLADYSailing the yachtfrom the newGatsby movieMissionimpossibleRetracingShackleton’s1916 voyageExclusiveRobin Knox-Johnston’spersonal archiveDANEGELD AND HER OWNERCome to CowesCLASSIC BOAT NOVEMBER 2012 . ISSUE No 293ADVENTURESS . DAMSEL . 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