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Historic Racing Powerboat

historic racing boat
experimental wooden powerboat

Some machines survive mechanically.
Others survive culturally.

01 Status

Type	Historic racing asset
Origin	Northern Italy
Year	1980s
Designer / Builder	the original boatbuilder
State	Preserved
Operational condition	Non-navigable
Role	Contextual preservation
Scope	Narrative & material continuity

02 Field Notes

Note 01

Commercial relevance
does not imply
cultural relevance.

Note 02

The object survived
beyond its original
function.

Note 03

Preservation began
when utility ended.

Note 04

Identity is not speed
but an intent.

03 Material
Observations

Wooden hull. Original components. Signs of time, use and multiple interventions.

04 Context

The historic racing powerboat is part of the experimental season of Italian powerboating between the 1950s and 1990s, when speed, engineering and private intuition placed the country at the forefront of technical innovation.

A culture of courage, material intelligence and vision that is now fragmented and largely forgotten.

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05 Custodianship

The asset underwent multiple phases of intervention and preservation over time.
Nautelier’s completed work focused on contextual preservation, documentation and continuity of the asset’s historical identity.

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06 Archive

Acquisition State