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Monday, 24 February 2014 15:12

FB 42' STAB

12,94 m up to 70 kn

Monday, 24 February 2014 13:59

FB 41' SF

12,52 m up to 58 kn

Monday, 24 February 2014 11:23

RIB 39' SF

 12,94 m up to 70 kn

Monday, 24 February 2014 11:15

RIB 17' SF

5.18 m up to 40 kn

Monday, 24 February 2014 11:15

RIB 10' Tender

3.5 m tender

Monday, 24 February 2014 10:54

RIB 24'

7,49 m up to 48 kn

Monday, 24 February 2014 10:33

RIB 34' SF

10 m up to 60 kn

Wednesday, 19 February 2014 11:43

Cesa 1882 / Red FPT

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Probably the most famous boat designed by Fabio Buzzi is CESA 1882. Completely restored in 2006, this glorious monohull is again racing with the dress of Red FPT.
Red FPT won the Cowes - Torquay - Cowes 2008 and 2010 race in 2h 18' 5' at an average speed of 91 mph. 

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This incredible mono hull was born from a project that went wrong: Nitro, of 1985, was a losing boat for the old same reason: it was too heavy!
With four diesel engines by Iveco and with the first two speed gearboxes of the offshore history, Nitro raced in class 1 of the European Championship with very little success, and was later converted into a comfortable pleasure boat.
For the 1986 racing season the boat was totally rebuilt, and painted red: a much quicker color than the white of project Nitro, and was given four new Iveco engines of 600 Hp (which lasted for few minutes!), without any gearbox. The new boat was very fast, but not very reliable, winning only the Cowes-Torquay with the name Rolly-Go.
The next year (1987) the boat raced with some more luck and the name Groupe Luchiare, powered by the first four Seatek engines: it won the last race of the season and it conquered the third place at the Key West World Championship.

In 1988 the boat got its most celebrated name: CESA 1882, after the sponsor, who was a silver jeweler. During that season it won more than every other boat in the world: 17 consecutive podiums, with 3 second places and 14 first places. It's not only Italian, European and World Champion for the U.I.M., but also, in November, World Champion for the A.P.B.A. in Key West and winner of the Miami-Nassau-Miami.
During 1989 the boat is named Gancia dei Gancia and, driven by Stefano Casiraghi and Romeo Ferraris, in Atlantic City it wins again the World Championship, being the only boat to take it two times in a row.
But in 1990 the U.I.M. decides to penalise diesel engines, and for Gancia dei Gancia is the end. It's sold to the japanese Yoshiro Kitami and compete with the name Tecno in the first Venezia-Montecarlo, winning all the legs but the first one, where it pile up an overwhelming gap of more than six hours.
Then it races in the Superboat class in USA, with the name Super Hawaii.

 
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Then it's the beginning of the dark ages: the boat is lost in some american shipyard, where the english pilot Drew Langdon re-discovers it and decides to bring it back home.
This incredible and winning boat is also on the 31st place of the ranking of the most beautiful boats of every time ("Motor Boat & Yachting" - August 2004) and is still considered the icon of modern offshore.
It was restored by FB Design in 2006 with the utmost care, exactly as it was, and is now racing again with the name of Red FPT.
With Red FPT Fabio Buzzi won for the third time in UK, the most prestigious world offshore race, the Cowes-Torquay-Cowes 2008 of 182 miles.
Red FPT completed the race in 2h 18' 5' at an average speed of 91 mph.

 

FPT Round-Britain-2008

 
Wednesday, 19 February 2014 11:15

Fabio Buzzi

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Fabio Buzzi was born in Lecco in 1943, and is descendent from a family tied for centuries to the art of building and design. His powerboat competition career started in 1960 and he graduated in mechanical engineering in 1971 from the Polytechnical University of Turin where he took a degree in mechanical engineering with a thesis on a self-constructed vehicle. Fabio Buzzi founded his industrial activity in the boating sector in 1972, under the FB Design trademark.

Fabio Buzzi began to compete in offshore racing in 1978, when he won the Italian and European Class 3 Championships. The following year he set the world speed record for diesel boats using a VM engine at a top speed of 191.58 km/h.

In 1986 he designed the Seatek engine, founding this company to produce diesel engines with a very high performance. With this engine in 1988 he became Italian, European and World Champion of the Open class.

FB Design boats have won a total of 52 World Championships, the Harmsworth Trophy 7 times and have set 40 world speed records. Buzzi himself has won 10 World Championships.

In 1992, using a Seatek-powered boat he again succeeded in beating the diesel record at the speed of 252 Km/h.

In 2004 Fabio Buzzi is again world champion of P classes in Key West, wins the Harmsworth Trophy, set two long distance records (Venice-Montecarlo and Tampa-Miami) and wins the Pavia-Venezia race at an average speed of 198 km/h with a hydroplane powered by a gas turbine, at the respectable age of 61!

In 2008 FB won the Cowes-Torquay-Cowes of 182 miles, with the restored Cesa 1882 / Red FPT, and he completed the race in 2h 18' 5' at an average speed of 91 mph.

In 2010 Red FPT (with Fabio Buzzi, Emilio Riganti and Simon Powell) won both heat 1 "Cowes 100" and heat 2 "Cowes-Torquay-Cowes" of the UIM Marathon World Cup races.

In 2012 he sets a NEW LONG DISTANCE RECORD: NEW YORK-BERMUDA with FB Design's new FB 41' SF. The distance of 684 nm was run in 17h 06' at an average speed of 40 knots. 

THE DESIGNER

As a boat designer Fabio Buzzi’s projects stands out for the winning of many trophies:

  • 52 World Offshore Championships;
  • 22 European Offshore Championships; 
  • 27 Italian Offshore Championships;
  • 40 World Speed Records;
  • The Harmsworth Trophy (1989 - 1993 – 1994 – 1995 - 2003 - 2004 - 2010);

And all the main endurance contests. 

THE PILOT

1960:

First race (Pavia-Venice)

1963: 
First time Italian Champion (C.U. class)

1979: 
Speed World Record for diesel engines (191 Km/h)

1984:
Offshore 3/6 lt class - UIM World Champion
Round Britain Race winner

1988:
Offshore class 1 - UIM World Champion
Offshore class 1 - APBA World Champion

1992:
Speed World Record for diesel engines (252 Km/h)

1994:
Superboat - APBA World Champion
Cannonball Race (Miami-New York No-Stop) winner

1995:
Superboat - APBA World Champion
A class - APBA World Champion
Superboat - APBA American Champion

1996:
Superboat - APBA World Champion
B class - APBA World Champion

1997:

A class - APBA World Champion

1999:
Miami-Nassau-Miami Speed Record (87 kn average)

2001:
FB set 3 world endurance records

  • Round Italy - Venice to Montecarlo at 20 Knots
  • Montecarlo to London at 33 Knots
  • Round Britain at 45 knots

2002:
FB wins the Pavia-Venice Race at average speed of 182 km/h.

2004:
FB wins again the Pavia-Venice Race at an average speed of 197 km/h.
September 22d, Fabio Buzzi with the mono-hull Sony (La Gran Argentina) has established the new world record in the circumnavigation of the Italian peninsula from Venice to Monaco (1122 nautical miles) with the smashing time of 23 hours and 55 minutes at an average speed of 46.9 knots (87 km/h).

2008:
FB wins the Cowes-Torquay-Cowes of 182 miles in 2h 18' 5' at an average speed of 91 mph.
2010:
FB wins both heat 1 "Cowes 100" and heat 2 "Cowes-Torquay- Cowes" of the UIM Marathon World Cup races.

2012:
New York-Bermuda Speed Record (684 nm run in 17h 06' at an average speed of 40 knots.)

Thursday, 13 February 2014 17:44

FB FENDER

The standard fender adopted on every FB Design boat is a very high resistance fender, based on a ‘C’ shaped elastic polyurethane structure, bolted and glued to the hull, which hosts a high resistance, fabric reinforced rubber hose filled with polyurethane foam, glued with Sika adhesive to the main structure.

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