POWERBOAT HEAVEN

There are places in the world that seem to have been blessed by the gods. Lake Como is one of them. As early as the late 1970s, a pioneer saved hundreds of power boats as witness to a long, eventful history. This was the end of an era, a time when the many small boatyards on Como had to evolve to survive being swept away by the tide of GRP. Nobody but a certain Gian Alberto Zanoletti had any interest in preserving what was, at the time, recent history.

The Romans knew Como well. Very deep, with steep banks set against steep rock, this long north-south axis with two branches connects the rich Lombard plains to the rest of Europe. The Roman Empire, which kept five fleets to rule