La dolce vita
Sydney’s usual mid-afternoon breeze is swaying the shoreside eucalypts and chopping the bottle-green waves as our ride pulls up at the Birchgrove jetty in the city’s inner west. Our skipper, Daniel Da Silva, expertly guides our vessel, La Dolce Vita, alongside the weathered white pylons. He looks the part in a crisp shirt and striped epaulettes.
Da Silva may be pulling the levers and turning the wheel but the boat itself is the real star of the scene.
La Dolce Vita is a classic Italian speedboat, complete with polished chrome accents. The 26-foot Comitti Portofino runabout was built in 2002 from a single African, and acted as a getaway vehicle for the female leads in the 1967 caper . They’ve appeared in so many James Bond films they’re practically a character.
