Because the Sessa C47 is indeed Italian, built by a company with a respectable boatbuilding history and a background in composites – Sessa was the first company in Italy to manufacture resins, in 1958. It has since expanded and merged, producing several thousand boats along the way.
Sessa currently builds three distinct families of motor yachts, from 38 to 68 feet in length: Cruiser Line, Flybridge Line and Yacht Line. It also manufactures a range of outboard and inboard powered centre-console sportboats under the Key Largo brand.
The Sessa C47 is new to these shores, and also to the company’s Yacht Line range. The New Zealand agents have also imported a Sessa C44 (see box), but the C47 is the more conventional of the two boats with its family-oriented, three-cabin, galley-up cruising layout.
ITALIAN STYLE
While the layout is relatively conventional, the styling is anything but, with sweeping, sporty lines, big windows, and a range of available colours – ours was a very classy, metallized grey, but
