Test Notes

OCEANIC’S unusual ventilated, stepped hull, designed to improve the displacement-speed characteristics of a planing form, is genuinely innovative. They’ve come up with the term “displaning” to describe it. I suppose it’s better than “planacement.”

THE MOLDED components of the 76’s superstructure are laminated using lightweight Kevlar, to help lower the yacht’s center of gravity.

CANADOS WAS founded in 1946 at an old naval yard at the mouth of the River Tiber. Its first commissions were commercial and military boats, but since the 1950s the focus has been yachts.