Marco....Nige ...Help!!
 

Marco or Nige .......I have no info on this boat by Sonny Levi....do you guys recognize it ....how big was it and what did it have for engines and who owned it.

What year was it built??

thanks for your help

Charlie

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It was a question in a old thread.
It's my opinion that this Delta of Levi was a fast cruiser not destined to race. It seem a 38' like the its similar race boat of Levi Thunderbird (Dick Genth) next WD-40(Oskar Trost).
The year of build I think 1967-69.
The engines It's very difficult to say....BPM Vulcano...Daytona..

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Here is the Levi design boat that Genth had .....does anyone out there today realize this is a Thunderbird / Formula grandaddy?

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Charlie. Genth race with it in 1967 when Formula/Thunderbird already exist from some years.It was named Thunderbird and bring the signature o Formula but it seems that was builted in Italy by Cantiere Delta....

Note the exhaust pipes exit in the central part of the sides of Thunderbird.
It seems that it have the engines afterward the cockpit not behind and under of it like almost alls Levi's race boats had.
It's the same for that Levi in the first post of Charlie. It seems that boat have a squaring exhausts tunnel along the lower part of the sides. Uncommon for the first race boat of Levi (years 1961-65)

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Here a similar sport boat of Levi's design like the first posted.
A lot of them was builded in England between the 60's and 70's.
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/2442/levict9.png

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Thank you for your explanations, pictures and links, they are always interesting. The hull steps in the pictures look very different, I thought that would be test versions of hulls.

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That Genth boat was designed and built (supposedly) by Cdr. Petroni in Anzio. It sank in a race that I won in the Bahamas, with Dick Genth and Odell Lewis running it.

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I'm proud to communicate with you ...another Offshore Legend.

It seem that the Gateway Marathon from West Palm Beach to Lucayan Harbour in Grand Bahama Island the June 16 1967 was the first and last race of that Levi. It wasn't designed by Cdr. Petroni but by Renato "Sonny" Levi. I don't know why that boat brought the "signature" Formula,but it wasn't builded by that american shipyard.
Do you know if that boat was refloated or it's still in the Atlantic bottom?

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On a side note, Sonny is a dear friend of mine. When he comes to America, he stays at my home. He was in Phuket on a sailboat that he built over there when the Tsumani hit. He had just moved to the leeside of the island when the wave hit. When the Petroni boat brole up, it was also on fire. I didn't see any of that because I was straining to stay ahead of the entire Mercury factory racing contingent. I had the only Ford powered boat in those days, a 28' Donzi named "Blue Devil" with medium rise Holman Moody 427 Fords. Nice to talk to you

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http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/639...a1resizwx4.jpg

Here the problem solved.
I asked to Renato Levi's son Martin that he answered to me sending this copy.
A page from "Milestones in my Design" of Renato Levi.
Levi wrote that Barbarina was builded for the Count Augusta (owner of the Augusta industries that builded helicopters and World Champion motorcycles).
Augusta wanted a boat similar to that of Gianni Agnelli G.50 (G.50 was builded after that Agnelli was retired from the offshore competitions with the intention of the "Avvocato" to see the offshore races with a boat more fast of the competitions boats itself) ,but faster of that.
Barbarina builded by Cantieri Delta of Anzio(the same of Genth's Thunderbird),was launched in 1969,powered with four BPM Super Vulcano and with a max speed farther 60 knots. Was the same design of Agnelli's G.50 but instead a passengers cockpit forward the driver's cockpit(see the pictures in post #5),Barbarina had a toilette under the deck.

Many Thanks to Martin Levi
http://www.leviboats.com/

Re: Marco....Nige ...Help!!
 

You guys are the best.....I love the power of OSO and HORBA for doing research on any old boat we find out there.

Many thanks Marco

Charlie

Re: Marco....Nige ...Help!!
 

I would like to talk about overseas famous boats in next thread.
Nigel might to talk about British boats and me about Italians....

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Just caught up with this thread! (awaiting new pc!!)

OK, so the mystery is solved!! Here´s a couple of pics of Levi hulls from Graham´s archive over on Boatmad. You must admit - they are beautiful boats. I especially loved that Thunderfish!! Stunning. But it caught on fire in Sandown Bay off the Isle of Wight during the Cowes race back in the late 60´s. :(

Whatever happened to Barbarina? God even the NAME is cool!!

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Delta 28,N.131 seems like a bullet that running on the razor's edge. I like it! :cool: