On wood.
For several years the hull ,totally empty, was laying in an anonimous shipyard near La Spezia,twenty years ago.
Then it's disappeared. Maybe scrapped for some fireplaces on wintertime.....:mad:

Marco refresh my memory - did it simply not perform well? If it went as well as it looked it would have been quick. What was the problem?

Nigel,Niccolai tested the boat in the early morning before the race. Only few miles before to came back in the Marina del Cavallino and jump in the old mono Picchiotti 38'.
Perhaps with more time in order to try the boat it could become competitive, but if you watches the narrow design of the tunnel and the height of the sides maybe that cat little was adapted for a flat sea like was to Venice in 1979.
Cat with narrow tunnels and high sides were the 1980's Shadows and Jaguars but they were more short and surely more lights. However theirs performances were not excellent.
In 1990's the Skaters with a little less narrow tunnel and little less high sides cames to a better compromise between performance and speed.
Today the best cats like the Victory/Tencara in Europe or MTI in USA came back near to the Cougar cats design of the eighties finding the best performance in the materials and the dimensions.