David Moye
One of the world's strangest boats just made a big splash in
San Diego: A replica of a Ferrari F50 made completely out of pine.
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The Ferrari was built in 2001 by Livio De Marchi, an
artist living in the canal-covered city of Venice Italy.
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"[De Marchi] always wanted a Ferrari and this was the
only way he could have one and still get around Venice," Terry Brennan,
curator of the San Diego Air & Space Museum, told The Huffington
Post.
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The boat has been owned by Ripley's Believe It Or Not! since 2009, but has been
housed at the Museum for nearly two years as part of a traveling exhibition.
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But what fun is a Ferrari boat that is just dry docked? Not
much. Ripley's decided to get it in the water for the first time since Carnaval
was held in Venice in 2002 as part of the San Diego Bayfair, held
this past weekend.
Ripleys.com
Getting the boat ready after 12 years out of the briny blue
wasn't easy, according to Brennan.
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"It had dried up quite a bit over the period of time it
was out of the water," he said. "We thought we'd be able to season
the hull like you would any wooden boat, but we found some cracks that were as
much as half-an-inch wide. We had to recaulk a lot of the bottom.."
Ripleys.com
The maiden voyage took place early Saturday morning with
HuffPost Weird News staff writer David Moye as the first passenger. Ripley's
Vice President Patrick Hartle admitted earlier he wasn't sure how that ride
would be. "I hope it goes better than the 3-hour tour on 'Gilligan's
Isle,'" he said.
Ripleys.com
Here's the bottom line: There are few things cooler than
getting into a boat that looks like a sportscar and there are few things
slower. "Yeah, it doesn't match the performance of a real Ferrari,"
Hartle admitted.
source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/15/-wooden-ferrari-boat_n_5823902.html
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