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     The first time we saw it, it was berthed in La Maddalena’s port, there it was, like an old woman, submitted to the oblivion, looking like if it has been waiting too long for the loving cares of who was supposed to take it back to the sea. A stately stern and an impressive bow didn’t compromise its elegant design. The scaled off paint and the scratched wood make think of an adventurous past. It was love at first sight. My cousin Giampaolo and I, only twenty years old, decided to spend on it all the money we earned working as sailor men on fishing boats or commanders in small passengers ferryboats. Although the initial cost was quite affordable, we had to sign so many bills of exchange in order to pay it. Considering the horrible condition of the boat, that seemed more like a derelict ship, and the totally different kind of boat we were used to see in Cala Gonone, it was like a wager to us. After a first mending the boat has acquired an acceptable aspect, giving us the possibility to use it like a charter. We have navigated all Sardinia’ seas. Visiting several ports and shipyards we have discovered different documents and pictures of Dovesesto. We have personally heard some testimony of people that we were lucky to met and that we are still in contact with; the shipowner Fassio or Mr Angelo, an old carpenter from Genoa who collaborated to the construction of the boat, or Mr Del Carlo, owner of the homonym shipyard in which Dovesesto has been refurbished. The discovery of those stories and other interesting material are the result of years spent researching them. Although our original plans faded in a fire in Sturla’ shipyard, we wanted to use this material during the refurbishment in order to keep the design of boat as close as possible to the original one. At the end of the day I can say to be happy for having been waiting 10 years to see Dovesesto completely refurbished as time has allowed the boat and I to establish a love and mutual trust relationship and because I have used all the material I have fond during my researches in order to improve the refurbishment works. We have visited all the shipyards in north and south Italy, but when we came across the one in Viareggio we new that was our place. We decided that we were personally going to manage all the works and cure the design. It was up to carpenters and technicians the task to achieve our ideas. In those 9 months we faced many problems, we spent so much time travelling abroad in order to look for some particular parts and we spent last period working night and day in the shipyard. We felt so downhearted when the boat was reduced to the section, but the emotion we felt when Dovesesto went back to the sea was indescribable.

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