A flybridge cruiser of about fourteen meters in length ended on the rocks in the Egadi island of Favignana, on the late morning of Sunday 20th September. The accident happened in Cala Previto on the South-West part. No injuries where reported with passengers being rescued by nearby boats, and the Piantoni flybridge boat was salvaged there after and led to safety. The accident is reported that the Piantoni flybridge cruiser was running when it hit an unmarked submerged reef, and then there after was beached in order to avoid total sinking. One of three and the largest Egadi islands in the archipelago, located on the Western part of Sicily, Favignana is also the closest, distancing less to four nautical miles from the main land of the largest island in the Mediterranean.
The flybridge cruiser in this collision is a Piantoni 45 Fantasy, produced from 1985 till 1992. The Piantoni 45 Fantasy evolved into the 48 Fly produced 1993 to 1995, with modified extended stern and a crew cabin aft. Piantoni started life in the sixties founded by Pietro Piantoni and sons first building boats of wood, and then making the switch to fiberglass and went bankrupt in 1993. Eventually the company opened again as Lombardi shipyard in 1999 with a life span which lasted some years.
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