Boat Yard Destroyed by Fire Near Porto Rotondo Sardinia

A fire has destroyed one of two sheds of Nautica Fundoni boat yard in Rudanza, near Porto Rotondo, to the North East of Sardinia for a blaze which started at about 02:15 early morning time of Saturday fifth April.  Two Vigili dell Fuoco fire fighting squads from Olbia, a squad from Arzachena plus a plane for water supply responded to the blaze.  Ultimately the fire collapsed and destroyed the shed of the boat yard affected by the blaze, and is reported to have wrecked a boat of about twelve meters in length, twenty ribs of medium and small sizes, a crane truck, and a van.  The damage is reported to be in the couple millions of Euros, with the cause of the fire not reported. 

Nautica Fundoni was founded in 1969 by Tonino Fundoni.  In the beginning of his career Tonino had the intuition to transform the classic Gozzo fishing boat with a planning hull.  The planning Gozzo's becomes a success with private boaters, and as a taxi tourist boat in the Emerald Coast.  Apart the mt 7,40 Gozzo Planante, Fundoni also produced the Topmarine ribs, with the production of these ceased following the fire of November 2014.

This is the second Nautica Fundoni fire as they had a previous blaze in nineteen November 2014, which damaged the production side of the business, and destroyed the moulds of the Gozzo Planante.