New Model: Tornado 50SR

Tornado has during the 2023 Genoa boat show presented the new 50SR.  The new SR is the third and high performance version of the Tornado 50 which debuted in 2010, and was updated in 2018 with the S variant.  Unlike the 50S, the Tornado 50SR is powered by twin FPT 650hp engines with surface drives propulsion for top speeds up to 43 knots.  For the remaining the Tornado 50SR keeps the livability of the other Tornado Yachts 50 models offering a traditional Mediterranean layout cockpit deck with aft sun-pad, dinette and wet bar.  The lower deck in the 50SR is also unchanged with three double cabins; forward master, twin double cabins and L-shaped sofa in between the cabins.  The Tornado 50SR also did a test run in serious conditions by competing in the prologue of the Venezia-Montecarlo shortened race up to Rodi Garganico the past July, taking fifth place overall, but also placing first of the production boats competing.

Technical Data:

LOA - 16.20 m (53.1ft)

Beam - 4.36 m

Draft - 0.90 m ex props

Displacement - 14,500 kg dry, 19,000 kg loaded

Fuel Capacity - 1500 l

Water Capacity - 300 l

Accommodation - six berths in three cabins, plus two 

Engines - 2 x FPT 650hp

Propulsion - Jolly surface drives

Speed - 43 knots max 32 cruise

Project - Francesco Guida

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Project: Tornado 43 WA

Tornado present the project for the 43 WA, a walk-around sport cruiser designed by Michele Frese.  In this size the Italian builders seem have taken the bug for offering walk-around centre console sport cruiser, with Tornado being the most recent to enter this segment. A walk around centre console has the ability to use all fore to aft deck with easy usage, but also having a decent lower deck accommodation sleeping four.  The Tornado 43 WA will offer a deck with a central sun-pad layout which is followed by an L-shaped dinette, and then the helm station located central offset to starboard.  The fore deck will feature a forward V-shaped sun-pad, while another interesting feature will be the drop down bathing platform aft, which goes down in a three steps movement, making it easier and more comfortable to go down in the water.  The Tornado 43 WA will also be flexible for its power and propulsion choices, offered in four options, which start from twin Volvo 440hp on stern drives, and go to twin FPT 550hp on shafts, and then to 600hp with surface drives or same power gas power Mercury outboards.

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Improve-it = Tornado 38

In the fall of 2022 Tornado launched its latest improved 38 model.  This latest Tornado 38 is powered by twin FPT 450hp with line shaft propulsion.  Other shown improvements to the 38 where the new glazed windows on the hull side which replaced the traditional port hole windows.  An iconic model the 38 was launched by Tornado in 1985, inspired not little from the Magnum 38 from the sixties and seventies and produced in over five hundred units over the years in four variants; Classic/Sport, Flush Deck, Sedan, and the Cruising version.  The popular first two versions signified a different cockpit layout, with the Sedan launched in mid nineties being the rare hardtop version, and the Cruising from 2010 offering a more spacious lower deck and a revised cockpit layout.  A T-Tender 38 project presented in 2018 never materialized.  Today the Tornado 38 is simply called by its size with the model being similar in layout and cockpit to the Flush Deck version.  A Tornado 38 with shafts is not completely new, as the Italian builder build a few of these on order back in the eighties and nineties.  Going into its fiftieth birthday in 2025, it will be interesting to see if Tornado will do something special to celebrate its forever classic 38.

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New Model: Tornado 45s

In 2022 and during the Venice boat show held in May, Tornado presented the new 45s model.  An evolution of the 45 model launched in 1995 to a design of Tom Fexas, and which subsequently two years later won the Venice-Montecarlo 1997 in her class.  The 45 has  been a long success for Tornado thanks to its economic to run standard stern drive propulsion and clean timeless Fexas design.  Recognizable by the higher wrap around extended further aft windshield the new Tornado 45s is also redesigned in the cockpit deck.  Now becoming more comfortable and functional with a passageway to starboard and the aft sun-pad and C-shaped dinette resting to port side.  The old Tornado 45 had an island sun-pad aft wrapped around in a fiberglass moulding which used the full beam, a forward facing bench settee and helm station co-pilot settees forward. The cabin of the Tornado 45s has also been reworked and now features two cabins; an aft cabin sleeping two, and a master double berth forward.  The new Tornado 45s is powered by Volvo 380hp with stern drive propulsion as standard delivering a top speed up to forty knots.  Other engine options include larger 440hp Volvo with the same stern drive set up, or FPT 570hp with surface drives which give an estimated fifty knots top speed.  

Technical Data:

LOA - 13.45 m (44.1ft)

Beam - 3.80 m

Draft - 0.98 m (ex drives and propellers)

Displacement - 9750 kg

Fuel Capacity - 1000 l

Water Capacity - 400 l

Max Persons - ten

Accommodation - six berths in two cabins, plus convertible saloon

Engines - 2 x Volvo D6 380hp, D5 440hp, FPT 570hp

Propulsion - Volvo DPI dual propeller stern drives, Arneson surface drives with FPT engines

Speed - 40 knots max 33 cruise 380hp, 45 max 37 cruise 440hp, 50 max 40 cruise FPT 570hp

Project - Tom Fexas

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Tornado New Web Site

Italian Rome boat builder Tornado presents it's new World wide web showroom.  Tornado was founded by Carlo Marchiolo in 1968 building his 35 feet powerboat inspired to the US Cigarette's design. This boat will take Marchiolo to a Class 3 title just a few months later in 1969, and is followed with more Tornado wins in the seventies, of which the most significant is the Wills Trophy with Italian driver Vincenzo Balestrieri on the helm. The success on the race circuits makes Tornado produce boats for those desiring good sea handling, high performance, and comfort combined with a classic no frills lines. In 1977 during the Genoa boat show Marchiolo meets with renowned designer Tom Fexas, to whom Tornado commissions six new projects. The Fexas design works for Tornado are a 35 for the racing circuits, 36 Hawk, 39 Hawk, Eleven, 44 Express, and the 45. The nineties are followed by more winning success for Tornado, with famous offshore driver Adrianno Panatta taking the 1991 Venezia Monte Carlo with the 38, and again in 1997 with a 45. In 2007 after competition from various bank institutions, and three months of negotiations Michele Prestipino takes over Tornado. Prestipino era is marked by comfort improvements to the top selling 38 and the launch of a 50 model, and a 60 project which has not seen the light. In 2016 Tornado finds a new ownership with Daniele Parisi, three generations boat builder, and founder of the Parisi yard as the new owner. The ownership change continues the Tornado natural evolution of the brand and style and its over four hundred delivered boats. Today's current Tornado line offers five models from 38, to the upcoming 54.  Tornado latest model is the T-Rib 48 launched in the fall of 2020.  The new Tornado web site is available only in Italian language and takes you around with the following buttons; About Us, Models, Services, Tornado Club, Partners, and Contacts.  Tornado is also present in social media with a link at the bottom of the page taking you to its YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and Linkedin pages.

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Production History;

38 1985-

44 Express 1991-94

45 1995-2012

38 Cruising 2010-15

50 2010-16

50 2018-

T-Rib 48 2020-

45s 2022-

50sr 2023-

New Model: Tornado T-Rib 48

In a private ceremony on 17 October in its premises Tornado presented its new ground breaking T-Rib 48 model.  This is Tornado reinvented, but also a rib cruiser of fourteen meters in length with an innovative design stance thanks to the split level deck. Thanks to this design the Tornado apart having a full exterior deck measuring fourteen meters and usable from fore to aft, adds inside space.  The Tornado T-Rib 48 is offered in a two cabins two heads layout, with a unique stance to the forward master cabin which makes you feel thanks to the large view windows as though you are gliding on the sea.  Customisation has always been part of Tornado's language, this can be seen with the different versions of its most popular 38 model which have been made over the years, and the T-Rib 48 continues this being offered in seven different interior cabin layouts to choose from.  The Tornado T-Rib 48 is standard powered with diesel stern drive engines, but an option of larger twin 450hp diesel engines with surface drives is possible.  Also following recent trends for outboard the T-Rib 48 is also offered in this set up from twin 350hp engines up to a triple 300hp choice. 

Technical Data:

LOA - 14.20 m (46.7ft)

Beam - 4.50 m

Displacement - 9500 kg

Fuel Capacity - 1500 l

Water Capacity - 300 l

Max Persons - 12

Accommodation - four berths in two cabins

Engines - 2 x 350hp, up to twin 450hp in surface drives possible

Propulsion - sterndrives, surface drives, or outboards

Certification - CE B

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Project: Tornado 50S HT

Tornado present the 50 HT project.  A Dynaship project of architect Franco Gnessi, this option on the new 50S model, is presented with a three part enclosed hard part making for a more protected environment central cockpit.  The HT for hard-top version adds to the other two options for the Tornado 50S, that for a T-Top version, and the classic original fully open version.  The Tornado 50S is a project of Francesco Guida, and Pierluigi Mimmochi, with the original standard project launched in 2009 and then updated as S in 2018 with most modifications concerning the upper and main deck. 

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Project: Tornado 54

Tornado presents this new 54 project which is also the setting for its new yacht division for yachts above fifty feet.  The 54 is a new direction for Tornado which for the first time ventures into center console walk around territory. So far the Rome builder in it's story has produced open cruisers and yachts, and a sportfish yacht model.  The Tornado 54 is a sport yacht with full usable exterior spaces, from fore to aft, welcoming guests with two double sun-pads, two L-shaped dinettes, and in all this also features a spacious three cabin six berth interior, and crew cabin.  The Tornado 54 will be powered by standard twin 600hp Volvo with IPS pod drives good for top speeds up to 39 knots, or Man 800hp with surface drives which will allow high performances up to fifty knots.  

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Project: Tornado T-Rib 48

Tornado who build a fame onward from the seventies in building performance orientated sport cruisers with deep-V hull ventures into new territory with this T-Rib 48 project, set to launch in the fall of this year.  The T-Rib 48 enters Tornado in the performance rib cruiser sector, a very competitive segment especially in Italy.  This is not the first time Tornado goes out of its comfortable performance cruiser zone reminding readers here that the Rome Fiumicino boat builder did also build a fifty sportfish yacht designed by Tom Fexas back in the late nineties. The T-Rib 48 will feature a large open plan single cabin interior layout, while the exterior will feature a never ending bow to stern usable deck in three distinctive split level layouts.  The Tornado T-Rib 48 power will feature three power and propulsion options from twin 450hp diesel engines with surface drives, twin 350hp with stern drives and twin or triple 300hp in outboard version.

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Project: Tornado 50S T-Top

Having recently launched the new Tornado 50S, what is a further evolution of the 50 model launched in 2009, the Rome Italian boat builder decides to expand the 50 line with the project for a new 50S T-Top version.  The Tornado 50S T-Top project builds on the qualities of the standard version with the addition of a semi hard-top covered exterior cockpit area, creating a protective yet open area outside.  The Tornado 50S T-Top features the same choices of three double cabins or two cabin plus crew, and Volvo 600hp engines with IPS pod propulsion.  A project of Pierluigi Mimmochi and Francesco Guida, the Tornado 50S and T-Top is the classic Italian and American eighties open sport yacht redefined for the current generation of boaters who like important fast navigation qualities delivered by a deep Vee hull with a good balance merged to a no frills never looking old design.

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New Model: Tornado 50S

Tornado present the new 50S model, a sport yacht of classic features and looks reinvented by Francesco Guida and Pierluigi Mimmochi.  The Tornado 50S is a tribute to deep Vee fast open cruisers and yachts which inspired the 1980's and nineties, and is in itself a restyling of the 50 launched in 2010, and features differences to the windscreen design, bigger engines of twin Volvo 600hp from 435hp, and improvements of both the external and interior layouts. The hull one of the 50S featured a two cabin two head traditional cabin layout; forward main cabin, guest cabin at midship, guest head to starboard, dinette and galley in between the cabins, and a single berth crew cabin with private head to starboard.  The Tornado 50S new 600hp engines choice deliver power up to forty knots of maximum speed, while a cruise of 25 knots gives a range of 430 nautical miles and a 4.8 miles per litre fuel consumption.   

Technical Data:

LOA - 15.30 m (50.1ft)

Beam - 4.36 m

Draft - 0.80 m exl props and drives

Displacement - 11250 kg dry 14000 kg loaded

Fuel Capacity - 2100 l

Water Capacity - 500 l

Max Persons - ten persons

Accommodation - four berths in two cabins, one crew cabin berth

Engines - 2 x Volvo D8 600hp

Propulsion - Volvo forward looking dual propeller IPS pod drives

Speed - 40 knots max 25 knots cruise

Range - 430 nm at 25 knots cruise

Hull Shape - deep Vee with 21 degrees deadrise aft

Construction - resin infused Epoxy Vinilester resin, hull bottom in solid fiberglass with Airex core sides.  Superstructure in mixed core and solid glass elements. 

Project - Francesco Guida, Pierluigi Mimmochi, Tornado technical department

Certification - CE B

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Project: Tornado 50S

During the Versilia Yachting Festival, Tornado yachts sold the first unit of the Tornado 50 S.  This Tornado project is the new edition and a further development of the original 50 as launched in 2010 and designed by Francesco Guida.  Similar in looks to the previous version the 50 S will feature some important differences most of which will be the higher position windscreen, teak inserts on the main deck with a protective side walk passageway.  Since the seventies Tornado has based its success on inspiring itself to the original American sport cruiser, with huge influence by the Magnum models of the period.

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Project: Tornado 38 T-Tender

With the increase of super yachts sizes the tender boat market has received a boost in recent years, not only expanding the offer but also becoming bigger.  To be exact today the word tender means not only a support vessel for a bigger boat, but some of these tenders especially those going over the ten meter size also tend to be of service to seaside residencies and used purely for day boat duties.  Tornado who founded in 1968 is celebrating fifty years in business present the project for the 38 T-Tender, based on the platform of its most successful model to date the long produced 38.  Designed by architect Gianluca Caputi, a famous from Rome naval architect who I remind was responsible for the third generation Italcraft which span from the end nineties up till the first decade of the second millennium, the Tornado 38 T-Tender features a complete revised design which concentrated on the main deck extending cockpit size by over two meter.  Thanks to this the main deck of the 48 T-Tender is not only larger to the standard 38 model, but will features a more spacious L-shaped dinette and a second looking backward L-shaped lounge.  The trade off for this is a smaller interior which now features a V-shaped forward sofa which converts to a second berth, and separate medium sized shower head.  The Tornado 38 T-Tender will be powered by twin Volvo 300hp with stern drive propulsion which give a max speed of 37 knots.

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Project: Tornado 60

Tornado Marine from central Italy in Rome, presents the project of a new 60 model flagship.  This new Tornado extends Tornado lenght by ten feet to its current largest model; the 50 Classic.  In this model and as the rendering shows Tornado follows its core concept of a classic pure open sport yacht, a theme which started in the US and was quickly followed short afterwards by builders in central Italy.  So timeless lines is the word on the Tornado 60 with a nice flash fore deck.  The cockpit deck also follow a traditional layout with a large sunpad lying to port, C-shaped dinette, and helm to starboard.  This is so far the details we can give on this new 60 by Tornado, hoping that the Rome builder sends some more information in the short near future. 

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New Model: Tornado 38 Cruising

Tornado Marine present the new 38 Cruising, third model which makes use of this successful hull sold in over five hundred units in a long production run which is still going on. The 38 Cruising adds with the other Sport and Flush Deck versions, and is very different to what concerns the accommodation being the most comfortable of the trio. But outside is also different with Cruising having a shorter forward deck, and longer aft cockpit. H30 the design firm which was commissioned these changes, presented a lower deck now having a two double cabins plan, plus a convertible saloon making overnight possible for six persons. A separate shower head, and galley are also to be found on the lower cabin deck below. The cockpit exterior aft deck has also been changed having an L-shaped settee, sun lounger, and a corridor which leads to the bathing platform uninterrupted. A deep hull is a standard feature on the Tornado 38 Cruising, powered by three Volvo choices from twin 260 up to 370hp.
Technical Data:
LOA - 11.80 m (38.7ft)
Beam - 3.90 m
Draft - 0.90 m
Displacement - 8.72 t loaded
Fuel Capacity - 820 l
Water Capacity - 200 l
Accommodation - 4 + 2 berths
Max Persons - 10
Engines - 2 x Volvo D4 260hp, D4 300hp, D6 370hp
Propulsion - Volvo DP dual propeller stern drive
Speed - 40 knots max
Construction - fiberglass
Project - H30 Design
Certification - CE 94/25 B
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New Model: Tornado 50

Tornado presents its new important flagship the 50 Classic, a big fully open sport yacht. The new big Tornado takes similar characteristics of its most successful model, the 38 and puts them in a fifteen meter size. But Tornado and head designer Franceso Guida did not only follow outside lines but also the practical elements, and the economic way of the entry level Tornado. Lets say the economic ways of building and running the 38 are all part of the new 50 Classic. That means not only Classic for looks but also the running and a more simple way of going on the water. Tornado does also not exaggerate on the accommodation front by keeping sleek lines a fundamental characteristic to this new flagship. Down below space is a two cabins, with an owners room to fore, a twin berth cabin to mid ship, a convertible dinette which adds two extra berths, and a head with separate shower room. A well spaced airy L-shaped galley just opposite the saloon completes the lower deck. Power is to be from twin Volvo 435hp with IPS pods which give a fast 37 knots top speed.
Technical Data:
LOA - 15.10 m (49.5ft)
Beam - 4.36 m
Draft - 0.96 m
Displacement - 13 t loaded
Fuel Capacity - 1600 l
Water Capacity - 500 l
Accommodation - 6
Max Persons - 12
Engines - 2 x Volvo IPS600 D6 435hp
Propulsion - Volvo dual propeller forward looking pod drives
Speed - 37 knots max
Construction - gross reinforced plastic with fiberglass
Project - Francesco Guida
Certification - CE 94/25 B
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Project: Tornado 50

It is very unusual for someone to promote a boat upside down showing what is often called by the experts the living hull part! The Italian boat builder Tornado returns in the so called yacht size of over fifty feet with the 50 project, set to launch this year. The Tornado 50 is a step towards a bigger size from this Italian Rome builder, who wants with this project to put more spaces but keeping in line with the successful elements which its client enjoy, like a classic line and propulsion efficiency. Tornado is in fact promising a lot of features coming from the 38, which this builder so far delivered in over four hundred units. The 50 will surely offer more generous spaces, although cabin numbers or layout have so far not been called for. But what the yard is promising is a deep Vee hull typical of US powerboat derivation with a fine entry and an infamous bell shaped keel aft. Engines and propulsion will be Volvo IPS which guarantee a maximum efficiency and minimum space put to better use for the comfort onboard.

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Project: Tornado 38 Cruising

Tornado continue to update its 38 and after the Flush Deck and Sport versions revisits the model again by presenting the new Cruising project. As the name says it, the new 38 Cruising will offer more accommodation inside and outside. Designed by the Milan H3O firm the 38 Cruising is the ultimate update, completing the circle of this legendary Tornado model. While on aesthetics alone you would think the 38 Cruising is apart the cockpit layout the same to the Flush Deck or Sport versions a close inspection will tell you there is much more. While looking very similar the new 38 Cruising deceives the eye getting an increased cockpit floor height of twenty centimetres, and the fore deck extended further aft by sixty centimetres. Both these changes occur in order to get extra space for a double cabin to mid ship. The 38 Cruising will also offer three interior layout plans. While all will have two cabins to fore and mid ship these plans distinct themselves for a minimal or more traditional style choice. Just take your pick, is the name of the game here. The cockpit now is also changed for having everything to the opposite of the Flush Deck model, helm to port side, L-shaped settee and sun pad to starboard, and access transom door to port. Power will be a stern drive Volvo D4 or D6 choice, which should give a 40 knots top speed with the bigger engine option as on the other versions.

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